Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

you're so green Marvel uses you for the background of their movies

@socketwench she was Brought Across in 1959.

Given to girls for fashion and fun

Now she wants to be human again

To emerge from her world of playsets

From her endless forever beach

So I went to the grocer today to get supplies to make some apple pies, and when I got in line to check out, the cashier told me in an exasperated tone "I don't know how long this'll take. These people don't have enough to pay for their stuff and they don't speak a word of English".

I asked how much. $1.13. Their SNAP card was just over a dollar short.

When I used to work as a cashier, I was regularly a few bucks short at the end of the day for this exact reason.

I told them to just go have a good day and that I'd pay for their stuff. It was only $16 in total.

The indifference in society today makes me so sad. They needed food more than Safeway needed a dew more dollars of profit.

When I went to pay, the kiosk offered to have me round up or donate $5 to feed the hungry.

I think direct action made a bigger difference today.

Edit: to make the moral more explicit. I posted this so the next cashier who finds themselves in that situation might look the other way, or the next person in line might make it their problem *instead of* looking the other way.

Wishing everyone a merry Christmas, or if you don't celebrate, I hope that it is still a lovely, enjoyable day for you.

"Your right wing uncle"

At some point, we white people are going to have to deal with the reality that it's not one distasteful outlier. Something like a third of your relatives want to dominate, harass, and hurt people; including you if you try to stop them. And another third is happy to go along with it, if it saves them from having an awkward conversation.

edit: anyway, merry christmas, and happy new year

Don't normally do this, but bumping this thread up to remind anyone feeling isolated over Christmas that you can find friendly people on the hashtag #JoinIn and the group @joinin

Even if you're with others, that can sometimes be lonely too, and you may be needing some escape. Or maybe you just fancy a random chat.

Whatever it is, you're not the only one, there are others who are up for a chinwag and this tag and this group are where you'll find them.

Take care everyone, wherever you are ❤️

Holiday baking, part 4: Cinnamon rolls!

Recipe from @dolari, half with and have without pecans. I left out the marshmallows.

Icing will wait until tomorrow morning when we reheat them to eat for First Breakfast along with Zoom call to family in Texas.

#Baking #WhatIsTonyaMarieCooking

Is this body positivity? I think this is body positivity.

Season’s Greetings from all of us at Linden Lab! 💖

Meet some of our incredible teams that fuel the magic of our virtual world: https://second.life/seasonsgreetings2023

#SecondLife #LindenLab #HappyHolidays #SeasonsGreetings #metaverse #LindenEmployees

I used to work on microcontrollers and an alarming number of questions of the form "why is our codebase like this" have an answer that begins "okay so in 1981 IBM released the first personal computer..."

I hope people get that Mitch McConnell made Trump's win possible in 2016 by refusing a bipartisan condemnation of Russia's attacks for Trump and he made 2024 possible by opposing Trump's conviction. He's the greatest villain of our time. Only Rupert Murdoch comes close.

It's Christmas eve, eve better get those gifts wrapped! 🎁

If your family sucks, feel free to @ me for a lil gender confirming message this weekend. It's not much but if a message from a fairy using your correct pronouns and name helps lmk 🥺

Part of the reason I hate this time of year, queer people might leave their little circle of queer safety