Show newer

people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism 

@Lady no they think slavery and communism are both good

people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism 

«One of the wildest sects of Communists in France proposes not only to hold all property in common, but to divide the profits not according to each mans in-put and labor but according to each mans wants. Now this is precisely the system of domestic slavery with us. We provide for each slave, in old age and in infancy, in sickness and in health, not according to his labor, but according to his wants. The masters wants are most costly and refined, and he therefore gets a larger share of the profits. A Southern farm is the beau ideal of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slave consumes more than the master, of the coarse products, and is far happier, because although the concern may fail, he is always sure of a support; he is only transferred to another master to participate in the profits of another concern…»

Satsuma boosted

@Lady well she's talking about abortions so I assume she's mostly trying to be clear that she's not correlating uteri and womanhood yeah it's very strange language

@Lady 'identified women' 'identified straight men' etc

the woman giving this talk cannot stop putting the word 'identified' before like, everything

it's kinda charming in an 'older person is trying' kinda way

Show thread

re: abortion 

(this quote is from 'Jane: An Abortion Service'. It's available on Kanopy if your local library has a subscription there)

Show thread

abortion 

lmao this women is talking about how she was arrested for preforming illegal abortions before Roe v Wade and the cop questioning her is like "oh I see you used to be a teacher, I used to be a teacher" and she's like "yeah I was a biology teacher" "well where did you go wrong" "where did *I* go wrong, what do you mean why did you stop being a teacher and become a *cop*?"

@bgcarlisle ah yeah that seems like exactly the right level of vagueness that fandom would run with for a joke

@bgcarlisle there used to be a joke in the star trek fandom that chocolate chess was the Vulcan version of a drinking game

….i can’t remember if vulcans getting drunk off chocolate is canon or something fandom just made up tbh

@monorail it took me like three tries to parse the spaces into “t-shirt cannon” correctly 😆

@sublingual even then I don’t see a huge difference between making a spreadsheet on like, graph paper and in excel

@sublingual if it helps dysgraphia which is a brain wiring issue that specifically effects writing verifiably effects both

Despite that ‘permission to use a computer’ is still the de jure accommodation for dysgraphia bc typing eliminates the ‘no one can read my handwriting’ issue, lets you have spellcheck, etc

@sublingual yes? I mean I guess it depends on context but generally?

@tozka never know when you’ll need to make a fort?????

thoughts on writing full-time, money 

@ljwrites yeah I do much better with academic writing than i do creative writing bc at least then I’ve got a structure & a defined set of limitations based on the source materials

Fiction just exhausts me immediately, people who do it full time are crazy impressive

Show older
📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.