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We do not work with transphobes/fascists/racists. If you open an issue or PR on our git repo and we see you are one of those things, or hang out with people like that, we will kick you out of our space. We have no patience for bigotry, and we see no reason whatsoever to tolerate having it anywhere near us. Fuck terfs and fuck nazis.

📢 Ten Forward Moderation Announcement 📢

The following instance(s) have been suspended from Ten Forward:

ioc.exchange - a transphobic user was moderated despite a report and me reaching out to the admin directly via DMs.

the user and post in question - hxxps://ioc.exchange/@gewure/109811032931084137

CW for blatant transphobia. It's bad.

I am attaching a screenshot of my DM conversation with the admin.

Sat Feb 11 08:31:33 PM UTC 2023

#fediblock

It was nice to discover/realise that I can be very much "let's end advertising as a business model"

and ALSO be like "it is not my problem that you have to find a new business model"

i just don't emphasize it

cause the weird way disability rights and mainstream neurodivergent rights movements emphasize "we have the body/minds fix your broken systems and work cultures! hire us!" truly makes my anti-work anarchist ass itch

like get hired to survive, yes.

but save more than a crumb of integrity if you can.

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mastodon meltdowns, meta 

@joepie91 I have been trying to remind myself of how there are no utopias. When you migrate, you are not moving to paradise. You are just hopefully going somewhere better.

And once there, you are part of it. Which implies a responsibility to you, and you to it. Responsibilites like trying to make the place better for each other. No place is going to be perfect. But we as a community can make it better and better, until it's the best we can get it.

fediblock, cyberplace.social, of course it's regarding fucking Hogwarts Legacy 

#fediblock cyberplace.social

admin gossithedog just ducking and dodging criticisms like a pro to continue to keep self-justifying playing (and actively posting about) Hogwarts Legacy. "ally" my ass. typical "cis ally" that only helps when it suits them.

mastodon meltdowns, meta 

Yes, it really sucks when an instance shuts down. Yes, it really sucks navigating interpersonal conflicts. Yes, it really sucks discovering that some admins are shitty, actually.

But, consider this: this isn't just about a migration from Twitter to Mastodon - or to fedi, for that matter.

Rather, we're all collectively having to relearn how to build and maintain communities and their infrastructure, after two decades of total reliance on corporations to (fail to) do so.

That *is* going to be a messy process, involving a lot of conflict as people figure things out. For many, it's learning these things the hard way, through trial and error.

It may be painful, but it's very much worth it in the long run. And fedi just happens to be the environment that people learn it in.

"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
worldsensorium.com/open-source

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/

Eventually people are going to need to admit that the internet is very much so a real and impactful part of our lives.

it would be so nice to just be like "yep I'm gonna switch off from it all and ignore them to make the world easier to deal with" but doing that just gives them the breathing room to expand

no fucking rest

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this week has just generally been a very tiring week for world news. the rate at which fascists are infiltrating popular culture is just exhausting

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seeking porn advice abt partners 

iiiiiiiii need some advice from other amateur porn people who have shot with partners. i want to shoot porn with someone. obviously there are collabs if i find someone else interested and then we find a way to share.

but i don't live near many porn people

can i just bring in a grindr dude who offers to "film together" and keep all the footage to myself as long as i cut identifying features out of it?

should i be paying them? if so how much?

hogwarts 

I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but... really? *None* of the gaming media has picked up on the overtly antisemitic plot of Hogwarts Legacy?

How can you call yourself a journalist and not have at least a basic capability of recognizing nazi propaganda

re: instance subtoot 

Imagine having so little imagination that you just cannot conceive of people organizing something without being a ~corporation~...

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instance subtoot 

oh look, the linkedin instance guy is tooting about how we need corporations if we ever want fedi to amount to anything

what a surprise

I hate thinkers 

philosopher-thinker types of guy love these wildly-contrived morality scenarios in which they can whittle an oppressive system down to its most niche possible use case to try and justify the entirety of that system. and they do this rather than accept that you could fundamentally alter the system and do away with the problem at least 99% of the time.

probably because they're unwilling to change or literally cannot conceive of doing anything different, and will go to unhinged argumentative extremes either to excuse some truly heinous bullshit or accidentally do so along the way

@vultureculture I heard something once that has always stuck with me.
"I don't want allies. I want co-conspirators."

One of the wilder realizations in transitioning is how many of my cis women friends are more afraid of publicly wearing skirts, dresses, etc, and presenting more feminine in general, than I am. Like even in semi-private spaces with just friends, or explicitly safe spaces.

Society managed to fuck all us girls up good.

ChatGPT writes 15% longer and more critical performance feedback for women employees. It aso relies on stereotypes to choose pronouns. Examples: kindergarten teacher, nurse and reception = "she". Mechanic and construction workers = "he".
fastcompany.com/90844066/chatg

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