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covid, mask advice 

@raccoonformality@mastodon.gamedev.place "Reusable" masks is a bit vague here - do you mean washable masks? If so, no, they are not going to be as efficient as eg. a good FFP2 mask, because an FFP2 filter will not survive a washing cycle.

That having been said, you can generally reuse "disposable" FFP2 masks as well, as long as they've stayed dry and you leave them untouched for a while (so any virus particles on them can die out). Likewise, there are various ways to actively disinfect them, but that's a somewhat involved process to get right.

I use 3M Aura 9320+ masks, maximum 4 hours each, and then leave them for at least a week (but ideally longer) before reusing them again. If they are damaged or humid, I throw them out.

comment on this great breakcore mix

> this gives me inspiration to spin around in my washing machine

Meta / universeodon 

Been blocked by the big boss at universeodon.
If they want to cozy up to Meta despite decades of Facebook/Meta/Other big tech companies facilitating the erosion of countless people's safety on a global scale on one hand, and algorithming the most dangerous and harmful voices around into rooms together to radicalise themselves towards actual murder then so be it. It's a them problem now :trash_daa:

weed, video games 

i've just been watching people play minecraft alpha while they get very high

I want to dispel any rumors that I am a paid shill for GoToSocial: I am such a sicko I pay them for the opportunity :gts_sicko:

meta (not Meta) - hashtag use 

@nic Or make the recommendation post unlisted - hashtags used in unlisted posts don't show up in the hashtag search. ^.^

Meta meta, NDAs, and union busting techniques 

It is pretty frustrating to see folks' credulity and craving for attention/importance being exploited in real time.

This whole 'meet with some admins and make them sign NDAs' thing reminds me very much of union busting tactics. You (megacorp) are picking out the chosen few who crave love from daddy corporation, and convincing them selling out is the best thing to do for their community. It immediately creates division and identifies weak points for strategic exploitation later on.

It's like, super transparent. Maybe we should be looking to anti union busting techniques to help us out here.

How do unions successfully deal with corpos trying to have closed-doors meetings with select community leaders?

meta 

Zero surprise that the prominent fedi people meeting with Facebook/Meta under NDA all seem to be the usual white tech dudes with poorly-moderated instances that have disregarded warnings from the community about scale for a long time

Heard some rumblings about Meta having NDA'd meetings with some fedi admins.

GoToSocial will investigate automated blocking of Meta instances, as soon as we know more about what they're planning and what their software looks like.

Fuck Meta, they've caused more than enough harm elsewhere without wading into this place too; and fuck folks who are meeting with them in secret instead of simply and unambiguously telling them to fuck off.

Don't let those pieces of shit get a foothold here.

(Cue concern trolling and accusations of overreaction + elitism in 3, 2, ...)

structuralists (power), solutionists (change), essentialists (identity) are all kinda the same line of thought, so good to see how I can connect my criticisms on all of them

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finally doing some more Culture & Society (uni course) writing, might have to edit my anti-techbro/solutionism rant a bit later, but good shit

wtf i clicked through to a post again and they're running gotosocial

ive been told to stop referring to merriam webbster as "the dictionary girly"

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