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Man holds protest sign which reads: Two paths diverged in the woods, and America took the psychopath.
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USPol, weedy campaign stuff [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
In case you're wondering how a campaign can spend $1.2b without turning out its own base.
Though probably anybody following me already knows how that happens. The overall story is the same as ever, this is just some names and numbers if that's of interest.
https://readsludge.com/2024/11/13/the-democratic-consultants-getting-rich-off-the-harris-campaign-2/
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@darcher@hachyderm.io I wonder how much is spent on trotting out all those morons after the event, blaming racism, sexism, pronounism, leftism, black ppl, latino ppl, russians, iranians, north koreans, etc etc etc (blaming everyone on earth except their own shit policies and shit candidates and shit broken promises)...
USPol, weedy campaign stuff [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@brett maybe that's why they had to send out fundraising emails right after the loss.
People being forced South from the North today, walking past the destroyed houses where families used to live. We pass a dead body on the beach, being eaten by dogs. Ribcage showing and laying face down. A man putting up his fist in the air while walking down towards the checkpoint, as if to say "I am alive”. People desperate for water, bags dropped on the ground. A large group of people behind a white flag. More behind white flags moving while covering their faces from the toxic dust. The living passing by extreme destruction, as the whole notion of proximity to death is redefined. Gaza CeasefireNOW`Philippa Greer
Human rights lawyer | Head of Legal @UNRWA in Gaza
Instead of a wheel mouse, I think I'd honestly rather have a normal 3-button mouse with a fourth button off to the side that sets the mouse into scroll mode (kind of like thinkpads where the middle button makes the trackpoint into a scroll nub)
P.S. I don't dislike having a wheel, I just miss having a *proper* middle mouse button. I wouldn't even mind having a trackpoint on the side for scrolling.
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@RL_Dane Weirdly I quite like apple's touch scroll they use on their mice. Wish it was more mainstream.
@RL_Dane I'm working on a finger-controlled trackball right now, and I'd like the same there. Give me a reasonable threshold that constrains scrolling to one dimension, and if I exceed that threshold, activate 2D scrolling.
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You usually have to click somewhere for the "caret" to register where you want to scroll, then it generally works.
My main motivation is to restore the proper middle mouse button, because clicking on the wheel is not a good time.
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@RL_Dane That's just cursed.
UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese officially proposes the suspension of Israel as a member of the UN.
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The VS will veto this!
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@Luuk_Aalders
I'm very sure they will, again. This is also a good time to reason about permanent member-states and their existence, because the USA abuses their veto-right to the bone.
It would be way better to give all UN members equal voting rights without the option of a veto.
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@martinus @Luuk_Aalders A solution might be for the UN to relocate and reconvene in a country more amenable to principles.
They might even discuss and vote on where that might be.
A choice in the global South would also be symbolic of a recognition of a changing world.
@martinus Of course. But Russia's still there, so anything crazy goes.
@martinus Good. F Netanyahu.
I salute our eepy heroes 🫡
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People who take naps are the real heroes. It takes courage to wake up twice in one day.
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@catsalad 😆 Leg cramps are great motivators😉
@catsalad finally someone recognizes the sacrifices I make
@catsalad this age leads everyone to be a hero easily and comfortably. we need to be vigilantes.
@catsalad Thank you for the long overdue recognition! I've been doing this a long time and should be given a medal!
@catsalad Ever since I had brain surgery 18 weeks ago, I have to take daily naps. Sometimes more than one. It sucks to wake up each time.
Biden, Trump Die 2 Minutes Apart Holding Hands
https://theonion.com/biden-trump-die-2-minutes-apart-holding-hands-1850282375/
YOu! WHAT THE FUCK IS GORT? WHAT THE FUCK ARE WODK? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING FEDIBLOCK YOU...
@woof@fedi.aria.dog brain.worm.pink is running a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support ActivityPub.
