sneak100 [she/her]

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Cake day: May 3rd, 2024

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  • I do think this isn’t a bad idea for an article, there are definitely things on the up and up - it’s just kind of infuriating to see a person with this perspective being the one doing it. I want to see a disabled/queer/immigrant/Roma perspective on what particular aspects of British society are improving, because any of those will much more insightful than a person comfortably cushioned from even some of the milder effects of brutal govt policy. My suspicion however, is that very few people from any of those groups would be willing to write something like this right now


  • Austerity develops resilience in white middle class cishet women, but not without countless death and suffering of immigrants, trans children and racialised people in it’s wake. But if you just ignore those things as a premise for your piece then, yeah, things aren’t all that bad like everyone always says. Absolute zero sense of solidarity.

    >Using an app for medical care (unheard of back in 2009, when nobody I knew yet owned a smartphone – and still not routinely used in France), I’ve had to ask for clarification several times on how to get a repeat prescription. But staff have been friendly even in the face of my incompetence, and never once have I been made to feel the nuisance I probably am.

    The fact that even in the face of bad experience with a technology, this person’s techno-optimism just leads them to blame themselves for not being competent enough to use a technology… No! These apps are shit, they sell your data and they’re completely inaccessible to the increasing homeless population in this country, there’s no upside here.

    She just keeps pointing out a really shit thing, then says “but I’m shocked my supermarket hasn’t devolved into chaos and anarchy and people still make small talk at me.” Like what’s actually our standard? Oh it’s that that particular thing doesn’t affect the writer of the article, right.

    Edit: I guess I mostly don’t like that the Guardian considers this a valuable voice that merits featuring in their publication at a time when political grifters are grifting their hardest at the expense of every minority, but idk why I expect anything from that terf nest, so that’s for me to unpack