⚡hash✨ (xe/fae)
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Beloved of the universe 🌌 South Asian🗝 20s• xe/fae/he/they
The future was much cooler in the past
Discord is postponing the rollout of its age-verification system to later this year after facing backlash.
I appreciate whenever someone masks, no matter how inconsistently. If everyone started masking just once a week, when they go to the store or a doctor's visit maybe, I think it would have a large impact
"So it's alright to change the terms of their loan unilaterally without consultation without pre-warning?" @vicderbyshire challenges Schools Minister Georgia Gould over the government's approach to student loan repayments. #Newsnight
Telling girls to submit to a generation of men that is often less capable than them is incredible strategy. Gen Z girls went to school with Gen Z boys, they saw why they get lower marks. No amount of screeching about cat ladies and feminazis is going to fix that.
They were starving. The cotton was right there. They refused to touch it. Lancashire, 1862.🇬🇧 The cotton mills that clothed the world. The cotton came from American slave plantations. Then the Civil War began. Lincoln blockaded the Southern ports. The cotton stopped coming. 331,000 people lost their jobs. The most prosperous workers in Britain were queuing for charity soup. Children went hungry. Everyone expected them to break. Demand the government side with the slaveholders. Get the cotton flowing again. They didn't. New Year's Eve, 1862. Manchester Free Trade Hall. Workers packed the hall. Hungry. Unemployed. Freezing. The Manchester Guardian told them not to come. They came anyway. They voted to support Lincoln. To keep the blockade. To keep starving. They refused to buy their survival with someone else's chains. Lincoln wrote back. He called it "sublime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or in any country." Then he sent ships full of food to Lancashire. There's still a statue of Lincoln in Manchester. His words are still on it. But here's what most people don't know. That hall, the Free Trade Hall, was built on the exact site of the Peterloo Massacre. In 1819, cavalry charged into working people on that same ground. Demanding the right to vote. At least fifteen killed. Same ground. Same working people. Two generations apart. In 1819 they were cut down for asking to be heard. In 1862 their children chose to starve for someone else's freedom. Lancashire. Every time. Help us get the stories of our ancestors out of the archives and into the people. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support No sponsors. No ads. Just us. Be part of us. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧
I have never seen a technology or feature being forced on people as much as AI. Every day some project or tool I use either opts me into AI help without asking or CONSTANTLY nags me to use it. It's shocking, really. Makes me wonder how badly the sales of these tools are going.
Remember this pensive 12th century Chinese general's poem the next time someone shits on small talk
