Frankestein's monster 🧟 (averysoftno)

I've been working on a project about climate-induced population migration in Atlantic Canada for about a year, and we've finally launched the dashboard with an accompanying blog post in anticipation of engaging with communities for feedback and local knowledge. You should check it out!

If no one's in my corner, since everyone left, I better make it worth it.

I just want to sell out my funeral. I just want to be enough for everyone. (Know I fought until the lights were gone.)

He is inches away from endorsing trigger warnings for white men reading job listings

So when my vocal chords rip, when my knees give in, when I bury all of this, who's gonna give a shit if I'm breathing?

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals." buff.ly/oR5kV77

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

my brain when I’m trying to sleep or go somewhere important:

billionaires bought the news and this is what we get.

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

did you just flash your stupidly bright headlights at me, or was there a bump that your stupidly tall car can barely handle?

Dating over 30 should go something like„hey I like you and if that‘s mutual we should have dinner and sex in whatever order and eventually figure out how we fit into each other‘s impossibly full adult lives“ and instead we came up with 12 different dating apps and whatever a „situationship“ is

it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started

a message from the future

I'm feeling worn, feeling threadbare, like the sleeves of my sweater, and I watch the light grow thinner and disappear.

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

You can skip the gender metaphysics debate entirely if you say, "I don't care about that. I care about the material consequences trans people experience for living the way they want to," and then hammer the point home that no amount of gender metaphysics can ever justify transfemicide.

YOU - “What is this feeling?” SHIVERS - THERE IS A HOLE IN MY HEART.

This is a good reminder that after all of the separatism mania hopefully dies down when the vote fails ... these people will turn their attention back to other crazy bigotry. And yes, that include Danielle Smith's government too. Expect the anti-trans book bans etc. to kick back into high gear.

there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist

another world is possi—URGENT

Is it good that the richest, most powerful men alive are openly admitting the machines are driving them insane? I don't think it's good personally. archive.ph/EXEze#select...

This is so refreshing to read. When the leadership changed at my corporate job, the shareholder capitalism started to seep in, even though we didn’t have any. Shareholders became defined as our customers, our contractors, where the money is exchanged. I noticed employees weren’t in there anymore.

I just want to be enough for everyone.

Not now, mysterious ancient cauldron

This is just so disappointing and terrible. So many creative heroes have turned into/out to be abusive and/or bigoted shitheels.

I'd have every data center shut down immediately for a single bag of Doritos.

Kill me quickly.

they say time heals all wounds. but clearly they have not considered my ocd

This god damn machine, hungry and heartless. My whole generation got lost in the margin. We put our faith in you. You turned a profit. Now we’re drowning here under your waves.

personally i won't settle for a cursed place when i could have an 𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖉 place

this would be a very cool subject to do a retrospective about how radicalization happens and how billionaires can control the conversation and make whatever their pet issue is into a central political issue for everyone, but I have a feeling that this documentary will not be that.

I understand it's different from folks who might be looking for breaking news from an ENTIRE COUNTRY that they can't find here. But lots of other fandoms and hobby groups and professional communities and whatnot absolutely CAN be moved. You just have to be willing to TRY it!