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I think it is OK to not trust most people at a personal level. That's a lot different than nonspecific impersonal trust in municipal services like water and sewage, and way less necessary or personally dangerous.

Alternatively I could unreasonably trust many people on a personal level and insist on making no distinction. But that way charts a course for libertarian seasteading latrine disasters where the "plumber" is your "friend"

Welshpixie and Ro are invasively pervasive in the minds of bigots on fedi like Bill Gates and George Soros are for the more general population. While that's obviously not good, I am almost tempted to bestow some kind of formal honor or award acknowledging it in a tongue-in-cheek kinda way. Not sure what that would look like or how to handle it in a way that is appropriate.

Ok, let’s get historical for a second.

The types of tactics and strategies we see specifically lobbed at Black and Brown people have a specific point of origin.

When people say I ‘fantasize about violence,’ this harkens back to a very old racist trope about Black folks being dangerous and primitive.

When people call me a scammer and a grifter, that’s a specific attempt to devalue the contributions of Black folks to society and try to contextualize them as worthless.

When people get angry because I wont apologize to my harassers, that’s speaks to this expectation that I should be compliant and subservient even in the face of dehumanizing behavior.

All of these efforts are to enforce white supremacy culture.

The conversation around moderation and safety is making it difficult for bigots to behave in hateful ways and escape consequences because we are talking and sharing knowledge.

This is the antithesis of white supremacy that thrives when we are divided.

And we know it’s an attempt to enshrine white supremacist culture in the fedi because of how specific these attacks are against Black and Brown people in this space.

whitesupremacyculture.info/wha

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And I'll refine it further: It is a problem that popular understanding of transphobia and how it works is being mainly defined almost exclusively by non-Black people at this point.

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Child me encountering blaze the cat and having gender feelings

Some Schmuck: "windows is messing up, the time of Linux is now, it just has to fix some things to be ready "

The switch to wayland:

Yeah I don't think this will happen fast enough, sorry. Maybe with windows 12

:sayori_dislike: James Baldwin was prescient
:sayori_like: Nothing's fucking changed

It is way more manageable to aspire to not intentionally cause problems than even to consider improving anything at all. And yet.

@vultureculture training you in the use of heelys by feeding you fish for doing tricks like a seal at the zoo.

Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of a white leftist's virtue ethics boiling and evaporating in atmospheric pressure. You see, they'd truly commit to the cause if it simply never implicated cozy-core white queers with no values or principles. However, this is no frictionless vacuum, hence the boiling.

Something something white moderate...

@wendynather

Somebody not me created the AI seal of disapproval. For more information, downloads, translations, a vectorized version and a link to the t-shirt shop, visit gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/cpi !

Many bivalve species exhibit sequential hermaphroditism, meaning they start as one sex and transition to another during life. This is advantageous because many can't move, so if they change during their lifetime, they can have twice as many mates! Most species showing sequential hermaphroditism are protandric (starting as males, and transitioning to be female or both as they grow in body size), but some less common examples of protogyny (starting as females) have been reported! #clamFacts

Do you ever read a cathartic political or social commentary essay to help vent?

work, uspol 

so i quit my job last week. i had been working at a bird seed store but the owner thought it was appropriate to share his many horrifying right wing political opinions with me. i could no longer stomach earning money for him. i was a great employee, taking on as much as i could and aimed to be an asset for this company. thats just how i work, i come in, see issues, and work my hardest to fix them. i tried to just do the bare minimum for a bit, it doesnt work for me

it feels like an absolutely awful idea to be standing hardline for my moral code at a time with such economic uncertainty and yet i would rather starve than support this type of bullshit.

and you may be asking, what the hell? a bird seed store? yes, and in one of the more “liberal” areas of the country. it is everywhere and its just a bit quieter here, no less nasty though.

in the end what set me over the edge was trying to look at this moment in future retrospect, and asking what side of history i want to be on.

will i be ashamed to have supported someone with horrific views.

yes. yes i would.

and my choice was made.

anyhow, thats my life update. not sure whats next but i have a ton of ideas. if you know of anything that might be up my alley i would really appreciate you letting me know about it. obviously though prioritize the folks who have been laid off and who are in dire need. i have support for a bit but i am certainly looking for something new

oh there is the fediverse chick! Hi nichole!

When you are being asked to not rock the boat on fedi.

meta, tbs, racist fediverse 

Butthurt racist losers still harassing welshpixie, Ro, etc years later. Years! That's how much real-estate you hold in someone's head for deplatforming their hate speech even once! It is really a powerful thing that can mentally ruin racists forever and waste all their time spinning out indefinitely. The only problem is that it becomes a problem for moderators indefinitely too.

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