@xyzzy@weirder.earth

You deserve a good life.

Society may have treated you poorly, but that doesn't mean you've earned it.

You are valued and needed by us all.

#NonBinaryPositivity #GenderQueerPositivity #TransPositivity #NonBinary #trans #GenderQueer

After setting the clock, it's time to put in today's tape: A charmingly amateur production for all the train sickos called "M.B.T.A. Fitchburg Line Cab Ride".

#KvltVHS

hey look. it's a book 📖 👈 i wrote it. it has short stories in it. some of them are gay?? maybe you will like them

https://xyzzyzzyzx.itch.io/born-to-suffer-needlessly

buy art if you’re able. it is essential. art is one of those things worth having and supporting as an incredible human endeavor. and paying an artist directly is a completely different act than purchasing a product. buying art from a living artist is like inviting them to your dinner table and feeding them in exchange for a small token of beauty

Every now and then I remember that about 75% of the issues large businesses, especially retail, face can be solved by: Hiring more employees.

High shrink? Hire more employees.
Low sales? Hire more employees.
Low customer satisfaction scores? Hire more employees.
Unworked product? Hire more employees.

Unfortunately companies wanna brag about low labor overhead, and have also decided it's a sin if there's even a -chance- that an employee might be idle for a few seconds.

(please sign if you haven't already 💪 #InternationalWomensDay)

The “My Voice, My Choice” campaign offers the people of Europe the chance to make women's lives freer, safer, and better; wherever they live in our union, whatever conditions they may find themselves in.

The lack of access to abortion in many parts of Europe not only puts women at risk of physical harm but also puts undue economic and mental stress on women and families, often on the margins of society that can afford it the least.

It has been well documented that treating reproductive care as a luxury does not reduce abortions, it simply drives women to seek unsafe abortions.

To change this we are asking the European Commission to - in the spirit of solidarity - submit a proposal for financial support to Member States that would be able to perform safe termination of pregnancies for anyone in Europe who still lacks access to safe and legal abortion.

Countless lives and livelihoods are ended, disrupted, and lost because of lack of access to safe abortion. This must stop. With this European Citizens' Initiative, we will move to a more just policy that expresses our European values more compassionately and concretely.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/044/public/

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

PSA for Fedi Friends

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- Asking to be friends without ever meeting before
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- Anything else that seems "off" in any way

Please don't hesitate to use the "Report" button! These reports go directly to me and the rest of our staff, and we will review them as soon as possible. If you're ever in doubt about something, then go ahead and report it anyway! We'll take a look and take any necessary action.

Please stay safe out there, and remember not to share personal info or click any unknown links!
-- Hazel

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It's #bandcampFriday and I actually have something to promote, my modular ambient album, "mending" which i released last month. Three tracks, three different synth patches.

https://forestine.bandcamp.com/album/mending

#ambient #experimentalMusic #modularSynth

"Consuming art, which is inherently personal, as if it is a medicine you must choke down is a huge reason why people feel disconnected from art. And that sucks, because I think spending time with art is a fundamental part of being a person."
https://defector.com/you-dont-have-to-see-everything-in-the-museum

Sure is funny how capitalism doesn't talk about the other two-thirds of the recycling triangle: Reduction in consumption, and reuse of already-owned things.

Almost like they can't make money off those.

Okay, we have spent way too much time looking at US Social Security Administration baby name data *not* to do this - welcome to the:

✨ Top US American Androgynous Names Bracket 2023 ✨

Starring:
- 24 names regularly assigned to babies of both US-government-approved baby genders, selected by yours truly!
- A qualifier round of 6 four-name polls, with top two in each poll plus four wildcards advancing!
- Four rounds of single elimination among the 16 qualifiers!
- Science! Wait, no, we don't have that, sorry.
- A hashtag! Crap we need a hashtag - uhhh #NameBracket2023 !

We'll kick things off with a 3-day poll, and then starting on Monday we'll do 1-day polls every day until we're done!

(edit: specifying region - other regions would have different top androgynous names)

giant fish announcing the return of the fish doorbell: https://visdeurbel.nl/en

📍 Utrecht Centraal, Netherlands