Mx Aria Stewart @aredridel@anarchism.space

Hugops to everyone at github today.

If you can vote in the US, your vote isn't a diluted action. If anything, disenfranchisement has made your vote artificially powerful. Use it for good.

Voting is the most banal of actions but damnit, it's how we maybe keep the damn thing moving the right direction.

Left not voting = overton window moves right further.

Y'know what? Use they/them for everyone unless a preference otherwise is learned. There. No more gendered pronouns without a damn reason.

Lies, damn lies, and database vendor marketing glossies

I basically oscillate between thinking "OMFG you could just take care of yourself! Whyyyyy are you like this?" and "OMFG you could just take care of the people around you! Whyyy are you like this?!"

For the record, I did grow up in literally Galt's Gulch.

@quephird Also, fucking awesome new name. That one might be my fave of all time.

There's a reason I think of myself far more as anti-authoritarian than as 'left', even though I lean very very socialist in how I want to see the world work. At its core, though, it's about the freedom and autonomy to live how we want, in coexistence with others. This means some working together. This means better universal access than we have now. Basic needs can and must be met.

Reminder: 'left' doesn't mean 'good', doesn't mean 'anti-racist', doesn't mean 'feminist'. It should, but it doesn't.

I care a lot more about freedom and autonomy than equality.

But where we're at, they're mostly the same things. Our autonomy is routinely undermined by needing to pay rent, being forced to work at threat of homelessness, constrained by lack of healthcare.