hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

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THIS.

These are mottos she lives by. The one I found the most fascinating and hear to her was the Hope is Heavy one.

Yeah,,, it can take work to have hope!

I have this coping candle flame that flickers, Hope it’s simple name, but tho i truly need its light I keep it shuttered every night - the winds that blow through me are cold, the whispered wick a trick to hold, and while the fire burns devout.. I fear, exposed, it might go out. So while I have this Hope, it’s true, it never helps to light my view; I keep it safely tucked inside - so, blinded, then, I too must hide. But deadly dark the night, and cold - with naught but Hope to guide and warm; so time to risk that which I hold, and trust my candle in the storm.

"Hope is spite, rebranded"

Well now that's speaking my language.

But @weaselle 's poem, speaks to another part, the part where hope lives. The tender center that holds onto the fragile spark of hope with gentle cupped hands and wills it to live.

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the problem with the current wave of discord phishing scams is that I don't think you can blame people for clicking links without checking where they go. internet safety isn't really taught in schools anymore, sure, but there is literal research being done on how the omnipresence of social media has eroded people's ability to parse what we would otherwise identify as untrustworthy behaviour. it's blaming a structural problem on individuals

if you wanna hear someone explain this effect better than I can, check out this video essay that goes into the problem in more detail

The trouble is I know it’s a rickroll and want to click it to complete the joke, but also don’t want to because such obvious bait could easily not be even though I trust this user.

It’s like the feeling of not being able to sneeze

I promise it's not a rickroll

This post actually serves as an illustration of something I've talked about before - the shift toward mobile devices as the primary means of accessing social media, if not the internet as a whole, is also eroding a lot of understanding of internet safety. On desktop, I hover over those links and...yeah, I can see that they're not rickrolls! What it is, is right there in the lower left hand corner of my screen. On mobile? I'd have to click to find out! Which means it's easy not to know a link is malicious until it's already turned your phone into a heating brick that doubles as an advertising screen while mining crypto for some random dickhole!

It's especially bad, because the kinds of safety features that are removed from mobile are ones that...you often don't notice that you miss. After all, how many links that you glance over in that little hover preview ACTUALLY turn out to be malicious, or even pranks? Maybe 1 in 1000? Less? Maybe more if you have a friend who really likes Rick Astley. This isn't the only thing like this - mobile platforms are notorious for stripping out "extraneous" features that are actually there for very good safety reasons.

It's a very real problem, and yeah, it's systemic, not just individual people being willfully ignorant.

All that said though, you can get a preview of where a link goes on mobile by holding your finger on the link for a few seconds (at least on iphone).

This is true, but it's very different to have to take 5 seconds to make that check actively than to have that check take less than 1 second and do it passively

I've seen a few security advocates discussing this exact thing, it's a serious problem

Barbara Stanwyck teaches Arthur Hohl to keep his hands to himself in Baby Face (1933)

A thing I've really grown to appreciate when writing Discworld stuff, is how the style's designed for you to mash together a random shower thought, a cool fact you know and the most obnoxious pun you could think of, and then just plop it straight into the middle of whatever actual plot you're going thru AND you also get to call it worldbuilding.

Gay_irl

I’m having an absolute fucking fit over this?????

No—okay the subversion is great and I love it but he’s still fat!!!!

The punchline wasn’t that he got skinny and ripped and the ex regretted it, it wasn’t even that he got skinny and ripped and started dating his trainer! He’s working out sure and maybe a little more “in shape” but the important thing is he’s fat and happy in the end.

Do you have any idea what seeing this did for a queer fat guy like me??? I’m so happy right now I’m genuinely just stunned.

Job postings these days are like

Wanted: Virgin, with 3 years of sexual experience

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Re-blogging again because that comment fucking killed me

reminds me of that one story where a person ran across an add asking for five years experience in a particular code language. This person had helped create this particular code language, three years ago.

Whole swarms of companies are using "entry level" to mean "this is the lowest-level job in our company" rather than "you don't need any particular job experience or licensed skills to do this."

(Of course, they lie about that, too, because they will fucking put "entry level" on a divisional manger job; no, I don't know what the internal logic for that is.)

The good news for job seekers is: 90% of those "requirements" are bogus. They are listing the experience that they think fits "what this job needs, AFTER you learn how to do it."

Also it's illegal to require a degree for a job that doesn't specifically need it - turns out a lot of places were using "must have a 4-year degree" as a roundabout way of saying "we only want to hire white people" and that went to court and got slammed down. So now most of them say "Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience."