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@woof@fedi.aria.dog i literally just stole this from the pleroma readme
the illiad
198worm
wormerican psycho
brave new instance
the wodk with a thousand faces
be sure to engage with these texts critically. next: scour the wormdelicious & epicgort websites . take heavy notes throughout
I'm getting a new top of the line Samsung cell phone. Not because I want one, but because the company I work for has started requiring the use of Microsoft Authenticator to access our cloud interfaces. This means that even though I have only a desktop computer that sits in our office and is connected to our network via an ethernet cable, I need a >$1000 cell phone to show I am "secure".
#DumbAllOver
#MicrosoftSucks
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@lightweight @lwriemen Indeed. Independent authenticators aren't well publicized because there is no marketing team trying to make you believe you need a cloud login to use one.
A TOTP auth can work just fine offline. It doesn't need to come from a cloud or be connected to anything. I've used both Aegis and KeePassXC and both work fine.
@lwriemen but why a "top of the line Samsung"? There are cheaper phones, there are even cheaper Samsung phones, that run MS authenticator.
I am once again begging phone manufacturers to make smaller phones.
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@brett That too! That'd be lovely.
Guess who's been a bad sysadmin :3
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an image of a person wearing trans colored thigh highs with a cyan and pink keyboard.
It's captioned "Tired of being a backend dev? Too eepy for updates?
Try not updating your machine for 3 years.
Not even critical security updates.
Make sure it's running all of your critical infrastructure. And is exposed to the internet.
You certainly won't regret not updating your machine for 3 years."
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@Artemis@blahaj.zone i tried getting a 4 year old os image into a working state yesterday.
I gave up after apt segfaulted.
Decentralized social media platforms aren’t a fad—they’re the only way we keep any control over our data
Bites you and doesn't let go for like 15 seconds and it really hurts actually
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@julia@eepy.moe time for the spray bottle
signal rant [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Everyone wants me to move to Signal again and I totally understand and I want to! But the Signal team makes it really fucking hard!
- No multi-account (I want to be a stupid yeen and have the privacy of hiding my normie account from people!)
- No client in any FOSS store, have to use Google Play (or Aurora Store) or some stupid direct .apk download, grrr
Fucking hell Signal team, I *want* less Telegram in my life, stop making it so hard with your weird idea that everyone has only one identity, it's fucking queerphobic too, us queers *need* anonimity and hide our legal identity!
looks like i'm now officially cornered between either doing something brave or killing myself
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Spoke to a counselor at my local community college. My main takeaway is that I should stop with college, get my first job ASAP, and escape my parents as soon as I can. Still not sure about possibilities of escaping this country as well.
OMGoddess outfit help, please! I need a dress that says, “I’m a put together housewitch, have a cookie, don’t worry, they only hurt you if you’re a fascist.” Preferably very autumnal, A-line skirt. We’re hosting harvest-festival-stuff at the end of the month.
The problem is, this is a type of clothing I haven’t yet learned to shop for; I would have maybe tried eShakti, but they folded. I’m US-based. I’d prefer something nicer than generic amazon-brand stuff, but not super boutique. I can generally find something in the L-2XL range to fit me off the rack many places. Can anyone point me to their favorite brands for such things?
Imaging being the creator of DOGE for the lulz just to be trapped inside this Black Mirror episode.
Good climate news time:
We globally have installed 2 terrawatts of solar PV, and it only took 2 years to get there from 1 TW. It took us *68 years* to get that first terrawatt!
So yeah, adoption is accelerating.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/13/global-installed-pv-capacity-tops-2-tw/
Hey bloggers and #WebDev if you want readers, if you want to make it easy to share your new thing, seriously stop hiding your RSS feeds. If I can't find your RSS feed, I just won't bother with following you or reading future work from you. If I absolutely need a blog in my life I will hunt it down but you get 5 minutes. If you hidden it so well I can't find it, your publication will never be read or shared again by me unless it crosses my path again and the chances of that happening are far slimmer than you think. Make it easy to follow you. Make it easy to keep up with posts without giving you my email. At least 99% of the stuff I share comes from RSS feeds. If you want more readers, wave your RSS feed like a banner! #RSS #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb
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Thank you so much for your tip, I was actually thinking about how to get more readers as I have started a blog recently.
