Juha Autero 💉 @jautero@librem.one

a refrain that i see sometimes in bad social justice takes is that, essentially, if one is dissatisfied with oneself then that's because the dissatisfaction is generated by harmful forces, and therefore one should seek to be happy with oneself.

if you want to be more productive and overcome ADHD, this is bad because capitalism is the only reason you want to be productive. if you're a woman and want to wear makeup to feel more attractive, this is bad because you only think makeup makes you attractive because of patriarchy. if you want to lose weight because you're unhappy with your appearance, this is fatphobic because the only reason you want to lose weight is fatphobia

i remember seeing a particular egregious example of the adhd thing where someone basically said "if you want to do X but you don't do it, then you never wanted to do it in the first place", which seems... incorrect to me. the phenomenon where one knows one *ought* to do X but doesn't do it anyway is very real! 'akrasia' is a super useful term to know; i've also seen people talk about higher-order volition (as in, i don't want to exercise, but i want to want to exercise).

and this seems pretty unhealthy? like, for me, cleaning off my desk is self-care. i feel way better when i do it. but it sucks to do short-term, it's unpleasant, and it forces me to confront the fact that i *let* it get that messy. but i don't think the answer here is to learn to just be happy with a messy desk?

no, computers werent a mistake

no, the internet wasnt a mistake

the mistake was letting capitalism have control of these things

In late 2020, a coalition of predatory, money-losing, private-equity backed companies ran a $200m disinformation campaign that resulted in the passage of California's Prop 22, legalizing worker misclassification and mass-scale labor law violations.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#prop-22

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Here is a nice article about a guy who photographs bats, because he did a thesis on bats and didn't like that all the pictures he saw of them were snarling and bitey because nobody bothered to do anything other than pick up a captive bat and squeeze it and snap a pic, and he was like, how about....we don't........do that https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/slideshow/batman-forever-october-slideshow?slide=#1

i complain that the two wolves meme won't stop but this is my longest running post on tumblr and it never stops

Age poll pt. 2! Again, this may not apply to you (refer to previous toot if it doesn't).

Hello all! In the interest of finding out how the Fedi skews, I want to run another age poll. Please pick the decade that you fall in (there are two polls; if you don't belong in the first, you may belong in the second).

Boosts welcome and encouraged!

RT @Fly_Cuttlefish@twitter.com

This will always be one of my favorite historical fun facts.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Fly_Cuttlefish/status/1355536221385207812

I wonder if being trained to think about problems abstractly rather than as issues that can have knock effects on other human beings applies to more than just Law and Philosophy. Could explain a bit, what's wrong with Silicon Valley, no groking of real life ramifications of code
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RT @shengokai
Hello, philosophy? Are you fucking paying attention? Not everything is a thought experiment. https://twitter.com/pronounced_ing/status/13603261…
https://twitter.com/shengokai/status/1360401435339460610

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

#anticapitalism #anarchism #feminism #IWD #IWD2019

#cat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/09/texas-lawyer-zoom-cat-filter-kitten

> The Perl Foundation is a legally registered DBA (Doing Business As) name of Yet Another Society.

That is so Perl. :-D

https://www.perlfoundation.org/legal.html
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