maybe the thing that struck me as odd about seeing others frame mutual aid as cost / benefit is that we desperately need to sustainably practice community over individuality. it’s about more than vote counting

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also something strikes me as odd about viewing mutual aid in terms of the payback-value of one category of people (today’s recipients). hmm

these fuck ass adults. champions of their fields. the brilliants. looking with their own eyes and pretending not to see

there’s such a lack of cultural understanding about employment power (NYT, here) esp since employment law differs by location. but I don’t think it coincidence that my most traumatizing company had a head of HR who was the wife of a co-founder. professionally disqualifying from the jump.

a lot of my dance classes are led by teachers who also teach children. lots of attention tricks “hands on your head! hands on your shoulders! pat yourself on the back! give yourself a hand! 👏 “

ordered this from the same publisher! I have read several spec fic anthologies but I was taken by surprise that the horny begins at the jump lol

damn and blast! I was this close to finally capturing the elusive Citizenship, but it has again outwitted me! curses

like wtaf

Topic-adjacent, and not empirical, but: the Petrie Multiplier has never left my mind. I think it’s a useful rhetorical entry point to the idea that the environment is NOT neutral, and then reckoning with the downstream effects / decisions from there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrie_...

right?! I updated FUoS with old news vids links etc recently and whew. discourse time warp. 😵‍💫 truly the beforetimes.

seems appropriate that I order this shortly after creating a bsky account. 🫠 I've appreciated your work since Border House, congrats on the book, can't wait to read it 💖

there's so many tutorials for "how to conquer your photo library for once and for all" and I'd rather stay grounded in reality over here

personally, going thru the FUoS archive and reviewing / reliving the sexism / harassment discourse, then seeing the *actual words* of Those Emails 🤮, and then the recent presidential 🐷 comments... whew. they all swirl around together in my head. I guess I'm still processing.

I'm still very proud of the joke PSA we made back then

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