🦈Shark🦈 Plush Melissa @deejvalen@plush.city

leaking the Windows source code in order to package it with Bill Gates conspiracy theory misinfo was not the software preservation event I had predicted

Reading about how "automatic content recognition" works in smart TVs, and honestly I don't understand why this isn't a bigger scandal. Your PC and smartphone don't take a screenshot every five minutes and send it to Dell or Apple. I don't get why TVs can get away with this.

- https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features/
- https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/02/samsung-lg-vizio-smart-tvs-watch-everything-you-watch/index.htm

BROOKLYN VOTERS: your absentee ballots have been misprinted and will be DISCARDED

replacements are on the way but you are allowed to vote in person even after you've applied for or sent in an absentee ballot

https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-voters-receive-absentee-ballot-envelopes-wrong-voter-names-and-addresses

Please Please Help

We get our five day illegal occupancy notice in a day or so and we still haven't been able to find ANY funds to secure a new place to live

I'm literally sick from the stress of this and in a mental health crisis too over it

I have no choice but to beg for help again so my family doesn't end up homeless on top of my Hugely high risk of covid infection death

Please boost and cross post this

https://cash.app/$luxotek
https://venmo.com/luxotek
https://paypal.me/luxotek

I rejoin .social and 2 days later it gets freaking canceled!!!

you, a fucking lib:
haha I love to check whether waffle house is open to see whether it's safe to go out!

me, a radical:
waffle houses stay open in all but the most life threatening conditions because they consider their employees lives disposable

Forgot to post it here but I was streaming a bit and I'm gonna stream more in a bit. Doing SAGE demos today, stop on by if you're interested!!! (I'm making food right now though so give me 20 minutes) https://discord.gg/aXn9eht

hello. im doing commissions now. if you'd like one you can message me on discord! morgan#1846

i'd need some character references or a good description. i'll give you an idea of how long it'll take, and give regular updates in case you wanna add or change anything

i dont do furry or nsfw stuff, and using kofi for payment for now! ko-fi.com/S6S6FL3E

boosts appreciated ❤️

You can be weirded out by or dislike furries, but the only person who can have a totally justifiable, unrelenting hatred of furries is the Frosted Flakes social media manager.

(related to https://plural.cafe/@fidgetcetera/104955242168609785 LB)

Foundational to ableism as it is practiced is the act of declaring some people to be pervasively inferior and incapable. This is used to dismiss what they say out of hand, strip them of dignity, respect, and accommodation, justify their murder as 'a drain on resources', and otherwise perpetuate evils upon their persons.

This act is often justified by pointing to medical differences - for example, a parent of an autistic child pointing to this developmental difference as proof that the child is incapable of understanding social norms and therefore proof that they are justified in forcing the child into distressing situations and ignoring their complaints.

To dismiss someone's complaints by attributing them to an underdeveloped or damaged brain is to first claim that such behavior cannot be reasonable, second claim that such behavior must come from an inferiority in the person making it, and third claim that the difference being painted as an inferiority /is/ an inferiority and makes the person with the difference unworthy of consideration and respect.

That's severely ableist. It's ableist to say someone is wrong because they are pervasively bad and it's ableist to say that medical difference makes one pervasively bad. It's not okay and it's not something people should do.

- Packfox 🦊

Your all-powerful God is such a wimp he can’t even defend his intellectual property lol

#fediblock
mastodon.social
ppl have had serious issues with the way dot social has been running for like, a fucking while, but quite frankly, seeing a staff member post that ppl are "babybrained" and have "dents in their brain", and then their response to being reported for ableism is to mock it because they're an admin? fucking gross and we're sick of this kinda shit being acceptable

https://mastodon.social/@LuigiEsq/104950079681765497
https://mastodon.social/@LuigiEsq/104951054840104612

while we're at it we'll note that this isn't super new for luigi, see also: his past forays into, uh, mocking the very existent disability spoons theory because it's "baby talk"
https://mastodon.social/@LuigiEsq/104442053963795933

there are probably more examples.
mastodon.social also just outright does not have rules against ableism. like, at all. presumably no one running the garbage site saw the need for caring abt ableism

(screenshots just in case of links breaking or other such things)

it's harder to relate to creative products when you don't get to see it done by amateurs

An airline's business plan:
1) Maintain an unsustainable business model
2) Don't prepare for crises
3) In a crisis, ask taxpayers for bailouts
4) Receive millions in bailouts
5) Lay off employees anyway
6) Fight against ecological measures and paying taxes
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-airlines-climatech-idUKKBN26J0UP