remember those 3 weeks last year when they were loudly called weird creeps and the weird creeps lost their fucking minds and melted down, the whole thing was funny & it was *working* then of course the Dem leadership/consultant class put a STOP to all that because they have a public failure kink
the centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
The quote from this article: "We have a bonus scheme to protect our most precious resource, which is the senior management team" from the chair of Thames Water is what I'd write on the guillotine if I was that way inclined.
“Thames Water bosses poised for 50% bonuses from £3bn emergency loan” - Privatised water in one headline…
"Everyone is doing it" is the current and reigining excuse for so much shit in tech and it is really a litmus test of what one actually stands for
Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems
The amount of fairly established artists over the past few months revealing they're having to step back from creative work and look for work in non-art fields instead is disheartening. A career path in skilled work where it was possible to at least make ends meet now feels less and less possible.
Hmm
