A Gamerqueer Faun @ackthrice@tabletop.social

Tending to your #privacy is like making sure you have your #vaccination. Even if you have no particular personal risk, there are vulnerable people around you: Whistle blowers, human rights activists, investigative reporters, the wrongfully pursued. If everyone sells their privacy except a few, those few stand out and are cornered quickly. But if it is a societal norm to protect your privacy, these heroines and heroes of our time are protected as well.

A Teamster delivering for UPS was killed bc police responded to the truck's hijacking by perforating it with rounds, and the response by UPS is to thank police for their service. The response of the PD was to confirm there were no cop fatalities.

Fuck this. People need to be made safe from out of control cops.

We could have:
community owned solar that fuels neighborhoods
electrified local mass transit
high speed rail powered by renewable energy
Residences that are energy islanded and self-sufficient so they never black out, run by solar, energy storage, small wind, geotherm
Run-of-river hydropower that doesn't dam up rivers or harm biodiversity
Geothermally fueled large buildings, like community centers, hospitals and schools
Municipal digesters that turn waste into energy without burning it and releasing carbon
Regenerative agriculture that buries our waste to restore our soil's carbon

But it can't be made profitable, so we don't have it.

A well-made three part #documentary on #anarchist #history:

1: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=JZ-utvfgK8Q

2: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=77GKgbUGJK0

3: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=M6pysEKlg0Q

CW for strong violence, images and videos of dead people, terrorism, generally upsetting stuff. Also very inspiring though, and if you're okay watching this sort of stuff, I highly recommend it so as to learn part of the important history they don't teach you in school.

I really appreciate when other libertarian socialists challenge and debate anarchist philosophy. Given it's a philosophy opposed to authority, it's always a good idea to hold ourselves up to the same scrutiny we hold others to.

The reason I appreciate it from libsocs more so than authoritarians or capitalists, is that I know the arguments are usually in good faith. From reformist DemSocs to revolutionary LeftComs we are (generally) after the same thing, so it's nice to be able to take criticism from people that are sympathetic to anarchism but not completely "sold" on the idea.

So yeah, if you ever fancy a polite debate or discussion, my mentions are open to it :)

So umm what's with all the leftists posting about betas/cucks/etc. since I rejoined Mastodon? This is "ironic" cooption of far-right language for laughs, right?

It's 2019. Have we already forgotten where this goes? Have we already forgotten that thought contagion is a real thing, that helped elect a real fascist regime in the most militarily powerful country on Earth?

What is possessing you folks to think this is cool now?

This requiring everyone to post their pronouns in their profile is ridiculous imo. Its just so not helpful, people who care about what you use for them will have them, if not just default to they for everyone else until advised otherwise. Thats the whole point of having a neutral pronoun, and you should be defaulting to using it. Mandating that other people list their pronouns and updaye if they change when they may be in flux to save you trouble is not useful or progressive.

2009: buy our Spyware removal program!

2019: if you use a program to get rid of Spyware you're destroying the Internet economy you evil person

Anyone with access to a group want to do some #playtesting of an #RPG?

I'm hoping to have a finished playable structure of my Jungle Book RPG by next week or so. It's set in the Jungles of India and casts players as animals of the tribes in the jungle. It runs on a Fate accelerated derivative system.

Sometimes you dress fem and it feels good, othertimes you dress fem and it feels bad.

Aint that just the way

@Red in the 90s anything you saw that had ties to the internet was glamorous & exciting

I saw an artist's AOL screenname in the newspaper so I IMed him to say I liked his work and I was an artist too

He immediately asked me how old I was (I was 19) and then said he was sure my art was great, and he'd love to take a look, and did I have any pics of me also? I got freaked out and never talked to him again

And that man, dear reader, was Scott Adams

@ackthrice you should think about how to monetize talking to that person, they should be paying you for the time spent