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hug your admins 

This isn't just me. This is all of us on well moderated instances with admins/mod teams that serve their community and prioritize their community's safety.

There are two people in our fedimins chat who have been busy collecting receipts for some truly awful instances full of hate and graphically disturbing content over the past couple of days, and we can see them working on it in fedimins, but nobody outside of that space can see the work they're putting in

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admin collaboration 

If you act like a shitheel on one instance and suddenly you're surprised when you sign up on another instance to block evade and get banned right away, it's because we talk.

Byron/Universeodon admin saying shit like 'they work in isolation' and 'there's no discussion between these admins' is BS.

We share receipts, we keep records and logs, and work together to support a safe community between our instances.

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Hey white people

Once upon a time some Black people came to fedi and joined some instances. They got harassed, and a few of them went 'hey, let's make our own instance, where we can set our own boundaries!'

Surprise, they got harassed off there too

"Why don't Black people just make their own instance?" is REALLY FUCKING SHITTY for many reasons that you'll probably never have to contend with, but that's one of them.

ubiqueros.com/notes/97y03equhh

Have a guess who'd catch the most flack:

Me if we were to even *think* about defederating fosstodon for continuing to host an account like this despite it having been reported by a bunch of instances:

mastodon.art/@welshpixie/11081

Or Fosstodon, for hosting them

Correct, it would be me

list of content warning abbreviations (and other pertinent abbreviations) that I've seen for reference, including the obvious 

mh – mental health
ph – physical healh
pos (or +) – positive
neg (or -) – negative
~ (sometimes ?) – unsure if it’s positive or negative, or somewhere in-between
ment – mention
pol – politics
uspol/ilpol/ukpos/eupol etcetera – politics, but region specific, the first two letters are an indicator (uspol – united states politics, eupol – european politics, and so forth
oh – overheard
ooc – out of context
nsfw – not safe for work
tmi – too much information
sa – sexual assault
csa – child sexual abuse
sh – self harm
sui – suicide
sfw – safe for work
cw – content warning
cn – content note, haven’t seen this one personally, but used for context rather than warnings
alt – referring to alt-text, which are media descriptions for the visually or aurally impaired
ec – eye contact, usually an image of someone or something looking directly at the camera
what – commonly it’s used for “hotdogs are tacos” type deals, stuff that seems silly that’s meant for messing with people
??? – confusing or nonsensical
veg – usually vegan, sometimes vegetarian
exp – experience
qt – quote toot/tweet
rt – re(toot/tweet)
qn – quote note
rn – renote
qp – quote post
rp – oddly, usually roleplay, but it could be repost too
lb – last boost
ref – reference

– tone indicators –
/lh (or just lh) – lighthearted
/j (or just j) – joking
/s (or just s) – sarcasm
/srs (or just srs) – serious
/sx, /x (or just sx or x) – sexual
/nx, nsx (or just nsx or nx) – non-sexual/not sexual
/ly (or just ly) – lyrics
/r – romance
/gen (or just gen) – genuine

– queer community abbreviations –
enby/nb – a non-binary individual, someone who is neither boy nor girl
terf – trans exclusitory radical feminist, someone attempting to fight for women’s rights while only fighting for some of them
fart – fascist aligned radical transphobe, used for the same group as terf
transmed – someone who believes trans people can only be boy or girl, must medically transition, and must have dyshporia in order to be trans (i.e. a malevolent wilfull ignoramus)
lgbtqia+ – lesbian gay bisexual trans queer intersex asexual etc., used as a general term for the queer community
alphabet mafia – a slang term for the queer community making fun of the lgbtqia+ acronym
grsm – gender romantic and sexual minorities, a more inclusive umbrella acronym for the queer community
hrt – hormone replacement therapy, a medical process using supplements to artificially increase or decrease the hormone levels of an individual, resulting in gender affirming physical changes
ts – trans
saph/sapphic – in reference to the historical lesbian poet Sappho, who was a significant face of early lesbian communities, sometimes used in place of the term lesbian

