The student bowed.
"Master, I am sorry."
"Why were you absent yesterday?" the sword master asked.
"I don't know. I... simply could not get out of bed."
"If this happens again..."
"Yes?"
"Allow yourself to stay in bed."
"Master?"
"A blunt sword can be honed. A broken one can not."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
PSA:
yes, people want to do drugs. we've done so since the dawn of humanity. yes, people will always do so habitually and laws can't change that, the only thing they'll do is worsen our living conditions, thus providing incentive to do more drugs.
yes, some people will get addicted and they need care and recognition as human beings (Portugal, perhaps the most leftist country in Europe in terms of government and electoral politics, is a good example for this).
no, nobody wants to be an addict. nobody wakes up on a Saturday morning thinking "you know what would be great? feeling this soul-crushing craving every day of my life".
and still there are addicts, and we go through this every day of our lives, and whatever bourgeois media wants you to think, WE ARE PEOPLE. WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS deserving of common decency and who have feelings & basics needs & we are more than our addiction.
most of us would prefer not being addicted but this culture would triumphantly walk over our poisoned bodies to make The Drug Problem a non-issue, or blame us for it.
/rant
thanks for bearing with me.
@melivia @jimpjorps headcannon? why he was the greatest king of the franks there ever was
one of the things I hate most about politics, all politics, left and right, is the objectification of people, the reduction of people to their usefulness to a cause. We are so much more than just blocks of power to be built. Yes, I believe in the strength of us together, I believe in the masses, I believe in community and its abilities. But I fundamentally believe that any effort to organize people must view them as people, must be open to the real concerns of whoever we're looking in the eye.
@melivia @kittybecca Constantly insisting that heavily armed warships are, in fact, research vessels just screams "we are violating naval proliferation treaties."
I say this because people often assume it has something to do with energy or not _wanting_ to do stuff. Although I also have problems with low energy, that’s something separate.
Dear admins of the Fediverse,
You alone are not responsible for what people on your instance do.
But!
You are responsible for what you do when someone else tells you about a misbehaving person on your instance.
If you're not comfortable with that you shouldn't run an instance or go work for Twitter.
Signed with love,
Zoë
@melivia also apparently considered were Richard Dean Anderson and Pierce Brosnan
@melivia @jasonscheirer @anarchiv @breakfastgolem it's the same dick-measuring as eating pepper sauce with so many Scovilles your children will be unable to taste food
Multidisciplinary nerd. Extremely cool and funny. Some labels for the kind of human I am: #Christian #trans #lesbian #maths #haskell #hacker #actuallyautistic #anarchism #antifa #syndicalism
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