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Every homeless person you see on the streets has been put there by force or the threat of force by the police to protect the profits of landowners and landlords and less directly to act as an example and threat for workers who might otherwise be less willing to accept unjust wages and working conditions.
the response to "your demographic is full of people who are ugly and weird and undesirable" should not ever be "not true! some of us are in fact hot and normal and desireable." you should stand with weird ugly bitches bc otherwise you're just playing a losing game with bigots.
Yeah, sure, Dropout doing Copaganda, specifically starring Nathan "I'd work with Joss Whedon again" Fillion, and with favored babes Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, and Jacob Wysocki. No, yeah, that's great. I love hating everything. I love that no amount of "a company isn't your friend" prepared me for the first bullshit step out of indie territory to be cops on the Game Changer set. I live, I laugh, I love.
when people, politicians and news outlets talk about how more people are out of work and getting sick more often, they love to talk about all sorts of things - from laziness and entitlement to the way society is structured to burn people out without giving them the means to live well - and they love to ignore the elephant in the room: Covid.
Covid has been, and still is, a mass disabling event. Covid has made people sicker, weaker, more fatigued, more prone to illness. Covid has taken millions out of the workforce via death, disability and burnout and people aren’t an infinitely renewable resource.
Obviously the way we structure our society has a lot to do with it - as does the fact that Covid showed many of us that another way is possible, and then we were just asked to go back to normal as if nothing happened.
People are tired. People are sick. People are immunocompromised. People are unwilling to put up with this bullshit anymore. And why would we? Another way is possible.
Cancers from professional exposure Heart attacks from stressful work. Car accidents from long commutes after long stressful days Chronic illness from infections in crowded, unventilated work spaces
The damage of jobs is everywhere and it is systematically ignored.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
One time when I was like three years old I was laying in my mom’s bed, and I don’t remember what we were talking about except I was being fussy about having to do something, and just like whenever I was being like that she asked, “are you trying to pick a fight?”
And I didn’t really know what that meant, only that I always said no, but for some reason or another I was very annoyed and a fight sounded pretty good so for the first time ever I said “yes”
And I don’t know what I was expecting to happen, but I remember my mom just going “Okay, then. Let’s fight. What do you want to fight about?”
And I remember it occurring to me all of a sudden that the onus was on me to generate the energy to pick something to be mad about, and wishing she’d just do something worth fighting FOR me, but she just went, “I’m not the one who wants to fight. If you want to fight, you have to pick something to fight about”
and I just went ugh. Never mind, that’s too much work. So said “I don’t wanna fight actually, I’m just cranky” and she told me “okay well just say that next time” and in hindsight that was actually probably a very important formative experience
Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.
Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)
I selected “other.”
Text box popped up. Please elaborate!
Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment
Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.
Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”
Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.
I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.
If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.
When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.
Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email
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Finally, France has abolished the law under which it's mandatory for married couples to have sex. (Source)
This comes after a French tribunal in a fault-bases divorce case attributed the blame solely to the woman because she did not want to have sex with her husband— after her health problems and the husband abusing her. She appealed, and in 2019 the French appeals court reiterated that the woman's "continued failure" to have sex with her husband constituted a "serious and repeated breach of marital duties and obligations".
She took the case up to the European Court of Human Rights, defending that the state has no business penalizing her for not wanting to have sex. Last year, against France's resolution, the European Court sided with her, adding that the very existence of a law that makes marital sex mandatory goes against sexual freedom and bodily autonomy. (Source)
This case was supported by the French feminist movement, under the statement "Marriage is not and must not be sexual servitude". The European Court's Resolution also came after the famous case of marital rape of Gisèle Pelicot (for many years, her husband drugged her and raped her and invited other men to rape her while she was unconscious, which at least 50 other men did and recorded themselves doing), which sparked new debate about marital rape.
The report in Parliament said: "Through the recognition of marital duty, French law has legalized having sexual relations under duress—in this case, under the threat of divorce for fault." And, in fact, a man in 2011 had been sentenced by a court to pay 10,000€ in damages for "lack of sexual relations" with his wife.
With the continued pressure from the feminist movement, and after years of fight, yesterday the French Parliament voted to abolish the law that made sex mandatory in marriages.
A day to celebrate for everyone's body autonomy, and particularly women (who have repeatedly been blamed using this law) and the asexual community.
Convenience isn't bad because of some inherent value in toil or it rots your soul. Convenience is bad because it often comes at the cost of an exploited underclass. I don't care if someone wants to taxi their meal to their house instead of making it themselves or even driving to the restaurant themselves. I care that meal delivery apps underpay their workers (they don't even consider them their workers), provide no workplace protections, and prey on their desperation.
The desire for convenience is a morally neutral thing (no matter how many capitalists want their workers to see unproductivity or aversion to the "grind" as a moral failing). Companies that sell you only convenience by making it worse for yourself and for others are not.
I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going
@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.
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#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)
Reading your tag made me laugh out loud. It’s like two old friends unexpectedly stopped by your porch for a quick visit. XD
I’ll always reblog Martin and Bosco when they splash across my dash, because of Reasons.
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who taught you that suffering in silence was noble, and how would you shutting up have benefited them?
this also counts for all those times you kept your mouth shut and didn't complain because you were being polite, and people would gladly have changed things if you had just asked. your suffering was not noble. you do not get a cookie for it, you do not get a tally mark next to your soul's score for grinning and bearing it. your suffering serves no purpose. break free of it. you deserve comfort.
A lot of people seem to mix up ‘community’ with ‘friend group’ so when they read ‘no one should be abandoned by the community. No matter what they did’ they think it means ‘you have to be friends with abusers’. When in reality it means ‘no matter what someone does they shouldnt be left to go homeless and be denied financial, housing, medical, etc aid’
You don’t have to be friends with these people, no one is saying that. It’s just saying that you should support rehabilitative justice, support programs that help homeless people, support funding for free medical services, and make sure they don’t turn away anyone who needs help.
