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This was an amazingly refreshing post.

This was an amazingly refreshing post.

I don't know why he's so upset. I mean they're just mean tweets. Isn't that what his apologists have been scolding the rest of us about for the last almost 10 years?

@dukepaaron OK you guys have a point.

Oh no rates are never negotiable. This is skilled labor and, if the flood of "it's not antisemitic because $Jew agrees with/said it" is any indication, it's also labor that is very much in demand.

@arstechnica Hell yes LAN parties!

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka Mastodon does OK on desktop, but there are definitely some major accessibility problems. That whole thing with link underlines, for example.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka Yes that would be nice. I think I'm close to being done technologying for today. Don't think that's a word, also don't care. It is now.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I see what happened. My client broke the thread. Somedays I hate this client.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka No problem I just don't want you to get the impression I'm secretly in favor of turning the US into a theocracy. I promise. I'm not.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka This thread was about Israel/Palestine. How did we end up talking about America? Because honestly these are two very different situations.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I've worked on plenty of election days, and I'm very well aware that there are people in this country for whom it is literally impossible to vote. But it still comes down to if enough people who can vote decide to do something that lets the fundies take power, then as a collective we set the stage for that. Doesn't mean we're all horrible people, it does mean that now there's a situation that has some very unpleasant facts associated with it that we all now need to deal with.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka If you have the opportunity this election, see if you can tag along with someone who needs accessible voting at your local polling place. I promise you that situation is rarely without all kinds of avoidable problems, up to and including poll workers who don't know how to set things up, and that's one of the more benign bits. And the only orgs even sort of dealing with that kind of voter suppression are disability rights orgs. And it's a both-parties problem.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I have to jump over crazy hurtles to vote. I still do it because the alternative is that the Christian fundamentalists *definitely take over if enough people like me decide to just sit it out.