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Fallfeathers

@fallfeathers.bsky.social

32/male/australian tech, gamedev, leftism and sometimes fishing. sometimes a dragon, sometimes a pooltoy. icon: @rockincandies.bsky.social

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Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · yesterday

Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · yesterday

I think a lot of people would have died without the work of people like you. The power grid could have gone down, air traffic control, supply chains, medical equipment, water infrastructure… You prevented a disaster. That is heroism. Heroism doesn’t always have to be running into a burning building

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 3d ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

data4democracy.substack.com

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 3d ago

The best and most meaningful growth of my life has almost always come from doing things that are at least a little uncomfortable or a little scary. I think this is true for relationships too. If you try your hardest to make nobody mad at you, you will end up trying to please bad people.

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 3d ago

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?

parkchanwoohoo Follow Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue werewolf-beans Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.
Lauren Herda@herda.me · 3d ago

It took me a few months last year, but I managed to make this model of the Olympic-class U.S.S. Pasteur from TNG's "All Good Things..." that I haven't shared online until now. I'm a sucker for sphere-shaped and/or non-hero Trek ships, what can I say? 🤷‍♀️ 🪩 #startrek #tng #3d #blender

A port-side forward view looking down at the U.S.S. Pasteur NCC-58925, against a starfield backdrop. The ship is an Olympic-class medical/science vessel, with a spherical primary hull, wedge-shaped secondary hull, and two nacelles held high above on pylons.A port-side forward view looking up at the U.S.S. Pasteur NCC-58925, against a starfield backdrop. The ship is an Olympic-class medical/science vessel, with a spherical primary hull, wedge-shaped secondary hull, and two nacelles held high above on pylons.
Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 5d ago

our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)

Big Dyke Energy@azurebitch.bsky.social · 5d ago

Discomfort is a necessary part of growth. If you build your life around avoiding all friction then you are also setting yourself up for stagnancy. Being willing to learn and change and become requires learning that you can survive things that are difficult and at times uncomfortable