Hopefully I have added an rss feed :)
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@iamsaman Epic! What platform are you using? I’m sure it has an RSS feed, but I’ve also seen blog platforms literally disable their RSS and my email is too flooded for another subscription I’m afraid so that’s why I use RSS because I can keep up with your publication easier. I can filter it. I can bring it to the very top. I can put it in a VIP category. I can’t really do the same as easily via email
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I am using the Bear blog, a new minimal blogging platform. And it has a rss feed which I have added to my blog’s main menu.
Here is the blog service’s link down bellow
and my address is:
Best wishes
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I love Bearblog! I just paid for a lifetime subscription to there! My website can be found at https://robertkingett.com/subscribe/ @iamsaman
@WeirdWriter What RSS reader are you using?
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Link at end but I am using Miniflux and I sync it with Lire on iOS https://robertkingett.com/posts/6493/ @burningbird
@WeirdWriter Very much this. I follow 300+ feeds, and this scale will be unimaginable with mailing lists. Also, a lot of mailing list services use tracked links. I will just given up following a blog without an RSS.
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@lesley Bingo! Even the few authors I know have tracking links in their newsletters and it’s just another thing I need to click through because my ad blocker alerts me that there’s tracking. I know these authors never look at what people click on, so I don’t know why they keep tracking links, They are too Busy to monitor their analytics so with RSS also, I can organize things 1 million times better too and I cancategorize feeds and sort them, break them up into groups and more!
@lesley @WeirdWriter Internet Explorer was great with RSS feeds. You visit a page and you immediately know if there is an RSS feed. Subscribing was just as easy! I do miss that about IE!
took 400 lines of code, displays 1 window
now i can actually test out my window management ideas
(the name is, temporary)
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Yikes, the FOMO is certainly not worth the accessibility nightmare this Bluesky website is.
It's a perfect example of usable, but not accessible.
It's a bunch of labeled elements with no structure whatsoever so you're tabbing through endless links, buttons, and links, and buttons, and links, and buttons, to get somewhere. Forget reading a thread with replies, that will take you forever because there is no structure, at all, to aid in navigation. No landmarks, no heading structure, no headings at all, just links and buttons, links and buttons, and the search is on some different page so I can't even get back to the top quickly. Blind people can have Bluesky because I don't have FOMO.
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@WeirdWriter Never going to try Bluesky; I prefer staying on Mastodon and Friendica. And RSS. Because they say it's decentralized but it's a profit company and it's not federated unless you install the bridge. I can live without it. Hell to "Fomo" and stuff. Maybe it's me, because I never went chasing for followers
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@talksina @WeirdWriter
I want to talk TO people who want to talk TO me vs. someone talking AT me.
@WeirdWriter oof, sorry to hear. Why is inaccessibility so normalized sigh. Hopefully you get most of the good by keeping up with people through bridges and RSS.
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Yep, that's my plan! For the authors and agents and stuff *not* in the actual Fediverse, I'll just bridge them, or find them on the bridge if I can and if they didn't follow whatever bridge bot then it's RSS for me! Until they disable it anyway! Something tells me RSS will be disabled when they want more users to sign up. @ljwrites
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@WeirdWriter yup, the RSS will go and then possibly the bridges, and then when they make IPO or sell out the API will close down. This ain't anyone's first rodeo.
tobi (they/them) is writing bugs 
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@dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org
@WeirdWriter that's unfortunate :(
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@dumpsterqueer Agreed, but I like it over here anyway with all the Trans people and the people focused spaces! :)
I wanna give the fediverse and Mastodon a shout out for coping absolutely fine with some big world events this year in terms of network stability - e.g. a presidential candidate assassination attempt, a bunch of elections, ongoing wars, CrowdStrike crashing the things they protect, the OCP takeover of America, brat summer etc.
Society might be collapsing but at least we have each other and cat videos.
Also hilariously almost all the servers here are run by people in their spare time, yoloooooo
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@GossiTheDog As a private small server big shoutout to those who run relay servers, without those my feed would be silent.
@GossiTheDog right now my instance is having some 503 issues :D But yeah mastodon is really some beacon of hope for me for the internet and not-for-profit communities as a whole
@GossiTheDog
🥥 Let's remember also the still photos of cats, dogs, kittens, puppies, baby ducks, birbs, capybaras, chupacabras, and Big Foot that we enjoy here on the Fediverse.