Feel free to reply with more and I’ll edit them in
Link to this list on my website for longevity

re: meta 

"You can't expect me to dig into everybody's profile before expressing my sympathies"

Yes I fucking can and I fucking will, take your responsibility for sheltering abusers

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meta 

When are people finally going to learn that "I got blocked for no reason at all and everybody is out to get me" is a massive fucking red flag and you need to look closer at their behavior instead of just believing them

Like, it usually doesn't take more than scrolling 10 posts down on their profile to notice that something's off, do some basic research before going all "oh no how terrible for you" FFS

CORRECTION: i have been asked by my source to publish a correction regarding two prominent examples on the list which turned out to be false positives

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/#correction
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osm: here's the exact coordinates of every bollard on this street

google maps: bob's discount curtains and used radioactive sources
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I use openstreetmap most of the time these days so it's a weird experience looking at google maps, because instead of, like, detailed locations of pedestrian crossings, or exact layouts of bike paths, there's 20 places that want to sell you something

twitter 

I saw a twitter tweet embed on a website, and it has the X logo in the corner, and my first thought was "oh, look, twitter knockoff"

thinking about a response someone made re: complaints that their LISP of choice doesn't have pattern matching / destructuring / <my favorite proglang feature>

which was roughly "we don't need those in the language spec b/c it already has macros, you can put whatever language construct you want in your project"

which is true as far as it goes but I think partially misses the point?

having $construct in the standard language (whether that's the language spec itself or a standard library ~everyone uses) means that programmers can use $construct to communicate independently of any particular project

from the perspective of "programming languages are languages for communicating with programmers", a language *is* a vocabulary of useful structures. if I need to do the work of defining what I mean by "destructuring" every time I share code with someone else, the language isn't really pulling its weight for me.

(might be subtooting @cwebber here)

excellent rules to live by:

- don't defend software over people

- don't defend dead white guys over people and honestly alive ones either

it will really serve you well at this point in history. and probably make you gaslight yourself a lot less too

Thinking of reducing my social media time to only 30 minutes every half hour.

Tijd voor een knuppel in het denkbeeldige hoenderhoek. Een artikel dat lang in de maak was. Deel!

*Tankies Go Home!*

"Stalinisten, maoïsten, marxist-leninisten, autoritair links, autoritair communistisch, vanaf hier tankies* genoemd, het is vergif. Vergif voor onze linkse beweging. De adoratie voor autoritaire regimes in heden en verleden, het ontkennen of bagatelliseren van genocides en natuurlijk de geschiedsvervalsing om zo hun pseudocommunisme te kunnen goedpraten. Het is een gotspe! Wordt het niet eens tijd om onze tolerantie ten opzichte van deze groep te stoppen? …"

🔗 blog.joenepraat.nl/tankies-go-

#links #tankies #communisme #stalinisme #maoïsme #marxismeLeninisme #linksePolitiek #demonstratiesl #linkseSamenwerking

One of the interesting things about watching the remastered episodes of Robot Wars, is that you can see a lot more of the "TV magic" that made it look a lot more impressive than it really was.

Like how the 'drills' in season 1 absolutely never stood a chance to do any real damage, because they're slow-moving spirals mounted on a motor. But this probably would've looked much faster in low resolution!

Or how the 'circular saws' in many parts of the set are actually grinding discs; presumably this was more practical because they wouldn't get caught on stuff, and they would look like a fast-spinning blur on TV even if they were not.

And as a kid I always had this impression of the house robots being massively overpowered machines; but watching the remastered version, I strongly suspect they were deliberately designed to have weak spots so as to keep the spectacle going for longer 😅

:VantaBlackCat:​💬 we should eat

🧠💬 no

:VantaBlackCat:​💬 but we're having peeps over soon-ish

🧠💬 no

:VantaBlackCat:​💬 what can i do to make you eat

🧠💬 no

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