Most job listings are made by copying last year's job listing from a related department and editing the details as little as possible. Repeat for three generations of job openings and you wind up with a list of "requirements" that relate to six different departments.

The "skills/experience required" section is often used as "our fantasy hire has these" rather than "we won't speak to applicants who don't have these."

Ignore ALL of the experience/education required. Look over the list of actual job duties (if, sigh, you can figure them out... "grow revenue via enhanced customer service" tells you fuck-all about what you actually do on the job) and if you think you can do those - apply for the job. Don't lie about your experience, but be ready to answer questions with "no, I haven't worked as a [job title] before BUT I have done X in my job as a [different job title]."

Some of the requirement listings are legit. If they're looking for data analysts who are specialists in Tableau, you can't fake that with "I have poked around in spreadsheets and a bit of mysql." But if you can figure out what the job actually needs, and you have those skills - apply, regardless of whether you meet the checklist.

Maybe they'll learn to edit their job listings.

I get a lot of questions about semiverbalism and what it means. I have a few posts on semiverbalism, however most of them are about what it means to me. So, here’s what semiverbalism is. What it means to other people, and what it can mean.

I encourage people to please correct me if I’m wrong or even add onto it. I will edit this post if I get something wrong! I acknowledge that semiverbalism is a HUGE spectrum.

Semiverbalism can mean;

Overall, semiverbal as a whole means that speech is hard or speech is incoherent to those around you. Semiverbalism is very individual to the person and is a very personal experience. I know I’m probably not listing all of what makes someone semiverbal.

Please if you’re semiverbal then share your experience! I’d love to hear what makes you semiverbal.

Sometimes, all people can think about themselves are their mistakes. It plays like a movie in their heads, a constant reminder of what they did. If you are going through that right now, please know that you are so much more than the mistakes you've made in the past, that you deserve credit for the good things you do even if you are struggling to see them, and I hope that soon you can let go of some of these mistakes and start seeing yourself in a more positive light. This is your reminder to forgive yourself. Even if only for a few things at first, but I am sure you can keep going in this journey and let go of the past more and more until you find peace of mind and comfort in knowing that you are only human, and you can't be perfect all the time.

i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

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whatever i guess nobody've read that so imma just drop the screenshots

no reaction???

Why would you do that to someone's house.

Fuck yeah shenanigans

If your goal is to normalize gender-nonconformity you’re gonna have to accept that some people will fuck with gender as hard as they can while still being unequivocally, 100% cis and that is okay. There’s no egg to crack or callout to write. This is a good thing actually.

a lot of ppl in the notes of the previous post are mentioning museums hoarding stolen cultural objects which is important beyond measure but museums shutting down due to lack of funding will not result in repatriation of cultural materials, they would most likely be auctioned off to private ultra-wealthy collectors to recoup some of their debt and we'd never find these objects again let alone be able to repatriate them. i understand the desire to say 'fuck museums let them die' for this reason but it won't have the result you think it will, and it will also mean that all of their ethically sourced and donated materials (which for most museums are the vast majority of their collections) will no longer be cared for by experts but again, sold off to private collectors who can do whatever they want with them or deteriorate in storehouses indefinitely. this would be catastrophic for public history and collective knowledge-sharing across the globe across cultures, and museums in post-colonial and run by/for racialized or otherwise oppressed ethnic groups will fall first because they receive FAR less funding than the large western institutions. just repeating phrases and sentiments you've seen online as a form of performative activism without knowing anything about what you're talking about does more harm than good and doesn't make you look smart or clever just foolish it's so deeply annoying and frustrating

i don't know why all of you seem to think the only museums that exist are the massive western imperial institutions that have historically dealt with stolen artefacts, the majority of museums are Not these large institutions and there are museums across the globe in every country that require funding to preserve That Country's Own Material History. stop acting like you know everything because you read a twitter thread about it oh my fucking god

Me, a new writer who just realized what an utter shit show making up and writing a coherent story is:

If you're writing a story and a voice in your head says 'maybe this is too much fucked up mad science, you should dial back the fucked up mad science', that is the devil talking.

If a voice says "maybe do even more fucked up mad science" then that is another devil talking and you should listen to that one.

We for real for real for realsies have to popularize the term smith college problem . And normalize telling people they’re having a smith college problem . And if you’re always posting about smith college problems it is your duty to normalize going oh okay never mind once people tell you that you are smith college problem posting

problem: people assume that I’m non-binary just because I’m a woman with a shaved head. This is a reductive harmful and widespread approach to gender identity that people need to grapple with and work on.

