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Janette Kirchner

@janette.bsky.social

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SAHM to 2 & 1 in heaven. Reader & Writer of romance novels, poetry, fan fiction. Demisexual & Bi. She/Her. Xbox/twitch: isiswings1592 Website: https://janettekirchnercom.wordpress.com/

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 4d

We can run our own moderation yet Link is banned, Erin Biba is banned, Palestinian accounts are banned, Trans people accounts are banned.

Who's running the moderation again?

(Am I going to get banned for this? Probably.)

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

One last note: about every six months I remember the Finnish dish cabinet exists and I get irrationally angry this isn't a mainstay of US culture and I'm not sure how or why, but I blame the patriarchy. They are cabinets above the kitchen sink that drain directly into the kitchen sink.

Finnish Dish Drying Cabinets Are the Genius Kitchen Feature You’ll Want Next

Discover the genius Finnish dish drying cabinet, a space-saving kitchen upgrade that makes drying and storing dishes effortless.

www.marthastewart.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

Addendum: they see labor when it costs them money or time. Hence the obsession with self-driving cars and automating fast food restaurants. It's also why they want us all to eat the slop that is Wonder restaurants. Of course Wonder only "works" in cities the very places with better options.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

So yes, I think these men have no use for other humans - they wouldn't be so obsessed with robots if they did - and they want to eliminate creative work. But the other half of "why can't they make labor easier" is they don't do a lot of that labor. They invented the roomba and called it a day.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

In theory the kitchen should be the easiest space on the planet to clean and it's not because it's designed by men who don't use kitchens. That's it.

Don't get me started on how if I'm not careful my fish slips into a corner of my freezer that requires me to remove the freezer basket to reach

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

And I like to focus on kitchen stuff because it makes no sense that I have to watch a youtub video to learn how to take apart my dishwasher to clean it and that entire chunks of it havenot been designed to be clean.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

I mean we can talk about the way these tech billionaires have scrambled eggs for brains, but I'm going to talk about something else: kitchenware.

I like to play this game called "how hard is it to clean" and so much kitchen shit is hard to clean.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13h

I think that's part of it but the other part is it's men -and in this case especially rich men - and they already don't do those tasks, so they don't see them. This is why we're getting Samsung TV's with ads and not fridges that remind us to eat the lettuce before it spoils

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 14h

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report.

The actual cruel burden is the point.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 13h

Then my belief system once again disagrees with the Supreme Court. A territory should have actual representation up and until they decide they want independence.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 13h

Where did I say that Puerto Rico wants to become a state? State or not, they deserve actual representation, not the ceremonial crap they have now.

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 17h

Palestinians are parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents, and cousins. They love their families. Palestinian families have been erased. Children have been orphaned. Parents lost their kids

Obama chose dehumanization when he said the suffering of "Israeli families and the people of Gaza"

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

No, I'm not saying it's a good thing. I don't think that at all. But this isn't a Trump problem, it's a military industrial complex problem, and we should probably say that.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

We already have similar deals with Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan, among others. Hell, Singapore has a facility at the same base Qatar is building theirs.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

I don't know why everyone thinks it's new or novel that a US-subsidized petrostate vassal that we arm with our weapons and use to project our power across SWANA is building a training facility here. We're the largest weapons dealer in the world.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 17h

Please donate to Abo Jameel's fundraiser or share it

Abo jameel @engabojameel37.bsky.social · 23h

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

"Does this unit have a soul?"

Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

*I say this as I have robot vacuums.

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

We need an UBI.

Every time I hear about robots taking human jobs and that we should use them for free, I think of the Geth and Quarians in Mass Effect.

Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 17h

Robots are pretty quickly becoming more capable and affordable. If you think this won't impact the labor market, you're engaging in cope, and if you don't think we should all benefit from robot labor via universal basic income as a fair GDP dividend, you're helping billionaires become trillionaires.

Figure AI's New Humanoid Robot Can Fold Your Clothes, Do the Dishes

It might also take jobs that Figure AI deems 'unsafe and undesirable.'

www.pcmag.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 22h

Ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to her goal, less than 350 dollars left, could you please help? Im passing forward $20 that I got from yall for mutual aid, can you match me?

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa from gaza, raise funds to help her family survive.

chuffed.org

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

I view Carnegie in the same vein as that United Healthcare CEO. Just because they weren't the ones doing the direct harms didn't mean that they weren't the ones leading mass death, trauma, and suffering.

Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php%....

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

www.pbs.org/wgbh/america....

Native Americans and the Transcontinental Railroad | American Experience | PBS

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that of the Plains Indians.

www.pbs.org

Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 17h

Railroads contributed to the genocides of Native Nations people. It's my understanding that Carnegie's steel mills helped build those railroads: americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stor...

The impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on Native Americans

The Transcontinental Railroad was celebrated by some as a symbol of modernity. However, the railroad also threatened Native nations. Discover their stories.

americanhistory.si.edu

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Janette Kirchner @janette.bsky.social · 18h

I could probably add Walt Disney to that too.

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