I regularly need to remind myself of Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
IMO the fear that is unexpressed in the U.S. at this time is that the country can't actually do big things. That the political culture means everyone is a sitting duck. This means that all of us are at the mercy of major forces we don't control with the likelihood that we'll be on our own.
if you’re in colorado apparently we now have a worker owned coop ride share service, drivers get paid more than other apps, and it’s worker owned which is neat af www.coloradodrivers.coop
Getting off corpotrash is a nessesity to begin building online communities worth using.
The "block early, block often" ethos is re-teaching people the importance of setting healthy boundaries online. We've been beaten over the head with "The internet is the Wild West and everything goes", but this has never been true. A basic level of respect applies online as it does in real life.
Gender affirming care saves lives. Study published in Nature brings heartbreaking, horrifying news about the effects of anti-trans legislation, including healthcare bans, on transgender youth. Infuriating. This was 100% preventable. Give trans kids the healthcare and respect they deserve.
The study, published in Nature, offers critical insight into the effects of anti-trans legislation, including healthcare bans, on transgender youth and is the first study of its kind.