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This.

Pretty much sums up the thread.

Lol talkin shit about based welsh people while being aussie. Ok meight.

Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely -- being fed up with the state of the industry -- but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here's what's kept me optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to "reject isms/be your own ism"

Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

Lmao get out you weird bigot

Yeah honestly like idk couple dozen strips in it just totally beat the joke to death. Swing and a miss.

https://resonate.coop/ is a spotify alternative which has been goin on for several years now. Support for small artists goes far, solidarity for all workers, Co-Ops represent a neccesary stepping stone towards a sustainable society so Subvert is nice to learn about :)

For whoever's interested in long form vid essays about likely root cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2R8q8GDwZ0

Looks like they have at least one more about Ireland but ive yet to watch that one.

As a tech professional, fuck AI, fuck Neoliberalism, and we need unions:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

https://queersatanic.com/

This is discussed in depth in the video linkrd by the subthread post.

Stop thinking in dualities and binaries. It's not so simple, but to my own dismay, Greaves is indeed a grifter, a chauvanist and all the bigotry that comes with it.

If you give a shit about the downtrodden, for whom the metaphorical Luci Morningstar is held up to empower (it is just an extension of christian lore after all), then listen to the non-men, non-white and queer folks who saw first hand how TST, following in CoS' footsteps, took advantage of us.

https://queersatanic.com/

This is discussed in depth in the video linkrd by the subthread post.

Stop thinking in dualities and binaries. It's not so simple, but to my own dismay, Greaves is indeed a grifter, a chauvanist and all the bigotry that comes with it.

If you give a shit about the downtrodden, for whom the metaphorical Luci Morningstar is held up to empower (it is just an extension of christian lore after all), then listen to the non-men, non-white and queer folks who saw first hand how TST, following in CoS' footsteps, took advantage of us.

Fun /s facts i learned recently about Banksy:

• intentionally does art near low income neighborhoods, thus gentrifying them to all hell
• he built a hotel 4 miles away from the Gaza Strip that trivialized everything Palestine was going through for the past 78 years, and told a story of how the genocide is “a nuanced and debatable issue”

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

^^^^ this