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a falling blade has no mouth, and it must scream

internet so bad it's like this train is already in Germany

a falling blade has no mouth, and it must scream

Know your instance admin? What is this? therapy? I don't want to get to know myself*

*This is a joke, therapy good

I feel like someone must have done this terrible #linguistics joke before, but I've never actually seen it.

reminder that Feditext already visually de-emphasizes trailing hashtags because it's getting to be more and more of a problem lately, especially with all of the crap that broadcast-only actors (news accounts, wanna-be influencers, etc.) keep putting out to make number go up.

i also started working on a way to identify things which are clearly just re-posted off-site articles, so they can be visually distinguished, muted, filtered, etc. although honestly i would love it even more if post type inference and labeling was done server-side.

#Feditext

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"we need a new web" 

@joepie91 I just think about that line from that one Dan Olsen video, actually two lines, the one about how tech bros think they're uniquely positioned to solve the world's problems, and also the one about how the problem isn't the tech, it's patterns of human behaviour.

Yes, programmers have and will complain about the implementation of the tools, but the tools weren't the problem.

GotoSocial now supports private account notes and syncing timeline read positions (aka the markers API):

github.com/superseriousbusines
github.com/superseriousbusines

Feditext®: the client so good that the dev sneaks extra features into your server. accept no substitutes.

(while Feditext does support notes, we don't fully support read position sync yet; i'm still puzzling through the read position storage code we inherited from Metatext.)

#GotoSocial #GtS #FediDev

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@a13cui Thanks for asking!

It's a messy topic and it's late here (I'm a bit sleepy), so feel free to ask follow up questions.

The short version of it is that Judeo-Christian is almost always used in one of two harmful ways:

1) To try and give more credibility and weight to something that is purely Christian by claiming that it's part of Judaism as well when it's not (like the above example, because Judaism explicitly permits abortions)
2) To try and talk about broader groupings of related faiths while ignoring the many other Abrahamic faiths (the proper term, though that one more often hurts the lesser known groups, don't use it unless you also know it applies to groups like the Baháʼí, which I'll admit even I know next to nothing about, but it's valid here because all I'm doing is naming their religious family)

Because many (cough most cough) teach a bastardized form of Judaism through the lens of Christianity, and because that's the only exposure many get to our faith... they get skewed harmful and hurtful ideas about us.

Some highlight examples:
* We don't have an established afterlife (we don't say there isn't one, we just have zero information on it if there is)
* We don't seek "eternal reward", the reward for our faith is being a better person than we were the day before
* We have forgiveness baked into our faith, and no it doesn't require animal sacrifice (it requires you to actually ask the person you wronged...)
* We thoroughly encourage arguing any topic with anyone (right time and place of course), and that includes picking a fight with God if you think they're wrong about something (you have a 99.9% chance of being wrong... but we commend the effort and every once in a while someone wins the argument)
* We have a rule, Pikuach Nefesh, roughly meaning that life is the highest commandment. Your well being takes precedence over your faith, if it would hurt you or others to be observant than you are exempt from that requirement. It's unacceptable to hurt others for your faith, and for yourself it's frowned upon
* We actively discourage conversion, it's allowed but it's not a trivial process. We don't want people to become Jews, we just want people to be better.

all i want is a thousand year slumber, is that so much to ask

ph? food 

so either the strawberry plenny meal shake i just got in doesn't taste that strong (kinda nice actually) or the covid has caught up to me again...

noticing im kneecapping my sentences *a lot* recently (i think, perhaps)

aand we're back. after fighting with mastodon & ruby for way. too. fucking. long.

i've spent so much time trying to mess with shit and literally the only thing that works is pulling ruby 3.0.5 from nixos 22.11

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