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
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.
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."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
#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.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936
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
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
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?
re: instance subtoot
Imagine having so little imagination that you just cannot conceive of people organizing something without being a ~corporation~...
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".
https://www.fastcompany.com/90844066/chatgpt-write-performance-reviews-sexist-and-racist
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.