Cathal Garvey @cathal@octodon.social

"the suffix '-mancy' means 'divination'. so really, necromancy should be about using death to gain arcane knowledge"
"so the reason my zombies are malnourished, unsleeping, repulsive, and obsessed with brains is..."
"because you've raised an army of nerds"

#psa You should probably stop using Startpage.com as a search engine.

#Startpage appears to have sold out to a company called "System1" who are a "pay-per-click behavioral ad company"

http://techrights.org/2019/10/16/startpage-is-surveillance/
https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/1409

Please boost for exposure.

pumpkin boats

when i make dinner with my family:
- our labor is not bartered
- our labor is not bought or sold
so clearly there are modes of exchange not encapsulated in "before money there was only barter"

including mediums that societies have and still do use to function.

i'm starting to think that characterizing money as the sole successor and barter the sole predecessor serves a distinctly political purpose.

I still can't get over how good a motto "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" is when you're suffering from executive dysfunction or physical disabilities

Like, of course it's awesome to thoroughly clean your place once a week or biweekly but if the mere thought of it is causing you to break down, vacuuming for five minutes is so much more than doing nothing

It's the best piece of advice I got in what feels like forever

i took the day off work and drove around to every single GameStop, handing one employee a list of the games i wanted while another processed the trade-ins

i preordered a game at every single store to help the metrics of the employees who helped me (and to end the occasional “why are you buying the same games you’re trading in” questions)

by the end of the day i had around $1900 in GameStop credit and the next day i was permanently banned from ever trading in a game at GameStop again

did i ever tell y’all about the time i found out that like

several dozen random Nintendo games traded in at GameStop for substantially more than they sold for used?

Another Turkish Airlines Gate in #Germany is being blocked. This time in #Berlin!

As long as the war is still continuing, Afrin is still occupied, and #Turkey is still fascist, our resistance will continue!
https://twitter.com/RISEUP4R0JAVA/status/1185098223238766593
#riseup4rojava
#riseup4rojava

saying "kill two birds with one stone"
-violent
-encourages animal cruelty
-dead birds

saying "feed two birds with one scone"
-socially conscious
-forward-thinking and encouraging of life
-hap birb

When people use the term snowflake unironically, just remember they're quoting Fight Club, a satire written by a gay man about how male fragility causes men to destroy themselves, resent society and become radicalized. and that Tyler Durden isnt the hero but a personification of the main character's deep insecurities, and that his snowflake speech is a dig at how fascists use dehumanizing language to breed loyalty from insecure people.

Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground
Edward Snowden
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-privacy-us-uk-australia-facebook?CMP=share_btn_tw

:)

I'm highly amused by software developers arguing that capitalism is more efficient than communism while primarily relying on open source software that outcompeted proprietary options.

"For the last year, employees at Kickstarter have been organizing with OPEIU Local 153, under the banner of Kickstarter United. On October 2, 2019, after garnering a majority of support within the company, Kickstarter United formally asked CEO Aziz Hasan to recognize the union. He has failed to do so."

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/it-s-time-to-recognize-the-kickstarter-union?akid=1828.496696.0Sj1Yb&rd=1&t=7&utm_source=email

#union #organizing #techworkers

This is soooooo good!!

From Cynthia Stohl and @GeorgeCheney 's paper "Participatory Processes/ Paradoxical Practices"

The seven paradoxes of participation:

RMS pulls a serious power move (read: dick move), unilaterally appointing a maintainer to Guile without consulting the other co-maintainers or community, because the current co-maintainers disagree with him on governance https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00005.html