Answer: you are having a Smith College Problem. If you live anywhere in the world that is not the dorms on a women’s college campus you won’t have this issue. If you lived anywhere else in the world you would be having issues like sure hope I don’t experience hiring discrimination for being a woman with a shaved head. Sure hope I don’t get called a slur on the street for being a woman with a shaved head.

Problem: when a character gets a love interest of another sex people complain because they headcanoned them as queer and now they’re confirmed straight. This is an erasure of bisexuality becuase you can date other sexes and still be same sex attracted because you’re bisexual.

Answer: you are having a Smith College Problem. You’re not critiquing reactions to a student film festival. You’re critiquing reactions to very main stream media funded by corporations who want to make money at all costs. This corporation is not trying to give you nuanced bisexual representation. This corporation is cutting gay readings off at the knee because when it did the coin flip on whether or not pink dollars are worth it the answer was no.

what are you even supposed to do when youre angry.  cant scream at anyone cos im not a dick. cant break anything cos i paid money for that. cant rip my hair out cos i need it on my head. literally what now

Small Town Grocery Store Stories: LGBTQ+ friendly edition

Me: minding my own damn business in the grocery store

One of my students and a few of his teammates enter the dairy aisle. 

My student is holding hands with one of his teammates. 

My student: Oh hey, Professor X!

Me, who has both my student and his girlfriend in my class: …Hello

My student, looking at his hand-holding partner: Oh! Don’t worry. My girlfriend knows. Not that I’m cheating! I’m not cheating. I’m not gay.

Hand Holding boy: Not that being gay is a bad thing! It’s a good thing!

My student: Right! But no, listen. We aren’t together, we just hold hands in public sometimes.

Hand Holding Boy: Especially on Friday nights. And weekends. And at away games.

My student: Because sometimes people will say shit and then we can punch them! And if the fight started because someone was being homophobic, coach won’t get mad at us.

Hand Holding Boy: Always nice to punch a homophobe. And [gesturing to another boy in the group] maybe they’ll think twice about saying something to [other boy’s name] if he ever gets a boyfriend and wants to hold his hand for real. The Gay One, resigned but smiling: I’ve decided it’s sweet and not really fucking weird.

This is what “boys will be boys” is meant to be

This is the best thing I’ve seen in a while.

🗣️THIS IS WHAT INCLUSIVE, COMPASSIONATE DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Minnesota Dems enacted a raft of laws to make the state a trans refuge, and ensure people receiving trans care here can't be reached by far-right governments in places like Florida and Texas. (link)

Minnesota Dems ensured that everyone, including undocumented immigrants, can get drivers' licenses. (link)

They made public college free for the majority of Minnesota families. (link)

Minnesota Dems dropped a billion dollars into a bevy of affordable housing programs, including by creating a new state housing voucher program. (link)

Minnesota Dems massively increased funding for the state's perpetually-underfunded public defenders, which lets more public defenders be hired and existing public defenders get a salary increase. (link)

Dems raised Minnesota education spending by 10%, or about 2.3 billion. (link)

Minnesota Dems created an energy standard for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040. (link)

Minnesota already has some of the strongest election infrastructure (and highest voter participation) in the country, but the legislature just made it stronger, with automatic registration, preregistration for minors, and easier access to absentee ballots. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded the publicly subsidized health insurance program to undocumented immigrants. This one's interesting because it's the sort of things Dems often balk at. The governor opposed it! The legislature rolled over him and passed it anyway. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded background checks and enacted red-flag laws, passing gun safety measures that the GOP has thwarted for years. (link)

Minnesota Dems gave the state AG the power to block the huge healthcare mergers that have slowly gobbled up the state's medical system. (link)

Minnesota Dems restored voting rights to convicted felons as soon as they leave prison. (link)

Minnesota Dems made prison phone calls free. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed new wage protection rules for the construction industry, against industry resistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new sales tax to fund bus and train lines, an enormous victory for the sustainability and quality of public transit. Transit be more pleasant to ride, more frequent, and have better shelters, along more lines. (link)

They passed strict new regulations on PFAS ("forever chemicals"). (link)

Minnesota Dems passed the largest bonding bill in state history! Funding improvements to parks, colleges, water infrastructure, bridges, etc. etc. etc. (link)

They're going to build a passenger train from the Twin Cities to Duluth. (link)

