Tired Simic Graduate Student @CoronaCoreanici@mastodon.social

Kill the concept of "RT does not equal endorsement."

Don't share content if you don't endorse it.

Don't spread it. Let it die.

Do not give it a platform.

When I was still a seedling on this instance, there was a bit of a culture war over whether or not "solarpunk" was inherently anti-capitalist. (There were some ancaps that liked to built their own stuff and worshipped the Musk). My feelings about that are well worn, but I really enjoyed that solarpunk was a concept even someone as far-right as ancaps saw as appealing. The internal rift happened when their ideals rubbed up against the community. One conversation I had, ended in one of them admitting they had no hope for humanity to better itself. An inescapably un-solarpunk thing to say, which belies the reasons for them being put on the outskirts of the movement. Long story short: solarpunk will always be anticap because it wants to believe in people's goodness whereas capitalism tries to ingrain in you the belief that humanity is inherently bad. That's why I'm solarpunk over any other political allignment.

Notice that jeans come pre-torn but not pre-mended. The last thing the capitalists want us to do is to associate mends with fashion because then we might stop replacing our clothes every six months as they wear out.

... but mended clothes /are/ cool and they /are/ punk and there's nothing they can do about that.

SP -must- be accessible. In order for it to truly be hopeful while not being utopic, it must allow for a range of interpretations that look vastly different across a wide geographic area. To enforce uniformity is not solarpunk. Which is why SP isn't just about solar, or even other alternative, energy sources. It's about inspecting the natural systems that are already benefitting the world, and basing our tech, social, and economic systems on that. SP has a huge aesthetic range, too. It can't just be floaty light colored flower dresses. It's worn, patched, thrifted jean overalls and a 10 year old t-shirt you bought from a friend. Solarpunk encourages us to say "yes, and what if we did better than that?" Solarpunk allows us to use what's here to create something better. Not going backward like anprims want, and not dying in a bloody revolution like tankies want. It's about happiness and growth.

2020 will be the last presidential election in which neither candidate has a fursona

For the past several months, I've been sending american-flag-belt-coworker almost-weekly network messages through an app he logs into that I have full admin on. The message pops up in the bottom corner of your desktop, and gives no appearance of having anything to do with the app it's coming from.

For the first few months, he only received this message, over and over:

The last thing you want. In your burger King Bussy. Is someone else's slungus

this one needs to be reposted over and over

basically what i'm saying is i want a younger Sanders who is better at speaking to a diverse set of issues and groups. someone whip that up quick ok we don't have much time

on the bright side if Sanders doesn't run no one will get called a Berniebro. on the other hand if Sanders doesn't run literally the entire field will be made up of folks who think progressive technocratic capitalism is the answer to every problem imaginable. i'm not even a massive Sanders booster but that's kind of important.

yeah I like leftist podcasts, like *checks smudged note on hand*

This is the real problem with the focus on telling everyone to 'accept change'. Not that people don't cling to old systems and resist change when they'd be better off, obviously they do, but it assumes that ALL objections are that and nothing else.

Of course you get the ultimate version of this in the infamous story from a few years back about a company laying a bunch of people off, the CEO awarding himself a giant bonus, and giving everyone a copy of "Who Moved My Cheese?" instead of a severance package.

But you get similar things where someone points out "This new web design has high latency, huge memory requirements, and crap accessibility." and gets told, "I understand that Change can be Scary, but we have to adapt and move with the times."

I really hate the egalitarian framing forced on corporate communications. Where everyone is expected to adopt the voice of equality and pure cooperation even though some people in the discourse can unilaterally dictate orders to and dismiss others in the discourse.

Part of the reason is that it lays the foundation for the /worse/ perversion of discourse in which NO ONE ACTUALLY MAKES POLICIES. Some C-level officer will start speaking in the language of communal decisionmaking, about how 'we' have decided this or that (implying that the people being spoken to were in on the decision.) or 'facts' as if the new plan is just a /thing that happened/. As if you woke up one morning and the fine structure constant is suddenly different.

This is a bit like the neoliberal discourse in politics where decisions aren't /made by anyone/ (or so they'd have you believe) but somehow arise naturally from 'the market' or whatever external source people want to attribute their ideas and biases to.

The worst part is that it cuts off all avenues for challenge and interrogation. The entire question of priorities and goals leading to a decision is taken off-limits.

free speechers: words can't hurt anyone you fuckin ignoramus
me: im triple gay
free speechers: [LOUD, MUFFLED, INCOMPREHENSIBLE SCREAMING]

Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager for Post-Furries

me af