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Whats up with murder being in single quotes in this headline? Does Common Dreams not recognize these killings as murder?

@mattcolville.bsky.social In part 1 of "Brainstorming a low-level adventure" stream you mention something about Barter never being an economic model of exchange in societies. If you want to learn more you should check out the book Debt: The First 5000 Years. Chapter 2 is about the myth of barter.

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- all accounts have pronoun tags. (the default is none/ use name)
- it is hella lefty. you will get roasted for being a centrist.
- the site culture is shitposter / rowdy.
- significantly less horny than bluesky bcz it has a lot of ace folks. Still fun.
- like 60% of the site is trans lol

in the wake of Bluesky T&S endorsing polite transphobia, i want to recommend checking out hexbear.net as an alternative.

the site bans transphobes & bigotry, is assertively leftist, & has digital queer dive bar vibes.

it is also actually federated instead of just pretending to be.

I was told we could make our own #bsky, whatever happened to that? Sure would be nice to #decentralize this whole thing in light of recent policies. I get the feeling centralization and profits beat out the #safety of marginalized groups. 🤔

Here’s the deal: We stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential.

Extra Virgin Olive Oyl is a baldfaced lie when you remember that she’s ready and willing to have Popeye consistently and repeatedly blow her back out.

You were told for years that it was on YOU to save the planet. YOU had to recycle. The power is YOURS!

... well turns out they were lying. You can't recycle plastic at scale. You never could.

WE are not the ones destroying the world.

Once upon a time, the ever-evolving graffiti on this reservoir near the psych unit was a cave-painting-record. I photographed much of it over months.
One day they painted it grey. The next day:

I think the historical context on this is really important to understand and promote because the reality is that there's no inherent aversion to trans people in our culture, it's one that's been cultivated by explicit right wing propaganda as another way to divide the working class against itself

No more modern nonsense, return to to tradition

The Onion are fucking oracles

My daughter Nina turned 21 today. (Sorry, these are the most recent pictures I could find of her.)

the ADHD medication shortage is basically mass medical neglect nobody cares about because treatment for ADHD is seen as a convenience rather than a need. that's really the long and short of it.