Lazarus
@lazarusfaustus.bsky.social
If you're part of a community for a marginalized identity and your only contribution to that community is, "look at this hate against us I found in the wild," you are doing the work of bigots for them. You are the platforming and amplifying hate. You are indistinguishable from the bigots themselves.
June 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you're part of a community for a marginalized identity and your only contribution to that community is, "look at this hate against us I found in the wild," you are doing the work of bigots for them. You are the platforming and amplifying hate. You are indistinguishable from the bigots themselves.
If one person is having a problem, it's a personal problem. If millions of people are having the same problem, it's a systemic problem. The onus is not on the individual to squirm out from under an oppressive system; it is the system that must experience change.
April 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If one person is having a problem, it's a personal problem. If millions of people are having the same problem, it's a systemic problem. The onus is not on the individual to squirm out from under an oppressive system; it is the system that must experience change.
I wish Elon would bring his SpaceX expertise and efficiency to Spain. I think the world would really benefit from a modernized Spanish space program.
February 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I wish Elon would bring his SpaceX expertise and efficiency to Spain. I think the world would really benefit from a modernized Spanish space program.
The best thing you can ever do for yourself is to be curious. Don't just have questions: seek the answers. Embrace your fallibility as a chance to learn something you thought you already knew.
Learn how things work. How things happen. How things came to be. Always ask "How?" one more time.
Learn how things work. How things happen. How things came to be. Always ask "How?" one more time.
February 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The best thing you can ever do for yourself is to be curious. Don't just have questions: seek the answers. Embrace your fallibility as a chance to learn something you thought you already knew.
Learn how things work. How things happen. How things came to be. Always ask "How?" one more time.
Learn how things work. How things happen. How things came to be. Always ask "How?" one more time.
A corrupt legal system can only protect the corrupt from the legal system.
February 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A corrupt legal system can only protect the corrupt from the legal system.
If your opposition to universal healthcare is based on the idea that suddenly too many people would have access to the healthcare system, I have several questions.
Not for you, though. I need to talk to whoever raised you. It's for a "what not to do" book I'm writing.
Not for you, though. I need to talk to whoever raised you. It's for a "what not to do" book I'm writing.
February 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If your opposition to universal healthcare is based on the idea that suddenly too many people would have access to the healthcare system, I have several questions.
Not for you, though. I need to talk to whoever raised you. It's for a "what not to do" book I'm writing.
Not for you, though. I need to talk to whoever raised you. It's for a "what not to do" book I'm writing.
As the federal government and its new private owners seek to dismantle unions, know this: the strength of unions used to be backed by something other than the permission of capitalists. They may not know it now, but they do not want to return to that.
Do not let that decision be theirs to make.
Do not let that decision be theirs to make.
February 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
As the federal government and its new private owners seek to dismantle unions, know this: the strength of unions used to be backed by something other than the permission of capitalists. They may not know it now, but they do not want to return to that.
Do not let that decision be theirs to make.
Do not let that decision be theirs to make.
For no particular reason, two movies Americans should be watching in 2025 are Swing Kids and Life is Beautiful.
January 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For no particular reason, two movies Americans should be watching in 2025 are Swing Kids and Life is Beautiful.
I'm not saying any action should or shouldn't be taken, just an observation based on historical events:
Removing all legal means of recourse only leaves illegal means of recourse.
Allowing legal recourse against employers, landlords, etc, is inconvenient for them but also ensures their safety.
Removing all legal means of recourse only leaves illegal means of recourse.
Allowing legal recourse against employers, landlords, etc, is inconvenient for them but also ensures their safety.
January 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'm not saying any action should or shouldn't be taken, just an observation based on historical events:
Removing all legal means of recourse only leaves illegal means of recourse.
Allowing legal recourse against employers, landlords, etc, is inconvenient for them but also ensures their safety.
Removing all legal means of recourse only leaves illegal means of recourse.
Allowing legal recourse against employers, landlords, etc, is inconvenient for them but also ensures their safety.
If a fandom has a lot of marginalized people in important roles – either in the media or in the fandom itself – and that makes you angry enough to quit that fandom: you are making that fandom a better, safer, higher quality place by your absence.
January 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If a fandom has a lot of marginalized people in important roles – either in the media or in the fandom itself – and that makes you angry enough to quit that fandom: you are making that fandom a better, safer, higher quality place by your absence.
"People saying it was a Nazi salute are taking it out of context."
The context: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
The context: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justify his wading into German politics
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"People saying it was a Nazi salute are taking it out of context."
The context: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
The context: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
I feel like society is asking a lot of someone who accidentally put on his pants before his underwear this morning.
January 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I feel like society is asking a lot of someone who accidentally put on his pants before his underwear this morning.
I think it's hyperbolic to say that recent laws and rulings in America have returned women to being property.
If women were property, cops would protect them.
If women were property, cops would protect them.
January 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I think it's hyperbolic to say that recent laws and rulings in America have returned women to being property.
If women were property, cops would protect them.
If women were property, cops would protect them.
"I rub it around the outside, tease it a little before I put it in." - me explaining how I put my phone on the charger in the dark.
January 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"I rub it around the outside, tease it a little before I put it in." - me explaining how I put my phone on the charger in the dark.
We spent all those years building the technology to block pop-ups, just for every website to generate a pop-up asking for your email address as soon as you scroll past the title.
December 24, 2024 at 7:54 AM
We spent all those years building the technology to block pop-ups, just for every website to generate a pop-up asking for your email address as soon as you scroll past the title.
Don't mind me, I just almost drowned drinking from a cup of water because the ice settled. I'm basically a survival memoirist in the making.
December 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Don't mind me, I just almost drowned drinking from a cup of water because the ice settled. I'm basically a survival memoirist in the making.
No group of potential voters small enough for candidates to mock, undermine, and ignore is large enough to be at fault for the result of the candidate's race.
If they could have changed the outcome, they should have been heard.
If they could have changed the outcome, they should have been heard.
December 14, 2024 at 11:54 AM
No group of potential voters small enough for candidates to mock, undermine, and ignore is large enough to be at fault for the result of the candidate's race.
If they could have changed the outcome, they should have been heard.
If they could have changed the outcome, they should have been heard.
Health insurance company profits represent the healthcare that insured people paid for and did not receive.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Health insurance company profits represent the healthcare that insured people paid for and did not receive.
The Grinch isn't even the villain for the correct holiday, Eric.
November 29, 2024 at 4:18 AM
The Grinch isn't even the villain for the correct holiday, Eric.
If a cause you support is boycotting <thing>, and your big contribution is telling everyone that <thing> isn't even that good or not accessible to you so you already don't buy <thing>, that's not so much helpful to the cause as it is helpful to your back's desperate need to be patted.
November 25, 2024 at 1:43 AM
If a cause you support is boycotting <thing>, and your big contribution is telling everyone that <thing> isn't even that good or not accessible to you so you already don't buy <thing>, that's not so much helpful to the cause as it is helpful to your back's desperate need to be patted.
I have this "universal blood pressure cuff," and I don't know if I'm supposed to put it around the entire universe or if I'm supposed to just find one arm of the universe and put it around that. Also, does it need to be level with the heart of the universe? What's the allowance on that?
November 23, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I have this "universal blood pressure cuff," and I don't know if I'm supposed to put it around the entire universe or if I'm supposed to just find one arm of the universe and put it around that. Also, does it need to be level with the heart of the universe? What's the allowance on that?