katia @spacekatia@queer.party

I see this as an absolute win! https://redd.it/bzj5dk

I like the idea of masterdon but I wish it didn't look like tweetdeck.

If I wanted an an overwhelming amount of information formatted in an anxiety inducing layout I'd have stayed on twitter!

the massive flaw of the "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" argument is that responsible consumption is a matter of practice and applied intelligence, i.e. it needs practice, thus people who use it to argue that they don't need to put any effort into their own style of consumption under current circumstances are actively harming the outcome of any system resulting from overthrowing capitalism in advance, and they're also harming what Foucault would call heterotopias, i.e. those seeds of a new world sown in the one we live such as worker cooperatives

every little bit of money that flows into there heterotopias as in investment into a future where money is obsolete, and into the livelihoods of people trying to escape from this system using their skills

hence, the slogan "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is antithetical to any efforts of building a socialist, i.e. more ethical system of production and consumption, a less alienated one, it simply increases the level of alienation

Today’s mood.

The down side of a woman - any woman - becoming the "face" of a scientific endeavour is that hordes of internet misogynists will descend to question her contributions and expertise:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/12/trolls-hijacked-scientists-image-attack-katie-bouman-they-picked-wrong-astrophysicist

mutual survival and cooperation > competition with no caveats. The only problem is you

I wish banana peels were as effective against motorised vehicles IRL as they are in Mario Kart.

being trans and gay is having thoughts of wow women are pretty

and then WAIT i'm woman

me, very patiently: the goal here is to get men to have sex with *other men*

a transphobe: you just want to turn men gay...
me, a transsexual: haha yup, got me there!
transphobe: ... by tricking them into having sex with you!
me, a woman: no, what? how would THAT help?