Dave V. ND3JR @ND3JR@octodon.social

PT Barnum died in 1891. 80 years later, Elon Musk was born. Just saying.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/23/when-will-people-wake-up-to-the-truth-about-elon-musk/

Ah, winter solstice. The *real* end and start to the year, where the darkness once again starts losing to the light. The day when dark and light are in perfect imbalance, the instant in the pendulum's swing when it hangs weightless. I'm about as mystical as a rock, but that doesn't mean there aren't times that have Meaning.

Happy Solstice, everyone.

mastodon.host is using a Javascript miner.

Well I'm glad to have my own instance.

https://mstdn.io/media/k3y3N4iEdFCHP6U1sOI

The Web Began Dying in 2014

https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html

...wonder why there are many songs about 'fuck the police'?
#ACABRO

It's bell ringing time!
USians, remember to save the money you were going to donate to the Salvation Army, and save it for your local LGBTQ organization or homeless outreach group.

WOOT WOOT!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/11/569944929/after-court-ruling-military-will-accept-openly-transgender-recruits-as-of-jan-1

'Each day users of Facebook provide 300.000.000 hours of unpaid immaterial labour and this labour is transformed into the 18 billion US dollars of revenue each year.' Vladan Joler.
By @wmmna #Facebook #money #exploitation
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/exploitation-forensics-interview-with-vladan-joler/ https://octodon.social/media/GHtpZI80gK3jIrDsSEI

Also, Duck Duck Go is the shit. Google-free since 2015.

"this whole self-care push is just another capitalist boondoggle. We won’t take care of you. In fact, we will continue to push you until you are a broken body and we won’t change a thing about our working conditions, and then we will claim that it was on you to take care of yourself, to practice self-care. After that, we’ll take away your health care too, so that you can just go away and die."

http://www.vidaweb.org/why-i-cant-have-coffee-with-you-saying-no-to-the-patriarchy/

It's okay to use a timer to remind yourself to take breaks.

Balance is like a gyroscope. It's not something to be achieved, but a constant evolution. Adjust as needed.

Everything about you that makes you feel alone, makes you difficult and misunderstood, that frustrates you, is something that *someone* will find charming, effortless, comprehensible, and glorious.

Don't round off your edges to fit in a place that is uncomfortable. Find the place where you fit, even if you have to try a hundred times, because you, really you, are a phenomenon that has never been seen before, will never be seen again, and the world deserves to experience.

Poor people aren't lazy and also being lazy doesn't mean you don't deserve a decent life.
#latestagecapitalism

#businessinsider on how one 31-year-old paid off $220000 in #studentloan in 3 years.
Tl;dr: have #rich parents.
#latestagecapitalism

Imagine a website being blocked on your computer because its owner has a beef with a laptop manufacturer
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16738752/google-youtube-amazon-punishing-customers-feud

Honestly I probably could have skipped my whole "why I'm leaving Twitter" blog post and just posted this comic instead. (source: http://www.listen-tome.com/wasted-hours/) https://toot.cafe/media/APuvNvSDKV4yyuCFL3k

Because I needed it recently, a reminder:

It's ok to turn off push notifications from apps. It's ok to unsubscribe from email lists. It's ok to unfollow. Your attention is yours to give.

#selfcare