Ildsaye [they/them]
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Cake day: Mar 20, 2023

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None of our individual strategies are “the answer”. The situation won’t be turned around by individuals making personal choices, but by organized efforts. A world in which Terms and Conditions don’t supersede your rights is possible.


Another factor is the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Late capitalism has to keep finding more and more shameless ways to squeeze regular people as the easy money recedes. Lobbyists are pushing harder to lock people into a few big services and subscriptions so they are forced to yield more personal data and spending money.


Desensitizing people to having no privacy from their own state and ‘local’ corporations will do that shocked-pikachu


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Years without getting sick
party-parrot-science Years without getting anyone else sick squirtle-jam


Modern industrial sewing machines are generally still powered by a belt that passes through the table, though now the belt leads instead to a large servo motor slung to the table’s underside. But that does leave the machine heads more-or-less compatible with the old treadle tables