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*peers curiously into snek tank* hi Waxie 💜💚

The gender of the night is: yeet

i think the fedi & internet in general
should be more anarchistic on the dev side of things
like fuck these cathedral models that force marginalized folks who need tools right now to have to go through years of fighting with project dictators & proprietors to get them

instead we just build the things ourselves
or use project upstreams as bases to launch off of
but then ultimately end up with community platforms that are actually ours all the way through
and share the tools we make with our neighbors so they can spread quickly & organically to those who need them
instead of some white guy at the top brushing us off because we're not his target demographic

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person: make sure to keep your inner child alive
our little: yes please do

Oldie but goodie

so often i feel like callout culture is more interested in targeting and eliminating than teaching and growing

hoggy pretzel 🐍 🧡

Queer folk expropriate the other 6 deadly sins challenge this morning

friends we've been over this already:

1) The "CW vs tagging" discourse is a false dichotomy started by people who for political reasons have incentive to criticize CW advocates and/or Mastodon. You can have both. There's no reason to treat it as either/or.

2) The fact that CWs require thinking and decisionmaking is a feature, not a bug. They exist because many people WANT to think about whether they wish to view a post before they view it. They are NOT for automated processing.

Gargron has officially denied the winning option in the poll and announced that he is refusing to implement it anyway, before closing any and all discussion on the pull request.

Mostly because he does not want it, but as well, based on a combination of two options on the poll that aren't the same adding up to 47% or "half".

Please stop using vanilla Mastodon, he's making quite clear that this is his project and his project alone, and the community wants do not matter to him.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10629#issuecomment-501741304

how to fake global illumination:

1. for each point on a surface, ask yourself "if I was a tiny bug sitting on the surface of this object, what would the sky look like?"
2. think more about being a bug
3. enjoy thinking about being a bug
4. make a bugsona
5. make friends with other bugs
6. find a function that approximates the average sky colour. this will be a proxy for the hemispherical integral, and add that on top of any specular contribution

At this point, people who were doing the WORK of making proposals with the spirit of the forms to get fash and evil pieces of shit banned, they are having to engage in liberal debates with white dudes and white middle class respectable meritocratic people of all flavors of middle class privilege and very very carefully decide when to lay down the horrible condemnation of being banned off of a lib socialist server on a Federated, yes Federated, platform.

Isnt this the whole point of federation?

What is wrong with these people?

They called us witch hunters, and "too sensitive" you go out looking and you come back with the receipts.

But they dont care about moderation but they have no solidarity because they dont understand that our freedoms are interdependent because they. are. libs.

@daelvn here's an example of a workaround i've seen folks use

original post above or at https://mstdn.io/@daelvn/102265686540843003

i hate that i can't boost with cw, i really find some stuff important or funny but i think it is very necessary to tag with stuff like "loud noises", "violence", "cursing" or even the most basic "ec".
does anybody know how to do this in some other way that is not boosting, at least?

your regular reminder that "nsfw" is a highly normative content warning that erases sex workers.

if you mean genitals, sex or even just generally lewd, maybe say that instead of some shitty white-collar cubicle normalizing nonsense.

holy shit this is ideal i wanna live somewhere like this so bad. add a workshop and a vegetable garden, maybe some chickens

alternate take: capitalists re-inventing communes to solve alienation lmao

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sherikoones/2019/06/07/the-allure-of-pocket-neighborhoods

Eugenics thrives on ancap ideology because they're based on the same concept: If you don't have money, you don't deserve to have a say in society.

"Vote with your dollar" literally gives more power to those with more dollars. Every person is not equal under an ancap system because ancaps focus more on making sure every dollar is equal rather than ensuring fair and just distribution *of* the dollar so that every person has equal representation under their market system.