Julian (They/Them)

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They/them. Learning disabled, possibly autistic. Transmasc non-binary, asexual.
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Julian (They/Them)Nov 13, 2022
InvisiblyillinNov 13, 2022
Imagine being told that you have a disease requiring total rest and strictly limited activity to even hope for possible improvement.
Now imagine you only have 2 days worth of groceries, your rent is due next week, and you just got fired because you couldn’t get out of bed, much less make it to work.
How can we expect the millions with energy limiting illness to survive if our society isn’t willing to support them through their illness?
#MeCFS, #LongCovid, #ChronicIllness
Julian (They/Them)Nov 13, 2022
Mekka  💉💉💉🎉Nov 12, 2022

🤔 More questions that I don't know the answer to:

Is it possible to drive social change through Mastodon? Could "Black Lives Matter" have happened on Mastodon? Or do the "intentionally slow, pleasant conversation" features eliminate the possibility of this? Do the "interest silo" tendencies discourage cross pollination?

Or can we have our cake and eat it too? Will the addition of more journalists, more Black and brown folk, and higher total user count, cross some network effects threshold?

Julian (They/Them)Nov 13, 2022
Atima OmaraNov 13, 2022

BREAKING: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto just got enough votes for MSNBC to project her as the winner of the US Senate Race in Nevada.

The Democrats Have Officially Retained Control of the US Senate!

Julian (They/Them)Nov 13, 2022
A. H. ReaumeNov 13, 2022
Good news, folks. An anti-abortion and anti-trans agenda does not a Senate majority make.
Julian (They/Them)Nov 13, 2022
Rabbi Danya RuttenbergNov 13, 2022

People showed up for abortion justice.

People showed up to beat back the white supremacist Christian nationalism that has been encroaching, & because the legislature is our defense against a judiciary hellbent on stripping us of civil and human rights.

There’s no other story.

Julian (They/Them)Nov 12, 2022
stux⚡️Nov 11, 2022

Ohh! Now I get it!

Joke took a bit to sink in Elon 

Julian (They/Them)Nov 12, 2022
Elizabeth SchaferNov 11, 2022

My latest tweet just to have something on mastodon:

Tech employees should be unionizing, right now. Employees should never be asked to perform unethical tasks, regardless of whether it's within the terms of service or not.

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You can edit posts?! Here's more info on how tech workers can take steps to unionize: https://code-cwa.org/

Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA)

Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA)
Julian (They/Them)Nov 12, 2022
Show threadDr Lisa EvansNov 11, 2022

@Tinu This is so important and so clearly explained.

I think it's also important to point out that if white people don't make space for all types of marginalised voices, *we* (white people) are the ones missing out. We just go on living in ignorance of what is really the majority, collectively, of human experience, knowledge, culture, history and everything else. I've never understood the appeal of this.

Julian (They/Them)Nov 12, 2022
Show threadMax PearlNov 11, 2022

But here we are, Muskyman has created a situation of urgency, and this has to be dealt with. So...

1) If you are white, please shut up when #BIPOC folks talk about their experiences. Just fucking listen. Don't explain, or minimize, or ask for proof or examples. We are the ones who are targeted.

2) There definitely isn't a #BIPOC consensus about the use of CWs for #racism. If you are white, and don't want to see racism, do some self-examination. You are not the target.

3/

Julian (They/Them)Nov 12, 2022
A. H. ReaumeNov 12, 2022
Twitter Blue. The only social media revenue stream to lose tens of billions of dollars for its advertisers in just two days!