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#BlackLivesMatter #MMIW #StopAsianHate trying to learn from my mistakes and be a better human

[gambit @gambitnm]

Indigenous people are not here to be saviors for white women. The last time we tried that, look how it turned out for indigenous people.

[Yurok Around The Clock @HellcatBruce]

Reasons why you can't set up Reservation abortion clinics:

1. Fuck you
2. Can't force Tribes to do it
3. Hyde amendment and federal funding issues
4. IHS already stretched thin
5. Anti-abortion terrorism
6. Read a history book about Indigenous reproductive freedom
7. Fuck you

[gambit @gambitnm]

Just thinking about how some authors supposedly have “transcendent” prose, and I have not reached nirvana after having read their work. Disappointing.

[gambit @gambitnm]

All the talk about dismantling independent agencies, reminds me that there has been a long term push by conservatives to privatize USPS. Let’s also think about how these things connect to abortion rights and upstream First Amendment “exceptions” to providing services.

[gambit @gambitnm]

Professionals: statements about people’s changes in attitudes from pre-covid to post-covid

Customer service workers everywhere: *gesture vaguely at the intersection between capitalism and prejudice* (nothing has actually changed)

[gambit @gambitnm]

This year, a roller coaster in medical malfunctions. Wheeee.

[gambit @gambitnm]

@RonFilipkowski @Acyn Can’t do much when all our congresspeople in both chambers are already Dems.

[gambit @gambitnm]

Trying to explain that a certain kind of pain I’m having is too deep for heating pads and ointments to be remotely effective is… frustrating, to say the least.

[gambit @gambitnm]

@itsohqay @cherrrrrylime @kumee But also yes, double tapping is for zombies, not for capital letters.

[gambit @gambitnm]

@itsohqay @cherrrrrylime @kumee Dvorak is arguably better than QWERTY anyway; claiming home row typing is unilaterally better or faster is incorrect. It’s a leftover archaism from typewriter mechanics, not necessarily useful for computers. We just continue to use it from collective force of habit.

[gambit @gambitnm]

The phrases “just be yourself” and “surround yourself with those you want to be with” are moot points if the former never occurs and the latter is exclusionary based on things unrelated to interpersonal connection in the first place.

[gambit @gambitnm]

Hot take:
In certain social circles, “no response is a response” is valid (particularly where women are the respondents).

In others, it’s lazy shorthand to devalue others in their attempts at outreach, especially when the non-response is purely based on aesthetics (see: gay men)

[gambit @gambitnm]

I’m of course no sociologist, but I have seen the same recurring pattern in different areas of the country, based on my experiences as an outsider to many of the “in crowds.”

[gambit @gambitnm]

You can tell that some people haven’t had some kinds of jobs in their lives by the weird shit they post.

For example, a “trap door” that is, y’know, just a roof access hatch.

[gambit @gambitnm]

Wondering where the “one phone call” people are at (re: Gaza).

[gambit @gambitnm]

@tify330 Ngl this is what he reminds me of

[gambit @gambitnm]

Ngl it kinda bugs me when people say such-and-such right or freedom is next. No, it’s not next. It’s now.

That’s the real problem with messaging. “Next” implies “this fight is for another day.” SCOTUS dissents from Alito and Thomas are paving the path.

[gambit @gambitnm]

As I learn more about literary gatekeeping, it baffles me how prevalent the sanctification of things like the “western canon” continue to be, even in spite of its history, and the ideology of its creator.

[gambit @gambitnm]

Maybe it’s just a retail worker thing, but can we please stop having the customers ask intrusive questions to the cashiers as they check out?

You know, among the million other things customers do, like “haha I just made that bill this morning” or “the customer is always right”

[Redhead Ranting™ @redheadranting]

Maybe it's just a midwestern thing, but can we please stop having the cashiers ask intrusive questions to the patrons as they check out?

Cashier: "Do you have any big plans for the rest of the evening?"

Me in my head because I'm polite:

"I don't know you, I'm not sharing my plans for the rest of the evening with you, but I bet you could make an educated guess what my big plans are based on my purchase of ice cream and a bottle of wine."

Me in real life: "Nope, no big plans."

[gambit @gambitnm]

@Wokerati1 @obama__runtz No one’s making a comparative judgment here though?