Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Support the striking nurses, please. But don’t support them because they’re saints or they fulfil some sort of Florence Nightingale fantasy you might have. Support them because they are workers who deserve to be fairly paid. Like the postal workers, the transport workers, and all the other workers who are striking now for fair wages.

It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.

Uppa nurses.

If it really is 2003 again then we've only got a limited amount of time to stop Scoble taking photos in the shower again. Come on people, we can do this. We've been given another chance.

We need to stop treating not putting the heating on as some sort of valorous feat of self control, and start treating it as the symptom of the collapse of society that it is.

In the 18th century, novels were seen as disgusting brain rot, and now we set goals of how many we should virtuously read per year.

I wonder, in 300 years, what kids will be doing that makes their parents bemoan how few video games anyone plays anymore, how badly reaction times and hand eye coordination have plummeted among the young.

Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:

“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion, the same huge amount of lost time in traffic, the same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space."

“The car overwhelmed city life and it is something that must change.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electric-cars/news/shift-to-electric-vehicles-will-not-solve-urban-transport-woes-says-portuguese-minister/

I’m sorry everyone, I’m the vegetarian that was mad at raspberry pi for posting hog without a CW. I know it seems excessive to organize a shadow campaign to milkshake duck a computer company, but some things are simply unforgivable

OK, Liz Upton has doubled down and completely fucked up the community goodwill here, she's clearly determined to misunderstand the problem and refuse any sort of corporate introspection. I didn't object to the original hire, but this rank contempt for the community means I won't be buying from #raspberryPi again. I've got five of them, if I need more there are alternative devices.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

Being excellent to each other isn't being an edgy stereotypical bro; you can have a bro tone of voice *and* be respectful of people who disagree with, come on it's not hard. You're a private company, make a big deal out of hiring whoever you want, but your tone of voice and language is also a choice. You want to make a counterproductive choice go ahead I guess.

h/t to @jmes who's handling this incredibly well.

I need some fairytales for girls that aren’t just about princes sexually assaulting sleeping princesses. Even the feminist stories are princesses rescuing princes. Fuck off with romanticising royalty.

honestly the verisimilitude of gpt-whatever says more about the kind of bullshit that passes for polite conversation than computers becoming intelligent