Crigl @Crigl@qoto.org

my ideological position consists of an irreconcilable enmity towards anyone who lures me onto a craftily-placed net covered in leaves and twigs, causing me to plummet into a pit filled with dusty bones and snakes

ok here we go, a thread of some great books by POC that i've read or am in the process of reading and very much enjoying

This song bops. This song slaps. It clanks and jerks. It knocks when you get above 2000 rpm. This song is throwing up codes. It can’t pass CA state emissions

remember remember the fourth the fifth
the minor fall and the major lift
the gunpowder the treason hallelujah

cats are very good at finding The Comfy Spot and i think we could all learn from them

*colonialist voice* nonbinary, this new invention,

In an earlier thread, I wrote briefly about trans people in medieval Europe, and discussed some of the main issues when studying the medieval history of trans people.

Today, if you'll indulge me, I want to spend some time discussing a single person in detail. I want to talk about the way she's been written about, and about her and what she can teach us about life as a trans person 600 years ago.

This is the story of Eleanor Rykener.

I do some of my best shitting on the toilet

materialists are always thinking backwards. someone once argued to me that their interpretation of the chinese room thought experiment is that semantics doesnt exist and our minds are just manipulating symbols. like, i would have to mentally exert myself until i passed out to come up with an idea that wrong

prior to its release in 2015, we were all "sans undertale", really

All millennials know how to do is experience nostalgia, lose hope, have no money, eat avocado toast, and lie

i have no melatonin and i must sleep

every time you have a dream you are experiencing an isekai

people with slow audio processing who say "pardon" and then realise what the person they're talking to said as they start repeating themself - can I get a huh???

Ok google, please only supply rats driving tiny cars content in the future. No other content needed. Thank you.

everybody thinks that whatever particular way of speaking they have in their own place and time is the least complicated there's ever been. funny how that works out

Boomer with a Hard R

Have you been the victim of wage theft? Report it! I've actually met some of the folks who work in the Wage and Hours Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, and they are passionate and skilled public servants. They may be able to help you. No matter how little has been stolen from you, don't let your boss get away with it:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/howtofilecomplaint.htm

Here's a fun fact: conservative estimates of annual wage theft committed in the United States eclipses all annual property crime combined, including robbery and burglary. Which do you think is policed more heavily?