Jaycie (Squid Mode) @jaycie@mastodon.social

Don't worry, ma'am, I'm a fox. I've know what I'm doing.

Basic income is a concept that has existed in various forms, under various names, since the days of the Enlightenment. Political economist Philipe Van Parijs defined basic income as “an income paid by a government, at a uniform level and at regular intervals, to each adult member of society. The grant is paid, and its level is fixed, irrespective of whether the person is rich or poor, lives alone or with others, is willing to work or not.”

"Nagging" isn't a thing. It's a concept invented to make women* feel bad for asking when something will be done. After they have asked before and the "nagged" person already said "yes" but didn't bother following through.

Hey kids when you're designing awesome decentralised stuff, don't forget discoverability. I mean podcasts, conceptually, are perfectly decentralised but when I ask someone about their podcast 90% of the time they tell me to look it up on iTunes.

If you don't want ads and paywalls you have to support the people doing shit for you that aren't putting up ads and paywalls.

I had never heard this translation before but it is now my favorite thing.

I hate the term minorities because many of us are not minorities in the spaces we occupy but still are oppressed.

A major problem with the way that we raise autistic children is that abled people do not expect anyone to want to be our friend so instead of teaching us how to handle social relationships in a healthy way we're just taught how to make ourselves most palatable to abled people who do not, and never will, actually care about us as human beings.

We become autistic adults who struggle to maintain friendships with people who actually love us because nobody taught us how.

Common CW abbreviations I use:

* mh: mental health
* ph: physical health
* alc: alcohol
* pol: politics, sometimes plus locale, like:
* uspol: United States politics
* pda: public display of affection
* nsfw: not safe for work (this is rare, I prefer more specificity)

On the one hand, I'm on board with making content warnings as clear as possible while still being concise.

On the other hand, if you don't understand what a content warning means, maybe... don't click on the "show more" button?

(On the gripping hand: you're not entitled to a full explanation of every post everyone makes on Mastodon. You won't understand every post you see, and that's okay.)

TFW you discover the setting on Tumblr - which defaults to ON - that lets Tumblr add their affiliate code to links you post, so they make money when you link to (say) a product on Amazon or Etsy.

Efficiency is nice and all but have you lived in a culture with a surplus of wealth, spread around well?

Fuck efficiency when there's humans involved. It's precarity by another name.