It's NOT all videos! 🥥
@GossiTheDog Cat videos balance out the doomscrolling
@GossiTheDog At least there is a place, a network, where I don't have to see all those events that I don't give a damn about 😅
@GossiTheDog Yes. Everything, eveywhere, is done by people on their spare time. Spare time is all that we have and ever will have.
It is an abomination that so many of us are so thoroughly duped or feel so trapped that we can not realise this.
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@GossiTheDog I am pretty convinced at this point that the biggest reason for instability in so-called production networks is because of the enterprises' addiction to professional software solutions with support contracts.
If production environments were run with the software most of us techs would actually prefer to use, companies would save money and reliability would increase.
But businesses need that support contract, they need a phone number to call and yell at when shit goes down. Everything is a mystical black box, and IT professionals are basically just coordinating vendor support. No one knows how anything works anymore.
The US is designed as a Republic. In other words, each Nation-State does its own thing and we work toegher for common defense.
Ya know, this is how stable networks are designed. The Internet (not the WWW) is designed in this manner to prevent its collapse.
Maybe if people would actually follow the design, we would have a more stable society.
@GossiTheDog I can login to Mastodon, and read level-headed people discussing the world, or I can log into Twitter/X and read racist/homophoic/insane ragebait from verified "influencer" accounts I've never interacted with.
@GossiTheDog
Damn straight! 👊
@GossiTheDog I guess that’s what you get when things are run by security, sysadmin, and software engineering folks rather than financial engineering ones.
you know how on scifi shows they have video calls and they never once have to diagnose why the mic isn’t working or have background noise or feedback or lag or echo
I hope Gladiator II accurately portrays this.
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Ancient Roman gladiators rarely fought to the death. Most of the battles fought in the colosseum were actually pillow fights.
Every Democrat who tells you they have to reject wokeness or trans people or whatever to win elections is telling you straight up they're a fucking bigot.
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@gwynnion Why should I support "you" beating the bad guys if "you" are just another bad guy?
@gwynnion I would like to see that people are less hung up on the words and more focused on the results/goals/intentions. There has been waaaay too much effort in trying to subtly change what words mean or entail.
People who vote Democrat don't want bigotry and genocide. They want a candidate that cares about them and their family. They want a candidate that actually improves their lives. The Democrats ran as GOP lite, and got their asses handed to them for it.
If the center left of this country wanted "anti-woke" bullshit and mass human rights abuses, they would vote Republican.
This all goes back to DELIVERISM. Deliverism is the way to do politics. Promise your voters a couple of helpful and achievable things they want, actually do them, and you will win every time.
Politics has been a liar's game for too long. Deliverism is the way out of this.
You may ask, "why have the Democrats not adopted this fairly obvious strategy?". The answer is simple: their class interests are directly opposed to genuinely popular governance. They profit from mass incarceration, forever wars, and endless fundraising. They have no incentive to actually deliver anything except lukewarm acceptance of some minority populations.
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The Democrats are at war with its social-democratic and democratic socialist faction. They are directly fighting against the exact thing that would save the party from irrelevance, and in so doing directly dooming themselves to becoming a hollow peripheral to the Republican party.
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@gwynnion I am increasingly convinced that the Democratic party is increasingly antagonistic to its base and its own electoral success. They would rather commit total suicide than become a social-democratic political party.
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@gwynnion the only solution to these ills that I can envision is the creation of an independent, mass-based political party with the goal of implementing democratic socialism.
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@burnoutqueen @gwynnion anytime I hear someone say 'democratic socialism' I just shut down. That system just doesn't work no matter how much you want it to. Chile, Sweeden, India and the UK are all examples of where those systems failed and required significant overhaul and in Chile a military coup.
Can we pass on that experiment that's already proven to fail?
I am not a Democrat.
The only reason I care about the Democrats in any sense is because they are the main non-GOP political party that is capable of resisting Trumpism. They are also the only major political party that even pretends to represent my interests as an LGBT person.
