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Ball-point
"Honestly, Boss… He does them with a ball-point pen! I find it insulting. And on sticky notes barely one square inch! I can hardly stand on those!"
"A pentagram's a pentagram, Azazel, and he invoked you properly."
"… Alright, Boss."
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Systemic oppression and structural violence can create conditions that enable relational abuses that cause personal trauma. Patriarchy and capitalism complement each other in creating the conditions that enable religious abuse/coercion, child abuse, domestic violence, sexual violence, gender-based violence, and many more.
Any oppressive system co-opts any moral framework available to justify its oppression. Oppression is oppression. Abuse is abuse.
I've never considered, not even once, using the conditions surrounding a person as a reason to deny their agency and dignity; whether someone is an abuser or a victim and whatever our personal relationship with either of them is, the one thing that I think we should base our perspective on is that everyone was born with dignity, has free will, has agency, has choices.
Those choices may be produced by their conditions, but they're choices that they can make nonetheless. Denying someone's agency means denying them the dignity to assert their free will; it dehumanises them.
Harm is about impact, not intention.
The moment you deny women's agency, whatever your reasoning is, you're dead to me; I won't mince my words with anyone who regurgitates imperial and patriarchal apologia wrapped in feminist, religious, or any progressive language. This includes those who extend an abundance of benefit of the doubt to abusers, males, people in the West/Global North, white people, or any government. I won't explain myself.
But I will tell you something: the people who did the most damage to me throughout the first three decades of my life were all Muslim women. I can understand why they did what they did, but I'd rather die than excuse what they did to me just because they were 1) Muslims, 2) women, who were also harmed by the conditions we were in. I'd rather die than consider that any male who was born in the past two centuries is worth listening to in politics, economics, art, the humanities, sports, Islam, STEM, anything really. And most importantly, I'd rather fkn die than let people in the fkn Global North, especially if they're white non-Muslim, talk over Muslim women, hijabi or non-hijabi, with their perspective on oppression, liberation, freedom, patriarchy, misogyny, and Islamic practice.
Don't worry, you're always allowed to voice your perspective; it's your right after all. I just want to make sure you know you are a pathetic, constipated clown and scum of the earth, in case nobody has told you lately.
@futzle Can the dogs and cats have such a strong affection to each other?
I prefer wearing underwire bras; I know many bra-wearers don’t. (I don’t care unless you reply to tell me that my bra choices are incorrect.*)
A well-fitting underwire brassiere gives me the support I want and doesn’t poke me.
Eventually the end of the “wire” (a piece of flat metal cut in a curved strip) will wear through the end of its channel, despite its plastic coating. That’s when it starts to stab me in my armpit. Ow!
Bras don’t last forever, but as long as they still fit well enough, I think they’re worth repair.
For this mend:
1. cut a short length of single-fold bias tape, color doesn’t matter. If you don’t have bias tape on hand, a small piece of fabric is fine; it just needs to be big enough to fold under all the edges and press with an iron. (Bias tape comes with two folds already made.)
2. Hold the patch over the hole in the channel. I find that pins get in the way and the patch is small enough to hold without them.
3. Stitch the patch in place by hand using whip stitch. Thread color doesn’t matter either.
By the time the underwire wears through the patch, the bra’s elastic will have given out.
* People can get bent out of shape about the most unexpected things. This warning is here because of past experience elseweb.
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy
if you're a maintainer on an open-source project or a leader on a small team and your policy for "what behaviors are allowed there?" is "everything that's not literally illegal", what this makes you in practice is a bootlicker for every single government out there, including a whole bunch you might dislike
you're not a huge country that has to accept people of different views because not doing so is denying people their human rights
if anything, having a clear moral position might make you more attractive to people who share these views or are more afraid of contributing to other projects because of their marginalization
@scips @smallcircles @riverpunk @iris_meredith
Haha no. FOSDEM perfectly matches the issues with FOSS as highlighted here, and they seem proud of it.
@nik @scips @riverpunk @iris_meredith
Yes, a couple years ago they attracted a lot of controversy because they asked speakers to self-censor their criticism of Big Tech so as not to offend their sponsors like Google and all that.
In reaction to that a counter-conference was organized that ran in parallel, called OFFDEM. In 2027 there will be another OFFDEM event.
you've heard of "safe horny" may I introduce you to "safe banned"
Poll: Have you ever seen a penguin (in real life)
@mcc yes, in Patagonia. They are cute from far away, but their eyes look evil! 😱
@daniel Do you know if this is currently possible with ejabberd? Last time I looked into OAuth for our XMPP servers, it was rather limited.
- The thing I love about narrating D&D is how it can give you a nice moment to be among friends
+ Nice! How was the adventure last night?
- I sent them to Hell
This entire discovery happened when my husband and I were walking down the street and I said "I hope those fat and snorty little creatures want to climb all over me" and a man happened to be stepping out onto his front porch right as I said it, so I think it's important for everyone to know that I was talking about a litter of pugs.
@Alice Some may call it awkward, I call it poetry.
afaik the only widely "banned" books in america are a couple of racist books completely banned from amazon the worlds largest bookstore. if you consider a private business removing a book "banning"
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