furry fandom and age discourse, ageism, queerphobia and family abuse
i understand that a lot of the aspects of furry culture are inherently tied to NSFW stuff,
but i swear to fucking god
you are living in your own neat white middle class european/american bubble if you think i had any place i could turn to
there was nothing for me. nada. zero. just because you anglophonics have safety nets provided by society we don't. we poors, third world nation dwellers are fucked in the ass.
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furry fandom and age discourse, ageism
i am sorry but i saw an absolute rancid take about how furry fandom is the "adults only community, was always intended for adults, and if you are a kid, you have no place here"
look, it's perfectly fine to say you don't want to interact with minors cuz you want to freely post or talk about NSFW stuff. but to say that fandom *as a whole* must not allow kids in it is such a fucking privileged american take i don't even know what to say.
thread, mfs.
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Found the most Plush City post sitting over on Bluesky.
https://bsky.app/profile/shubbabang.bsky.social/post/3ld2ja4uulc2u
"We should ban kids from the Internet until they turn 18"
I had a hard enough time finding people like me even with the Internet. Finding anyone locally who was anything like me was impossible.
The idea that people want to actively cut people away from their support networks, to isolate them from others, and banish the youth to a primitive 20th century lifestyle? That's fucking bullshit.
What next, do you also propose that kids only be allowed to speak to their parents, no one else?
Is there software somewhere to help train yourself to remember your passwords? Like a quizz. The software doesn't have to know your password, just a strong hash to tell you if you got it right or not, it's not meant to correct mistakes only to practice typing the passwords so you don't forget.
Is this a security concern to have and use such software? Better solutions?
I'd need that for passwords I seldom use but are very important.
#AskFedi: For those using Ko-Fi with monthly donations (without tiers): do monthly donors/subscribers automatically receive updates you post by e-mail? Or does that require manual action on either end?
politics meta
After repeatedly trying to discuss "what does the EU actually do, how does it actually work" with people, I can really only draw one conclusion: it's not that the anti-EU folks don't understand, it's that they *want* to keep believing the anti-EU rhetoric because it gives them someone to blame for everything as an easy answer, whether it is true or not.
(This is only about specifically anti-EU stances that usually come with some sort of nationalist rhetoric, not general anti-government or anti-hierarchy stances which are much more varied)
A common question in parenting groups is:
"I'm a good white liberal and I haven't taught my child any racism. They're now somewhere between 4-8 years old and have just expressed a racist idea. Where could they possibly have gotten it from???"
And then half the comments are horrified white parents who tell OP to interrogate their child, their child's friends and teachers, check what they're watching on YouTube, etc.
White parents STILL don't want to recognize the impact of systemic racism.
now that i think about it it must have been bots from mas.to
so yeah, people. mas.to has apparently a wave of scam art bots in process going on, because as soon as i blocked the guy prompting this entire thread, another one popped in its place. watch out.
I've written a thing about dependency management models, and how it relates to the commons: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/transitive-dependencies-and-the-commons
De eis: sluit Tata’s vervuilende fabrieken nu! Kies voor gezondheid, klimaat en een eerlijke transitie voor werknemers. Mooie woorden zijn niet genoeg. Rechtvaardigheid kan niet langer wachten! #StopTataSteel [3/3]
Tata Steel vergiftigt dagelijks omwonenden, overschrijdt normen en veroorzaakt enorme CO₂- en gifuitstoot. Terwijl gemeenschappen letterlijk stikken, weigert de Provincie in te grijpen. Dit moet stoppen! [2/3]
Finally, it starts washing up on the fringes and reaches people who are not that interested, or actively hostile to your post / interest group.
And I think that's where you get the "reply guys" and toxic comments. Somebody in their circle liked your post for whatever reason, but most people in that group don't.
I can imagine that this is also how racist/sexist responses often happen -- a post gets boosted into a toxic community, and then you get comments (or DMs) from haters.
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
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.