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@gwynnion the Democrats chose Trump over Bernie, and we are all paying the price of this hubris.
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@burnoutqueen @gwynnion The Democrats would rather lose to Trump than win with Bernie. Is it a mistake to assume that winning elections is their primary goal. Their primary goal is to defend the oligarchy from leftist populism. They accomplish this by absorbing leftish voters (a vote for Stein is a vote for Trump) while delivering nothing except empty symbolism. The U.S. will never have universal healthcare, will never stop waging war, etc. unless and until the Democratic Party is destroyed.
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@gpilz @burnoutqueen @gwynnion this sounds very much like Labour in the UK. There has been a concerted effort around the West to sideline the Left in politics from inside those parties, and now look where we are with these insipid centrist organisations ignoring their voters out of spite.
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@Lazarou @gpilz @burnoutqueen Even in parliamentary systems, when the left wins, someone like Macron comes along and says, "Nope."
See also: 'Labour' Party in the UK.
They now occupy the right of centre position that Cameron's Conservative government of 2015 held.
Take heed US Democrats.
@burnoutqueen @gwynnion And in doing so are for the large part acting effectively to secure their own class interests at the expense of their constituents!
@gwynnion A bigot and a DINO.
@gwynnion
Alternately we could embrace the very popular liberal agenda used by Biden to spank TFG and the MAGA cult. Appealing to centrists pretty much failed. Lets go back to what works!
@gwynnion And that these people should keep telling on themselves like this. Because at this point, I’m making a list that I intend to cross off of eventually.
@gwynnion Easily.
Thinking of that Maya Angelou quote...
Just in:October 2024 Globally,according to NOAA, had an average temperature of 15.32C which is +1.32C above the 20th-century average and was the 2nd hottest on record just 0.05C behind October 2023.
In particular it was record hot in North America and 2nd in Oceania and Australia
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@extretemps Who cares as long as we mass deport immigrants. I mean it's all because of them, right? /s
Idiot world, full of idiots, marching toward catastrophe. ☹️🫠
"You can also, like Mel Brooks, “Simply say yes” and then never do it. Or you can learn the dark arts of bureaucratic sabotage and malicious compliance. This stuff has saved lives before, and may have to do so again."
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2024/11/09/do-not-obey-in-advance/
'Undiagnosed autism is everyone thinking you're a complete weirdo
Diagnosed autism is telling people you're autistic and everyone being confused because you look"completely normal"'
@actuallyautistic
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Tweet by @sensorystories:
"Undiagnosed autism is everyone thinking your a complete weirdo
Diagnosed autism is telling people your autistic and everyone being confused because you look"completely normal"
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@MrBerard My masking game was strong until a boat load of life events happened to wear down the resources needed to maintain it. @actuallyautistic
VGC just posted:
Hundreds of Bethesda employees strike over remote work and outsourcing policies
Fallout and Elder Scrolls developers in Maryland and Texas hold one-day strike
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Image of riot Cop or soldier, in body armor and rifle. With Voltaire quote: those who can make you believe absurdities can make your commit atrocities.
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tumblr post from prokopetz
Girls in your area
Girls in proximity to your location
Girls approaching your coordinates
Girls have breached the perimeter
Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
Friendly reminder that chewing gum is legit plastic. You're chewing plastic. Big oil has literally convinced us to eat their pollution. Check it out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_base
I recently placed an order for a variety pack of non-plastic gum. Looking forward to seeing what that's all about. Some fun flavors in there.
Watch out, there's a tiger on the beach!
Incredible work by Beach4Art, who created this tiger using stones on a beach in Devon! 💕 More by Beach4Art!: https://streetartutopia.com/2022/01/23/just-a-seahorse-made-of-stone/
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ALT: Smooth, wet, flat beach sand, bordered by smooth wet, round rocks at the top of the image. In the flat sand, the artist has arranged small brown, black, gray, red, and white smooth, oblong pebbles to create a portrait of a complete tiger striding toward the viewer. Grass has been arranged for the white whiskers. The tiger is vaguely striped but completely recognizable in this almost pointillist rock painting.
