PLENTY OF JUICE (Cas) @InkAndCircuits@cybre.space

It was MY fucking job to get kids to discard Bloods and Crips bandannas for microscopes & Javascript. I was paid starvation wages, and was literally homeless at several points, living in a relatives closet or in a Mazda Tribute with my wife and two kids, eating spoonfulls of Skippy Peanut Butter for dinner, while working on Scratch and Lego curriculum while Administrators were taking home 7 figures dropping in to eo photo ops with poor black/brown kids doing science. THIS IS FUCKING AMERICA

In America, if you do anything of value, you are sent off to die in the shithole with the poor, the POCs and immigrants you're trying to help. If you're a self-aggrandizing fascist fuck, you become Mayor, senator, CEO, billionaire philanthropist playboy entrepreneur, and President as thanks for your absence of caring and exploiting all the modern slaves, prison-slaves, offshore slaves, and wage slaves. AMERICA IS A FUCKING SHITHOLE COUNTRY!

There are other deep criticisms of a view of #cyberpunk that insists that unaltered bodies are the only true humanity, too. E.g.: authors with this view tend to conflate increasing augmentation with a decrease in emotion, as though expressive emotion were innately human–never mind autistic people, people with flat affects, etc.

But I like the idea that the criticism offers - that augmentation allows a person to uncover their true self, rather than being limited by the body they were born with.

Ok so I made a ko-fi and if you like any of my games hmu with a TIP. Or don't. No pressure. Also gives you access to any unreleased games I have made.
https://ko-fi.com/spiralux

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I need $3,500 to move forward with my legal defense.
The deadline is "ASAP", but I absolutely have to have it before July 4th, 2018, at 0000 GMT.

I am getting my Etsy shop, "Talos Foundry", back online.
I'd prefer Liberapay, but...if you want to do the easy (unethical) thing, donate to the GoFundMe.

https://www.gofundme.com/tessa-survival

Please share with others.

More instructions to follow.

This is not a drill.
We are at war.

So Star Wars: Aftermath is not my favourite Star War by a long shot. It's got some issues.

But it DOES have my favourite character: Mister Bones, the modified B1 battle droid, who is entirely covered in bones and delivers such lines as "I PERFORMED VIOLENCE. ROGER ROGER."

You can't top that.

Fluctuating cognitive symptoms are one of the scariest parts of what I've got going on and very hard to plan for. How the hell do you persist at recovery when your already shaky ability to remember intentions, make decisions, and execute a plan sometimes just ... evaporates? For weeks?

#executivedysfunction is the most underrated symptom of several otherwise household name illnesses. They didn't even *mention* it to me til I asked for a brain scan.

"Elon Musk invented Tesla."

Elon Musk did not invent batteries, or the car, or the electric car. Elon Musk bought a company. He's an owner. He hasn't invented anything, ever.

I seriously just saw somebody lecture him about depression like black people don't have absurdly high rates of depression, like inner-city black children don't have absurdly high rates of PTSD, like somehow melanin makes us impervious to all other human experiences.

Ridiculous.

I would never assume someone is neurotypical. I would never assume someone did not have a mental illness. I would never assume someone is cis or hetero.

Why don't yall give us the same courtesy?

I don't know him either, but I would never think to lecture him about an oppression that he might fucking experience too.

Jesus Christ.