astraluma @astraluma@cybre.space

so many incomplete assignments in school because i missed the subtext that the teacher intended us to catch. literally do NTs even understand themselves?

i've just realized that neurotypicals expect subtext to exist in everything and suddenly so much missed communication makes sense.

I absolutely do believe there is merit to recent meta about the U.S. centrism of the fedi, and really English-language social media in general. It is, in fact, arrogant and hurtful to assume one specific society's history and issues are universal and that anyone who unwittingly says something wrong in that society (in this case, the U.S.)'s terms is Horrible and Bigoted.

However. HowEVER. While I agree with the above wholeheartedly as stated, I'm hesitant to support it wholeheartedly because in, like, 99% of the time I've seen it invoked with specific facts it has been to dismiss Black people in the U.S. as privileged colonizers, and therefore to dismiss the idea that the person or behavior called out could be antiblack. When the only people I see get hit with the "fuck off, arrogant American" hammer are Black people actually raising legitimate concerns, you can see why I'd get a just a tiny bit suspicious of the rhetoric--not because it's wrong in itself, but because it's been used in such bad-faith ways.

It also doesn't help that 100% of the time I've seen this rhetoric with specific facts attached it's been white Europeans patting their own backs about how they can't be racist, which, lol?

YOU! You are like little baby! HA! Cutie. I cuddle you.

Perhaps to keep them open, the bosses should use their superhuman working abilities to pick up the slack. They're paid many times more, so they must be able to do the work of dozens of ordinary workers

wild how all these restaurants are closing instead of just getting those robots we are always threatened with when we demand better worker treatment

Tbh becoming a perpetual flight risk every since I gained a foothold in this industry is one of the most important lessons my first tech mentor ever taught me. The balance and power it brings to work relationships, and the power it gives you to make things better for others. Omg

can’t believe it’s 2021 and i just downloaded http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html

it costs 0 dollars to say cis men when you mean cis men