There's a lot of focus in neurodivergent advocacy spaces on emphasising the positives of monotropic thinking, but it's a build with notable downsides, made worse because so few people can naturally empathise with them, so they imagine it's a perverse stubborn choice & not a default setting

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats

So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved

Scanned from 8mm films

#Film #History #Cats

a lot of the class reductionist analysis you get these days stems from people basically just wishing they had the working class of 40 years ago to work with, not that of a service-based economy. they want to win revolution from the factories and are embarrassed by call centre workers with weird hair

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

Each AWS outage is a chance for people to reevaluate whether billionaires should be allowed to exist, and each time this test is cut short when the entertainment comes back on.