benign vicinity hinkypunks @CheshireEmber@dragon.style

1: Framing polite, reasonable requests as harassment. (see: the GIMP name debacle)

2: Framing critique as harassment. (see: anyone who takes a notion to suck up all the fediverse to mine for interesting tidbits)

3: Framing asking for different phrasing as censorship.

4: Framing boundaries as censorship.

5: Refusing to listen to vulnerable people when they say a planned feature will open avenues to cause harm.

1901 Photograph: The Orion Nebula

Image Credit: George Ritchey, Yerkes Observatory - Digitization Project: W. Cerny,

R. Kron, Y. Liang, J. Lin, M. Martinez, E. Medina, B. Moss, B. Ogonor, M. Ransom, J. Sanchez (Univ. of Chicago)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190817.html #APoD

Men came to dominate programming when typing stopped being seen as a woman's job, and programming began being seen as a science.

I caught a young sparrow that got lost in our flat in a colorful scarf to bring it outside. Picture shows the sparrow looking out of the scarf with one foot out. It's very fluffy.

The gender of the day is a shimmering gremlin in an overgrown school.

It makes me angry to be seen as the socially awkward person that doesn't adapt to society when I'm not the one that abuses and bullies and acts hateful towards people just because they are different.

How can this be seen as normal while being kind and really caring but not knowing some social protocols that are purely a product of modern society isn't?

#ActuallyAutistic

Fedichive is archiving the fediverse, but they're using a custom user agent to do it so

if you put this into your mastodon.nginx file, it's prevent them from pulling from your instance:

if ($http_user_agent ~* (fedichive)) {
return 403;
}

Heads up tho, they can still pull your servers toots from other servers that haven't blocked them, so please boost and help spread awareness <3

hello~ call me hex, they/them. i'm a NB poc illustrator ✨

i like fantasy, dragons, wings, circles, and all manner of shiny things. i draw human, anthro, and animal characters.

#introduction #mastoart #dragon #ocs

There is a new instance¹ that tries to archive the whole Fediverse² and they plan to make a full text search available to everyone. I recommend you block their IPs.

What they are doing is illegal by the way, at least when it concerns EU citizens.

¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20190816214542/https://fedichive.tk/about/more
² https://web.archive.org/web/20190816214552/https://fedichive.tk/users/fedichive/statuses/102626957892304551

#FediAdmin #PleroAdmin #MastoAdmin

The trifecta of toxicity is as follows: anonymity (different to privacy, ensures no one can vet or filter you), total freedom of speech (no consequences for being toxic) and lack of effective moderation (ways of evading blocks/bans for toxic behaviour). Once this has established itself in a place, the new order becomes survival of the most toxic and repulsive, where only the most vile of people and those who can tolerate them hang around.

Yesterday, I came across a "white for white" dating site. Registration is free. I snooped around.

This is gonna be a thread.

Today's gender is a brawny aggressive weasel.

seeing the change in my partner from “cishet man dating a cis bi woman” to “cis* het* man dating a queer genderqueer” and having genuine discussions about gender and sexuality being fluid and complex has made it clearer to me that in an environment of acceptance and celebration of queer diversity, it’s not hard to admit an interest in gender play, and acknowledge the fluidity of sexuality.

Do me a favor and, if you have relatives who teach, don’t send them shit that tells them they’re bad at their job unless it physically and mentally exhausts them.

(Caveat: I am not a linguist - I am repeating what I have been told and has struck me as credible.)

The prefix "trans-" comes from a Latin preposition meaning "across" and attaches to a stem to create an adjective - for example, "alpine" to create "transalpine", "on the other side of the Alps" (from Rome). The prefix "cis-" is its mirror - "cisalpine" means "on the same side of the Alps" (as Rome).

In conversations about gender, these words have been used to modify the term "gender" to create "transgender", meaning "across gender" (from one's assignment), and "cisgender", meaining "within gender" (that one was assigned). Because nobody likes saying a three-syllable word when a one-syllable word would do, these are frequently shortened to "trans" and "cis" in ordinary conversation, but remain /adjectives/, not /prefixes/.

Why does this matter? Well, it's not the most important thing in the world, but it matters because formations like "transwoman" and "transman" have a long history of being used for that most fundamental of anti-trans purposes: implying that trans people are not their actual genders. After all, "transwoman" is literally an entirely different word than "woman". (One that looks weird as a noun because grammatical norms say it should be an adjective, but never mind.) The change of wording from "transman" to "trans man" matters because it reflects a change in /thought:/ this is not some odd kind of being with a gender like that of a man, but trans'd; this is a man with a descriptor, like a tall man or an autistic man or a cute man. A trans man is a man and a trans woman is a woman in the same way that a trans athlete is an athlete, a cis comedian is a comedian, a short person is a person, and a belabored example is an example.

I hope this is informative to some folks.

imagine if someone told you that putting your fists up to deflect a blow was encouraging the aggressor to attack you and so you should just stand there with your arms at your side and hope for the best

that's what centrists sound like when they say that the existence of antifa encourages fascists

today the fediverse taught me:

- about how pirate ships were actually (generally) badass floating anarchist freedom-fighting communes (see replies to https://anarchism.space/@PrisonHipster/102602346951359251)

- how sky surveys work and what astronomers look for (see replies to https://vulpine.club/@starkatt/102613789287797739)

- about how Oscar Mayer are a buncha weenies (see https://radical.town/@HYPERLINK/102616813994188369)

fuckin love this place sometimes

And honestly, I think this kind of thinking is inherently Christian. You want a gospel truth moment, you want Paul on the road to Tarsus, you want a flash of light that brightens the darkest corners. That's not how truth, or learning, or even revelation works in other religions. It's a process. There are failures. You lose people.

Honestly, I think so many white liberals are insistent that there's a magic bullet, some definitive proof that will let everyone conclude Trump is a monster because they're still hoping that their racist relatives and friends will see sense, reject racism and come back. But like, when people come to reject that ideology, It happens on very small scales, 1 or 2 people at a time. There is no short cut to getting people to reject Fascism.