Orion Ussner kidder / is on Nostr

English prof at FDU Vancouver, specialize in composition and comics scholarship, dad, nerd, writer of SF/F fiction (see me on writing.exchange).

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2024-09-02 18:33:58

Yearly reminder: #LabourDay was invented to distract from #InternationalWorkersDay, which lands on May 1 to commemorate the #HaymarketMassacre when police violently attacked labour rights activists who were demonstrating for the eight-hour workday we have today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

2024-08-29 00:43:02

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Good fucking god. This is so transparent. And it could very well work.

2024-08-28 23:24:05

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IT's so maddening how many people don't bother to learn that BC "liberals" are just conservatives. It's not even debatable. They just are.
(Corollary: federal Liberals are pretty damn conservative, too.)

2024-08-26 20:16:22

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It's really sad. Every time legitimate objections to Israel's violence come into public discourse, the antisemites come crawling out from under their rocks and try to use it to launder their racism. Fortunately, we get to be consistent: racism is bad, regardless of whether it's aimed at Palestinians or Jews.

2024-08-26 19:58:12

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FWIW, I've decided, as a gentile, that it's strategically unwise for me to use it at all for exactly the reasons this thread makes clear. It's historically accurate. It's what a specific group of people call themselves, but it's also been used as an antisemitic slur, so if *I* use it, it makes it that much easier for someone to derail by accusing me of racism. So I'm not giving them that opening.

2024-08-19 02:12:08

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Oh I hate this so much.
"I am asking specific question X. Please, I need an answer to this question. I already said why. I already told you all the information about my system. I am very clearly asking just this one question."
"Ah, but have you tried solving an entirely different problem?"

2024-08-06 22:59:13

The earliest alleged Gaiman assault is now 1986, three years before Sandman. He was 25. This is not a problem of power or of a "permission structure," as I thought a few days ago. Given the evidence, I now believe he's a serial sexual assaulter and has been the whole time.
https://www.themarysue.com/neil-gaiman-faces-additional-sexual-assault-allegations-as-two-more-women-speak-out/

2024-07-30 17:13:14

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That is some good old culture jamming.
Just make sure to put it in luxury shopping areas. There's never a call to shame the poor.

2024-06-01 06:44:01

I realized today that over the course of my life, I've switched OS's once every 15 years or so. Ha!
#DOS / #Windows, #OSX, #Linux

2024-05-25 06:07:57

I keep seeing ads for suped-up laptops for #Linux, and that's great and all--I know a lot of people are really into just how damn fast they can download an update--but I'm way more interested in, "I got my MacBook 2007 to be perfectly serviceable with #DebianLight or whatever." I want to breathe life into an old piece of shit, not acquire yet another piece of tech I'll have to recycle someday.