francesdren.bsky.social
Garden-variety nerd. Riding the burnout rollercoaster. Angry but hopeful - often sweary. Chicago by way of Seattle.
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my kingdom for an elected official who will stand up and defend the fact that the government employs people to test wastewater and send old people money and keep an eye on the bears in the park and make sue the people that scammed you
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docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Either way you spend all the best hours of your life working your ass off separated from your community or sleeping so you can get up early enough.
It's baked into the working and leisure economies that they won't see many people but this economic frame is deliberately obscured by "male loneliness"
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Everyone has an ever-shrinking array of social spaces to make and maintain friendships in real life these days. The pub costs too much. Spaces to be involved in team sports are gated behind more and more barriers.
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If you like presidents who warned of their power, may I suggest you start with Teddy Roosevelt. If you like Supreme Court justices who recognized it, perhaps look to Louis Brandeis. You might find the story of Gen. Smedley Butler entertaining.
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An American oligarchy has been the focus of journalists since the muckrakers. If you want to start with the work of one, may I suggest Ida Tarbell (who was born in 1857) and whose history of Standard Oil was first published in 1904.
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As a high masking person I’ve definitely heard this one and all I can say is that those folks can get fucked.
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I’ve made a point of avoiding those “influencers” for about a decade now, and if that’s still going on I guess it’s no surprise that we’ve made no actual gains as a group (white-guy Sheldon Cooper types notwithstanding). I am genuinely sad about this, though my response sounds glib.
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I didn’t read all of the replies but…wtaf? The OP’s self description isn’t “high support needs.” And no one “romanticizes” being a main eugenics target. This feels like someone realizing their privilege, feeling icky about it, and deciding to rationalize instead of reckoning with it.
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Agreed - that’s a creepy kind of power play, hard pass.
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The 1st & 3rd ones for me, absolutely. I’ve learned to manage small talk thanks to decades of masking, but it’s never helped me” connect.” NT folks using it as a gold standard of How to People apply the same arbitrary rules that exclude NDs, so yeah that game’s rigged *shocked face meme*
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Toot toot trumpet solo…yeaaaah
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Lurkers of the world unite…yeah, that was terrible, I know, but I got puns instead of cats, sorry.
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It was “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” for me.
Also, TZ showing today on PlutoTV, coincidentally…saw that during my morning disassociation channel-flipping.
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I mean, they could’ve gone with a couple other teams too, but this one does settle nicely.
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And it’s November 21st now, so, yeah…fuck that.
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“Block early, block often” is a truly beautiful mantra.