Big Cat and Big Cat is Big Cat @melissasage@radical.town

goblins?
- cats: goblins, also gremlins
- tellytubbies: NOT goblins
- hanny: goblin (sexy)

That "Top five misspellings of your name" that's going around makes me laugh a little because even after people ask "Erin with an E?" they usually do not intend to spell it "Erin" and my name still gets mangled more than 5 ways.

Aaren
Aeron
Aeren
Earon
Aren

@realtoddhoward

i fucking hate asparagus night, i really do

Get Boots Riley on Mastodon

it'd be so much easier and less exhausting for me *not* to bring up the ways that antisemitism plays into everyone else's present reality. in the short-term, anyway. in the long-term it's important to point these things out if we want to stand a chance against them.

anyone claiming antisemitism disappeared and then reappeared suddenly? oppression doesn't work like that. it just became easier to ignore because it was less obvious/acute.

this is the banner under which increasingly mainstream groups rally, increasingly with the support of right-wing Jews (kapos). against the common enemy, us, a convenient stand-in for every other perceived enemy.

"cultural Marxism" is at its heart a form of Jewish conspiracy theory, in which conniving Jews allegedly hold the white race down by pulling the strings of every other liberation movement, supporting immigration and introducing "anti-white" ideas into academia.

examples of this conspiracy theory (cw extreme fascism):

https://rationalwiki.org/w/images/1/14/Pol_cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_flowchart.jpg

https://rationalwiki.org/w/images/2/23/Dummies_Guide_to_Cultural_Marxist_caste_system.png

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:The_Nose_Knows.jpg

Hrrrgh, Colonel, I keep trying to be woke but I'm dummy thick and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps silencing other people's voices

#KittensRandomPhotos

i can say fuck nazis and not have to block a single nazi that's what makes mastodon great

@rain @cocoron
This isn't to say those individual choices aren't good things to do. By all means start with whatever you can, start picking up habits that allow you to function outside of the capitalist economy, it's a great way to meet people. But it's going to take more than that to make a real change in the way we produce and distribute resources for everyone. 2/2

@rain @cocoron
the long answer is this: 21st century supply chains are just that complicated. maybe you don't want to support factory farming animals so you go vegan, but you're still depending on underpaid, exploited migrant workers to pick your vegetables and ship them to your grocery store. maybe you buy local organics but your farmers market charges prices that exclude low income people in order to make the farmers enough profit to live on.

more to the point, none of these individual choices are ever going to make a noticeable impact on the way our economy functions or the people who control it. a "critical mass" of consumer choices isn't going to happen because the people who have all the wealth are marketing both the regular non-ethical and the upcharged "green" products at the same time. just look at all the subcompanies Unilever controls. 1/2

The light from the kitchen was working w me today

Just found out that they had to shut down that ICE snitch hotline because so many people prank called it

if you experience a collapse in local euclidian geometry, dial 1-800-MC-ESCHR

maybe it's been a while but you probably remember the basics of geometry, the basic concept of a point, a straight line, and so on.

what do we mean when we consider a geometric proposition to be "true"?

we have our above definitions of geometric concepts. from those concepts, we assert certain simple propositions called "axioms". from axioms and a series of logical connections, we derive more and more complex ideas whose truth is reducible to [based on] the truth of the axioms we assumed.

we can't ask whether it is "true" that only one straight line goes through two points. we only say that Euclidean geometry deals with things called straight lines, which we define as the property of going through two specific points.

because of this conceptual framework for logic, we can't really think of the assertions of math as "true" in the sense that we generally think of things as true. geometry isn't really interested in the relation of its ideas to the real world, so much as the logical interconnectedness of the ideas among themselves.

I know this isn't really a worldview that's in favor these days, but I think it's important to listen to and have dialog with people we disagree with. It's the only way we can find common ground. That's why I hang out with a lot of people I disagree with, such as more extreme leftists than me