ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Twitch have added a bunch of new charities to their list, and two of them are the LGB alliance - a transphobic hate group - and Autism Speaks - an ableist hate group.

This can't be allowed to stand. Please use the link below if you have a twitch account to vote for this issue:

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/945934-charity/suggestions/46058314-remove-hate-groups

“Pack up your crap, you’re not editing that manuscript today”

- Research Supervisor/Well-being Coach

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A very wonkish and probably too long thread on inflation. Not predictions, but to talk about my sense that we (myself included) have been working with the wrong model given the current situation 1/

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

~ Jorge Luis Borges

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That seems like a perfectly reasonable question. The problem is, it’s entirely the wrong question. It’s a category error, because while you are debating, your opponent is merely *using* debate. The fact that you are engaging means they have already succeeded.

Once you're willing to debate whether one group of people or another should be abused, then abusing and expelling people from society is something that is up for debate. It's on the table. It's listed on the exchange.

Which was the point.

It is going to become necessary, if we are serious about justice, to use discernment about a person’s clear intentions before determining whether it is appropriate to engage with them in this marketplace of ideas—even before determining if the marketplace itself is appropriate.

Some people’s ideas are genocide and slavery. They don’t want to win a debate, they just want to be listed on the exchange.

They don’t have ideas, as such. They have intentions.

Rick concedes that Bart absolutely does have a right to walk the streets carrying as much boiling water as he wants, in the long-standing tradition of our country. Bart appreciates Rick’s stance on the matter, and compliments him on his willingness to find common ground.

At the end of the segment, he and Bart agree to disagree on whether or not it is good to attempt to douse you with boiling water every day.

Debate them? OK, why not? They’re lying. They're wrong. You’ll win. Easy.

Now debate again.

Again. Again.

Again.

Again.

Each time the people you're debating *about* have to listen as they become more abstract.

Again. The idea of the lie is entering the public consciousness.

Again. The idea of *lying* is entering the public consciousness. The idea is taking hold, that debate is a thing where people argue by lying. They’re lying, you’re lying, but it’s all lies anyway, right? Both sides.

The sensible thing to do:
“Okay, we screwed up yesterday, sorry.”

The corporate thing to do:
[ignore everything on the matter, continue posting marketing stuff]

The batshit thing to do:
Talking to Buzzfeed about how “this is all an organized effort by a woke crowd with bad intentions because we didn’t put a content warning on a food picture two days ago”

For some reason we’re in the timeline where @Raspberry_Pi decided to do the latter.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

Waiting patiently for sunrise this morning. Well actually I wasn't that patient as it was freezing cold but you get my point 😂
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"Human rights become less relevant if their protection is left only to lawyers and diplomats. So, it is not enough to pass the right laws or create formal institutions"

"The democratic world has grown accustomed to making concessions to dictatorships... Fighting for peace does not mean yielding to the pressure of the aggressor, it means protecting people from its cruelty."

from Oleksandra Matvychuk's 's Nobel prize lecture. Here is the whole thing:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/12/10/2022-nobel-peace-prize-not-a-war-between-two-states-a-war-between-authoritarianism-and-democracy_6007255_4.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&s=09#Echobox=1670674197

Since I'm in a mood to complain today, people were complaining at a school board meeting this week that our district's LGBTQIA+ policy was "too progressive" and that we should not be allowing or accepting trans children in our schools.

Are we fucking serious? My child (and children like her) are basically trying to survive and get by. They just want to be themselves. They already have to live in fear and horror of being outed, not 'passing' well enough, being bullied - now you want to make their lives even more of a hell?

I am grateful that I live in a more "progressive" city in my state that even has a LGBTQIA+ acceptance policy. Fuck all the parents who don't accept it and want to move us backwards. I just want my child to be able to attend school safely as their true gender and not have to be subject to your fucking bigotry.

I've reached the "unidentifiably gendered object" stage of HRT, and today, at Dunkin Donuts, it happened -- the gay teen cashier with blue hair repeatedly called me "they" while the girl right next to him kept calling me "she." All people see themselves in me. I am the universal subject.