Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Lina's posts Post Back to profile
Lina

say NO to 2024! no more years! #EndDates

• every year is worse than the last
• "being on time" is neuronormative and ableist
• date/time math is inconsistent and annoying
• "number goes up" is unsustainable
• "see you in a bit" is just fine
• nobody ever knows what day it is so let's just stop pretending
• buses don't run on "time", they show up when you light a cigarette
• deadlines were invented by capitalists
• global south forced to winter during summer
• time is an illusion and calendar isn't real - we made it up!

we can do better!

31 Dec 2023 at 19:29 | Open on neuromatch.social
38 comments
Lina
Lina

nobody's gonna listen to the truth, so happy new year, I guess 🙄

31 Dec 2023 at 19:36 | Open on neuromatch.social
Eliot Lash

@lina They have played us for absolute fools.

31 Dec 2023 at 21:55 | Open on social.coop
Zeger

@lina Up the Liberation of Night!

31 Dec 2023 at 21:58 | Open on todon.nl
fritzoids

@lina
as someone who has on more than one occasion summoned a bus they were waiting for with the lighting of a cigarette: agreed.
Also: makes me think busses are small deities or demons?

(I know the Saints / small gods in Central America will accept tobacco as an offering)

31 Dec 2023 at 22:16 | Open on mas.to
holothuroid

@fritzoids There are sociologist takes that treat institutions and gods as basically the same thing. That would make public transport a deity.

I think this one is generally more responsive to proper infrastructure budgetting, union-negotiated salaries and ease of access but a cigarette surely won't hurt.

@lina

1 January at 7:10 | Open on rollenspiel.social
fritzoids

@holothuroid

ah, I like your take.
I'm going to support better budgeting (I think the bus and metro drivers where I live are already unionized) and better tickets for everyone (I want the 9€ Deutschlandticket back! google it! it was glorious!).
But I will treat drivers like minor deities that want respect and maybe a cigarette but one might still want to be careful around them.

@lina

1 January at 10:47 | Open on mas.to
woffs
@lina they have played us for absolute fools
31 Dec 2023 at 22:20 | Open on fe.disroot.org
AlgoCompSynth by znmeb

@lina And ... I want all that daylight I've saved since I was a small boy and I want it NOW!

31 Dec 2023 at 23:05 | Open on ravenation.club
Annelies Kamran

@AlgoCompSynth @lina yes!!! Furthermore, remember having to go to bed when it was still light out? Where is that light now when I need it?!?

1 January at 3:06 | Open on indieweb.social
Jody Lemoine 🇨🇦

@AlgoCompSynth @lina No daylight was ever saved. It was just moved to morning and we slept through it. If it was that important to us, we should have skipped the snooze button. 🙂

2 January at 19:47 | Open on hachyderm.io
Dominic
kik

@lina True dat. Async is so 2010s. Let's do atime!

31 Dec 2023 at 23:51 | Open on techhub.social
Negative12DollarBill

@lina They have played us for absolute fools

31 Dec 2023 at 23:51 | Open on techhub.social
Aegir 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈
RevPudDudley

@lina
Also -- Nobody for President !

1 January at 0:21 | Open on mas.to
alexing

@lina i mean i unironically agree. the rest of the world besides europe got along just fine for forever without strict timekeeping. when planning meetups nowadays i usually don't specify exact locations or times 'directly' and its funny seeing how ppl react

1 January at 1:40 | Open on tech.lgbt
Irenes (many)

@alexing @lina time is a thing humans invented to stress ourselves out

(or at least, that's how we enjoy characterizing the often-repeated story about commerce and stuff)

1 January at 1:42 | Open on mastodon.social
alexing

@irenes @lina europeans* invented and put in other places (not everywhere)

1 January at 1:53 | Open on tech.lgbt
Moth

@alexing @lina I would agree but man I need those standardized dates for programming.

(On a serious note, I don't think standardized timekeeping is really the issue, time stresses me out but it's more the expectations and the passing of the day itself, if standardized timekeeping wasn't a thing those would still stress me out)

1 January at 16:35 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Ashley Odell

@lina Calendar causes me unceasing anxiety while Not Calendar never has, you speak nothing but truth!!

1 January at 2:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Word of Mouth

@lina@neuromatch.social Agreed on all points. We should adopt universal time. Everyone uses UTC, all the time, everywhere. For me, dawn is like 12 PM so what? It is what it is. The sun rises whenever it rises. No need to reset all the clocks FFS.

Also, we should get rid of the letter "C".

1 January at 3:14 | Open on calckey.world
guildz

@lina Serious Momentism Hours... Wait...

1 January at 4:03 | Open on lgbtqia.space
Ricardo Harvin

@lina It is March 1,402, 2020 where I live.

1 January at 7:37 | Open on mstdn.social
mk30

@lina @hugo i am completely in support of a spiral-based, nature-cycle-oriented language of time. the word "time" would probably not exist, people would instead use words that refer to specific times of year, times of day, etc. (sorry i live in the forest and everything is a cycle here.)

1 January at 7:55 | Open on tilde.zone
Moth

@mk30 @lina @hugo Isn't...that sort of already the current language of time, though?

1 January at 16:42 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
mk30

@MothWaves @lina @hugo minus the abstraction of clock time.

1 January at 19:40 | Open on tilde.zone
Sean Blinn 🇺🇦

@lina “Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.” - Douglas Adams

1 January at 8:02 | Open on universeodon.com
Luka Rubinjoni

@lina Leap years devised by the utterly deranged.

1 January at 10:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Red Lucy 🏳️‍⚧️ :lesbian_flag:

@lina „buses dont run on time, they show up when you light a cigarette“

you must be from western Germany

1 January at 12:44 | Open on wetdry.world
Bob Thomson

@lina Years were made up by Big Time to sell us more seconds sheeple.

1 January at 13:38 | Open on mastodon.social
lordjeff
Moth

@lordjeff @lina another one falls for the ploy of Big Time.

1 January at 16:42 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
punIssuer

@lina "it's cool that instead of class consciousness we have this thing where we get mad at years."
— twitter.com/feraljokes/status/

1 January at 14:52 | Open on universeodon.com
genstar.service

@lina Is the guy on reddit who got stuck in 2018 doing well?

2 January at 16:48 | Open on meow.social
Jan Eden

@lina I don't smoke. Without a timetable, I cannot even curse the bus company while waiting forever.

2 January at 18:42 | Open on social.eden.one
CIMB4

@lina "see you in a bit" can be very stressing tho when waiting for someone. There's nuance to all of this.
Generally tho, can people with their 1.5 ton metal boxes ppease stop "rushing" to be "on time" by risking everyone's safety?

14 November at 16:41 | Open on mastodon.social
InsertUser

@lina I'm pretty sure deadlines and calendars were invented by not being able to grow stuff in the winter/dry season and having to plan accordingly.

14 November at 16:48 | Open on en.osm.town
Go Up