Amy @PinkCathodeCat@cybre.space

Every time you think: "But what about all the good things he did", consider: "What about all the people and potentially great contributions we lost because of him."

#RMS #FreeSoftware

We don't need leaders any more. We never did.

Marilyn Manson is like Bart simpson. rob zombie is like Lisa simpson.

forever war

This is usually the point where I annoy my friends in the USA and the “coalition of the willing” to remind that about 1 million lives in Iraq were snuffed out because America decided to be a big baby with an empire. Lives who had absolute jack all to do with Bin Ladin’s attack, but happened to be in a brown country nearby which had tasty oilfields and airbase sites. 2003 was industrial abattoir, terrorism perfected.

But why bother anymore? No one cares. No one remembers. No one wants to. 🤷🏽‍♀️

did you know that there's a pair of peregrine falcons that nest in an alcove of 367 collins st, melbourne? and that you can watch them hatch and raise their chicks LIVE?

https://www.367collinsfalcons.com.au/

#melbourne #australia #birds

Fuck a world of forced specialization. You can be a farmer AND a philosopher. You can be a carpenter and a portraitist. You can be a lawyer and an electrician. You can be a mycologist and a flautist, a bookbinder and a skateboarder, a chemist and a stripper, an upholsterer and an Aramaic scholar, a gymnast and a fisherman. You can be so many things, any combination of things that you love or like or are interested in or want to try. Idgaf! If you only want to do one thing? That's fucking awesome and good too!

But I refuse to accept a world where a farmer must be just a farmer, a carpenter just a carpenter. Labors of body, mind, and spirit can all fit together, no matter what capitalism says.

Anyone following me will be aware that I have little time for the Microsoft Corporation. If you're wondering how/why I might hold such a low opinion of them, here's a great book about the reasons, but only up until the early 2000s :) https://web.archive.org/web/20051013071656/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_intro.html Far more could be written about their behaviour and technology since. I've written a lot about them on my blog https://davelane.nz :)

I meet a lot of proles that have little to no anarchist/communist theory, but they are left wing in action and ideas.

Two examples: one person that wants the abolition of ICE and another that believes in the right to universal housing. The former has worked to keep people safe from ICE raids, the latter has personally sheltered 3-4 people to help them get back on their feet.

Neither know who Lenin or Kropotkin are. Neither have read a sentence of theory. Both drift further left the more work they do as it's clear what side will help them in their niche.

They have their problematic points- especially around ableism- but I've found those that have done the work (rather than read the theory) are better suited to learning and growing.

I'd take a prole with good praxis and no theory over someone that's all theory and no praxis*

*(One's own ability and struggles affect their ability to act and this isn't meant to talk down to people with disabilitied)

one last thing i'll say: amy lee from evanescence was the original big tiddy goth girlfriend and we should never forget that

At what point on a first date do you bring up Arch linux?

if you are opposed to public bathrooms in public spaces for ANY reason please go away

Autistic friends: how do you steer yourself away from a meltdown? As in, you can tell you're about to have one. Then what?

I have no fricking clue.

#ActuallyAutistic #Help

Boosts welcome.

Serious question: My bank uses an Android app, which is coupled to the phone number, and locked with a PIN code.

Is this a valid 2FA scheme? After all, you need the phone and the PIN code.