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#accessibility

In the ancient Mediterranean, letters were often inscribed in clay. If you've ever worked with clay, you'll know that it gets brittle if it gets dry without being fired. It was not meant for long-term storage.

Nevertheless, because of a fire, we have communication with a man named Ea-Nasir, c. 1750 BCE. He collected hundreds of tablets written to him.

They were all complaints. Ea-Nasir was a copper dealer and the first known con artist.

The British Museum has one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

See? Everything makes sense now.

#mayday thoughts:

- do you have food not bombs near you? cook with them!
- do you have an IWW or GDC branch in your area? join up!
- is there a community garden close by? drop by this week!

when the social default is isolation, you've gotta make an effort to reach out to your neighbors!

Slab BlastPec

That was not a typo.

1. The suburbs
2. The gentrified part
3. The part your pasty, Reddit-browsing ass doesn't go to.

If you do actual work instead of getting drunk and talking about 'left' politics and complaining about hipsters, you might get

4. Autonomous zones and/or intentional communities

studying surveillance technology and culture is fucking toothless if you don't also consider that citizenship is racialized and gendered and that the "right to privacy" is built around (racialized) ideas of criminality, policing, discipline, and punishment

It's #Mermay and I'm still late.
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#MastoArt

popularity maximizers are much scarier than paperclip maximizers

Apparently some terrible things are being said about sexual harassment at the national academy of science meeting.

If you are afraid to collaborate with a scientist of another gender because you're afraid you might harass them, you're the problem.

metoo has only had a negative effect on the progress of science if you're a perpetrator.

Floralia is April 28- May 3rd. To honor the Goddess responsible for turning pretty & problematic boys into flowers, I suggest a flower transformation session. Be My human flower. Inquire within. 🌸#objectification #metamorphosis #humanflower

hthr's life success rules:
1. never do anything wrong
2. always do everything right
3. be extremely lucky all the time

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I am a fairly recent convert to coffee, but my goodness it is wonderful. Tastiest painkiller and bronchodilator, and I'm rather in need of both today! (And I can't take most painkillers and OMG I have been needing Ventolin far too often this week, so... ;-) )

suppose someone scores a C on a test because they misread questions and texts due to dyslexia. they complain saying it's unfair that they scored worse because of their disability.

What far too many people think they want: to have their score increased despite getting the answers wrong to make up for their disadvantage

What they really want: the tests printed in a dyslexia friendly font or in another format so they can take the test fairly.

I'm cackling