Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@pagrus @titania yeah i am strongly invested in not getting covid bc it could v well kill me so i take more precautions than most people i know, and its frustrating at times because i know that if everyone was willing to take some small steps i wouldnt have to be nearly as extreme about it

but 1) if you want everyone to do a thing thats a public policy issue and your ire should primarily lie with the people deciding policy & 2) picking on people for making decisions about their own personal risk that have zero impact on risk at scale is just pure smug superiority to no benefit

@titania @pagrus as someone who got long covid over a decade before it was cool, i am proclaiming “ugh those bastards”

@titania @pagrus yeah considering how instacart works i dont think that’s actually reducing community risk at all, especially not in 2024 so it’s just 100% an inequity vector

@titania @pagrus i dont think anyone deserves to get covid but i kind of understand the logic of saying that about eg. someone who is refusing to mask. Like, okay, they are making society more dangerous for everyone so i can see why you’d want them to feel the costs of that risk. But using instacart is just…offloading your own personal risk onto a poor person?? How the hell is that the morally superior position???

@ljwrites since i know you i’d assumed the latter context, but people voting based on this getting boosted into their feeds probably don’t tbf

@ljwrites i think it really depends on the context the categories are used in — like if a blog is primarily a review blog then i’d assume fiction / non-fiction / commentary were the categories of what the blog was reviewing (and blog was for misc non-review stuff) but if this was someone i knew to write and publish their own fiction regularly, i’d expect that category to be reserved for actual works of fiction

@titania ughhh 😬

@Betty understandable, tho I think the font you chose also works well with them? (also, legibility is definitely a plus haha)

@Betty i dont think its cheating to use printed text! pretty much all of the zines i’ve collected have a substantial portion of text that is either printed or typewritten — there are benefits to handwriting, esp when trying to make very fast/casual zines but there are definitely many benefits to typing also

@twotone yeah i can see whatever weirdness they’re using to make it “cooling” adding some chemical tang to the whole thing also