the-tired-writer

dragongirlsnout

DASHBOARD UNFUCKER V1.0

as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter's. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site's actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.

HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.

here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:

and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn't received the update:

it's hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it's also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it's a good fix.

the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit "create new script", and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.

cryptotheism

Good morning y'all, I'm still recovering from pretty severe burnout, so I'm probably gonna be taking it slow this week. Probably gonna be lotsa reading and notes on Patreon but not much in the way of new writing.

molly-writes

This is my patreon! I would love to have support for my writing!!

growing-yet-into-mundanity

fayanora

Ts'msyen musician set to release album in Sm'algya̱x after years of studying endangered language

cbc.ca

fuckyeahblackgoths

I love music in indigenous languages, by groups like The Hu and Otyken. This musician's albums in his indigenous language have been added to my wishlist on Bandcamp.

renthony

iww-gnv

Amazon workers in Kentucky are fighting to unionize!

From their website:

"We're Amazon workers that want to form a union at the KCVG Air Hub. We're fighting for a $30 starting wage, 180 hours of PTO, union representation at disciplinary meetings and more. Hundreds of us came together to demand Peak Pay. Management refused and that's why we need a union that can win lasting change."

To find out how YOU can support these workers, please visit their website here:

Support in Solidarity — Unionize Amazon KCVG

Unionize Amazon KCVG

witches-bottle

Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.

goblins-against-cops

this post must be reblogged by everyone

witchbabywigg

andthebeanstalk

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hlep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you ask for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hlep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hlep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it helps reinforce the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hleper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

yournewfriendshouse

hlepers are only helping so they can feel like they’ve helped and if you point out they didn’t help at all you’re killing their nice person high and so they get inordinately angry. like often their response is so out of proportion and it’s because they feel you’ve taken something they wanted away. god forbid people actually help others because the person needs the help

the-tired-writer

doyouknowwhatimeme

sunshine-tattoo

Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.

In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.

The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.

The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.

Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.

The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.

4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won't adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.