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kicked out of the social media schengen area because i wanted to follow someone who doesn't put 37 content warnings on every post

they fucking invented Borders for social media lmao

complete with treaties, sanctions, and embargoes

actually one of the most reactionary possible ways to organize communications

funny how the mastodon crowd simultaneously derides bluesky for not being decentralized enough and also not being centralized enough

almost like they just want to replicate their weird ass "collection of tiny islands each ruled with an iron fist" thing elsewhere despite most people hating it

even if atproto goes to shit i'm never moving to mastodon. i'd rather a power-hungry mod who has no experience moderating professionally not be able to cut people off of their instance against their will because they have a grudge

it is, correct! you have to trust people, specific people, to believe this.

if you don't have that trust, alright, ignore it for now and keep your guard up. but don't start down the "actively discrediting the LB watchers" path, that is a path that leads to very bad places.

FWIW i am an outsider who trusts them because they have a pattern of Repeatedly Being Proven Correct

i do not know what the behind the scenes evidence is, nor do i want to know; this kind of thing requires community delegation

the people sounding the alarm on this have been keeping an eye on her activity for years and obviously do not release every single piece of evidence because that would alert her to how the information is leaking

you can trust them or not, but there's a reason plenty of us trust their judgement here

the tofu is vegan (breading is nutritional yeast) but the veggies are empathetically not lmao, i used an entire stick of butter

the secret to delicious vegetables: vegetables are actually just a delivery vehicle for butter, salt, garlic, etc

A plate of food. Roasted potatoes and green beans form a bed, onto which slabs of breaded, fried tofu are laid. The tofu and potatoes have reached a similar crispy golden brown.

question: can i competently fry tofu?

answer: i can fry it to look beautiful, be mid according to my tofu-loving husband, and a "permissible substance" according to my tofu-ambivalent self

tbf any reasonable view on system responsibility makes the effort equally reprehensible whether the plurality is feigned or authentic

people saying it's harmless, meanwhile if i said this at work i would be turbo-fired and for good reason.

"once again, the ironic bigotry immediately transformed into real bigotry. how could we have ever seen this coming?"

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.

Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

oh yeah we finally got a laser a couple years ago, also a brother, and it also is the first printer ive ever owned that Just Works

not just the printing but the network stack too

now that's a device whose engineering team i would like to meet

this was a much more productive (and much more fun) way to channel my personal and professional disdain for printers than inventing slurs or reenacting that scene from office space

tangential: my friend wrote an RPG about ghosts trying to scare away people moving in, and i played an office worker with an unhinged level of printer hatred who, of course, is spending her afterlife trapped in a printer. she scared the tenants by printing horrible lease amendments in blood lmao

I'm glad in a year of aggressive anti-Latino racism, deportations, dehumanization, and violence white people are finding the time to defend roleplaying as racist for the lols

As if we aren't forced to watch this shit be targeted at us, now we get to watch our trauma be turned into a fucking joke

People are gonna start making jokes about the "AI question" and "final solutions" within a month I guarantee it

And anyone who says it's fucking weird is gonna be accused of defending AI because as we all know jokes are more important than not doing right wing agitprop

actually now that i think about it, football hooliganism is a VERY similar phenomenon, complete with it being styled to ironically resemble racism, which quickly becomes actual depraved racism as the temperature rises

its fucking creepy. like, 3-6 months ago it was just "wow, people are really negatively polarizing against boring, utilitarian, unrelated technology because they reasonably hate chatgpt and stable diffusion"

and now it's like. a crowd in a bar amping themselves up to less and less ironic bigotry?

i didn't take adderall on wednesday and i spent 7 hours on tire enthusiast forums because i idly wondered if there's a difference between "all weather" and "all-season" tires. (i neither care about nor need tires.) (if i did need tires it does not snow here.) (that means get all-season.)

lol

afaik nobody got a perma? at least nobody that wasn't doing something that transparently would have been a perma on any day

even the CK suspensions felt more protective than punitive - "please step away from the keyboard for 24 hours, for both of our sake"

except gretchen's 7 day one, that was bullshit

idk the closest thing to god i believe in is an emergent property of many minds acting in meaningful unity, so i see no reason that if sentience emerges in something else (machine, alien, another earth animal, whatever), it couldn't be part of that

well see that's where i think that conceptions of god where it thinks humans are the universe's specialest little guys and the entire rest of the incomprehensibly massive universe is just window dressing for us are profoundly egotistical lol

idk if souls were real and i was god and some thinking machines started reaching sentience, idk why i wouldn't start handing out souls

Shuos Jedao

YouTube video by J Wood IGNORE ME

stripping the "app dot bsky dot post" lexicon is kinda a nuclear option, b/c then you gotta invent your own replacement lexicon and go around convincing other appviews to read it, but it does work.

ideally, we could have a lexicon that screams this at specific appviews youtu.be/-egkmhWMLdg?...

i think what foxy is asking about is having posts that are deliberately poisoned against appearing in the bsky appview at all, so that bsky won't bother labeling them, but they can be viewed through other appviews?

anisota is tentatively doing this right now, post records with no bsky lexicon

diffusing the tension between bsky staff and users because we regularly meet, in variable team configurations, in the no holds barred gladiatorial fight pit (atproto pull request comments)