finally: depending who you ask, there are somewhere between 30,000 and 500,000 elected positions in the US, which is a staggering number
but if good, thoughtful, caring people (i.e. you) don't run, these positions are almost all won by party hacks or well-funded pro-business conservatives or tea-party types who want to burn the government down
in short: if you're not thinking about running for some kind of government position in this day n age, you should be!
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omg a new #metafilter politics post
Proper #introductions time!
I'm Aria. They/she, and trans.
I'm a big fat cyberpunk, a wannabe fashion designer sometimes, an anarchist ever since a cop asked a group I was in "excuse me, are you anarchists?", an unschooler, a computer programmer, a public speaker, and a damn good cook.
Also I have awesome hair. https://anarchism.space/media/N2AAYDul8RtWeDUkdE8
What's up with the comments on hoodlines.com? It's like every curmudgeon in #sanfrancisco calls it home.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on words that don't belong to everyone
Quote from this week's Economist: "The population of America farts 3m times a minute. It likes things on Facebook about 4m times a minute."
FACEBOOK: BIGGER THAN FARTS
okay woke up a bit on the angry side of the bed today. This is the doggie I wish to be in the world today.
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Ashamed to work in Silicon Valley: how techies became the new bankers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/08/ashamed-to-work-in-silicon-valley-how-techies-became-the-new-bankers
irony of reading #selfcare toots at midnight. sipping some natrual calm and drifting and now to sleep..💤
TLDR: Living near forestry and green areas changes the physical makeup of the brain, making it easier to cope with stress.
another reason to fight for foliage rich cities.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12046-7
#solarPunk #anxiety #mentalHealth
Hack the system: www.hackerhighschool.org https://social.tchncs.de/media/3lm64BE13URwPY5Qe-c
So sad to run across a lot of negative toots about my #sanfrancisco. It's like yes, it's become this horrible monster of a place in the last 5-8 years and I get a lot of the crticism is rooted in the general criticism of tech, but that's what angers me more... That it has been taken over transformed and feels like it's onhe precipice of being spit out and found lacking by the very people who caused it to go to shit in the first place. Maybe that's a good thing, but it feels damn abusive.