I can't even find a news story about it but there's tens of millions in funding for new BRT lines, too. (link)

A wonky-but-important change: Minnesota Dems indexed the state gas tax to inflation, effectively increasing the gas tax. (link)

They actually indexed a bunch of stuff to inflation, including the state's education funding formula, which helps ensure that school spending doesn't decline over time. (link)

Minnesota Dems made hourly school workers (e.g., bus drivers and paraprofessionals) eligible for unemployment during summer break, when they're not working or getting paid. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a bunch of labor protections for teachers, including requiring school districts to negotiate class sizes as part of union contracts. (Yet another @SydneyJordanMN special here. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a state board to govern labor standards at nursing homes. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which would set price caps for high-cost pharmaceuticals. (link)

Minnesota Dems created new worker protections for Amazon warehouse workers and refinery workers. (link)

Minnesota Dems passed a digital fair repair law, which requires electronics manufacturers to make tools and parts available so that consumers can repair their electronics rather than purchase new items. (link)

Minnesota Dems made Juneteenth a state holiday. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned conversion therapy. (link)

They spent nearly a billion dollars on a variety of environmental programs, from heat pumps to reforestation. (link)

Minnesota Dems expanded protections for pregnant and nursing workers - already in place for larger employers - to almost everyone in the state. (link)

Minnesota Dems created a new child tax credit that will cut child poverty by about a quarter. (link)

Minnesota Democrats dropped a quick $50 million into homelessness prevention programs. (link)

And because the small stuff didn't get lost in the big stuff, they passed a law to prevent catalytic converter thefts. (link)

Minnesota Dems increased child care assistance. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned "captive audience meetings," where employers force employees to watch anti-union presentations. (link)

No news story yet, but Minnesota Dems forced signal priority changes to Twin Cities transit. Right now the trains have to wait at intersections for cars, which, I can say from experience, is terrible. Soon that will change.

Minnesota Dems provided the largest increase to nursing home funding in state history. (link)

They also bumped up salaries for home health workers, to help address the shortage of in-home nurses. (link)

Minnesota Dems legalized drug paraphernalia, which allows social service providers to conduct needle exchanges and address substance abuse with reduced fear of incurring legal action. (link)

Minnesota Dems banned white supremacists and extremists from police forces, capped probation at 5 years for most crimes, improved clemency, and mostly banned no-knock warrants. (link)

Minnesota Dems also laid the groundwork for a public health insurance option. (link)

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Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?

They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care

It should NOT fall on Indigenous people's shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.

We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.

I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.

This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:

[link to the article it’s attached to, it’s interactable there, so you can get a better look around]

Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned

There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.

Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.

Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate

[ID: A map of Canada with dozens of dots on it, 6 of which are blue and 7 of which are yellow; the rest are red. Later there is a screenshot from wikipedia reading, “Estimates range from 3,200 to over 50,000 children that were killed. Most of the recorded student deaths at residential schools took place before the 1950s. /end ID]

The residential school system was a calculated, open, and forthrightly declared attempt at the total genocide of all indigenous peoples in this country. It was literally meant to wipe them out entirely, through a combination of attrition and assimilation.

Never forget that this is what Canada is really built upon.

These are the residential schools in the U.S. I've mapped out the ones in California and there are articles about burials on these sites, some marked and some not.

I hope Secretary Haaland's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative investigates every single one; their report is Due on April 1, 2022,

reminder that genocide doesn’t just include ending people’s lives, it includes eradicating their culture. forced assimilation of an entire people is an attempt at genocide.

https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/inline-files/bsi_investigative_report_may_2022_508.pdf

Please read the preliminary report from the department of the interior’s initial investigation. But know no matter how upsetting you find the horrific abuse and death, this is the surface of a very deep trauma. There are many aspects it did not touch. And the academic language used to insulate mutes a level of horror.                                                                                                                               These schools did not end. Some are still in operation. Some closed in the 80s. Many of them became adoption agencies. There use to be vans that grabbed kids off the street. if you can’t bring yourself to read it. https://barkingpointsmemo.libsyn.com/142-what-is-a-man-a-miserable-pile-of-ability-points I ended up talking about the broad overview of this report with my white colleges on a podcast I’m on. I had  to stop myself from crying talking about it, but I felt like it was vital. Please listen.

Please remember that genocide has 10 stages to it. Some genocides never reach the final stage but they’re still highly successful. Taking people’s children away to assimilate the children and devastate their communities is step 8. Allowing those children die is step 9.