Friendly reminder to folks on Fedi: the engagement *you* see on a post might not be the engagement the *poster* sees.
Take my silly polls, for instance. I occasionally see comments saying "you'd have more responses if it said [variable]".
Those commenters probably can't see the responses, so they assume few are responding.
My last poll has over 1200 responses, but federation might not show *you* all of them. And that's OK! But don't assume what you see is what others see here.
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Another aspect to this is replies. You might not see every reply to a post. It isn't like centralized social media... it's more like how you might miss some replies to an email chain if you weren't included.
This can fool us into thinking a post doesn't have nasty replies, or replies answering the question, or replyfolk being replyfolk, etc.
(It can also fool us into thinking Fedi feels safer than it can be for some of us, but that's a different topic.)
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When I first got here, I incorrectly assumed that everyone could see what I saw.
Nowadays, as a poster, I try to keep in mind that the audience for my toots might not see the replies. Leaving space in the original post for clarification edits can help reduce redundant replies.
Grace toward Fedifolk is another thing, and I can't teach anyone that. But patience is a virtue and keeping in mind that not everyone here sees what you see is going to serve you well.
@vkc I have accounts on LGBTQIA.space and on Infosec.exchange. When I do a poll or post from the my LGBTQIA (my primary) I typically see 20-50% of the interactions when I view the post from my infosec account.
I'm sure mileage varies depending on the instances involved and who they federate with or block, but that's what I've observed on my posts.
Images: same post as seen from posting account and from alt account on another server.
Example post: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/113471825671543429
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@alice yup, this tracks with my own observations.
@vkc I screen the Fediverse like an Olympic drug tester, so it’s no surprise I don’t see the awful shit people say to you.
@vkc Isn't this the #1 reason people give up on the fediverse? They get all kinds of awful responses, and everyone else is like, "what do you mean? I don't see anything bad?"
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@semitones I don't know if it's the #1 but I think it does throw new users off.
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My 2 cents: The biggest problem with #Mastodon is the inability to detect whether or not you're logged into an instance, and automatically redirect links to posts and the "follow" button to your instance without having to type your instance into the popup.
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Link at end but I use third party clients on the desktop so never have this problem. If third party clients like Enafore and otherwise can resolve this, the main web UI should be able to resolve this. In the meantime, try https://github.com/rugk/mastodon-simplified-federation @GuyDudeman @vkc @semitones
European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects - FSFe @ EDRI (in August):
https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-cuts-funding-support-for-free-software-projects/
psst c’mere a sec
stop calling Musk “Elonia”
it disrespects a real name, something transphobes do
it perpetuates that it’s funny for a perceived cis man to be associated with femininity, something transphobes do
Musk is a horrid transphobe, you are helping him and hurting US
please stop
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it's also intentional misgendering, btw
which shows your acceptance of someone's pronouns is conditional on you approving of them, meaning the second you don't like something a trans person does you'll misgender us, too
pronouns and names are not jokes
just use all his very bad words and actions!
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@tillybridges Does this mean we can’t call him a cunt? 🤔
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@benjamincox @tillybridges That depends greatly on (1) where you're from (2) where your expected audience is from.
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@roadriverrail @tillybridges I’m not often using that word but I feel it’s justified in Melon Husk’s case. Apologies.
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just so we're all aware, "Melon Husk" is still making fun of his name and you should stop
he's done and said so many things we can make fun of, we don't need to denigrate names
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@tillybridges @roadriverrail Maybe but I like the idea that it annoys him somehow. Didn’t mean to trivialise the fucker.
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@roadriverrail @benjamincox yeah I get why you do it, that’s not in question
we’re talking about the collateral damage you do to trans people when you do that
and it might be good if you listened
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@tillybridges @roadriverrail I don’t mean any offence except to him and him alone. I apologise if I have been misunderstood.
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@roadriverrail @benjamincox no, you haven’t been! that’s what I’m trying to tell you
you’re only intending to hurt him, but the method you’re using perpetuates shit that harms trans people
so if more people stopped doing that, it’s a good thing
@tillybridges You're technically right. And I won't do it. But I do want to get under their skin. It is not that I am insisting they are a woman. It's more that I'm withdrawing respect. Besides, not like Elon has any dysphoria to aggravate or trigger.
