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Jolene, the party game:

https://furtiveshambles.itch.io/jolene

It’s a hot hot hot hot day in parts of North America. If you’re like me, your only access to cooling at home is something like a struggling window unit.

Libraries can be cooling stations if you can get to one. And they mostly won’t kick you out. They’re a place you can be and not buy anything. Keep safe if you can. 💜💜💜💜

By the way, I'm happy to find local activist/leftist groups for you if you DM me your general area (county, closest city, etc). I've been doing this for a while so I know generally what to look for, though I'm not as familiar with the organizations outside of the so-called US, and the language barrier will make it tougher in countries where English isn't the primary language. But I still try and rarely ever come up with absolutely nothing

Please boost this! Getting organized at the local level is very very important!!!

I've finished writing part 1 of "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent", which is to say the "Conceptual Overview" section https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

There's a lot there already, and we haven't even gotten to Part 2, the "How to Build It" section yet. I'll begin work on that tomorrow.

What's here already is more or less an explanation of *why* OcapPub is taking the particular direction it is taking, and why other approaches run into serious problems.

GNU/Actually,

Dogs are so stupid I love them

Moonlight shimmered off her silver fur, even under the fluorescent lights of the Drive-Thru. Her thin, sharp horn tip tapped against the glass politely.

I slid my window open and the unicorn placed a folded bill into my hand, gazing through long gold lashes at me.

"Keep the change," she said.

"O-okay," I stammered, handing over her order.

"Oh did I say no cheese?"

"You did."

"Good!" she exclaimed and trotted off into the darkness.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

@pizza
Words have power.

They express meanings, ideas, and relationships.
They impact how we relate to the past and to one another.

As we share this history, we strive to use words that are
empathetic to those whose history has been marginalized. For

example, we use phrases like enslaved woman, rather than slave.

The noun slave implies she was, at her core, a slave. The adjective

enslaved reveals that though in bondage, bondage was not her
core existence.

Furthermore, she was enslaved by the actions of another.
Therefore, we use terms like enslaver, rather than master, to
indicate one’s effort to exert power over another. You may hear
other phrases, like slave labor camp or escapee, rather than
plantation or runaway. These reinforce the idea of people's
humanity rather than the conditions forced upon them.

extremely important museum plaque that addresses the language we use to talk about slavery in the american south. @OCRbot