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@kidderkat.blacksky.app

void thoughts, neurodivergence, GAD, and complaints. good vibes, though. https://bio.link/kidderkat

Opinion: If a parent doesn't love you unconditionally and accept you without reservation because of your sexual orientation, it is up to them to fix their own shit on their own time. Also. Amputation often saves the life of the patient.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Going no contact is a kind of amputation,” Celeste Marcus writes. “Not only would it be an awful way to treat my father; it would also deprive me and my future family of a connection to the ideas and tradition that made me who I am.”

ITS HAPPENING GUYS!!! Come find me this week at Anime NYC with Taylor Pitts! I'll have most of my usual items plus some new stuff!! We'll be at table AC-06 in the Artist Alley which is on the side closest to the food court! So if you attend, feel free to stop by and say hello! 🥳💕

I give this platform a year TOPS before it all goes to shit & ill nuke my account just like i did on the bird. I wont be downloading anything new or migrating anywhere. Just tap me out like a solider. 😭

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Perhaps the worst part of this is that people may assume that it’s *good* because wealthy people are doing it, and it becomes the rationale for some version of this to be incorporated into poor schools. The rich kids are going to be insulated from the worst outcomes. Other kids? Not so much.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“Founders School in Manhattan promises to refund families its $150,000 annual tuition fee if their child has not made $1mn ‘in profit’ upon completion of the four-year high school course.”

My theory about "raising awareness" is that it makes people feel like they are doing something without needing to attend to whether what they are doing works. Which, since I'm still thinking about Spinoza at one remove, is exactly what often makes people nervous about systems thinkers.

The default goal, of course, is raising awareness. Raising awareness is the donor-facing euphemism for freaking out as many people as possible without affecting material conditions. Raising awareness can be good for raising money in the short term, often at the expense of meaningful longer-term progress. We’ll look at fundraising strategy another day.
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the tl;dr is that orgs advocating for change love to "raise awareness" in ways that make people feel like change is impossible.

Guys I don’t know how to say this but our studio is being shut down. I’ve got surgery in a few hours but ummm I’ll be open to work after I recover. If anyone needs a 3D character artist with experience working from scratch, optimizing from film, and working with character customizers I’m open 💔