Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@qoto.org

@batkaren So jelly! By which I mean, actual jelly

They’re so cute when they’re little
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-snaps-supersonic-outflow-of-young-star

Beautiful day for the #GlobalMarchForClimateJustice -- if you’re in #Toronto come on down to Queen’s Park; the rally’s just getting started and the march will follow.

@carnage4life It’s almost like tech workers should unionize or something

Every time I hear #bonjovi’s “Dead or Alive,” I’m like “That’s me!”

Not the “seen a million faces and I’ve rocked them all” part. The “sometimes I sleep” part.

Holy crap this is going to REVOLUTIONIZE the economy, here’s $78 Billion and authority over solving world hunger #AI #generativeAI #bigtech

From: @nash
https://labyrinth.social/@nash/111066639014946287

#WomanLifeFreedom

https://wapo.st/3PmZhrk

They added almost 195 more, is how.

@GeePawHill @sakhavi Be not downhearted! For the kind of value that helps people is more fundamental and sustainable than the other kind, and if the current system gets this priority backward that just means it hasn’t been adequately refactored yet. <3

@GeePawHill weirdly there are often organizations *within* software corporations that do exist to provide value to end users, since it’s usually that value that is supposed to justify the business’ existence in the first place. But capitalism dictates that the level at which the value is produced will always lose to the level above that that wants to extract value *from* users.

Every once in a while I get to feeling like my new country, Canada, is a safer place than my birth country, the USA, and then some shit like this happens. The #notwithstandingclause is meant to be the very last resort for lawmakers if the courts won’t let them do their job. So what’s #sk using it to address -- the climate crisis? Wage theft? Imperialist policing? Haha, nope: it’s *people being different*, which if your conservative is the greatest crisis there is.

https://shorturl.at/zKLX6

@JuliusGoat thanks for this response. I just wish I could punch *fascism*, or punch somebody (even myself) *in the fascism*. I'd probably never stop punching! But every punch I've seen lands on somebody's body somewhere instead. And I just know somebody's out there thinking they can punch me *in the wokeness* because by choosing wokeness I left them no choice etc. etc. and yes I know they're wrong, but it all just kind of sucks.

@JuliusGoat Asking in good faith as a longtime follower of yours who struggles with this question: If (as we both believe) "it is those who are being presently attacked—not those who attack out of some fear of some future hypothetical—who deserve our defense" then why shouldn't we have defended, say, Richard Spencer when he was punched? Is it ok if it's just one punch? Aren't we required to oppose all violence in the moment of its commission?

@GeePawHill what's your preferred term for what serious people meant by agile 20y ago?

#florida under #desantis is trying to do what Alabama did under Wallace but reeeaaalll ssllowww so we don’t notice and National Guard their a$$. Let’s disappoint them.

From: @actualham
https://social.coop/@actualham/111041009463665074

https://wapo.st/3sVdcNC

Well, I couldn’t have asked for a better first experience at #tiff -- Cord Jefferson’s #americanfiction was amazing in many ways, but most of all (for me) in its near-constant laugh-out-loud hilarity. Huge triumph, can’t wait for it to bust some blocks. #tiff23 #tiff2023