@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-01-26 21:03:14
Wow, what are people thinking? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/585063/pessimistic-voters-look-to-winston-peters-to-be-the-change-candidate-inside-the-coalition
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-26 10:41:26
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-26 13:00:42
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-25 03:25:37
BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul lawyers
escalate their request for an immediate TRO
to temporarily halt Operation Metro Surge
following today's ICE killing of Alex Pretti
— noting three shootings by ICE in the past three weeks,
after 11 months of no
officer-involved shootings in Mpls.
@salrandolph@zirk.us2026-03-26 14:04:00
How are you? How are you doing in this time of war? With Etel Adnan, I’m feeling the iridescent inner chaos. Can I turn and face it?
Here is my most recent dharma talk from this past Sunday morning.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/to-be-in-a-time-of-war
@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-12-26 16:55:36
I learned freedom riding the Midlands cuts by bike. I still explore cities by bike, on foot, and by car, always chasing that same feeling of discovery just around the corner.
#midlands #blackcountry #england
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-25 14:41:07
SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/supreme-court-cox…
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-01-26 03:32:37
Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2026-02-25 04:44:52
Wooo, the new computer chair should be delivered day-after-tomorrow and I'm pretty stoked. The old chair is kinda falling apart, but for a cheap chair it did a great job...however, the "new" Aeron should be a significant upgrade. Also, the rollerblade wheels will be moving from the old Office Depot chair to the new one...
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-26 05:03:48
