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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈A whole adult(43)! Disabled, queer, trans man. Kpop multi. Queer media enthusiast. Aspiring author, and death doula. Dm’s open. No minors please!

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 4w ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

This week has already been too much and it’s only Tuesday. -my cat has been sick. -I’m stressed with school. -I’m being forced to deal with trauma from childhood -more new experiences -other feelings there’s not space for I just want to cry while I watch my health and general well being tank.

Had a very quiet bday. I believe I have what they call tattoo flu so I don’t feel particularly well. Had a nice chill afternoon catching up with a friend though. Oh and I got a new piece of art from them which is arguably one of the best gifts I can ever possibly be given.

Thought I was going to skip out of the birthday depression this year but it’s the week of and it’s back in full force making me feel low, telling me I haven’t accomplished much in a year and that I’m a burden to everyone even though it’s mostly not true. 😞

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 · 2mo ago

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?