Hello everyone!

First of all, I'm glad to see the growth of this community. Thanks to everyone posting/commenting/voting here! The increase of subscribers as well as posts, however, warrants a clarification/addendum to the contribution rules:

Only post socialist memes That refers to funny image macros and means that generally videos and screenshots are not allowed. Exceptions include explicitly humorous and short videos, as well as (social media) screenshots depicting a funny situation, joke or joke picture relating to socialist movements, theory, societal issues, or political opponents. (e.g. the classic case of humorous Tumblr or Twitter posts/threads)

this will be added to the sidebar as rule 0.

For more serious contributions and discussion, there is always:

!actualsocialism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I also want to appeal to you to report posts/comments that you think violate the rules. This does not mean, however, that you should report contributions that you simply dislike or think are not of high enough quality. The downvote button exists for filtering like that (so please use it, as well as the upvote button when you see good contributions!).

Black and white photo of Frida Kahlo on a brightly coloured background, around her the text: I HAVE TO FIGHT WITH ALL MY STRENGTH TO DEDICATE THE LITTLE POSITIVE ENERGY THAT MY POOR HEALTH HAS LEFT ME TO SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION. IT'S THE ONLY REAL REASON TO LIVE."

The disabled population is the world's largest minority of which anyone can become part of at any time.

Photo of a persons' torso wearing a t-shirt that says: maybe a bunch of white slave owners from the 1700's did not come up with the best government ever

Image of Garnet from Steven Universe
Top text: FEELING UNCOMFORTABLE IS A NECESSARY PART
Bottom text: OF UNLEARNING OPPRESSIVE BEHAVIOURS

"It wasn't job seekers, firefighters or junior doctors that caused the financial crash. It wasn't the fault of immigrants. Or those in work or those looking for a job. And yet these are exactly the kind of people
who are endlessly punished by the Conservatives." "Fundamentally, any
government should not be making its own citizens destitute.
And that is exactly what the Tory government is doing."
Mhairi Black

I'VE YET TO HEAR A DEFENCE MINISTER SAY 'WE CAN'T BOMB THAT COUNTRY BECAUSE WE'VE EXCEEDED OUR BUDGET.'
WHEN WE WANT TO BOMB SYRIA, WE CAN FIND IT. WHEN WE WANT TO REFURBISH WESTMINSTER,
WE CAN FIND IT.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING OUR PENSIONERS THEIR PENSION, WE CANNOT DO IT? I JUST DON'T ACCEPT THAT WHATSOEVER."
Mhairi Black

Tweet by Laurie Penny ✔ @PennyRed:
Stop waiting for the 'real Nazis' to show up. They're here. White supremacy today doesn't look like the organised party system of the 20th century, because it doesn't need to. This is gig-economy fascism. Entrepreneurial white supremacy. Serving the interests of tyrants by proxy.

Tweet by Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD:
Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?

NEVER BE DECEIVED THAT THE RICH WILL
PERMIT YOU TO VOTE AWAY THEIR WEALTH.
LUCY PARSONS

Stolen from Mastodon. Original by @andrew@montagne.uk

Hello, can someone recommend me a good tool for alt texts? The ones ive tried didnt work out so well.

rooting for Gladis and the gang

ladydrace:
Has anyone else noticed how, when you have a chronic condition of some kind, that there's always the basic assumption from people around you that you're not already doing everything you can?

squidsqueen:
It's all about the illusion of control. People who are healthy like to believe they can always keep being healthy if they do the right things. They don't want to think about how good people get struck with terrible circumstances for no reason. So they keep assuming that if they got sick, they could do something to make it better. And if you're still sick, that must mean you've done something wrong or not done enough.