AnarchistArtificer @ AnarchistArtificer @slrpnk.net

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Proton is so good that even when a game has a native Linux version, I often opt for the Proton version (so my games are all in one place). I was even able to install mods for games like Baldur's Gate 3 (albeit with a bit of tinkering)

Gosh, that's a striking mental image. I don't have words to adequately describe how I feel right now. It's the same thing I felt when I looked at the images in the OP, except distilled down and super concentrated

Good human

As someone who frequently falls and needs help to get up, I know some amount of what people learn in "lifting and handling" training; it's terrifying how many people will attempt to help me up in a way that's dangerous as hell (I know someone who had their shoulder dislocated by a supposedly trained person doing a "drag lift", which is something you should never do). I don't expect regular people to know this stuff, but I do expect people whose job involves first aid and stuff to at the very least know "I should not attempt this unless I have lifting and handling training". It's horrifying to see such ignorance.

However, this is nothing compared to what you describe — the difficulty and danger involved in restraining people (as opposed to helping a cooperative person up) is a wholly different challenge. All the more reason why proper technique is essential.

Truly, this blurs the line between memes and art

"Always forget the name when I want to remember it. "

Is that a problem you run into regularly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE

🎵I want it awl, I want it awl, I want it awl, and I want it now🎵

(The song that gets stuck in my head whenever I use an awl)

This looks simultaneously tasty and basic, so I'm intrigued to learn more details about how you made it. Could you link the recipe please?

One of the many reasons why I feel a positive bias towards people from your instance

"I have no particular love for the idealized ‘worker’ as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."

This quote goes hard, I love it. Onto the reading list it goes

Do you have fun with the tinkering?

Maaaaaate, this is awesome! The disabled spaces and curb cuts in particular is on my to-do list, because I am excited about how powerful openstreetmaps can be for disabled people if there is enough data there.

The closest that gets me to empathising with them is thinking about times in my life where I have done stupid, harmful-to-me things as a sort of lashing out to claw back any agency I could. For example, deliberately flunking a test because failing by choice felt safer than trying as hard as I could and doing badly anyway; I didn't realise what was happening at the time, but in hindsight, decisions like that were all about my inability to cope with uncertainty and vulnerability.

I think that people who are unfathomably kind are probably a lot like me, in that they feel scared if they look at the state of the world. They probably recognise in their gut that there is very little that they, as individuals, can do to improve things, and that's scary to them. However, instead of learning to sit with the discomfort of uncertainty and learning how to lean into the vulnerability to do some collective action, they lash out at the world. Being awful to some poor person who is also overwhelmed doesn't solve any of the root issues, of course, but I think that it's cathartic to them to be able to impact the world in some tangible way — it makes them feel less powerless to be able to fuck up someone's day. Plus I reckon there's probably some transference stuff going on, where being unkind to an individual may set them up to be a sort of repository for all the bad feelings they have inside them, like a subconscious scapegoat

Hateful people still baffle me, but over time, I find myself able to empathise with them more. I find people like this quite tragic, because I know that I would have killed myself long ago if I didn't find community and solidarity to keep me pushing onwards. It seems like quite a bleak existence, and it hurts to see them poisoning themselves with their shortsighted hate.

Yet again we see students being the ones to stand against injustice. It's a shame that in Israel, as in other countries, such protests are harshly suppressed.

The only thing that I would miss is contactless payments via my phone.

What a cute floof

As a part time wheelchair user, thanks for this idea for a song

I appreciate your insight here. It has some relevance to where I am in the UK, where international workers are holding up the NHS. (This is one of many reasons why Brexit was a disaster)

I can't imagine how much it must suck for him right now if he didn't do it. Like, the way they're treating him is awful regardless, but I imagine that being responsible for the widely praised act would help a little (gosh, it must feel so awkward to have so many fans if he wasn't the one who did it — it has stolen valour vibes (except presumably he wouldn't have chosen to be the scapegoat))

"If you get in that situation, remember I'm just a random lemming and not a lawyer."

Indeed! And along those lines, ask for a lawyer if you're arrested. Especially if you're innocent. People who think "I'll look guilty if I ask for a lawyer" just make themselves vulnerable to words being twisted against them.