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I'm about to make saying "build a community not an audience" a blockable offense. Some people need an audience to keep a roof over their head and food on the table, and it's the only option for many marginalized people who aren't able to be gainfully employed in society due to bigotry or lack of support. What do you want them to do, just starve because a fascist burned down their only means of generating income?

And why the hell are you letting brands own the word "audience" anyway, and pretending it's some dirty thing now? The arts have used that word respectfully for centuries, long before brands came around

I'm sorry I keep posting about this but as a working slash often starving artist the mastodon interaction purity police is really starting to get to me

Newly-minted socialists would REALLY do well to acquaint themselves with the history of fascists using antisemitism with pseudo-socialist characteristics to peel people off left movements.

It's a pretty core trait of Euro/US fascism, and the popular left keeps falling for it.

"Sorry boss that form must have gotten lost. I'll send another one."

*"accidentally" bumps freshly-printed form into filing cabinet*

whether a trans person wants to pass or not is their choice, we don’t owe anyone a cis-normative appearance

ok thanks good talk 🥳

Heya. The video that myself and Neil made is going live in 5 minutes. We made a video about precarious housing and last week our apartment flooded and now we're having to emergency move during the holidays. But we STILL GOT THE VIDEO DONE so if you want to boost two extremely fragile people currently sitting in a soggy box fort, come hang out with us here:
(Any and all boosts appreciated I'm still really new at Mastadon and don't know many people yet!)

https://youtu.be/0dEpFNvmIwQ

BEHOLD! I have created a monstrosity:
https://evangreer.bandcamp.com/album/automated-christmas-joy

I used #ChatGPT to write an album of Christmas songs by feeding it prompts like

"Write a Christmas song in the style of Blink-182" and

"Write a song where Santa fights the fascists"

Then I wrote music for them and recorded it.

It's out today on #Bandcamp with 100% of the proceeds going directly to @team to support our campaign work fighting against #AI dystopia.

I love it and hate it. I hope you'll give it a listen & boost.