Mastodawn

The difference between self-care and selfishness is not nearly as clear cut as self-help gurus and tiktokers would have you believe.
So too with concepts like grit (vs. victim blaming), 'setting personal boundaries' (vs. being unwilling to compromise), and other such ideas.

That's not to say that these ideas are not incredibly important and useful; rather, it's to say that simply describing some behavior as one of them is not some kind of get-out-of-jail-free card.

Limiting one's time reading the news so as not to be depressed all the time? Self-care. Being intentionally completely oblivious to the suffering going on around you? Selfish.
So where is the line? Don't let anyone suggest that the answer to this question is simple.

Dregling of the Great Swamp May 7

the whole age verification thing is why we need a tech workers union with fight in it. the moment they try to enforce anything and industry wide development stops... motivation to organize i suppose

Dregling of the Great Swamp May 7

funnymonkey May 6

This is a rip of a post.

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

Dregling of the Great Swamp May 7

Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️May 6

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

Dregling of the Great Swamp May 6

sometimes i think about going back into software engineering just to help the homies with that programmer money but like, i just can't be bothered to go through the hiring process again. all that unpaid labor, making new portfolio projects, studying leet code, narrativizing normal engineering work into one person fairy tales, just for the opportunity to sell my personhood for 5/7ths of my days.

Dregling of the Great Swamp May 5

RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/116523596432350955

really hate that leftists in the us glaze china when they are just another authoritarian imperialist power that does shit like this

Dregling of the Great Swamp Mar 5

Michael W Lucas

Mar 4

The Stupid Auction is up to $250! Support Minneapolis against ICE and/or Kansas trans folks, your choice, and get the inside scoop before the world does.

https://mwl.io/archives/24580

It's not me calling this stupid, by the way. It's the bidders.

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Dregling of the Great Swamp Mar 5

unrelated but not being able to have multiple identities adds risk and is generally a nuisance

Dregling of the Great Swamp Mar 5

going through the signal feature request forums, and wow, lots of people defending not adding features that would make a better and more safe product by screaming that suggestions are just security theater over and over

Dregling of the Great Swamp Mar 4

Vivian, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️🧋Mar 3

Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.

#Boost #CallToAction