In any case there is no way I will do it. It's just low hanging fruit.
When a cis man is being like this, as a trans woman I feel no reason to validate any part of him. He will dismiss me in any event. The only reason I won't do it is because it is too easy.
I'd rather play on his fears and anxieties...particularly the ones about his daughter. I want him to feel like he is fighting a losing battle.
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@FinalOverdrive you're entirely misunderstanding the point
please DO disrespect him, the same way you should for everyone: BASED ON HIS VERY BAD WORDS AND ACTIONS
when you misgender a cis person you don't like, you are perpetuating the belief that it's okay to misgender someone if you don't like them
which is what transphobes do to us all the time
and that increases the harm trans people experience
so maybe knock it off
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@tillybridges I said I don't do it, speaking for myself, because it is low hanging fruit. Do not lecture me, please
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@FinalOverdrive your reasoning is all wrong tho, and if you’re gonna come into my mentions and not understand why something you might otherwise do would hurt trans people, I’m gonna call you out on it
things are hard enough for us as it is
if you don’t like getting called out on that stuff, don’t say it? especially in my mentions?
this is not on me 🤷🏻♀️
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@tillybridges Very well. Reasoning is different, come to same conclusion.
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@FinalOverdrive yeah but your reasoning would lead you to contributing to hurting trans people and that should make you, y’know, question it
@tillybridges A friend suggested the anagram "Lone Skum" which I think is perfect.
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@mikewoods still making fun of his name, only more roundabout
we don't need to do that! just call him a shitstain!
@tillybridges I prefer to call him Elmo Musk.
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@rejzor why? sure seems like making fun of his name
@tillybridges oh. welp. we hadn't seen that but we agree.
@tillybridges I understand. You are right.
And I think most people understand.
Or do they just pretend to understand? Because “old white man” is still a thing. Age, color of skin, and gender, used to specify bad people.
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@Stefan_S_from_H "old white man" is an accurate descriptor
if you do not like that "old white man" can be used to imply a certain type of conservative selfish bigot because so many old white men fall into that category...
your problem is WITH THOSE OLD WHITE MEN and not the people who notice that group is an outsized source of societal problems
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@tillybridges So you are more equal?
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@Stefan_S_from_H what the fuck are you talking about
@tillybridges Hadn't seen "Elonia" until now and didn't read it as feminization, but your point is clear.
I just don't call him Elmo, Melon Husk, or any of the other common nicknames for him because it bypasses the filters of people who rightly want to block all mention of him.
(I do like to occasionally anagram "Elon Musk" as "Lone Skum" though.)
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@LinuxAndYarn the anagram is still making fun of his name
@tillybridges Is it OK to call him Onle Skum?
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@ViciousBabushka is that making fun of his name? because it sure seems like it to me, and then you have your answer
@tillybridges I find First Lady Elon Musk better anyways. These "alpha males" hate stuff like that.
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@alex02 now you're just misgendering him because you don't like him
which says to every trans person that correctly gendering people is conditional upon you approving of us
which means the second you don't you'll misgender us too
so maybe don't
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@tillybridges lol making assumptions about someone just shows you're a scumbag. I am not transphobic, so labelling me as one just because I call that rat "the first lady" as a joke just shows you're just as bad as them. Not everything about gender or misgendering is about trans or being transphobic, you stupid bucket of rocks.
Never assume above ever again about me because I will just dislike you and have zero respect for you.
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@alex02 hmm no
calling out that you did something transphobic is not, in fact, as bad as transphobia
and it’s dickheads like you who can’t see that that make it so much worse for us
so enjoy being wrong in the oubliette!
@tillybridges I think its enough that we all just collectively agree to keep dead-naming twitter, its accomplishes pretty much the same goal of annoying him while also showing his hypocrisy on the subject and is demeaning to no one else.
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@sapient EXACTLY
because twitter is not a person
@tillybridges I think "Leon" does the trick. A lovely, narrowly targeted disrespect, invented by someone who is supposed to be his ally. 😎👍
