Dr. Erika Alpert @ErikaAlpert@scholar.social

@guerrillarain attempted criticisms of sex work accidentally criticizing the conditions of all labor under capitalism = 😽👌

People shouldn't sell their bodies!!!!

Okay tell that to athletes, ballerinas, and construction workers to start. *blinks*

i made a post with my thoughts about the whole berries.space archival thing here: https://bune.city/2019/05/archive-team-and-the-fediverse/

"Just because something’s publicly available doesn’t mean people want it harvested and stored forever by a dedicated group of data archivists. Posting your phone number on a billboard isn’t consenting to having your phone number posted online by an archival team. Neither is protesting in public, or having a conversation in public, or going skinny-dipping in public, or walking past a CCTV camera in public. Being in public does not mean you automatically consent to having your activities archived."

yeah this shit absolutely still holds up

A serious reminder: Please note that prison labor In the US is not "like" slave labor, it is expressly slave labor. The constitution allows for forcing slave labor upon inmates. It *is* slave labor, it is exactly slave labor, and it has never been anything but slave labor.

The exact wording of the 13th Amendment is "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Expressly, slave labor is still perfectly legal, so long as the state can make you into a criminal, and it will if it can.

The Prime Directive is to Star Trek kind of like how the Three Laws is to I, Robot

It's kinda only there because there are interesting edge-cases

O'BRIEN: Gentle was bred out of these Cardassians a long time ago. 
KEIKO: You know, that was a very ugly thing you just said. 
O'BRIEN: I only said. 
KEIKO: I don't need to hear it twice. 

Good on you, Keiko. You gotta call that shit out. 👍

She gets a lot of hate

But that one scene where Miles gets racist against Cardassians and then she tells him flat-out, "That was an ugly thing you just said" outweighs anything bad you can ever say about her

writing advice that i heard on my first day of uni: if you cant sum up your argument in one sentence, you need to start over

Instead of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Beautiful and terrible as the dawn!! All shall love me and this hair!!!

(toss, slow-motion, tumbling veil of cascading tresses)

L'Othlórien.

Because you're worth it.

＊あくび〜＊😴