Great post. This is a subject very close to my heart and was lucky enough to be able to take part in some uni courses on these things as well that completely opened my eyes to the problems in gynecology and in the ways medicine has treated people with uteruses.

I also have many personal experiences of this violence, including a badly inserted IUD that bled for a year.

Here is one blog post from a great activist also relating, cw would be medical violence.

There is absolutely a reason why I personally have skipped going for screenings. Love that this is being talked about here.

Also for bags or boxes the box is the same size, but there is about 1/4 less in it. Yet the price is twice as much as before.

Had a look at the Christmas chocolates, same thing with all of them. A box of chocolates is pricier than ingredients for a full meal for a family. Which are expensive too.

“the US doing IMF-style restructuring to itself” is a great take tbh, will steal this and post it to some libs. It really is what this is.

No. At least not where I am.

This just makes me surer that my late 2019 covid was really covid (all the hallmark symptoms) and the only reason it was taken seriously was China calling it out. Or at least it had been brewing a lot longer.

On days like this when I am very tired and don’t have much to do, just a few appointmens miles apart, I am so happy about my remote work percentage. The idea of having to sit in a office pretending to be working feels like a form of torture to my neurospicy tired mind.

I dread the day they remove the percentage, I will go back to unemployment if that happens.

Isn’t it nice?

I worked for two hours and now at 11 I am sitting the couch admiring my houseplants and browsing the internet. I have nothing at all to do for the next two hours, might as well take a nap. Love it.

As a mushroom picker this thing right here was my first big issue with the AI grift. It doesn’t take a tech bro to understand how these models cannot actually give advice on anything because they make no decisions.

There was a really inreresting study locally on the heuristics of mushroom picking, turns out it’s one of the riskiest foraging things we humans do and one where we have culturally developed very efficient and well working precautionary principles. It is a pretty perfect example of how an AI model is not intelligent in any way.

I really hate how they now open with “This was a healthy teenager prior to this, so no underlying conditions."

Meaning that if it was one of the “undesirables” who can’t be used by capital, nobody would have to care.

Sometimes I have to wonder if all of what I am experiencing as mediated reliaty is actually real.

The Onion should just pack it up, we live in the most absurd of times.

I’m just going to voice my appreciation for these regional posts you do here.

I often hope to emulate this from my country, but typically run out of spoons (also avoiding national news due to it triggering me these days).

We need correspondants for all the places in the world, this is the best way to read news.

I found it be pretty hard to approach as well as I fully contradicted even myself on my own understanding of it in only two comments.

What I am seeing here is the way people have very different understandings of it depending on lived experience and even the context where it gets applied. Not sure if that makes the choice good or bad. It still doesn’t seem to align much with the tank though.

But I too am ok with it, if this is what the community decides. I do think peoples concerns about it should be addressed.

I deleted it. :/ I have no idea what you mean by “join us”?

This is what gossip is, yeah.

I grew up in a very small rural village community and the gossip around there was always community chatter. But I have to add that it was often very damaging to for example marginalized communities as well. And a tool for bullies. So I am not entirely sure if it is a term that should be reclaimed because of the way gossiping has worked in the real world at least in the protestant west.

This was immediately reported on by our state media with the angle that reports about this were supressed in social media and reporting it in the media there took until the next day.

I only saw this because I saw a comrade post about it elsewhere critizicing our state media on their angle (as filming the sites of accidents is illegal in many places in the west as well).

Welp. Nuked my old account as it got about a year old and created a new one. Why is there only one set of pronouns visible on this one? Have not been able to find an option to toggle it. Using from a Firefox mobile browser.

I will admit that I did not know all this about the history of the word gossip.

But while I respect the goal of reclaiming terms in general, as a woman I really dislike the name nonetheless. It might be my own internalized stuff, but having spent a lifetime listening to gossiping being ridiculed and having had to actively distance mysels from it to be taken seriously, I feel like if this reclaiming was to be done, it should be done by women only first.

Also gossiping and the dunk tank just vibe very differently for me. Gossiping isn’t nearly always an act of condemnation, it is often just social knowledge transfer and socializing. The tank was crearly something very different. If gossip is most often understood as an activity that women do then making a place like the tank be gossip makes gossip look bad, I hope this makes sense.