Hi, please dm if you would send a @queer.party invite for me. I'm hoping to move there from kolektiva.social
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Professor Fig dies all endingsPlease help my friend Sid @mangodeluxe, who needs US$355 urgently to cover rent and cleaning expenses!
PayPal: https://paypal.me/magusdeluxe
CashApp: $SidOozeley
Venmo: @ magusdeluxe
We got over 8k in medical bills just for one trip to the hospital. And they said please come back if anything happens, like I don't know maybe I'll just watch a yputube video and hope for the best
Courtney Heard 🇨🇦Things I've learned about Mastodon this week:
1. Photo captions are read by screenreaders for people who have impaired vision. The more descriptive you make them, the more people can appreciate your post.
2. Hashtags should be "camel style" which means you capitalize each word in the tag - this enables screen readers to identify different words in the tag,
3. Reblogging boosts posts and favourites do not.
4. Hashtags are way more important here than on the birdsite.
Versuch, die Übersetzungsfunktion zu testen
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Hello #Kolektiva! We just introduced a new translations feature. 🤩
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Random notes thread (not well organized)
begins with Talcott Parsons structure of social action
why there?
- Parsons presents convenient pre-sociological dichotomy between opposing positivistic and idealistic theories of action
- then claims to resolve with voluntaristic theory of action
- genealogical approach places each of three theories in a camp with prominent names
- Parsons interestingly self reflective about whether voluntaristic theory is ideological or a scientific advance
- Parsons takes broadly a Hobbesian view of humanity hence first of all inadequacy of positivistic theory due to naivete and secondarily idealistic theory by externalizing normativity from its conditions
The above points allow Clarke to stress both the inadequacy of the neatly separated campist origin story hence the unoriginality of the voluntaristic theory as well as to attempt to take up Parsons self-reflective challenge on why the appearance of voluntaristic theory at all
obywatelleSometimes people in my country ask me: "oh, you're an anarchist, so tell me why Polish anarchists are such pussies, yo? Like, I heard that in the West they are burning police cars, throwing molotovs and stuff, but in Poland? You just cook food for the homeless".
I forgive them, for they not know that Polish police is quite capable of harming itself without any help from the outside. Like few days ago the police chief from Warsaw has fired from rocket-propelled grenade launcher he got as a gift from Ukrainian special forces. Yes, in the building. Right now three floors are barely standing and all offices are badly damaged by an explosion.
On 7AM, probably when the whole precinct was waking up from drunken all-night party, he wanted to show his colleague the gift, so he just aimed it at the floor and fired.
Tim PierceFor those of you who may not be aware, Starbucks Workers United has started a 3-day strike, lasting through Sunday, December 18. Workers are protesting unfair labor practices at the company and demanding that the company bargain in good faith. https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-strike-union-labor-workers-united-nlrb
Currently reading marx, marginalism and modern sociology by simon clarke. Partial re-read, but i forgot most things