Aoife “Fe” Baker

@vivaciousvandal.bsky.social

Writer and Costume Designer. Trash panda. Inevitable fellow 2022. Story Incubator Lab fellow 2024. AFF semifinalist 2025. Repped by AE Jones. A lady and a gentlethem. Cooking for the unhoused: ko-fi.com/vivaciousvandalcooks

The robots do not have brains. This is distinct from the possibility of becoming ensouled. Which are both distinct from the need for using care in selecting your tools and treating them with respect once chosen.

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

my 5yo said she was making a sign for her fort and I was expecting like "no boys allowed" or whatever, but in fact it said:

Rainbow lettered sign "everyone alowed in this fort"