That's not a woman, that's a dragoness.
Because it's hot
Well you're not a multimillion dollar business so that makes sense. 8 dollars for coffee IS ridiculous.
Unless the boss is paying for it
Most personal computers run Linux.
Because most personal computers are phones.
I'm female presenting. I've known people who thought I was a cis woman for months, and I don't keep being nonbinary or trans a secret.
When I read actual cis women's accounts of misogyny, and also trans women's accounts, I can't relate. I don't get shut down the same way. Somehow, despite others perceiving me as female, I kept the tiny part of gender presentation that tells people to sit down and shut up when I'm talking as if I were a man. I don't understand what it is, but I still have it the same as before I transitioned.
I would love to know what it is so I can share it, but I can't tell why people respect me as much as they would respect a man. It's bewildering.
Helpful to say the person's name before you ask. "Sarah, what's the resistivity of tungsten?" Then the others will tune out before they even hear the question.
The revolution will not be televised
You want to let fascist billionaires who have taken over the government live, just because an illegitimate state granted them citizenship? That's pretty neolib tbh.
Elon and Rupert aren't naturalised. I bet they don't even know the story of Sky Woman! They don't speak any of the indigenous languages, they don't follow the customs, they don't respect the tribal elders.
No, I don't think fascists who take over the government should be deported. I think they should be executed. What's with your soft stance on Nazi billionaires?
Were Elon and Rupert accepted by the tribal governments of the regions where they live? Or were they "naturalised" by the fascist occupiers whose authority you're legitimising?
Fuck it, I'm gonna blame foreigners even more!
Rupert Murdoch is responsible for most of the fascist propaganda.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been corrupting the Democrats and helped lose the election for them.
Elon Musk is destroying the country, in a bad way.
Adolf Hitler inspired MAGA to be as awful as they are.
White people should never have invaded Turtle Island, that's the cause of all America's problems today.
AI chuds are literally just Syndrome
Nick Frost has disabled comments on his Harry Potter casting post after backlash to his involvement in the HBO series.
Shaun of the Dead actor Nick Frost has disabled comments on a post celebrating his casting in HBO’s Harry Potter series, after fans reacted with upset over his involvement.
> HBO announced yesterday (14 April) that the 53-year-old British actor, known for Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, will star as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in its TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
> While mega fans of Rowling’s wizarding world have praised HBO’s casting team for lining up Frost as Hagrid, others have taken aim at Frost and his fellow future Harry Potter stars over their involvement in a series being executively produced by Rowling.
> JK Rowling has repeatedly made her ‘gender-critical’ views on the transgender community clear, while she was recently criticised by asexual campaigners for branding International Asexuality Day “fake oppression” day.
> Comments have now been disabled on his celebration post after fans pointed out that he would be working on a Rowling project.
> Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
I've seen a lot of instances of people on Lemmy saying you can get banned from Blahaj for forgetting someone's pronouns. And then Ada has to come in and explain why they're wrong in their interpretation of the rules. These people were banned for good reasons, they're transphobes. But I think they misunderstand the rules of Blahaj for a legitimate reason.
It's because Blahaj doesn't have rules. It has two guidelines. Very subjective ones. People want to know what will get them banned, so they try to understand the rules of that subjectivity. The rules for what Ada considers to be empathy and inclusion. The rules of Ada's psychology. Because like it or not, with highly subjective guidelines, Ada's interpretation and understanding of that subjectivity is the rules.
And Ada didn't write the rules of her psychology in the sidebar. So people have to speculate. And people are speculating wrong, and starting arguments about it.
I think a ruleset should be a transparent explanation of how a mod team thinks about acceptable behaviour. By not having rules, Blahaj is being opaque about how the mod team thinks. And the only way for people to deal with that is to practice amateur psychoanalysis. Which is unpleasant and creates division.
If people understood how trans people think about acceptable behaviour, they wouldn't be transphobes. So the result of this system is that everyone who is banned for transphobia doesn't understand why and needs it personally explained to them. If the sidebar explained acceptable behaviour in a way everyone can understand, they wouldn't misunderstand it so often.
I think the current system is creating pointless drama.
> Matrix user of almost a decade here. A PluralKit-like project actually does exist, a friend/ former partner of Ours developed it.
> They are no longer on Matrix, and We wish We could follow suit. Do not use Matrix, it is absolutely not a safe space for marginalized folks by any stretch of imagination.
> We know this because We were the defacto head of the last public safe space that was left standing, a feat only accomplished by terribly dedicated helpers (mods) and programmers who would make custom tooling for that community. It wasn't enough.
> See, not only is Nev Vector Inc. very corporate oriented, they're actively hostile to community contributions. You can loudly yell about flaws that are easy to abuse, or make full code submissions of things that have been hotly requested for years, and it will be entirely ignored, if it doesn't directly align with their corporate interests.
> Right now most of those who remained are scattered in a new community that's bridged between Discard, which at least does something to prevent the worst cases of abuse, and Revolt, which is still a pretty basic project feature set wise, compared to Matrix and Discard, but you can tell that it's made with actual care, it's also EU based.
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> Yeah, this lines up with what we've heard from a number of other people, sadly... that Matrix has been more interested in pandering to cops, governments, and corporations rather than building safe and respectful tech for everyday people. And that yes, you could self-host, but that it's a nightmare that they have no intent of making easier because it would conflict with their managed hosting services. Not to mention ongoing issues with metadata and loopholes that can be used for abuse. Unfortunate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/plural/comments/1iyp159/encrypted_pluralkit/mf7v50f/
Yeah, bees are controversial, but let's talk about the vegans who actually eat meat
Aboriginal Australians have been hunting kangaroos for 60,000 years, and the kangaroos have adapted. Modern kangaroos tend to overpopulate and overgraze, destroying grasslands that are used as crucial habitats for threatened indigenous species. Kangaroos need to be culled to protect the environment.
All kangaroo meat comes from wild kangaroos. Hunting quotas are managed by the government based on aerial population surveys. When hunting quotas aren't met, the remaining kangaroos have to be culled, and their meat rots in ditches and mass graves instead of being eaten.
Come on vegans, let's get toxic. I wanna see some pro-kangatarian vegans being called murderers over this.
What makes this worse is the obvious disrespect from Cowbee of my request to disengage. I made it very clear I didn't want to argue. These communities have absolutely no standards of behaviour for members of the in-group. Which is exactly why I don't engage with them in these communities.
Well, also the fact that I hate being constantly called a liberal for not repeating Capitalist Putin's latest botfarm talking point. Talking to these people is an exercise in keeping my calm while I am constantly insulted. No thank you.