✨Soff✨ Mawr 🏳️‍🌈 @mawr@plush.city

For those in our Seattle & greater Seattle-adjacent communities who need some extra help weathering this pandemic for any reason, a group currently going by the name of "COVID-19 Mutual Aid" is rapidly forming to help match requests for aid with volunteer efforts.

The following message is copied in full (with some modification) from the "COVID-19 Mutual Aid - Seattle" Facebook group. The original is available here:
https://www.facebook.com/covid19mutualaid/posts/113866103559079

A burned out friend of mine said, after listing a huge list of accomplishments, "I have no concept of what is 'a lot of work'" - so I thought I'd help explain.

"a lot of work" is what happens when you stop and think about the past 3 years of your life and you realize a lot of them are a blur because you spent so much of them furiously working the problems of multiple conflicting deadlines that a lot of it looks the same.

✨Plush✨ City is a space for soff frens and caring about each other. As mayor, I take no issue with blocking instances whose users are allowed to harass others - especially if they target minorities.

We prioritize keeping our federated timeline clear of harmful rhetoric over keeping perfectly clear and open channels of communication.

If you're looking for an instance which prioritizes free speech over safety, look elsewhere.

Thx.

🍎 Jailbreak your iphone and hack the OS

🤖 Root and flash your android phones with custom OSes you can play with

🖥 Flash your computer's bios to show ascii art on POST

🏳️‍🌈 Cover everything you own in stickers and patches

⚧ Hack your endocrine system. Steal genders or cobble your own together with spare parts

Own your stuff inside and out. Customize it to make a statement, reflect your identity, or just because you can. It belongs to you and no one else. Leave your mark on it. ✊

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Documentation is important uwu

Be gayce do soff crimes (like staying up after bedtime)

I want to be cursed to constantly shed glitter

Lowes (Lynwood):
required 6 foot social distancing, employees mostly wearing masks, checkout clerks behind clear plastic barrier, everything gets sprayed down with disinfectant between each customer (that's a lil' excessive imho).

Fred Meyer (Aurora Ave north of 145th):
Much the same as the above, but only touch-surfaces were being disinfected

Target (Northgate):
Much the same as Fred Meyer, but the poor checkout folks get no plastic barrier

Today I partook in restricted access market capitalism with my state recognized partner and it felt <REDACTED>.

pull your mask up closer to your eyes and slide your glasses down your nose some, so your breath is directed up over your eyes (and not up over your glasses). That works pretty well until you start breathing heavily.

(see the image in the toot this is in reply to for an example!)

If it's humid, there's no salvation to be found my friend, I'm sorry

I fear nothing so long as I never truly confront that which I fear.

-something I'm starting to think my subconscious says a lot

Neat mask trick for people with glasses: put a safety pin in the top center of the mask to keep your glasses from sliding off

(photo cw: eye contact)