ye

They're made out of tungsten for extra density

When formatted in MS-DOS mode on a compatible drive (most drives aren’t!) they’re 2.88MB!

whoa!

someone hasn't encountered a load-bearing printf yet either

I tend to be a printf-er myself, just due to what I do, but

"I don't see why anybody would use a tool that makes things easier when I can just testosterone my way through without learning anything" is basically 90% of computer science arguments, in my experience.

Related, any time somebody wants to "debate," I reflexively tell them that debate is a game for children, and I love the sputtering reactions from that...

ah, and also, woo

we know you know, but for the benefit of anyone else reading along: we very much agree

honestly yeah i had people suggesting channels in my server and im kind of like "i dont want to do this, we have enough"

100% agree

An abuser DARVOing their victim and grooming the greater community to hate their victim smells remarkably similar, probably not a coincidence.

(See also why 90% of greater social media communities are unusuable).

who's reporting anyone now, in two weeks we'll all be equally banned

nah you're right.

i cant speak for the discord bit because im only active in a specific, tiny, one[^1] and because I think trying to make a "big discord server of former cohost users" is a doomed idea but at least from what i've seen of the websiteleague thing and how they're approaching things[^2] I'm hopeful that it won't be a complete failure. time will tell I suppose.

[^1]: all the others im one are so fucking busy all the time it's genuinely unusable to me lmao [^2]: judging by the planning docs that are being written

I’m honestly even thinking about this kinda thing wrt blogs with comments sections; basically anywhere users can interact with each other needs some consideration for moderation, and the more people are interacting with each other the more important it is. It is the hardest part of websites with any kind of interaction/community component

Not considering this is one of the things I'm worried about spaces doing. Alright if I link this post from one I've made that's going around? (I had already, but I'm asking now cos it's been doing severals.)

At the very, very least, reports for racist harrassment and dogpiling need to be handled more promptly before the toxic behavior festers and becomes normal within the site's culture (if that makes sense?). I followed a couple of the people who did eventually leave and the general consensus appeared to be that when the staff finally laid down the law, it was just too little and too late. People shouldn't have to be chased away before that stuff is taken seriously.

thank you for saying this.

Excellent post. My hope is that if a team tries to make a Cohost-esque site again, they learn from this site's mistakes and are a bit more proactive wrt addressing racist harrassment and dogpiling.

you're right. all i wished for the POC i met on here was for their experience to be as pleasant as mine has been. nobody should have had to go through that shit.

yeah... I've said it elsewhere but despite being on the cohost love train myself, this blemish was very real and if there's one thing that really bugs me about the timing of all this it's that we didn't get to see if the new policies would matter, if trust could be rebuilt, if at least some of those people who left might have come back and felt better about it. now it's permanently too little too late.

You're right. That's why if a successor comes out, it will be its duty and responsibility to be better about this. We cannot have Cohost 2 be So White, to paraphrase Alyaza, and we can't have another Renkotsuban leave.

it kinda pains me that you have to couch this in "I'm not shitting on cohost and you can skip this by default if you want" but thank you for writing it anyway

A part of me has to wonder if cohost's reputation as a cozy lefty queer friendly space made the racism all the worse.

It really is so much more disappointing when it's from those who should know better, huh? :c

it sure as hell ain't pretty, but this conversation was sorely needed. future successors to cohost will have a wealth of hindsight to draw from here.

(Disclaimer: I'm white as a sheet)

I forgot about cohost for a while (ADHD yay), so I somehow feel like a worse person for not knowing that racism was happening here than I would if I had actively participated in it.

Yeah. I like the format, I liked a lot of the things the site was trying to do, I met a whole bunch of cool people here, but also saw some of those cool people get abused and run off for clearly racist reasons.

Same fuckin' hat 😞

Yeah... I wasn't here as much to see the latest round, but saw the effects on a friend. This place had its good sides, but it also had bad ones.

(And the reason I wasn't around as much? Too many instances of disability/accessibility discourse, and seeing a friend pushed off the platform for accessibility advocacy. I think you're right, it hurts more when it isn't a hellhole like Twitter; seeing progressive people I followed and admired get angry about people being vocal about accessibility was so much more upsetting than the casual eugenics of a rando on Twitter.)

i liked this post a lot. ive been thinking a lot about how so many of these events played out in extremely painful ways, kind of explicitly because cohost asks one to let down their guard both socially and at the platform level (at least imo). it helps to see this stuff articulated.

(aside, but maga eggbug is so brutally powerful, i was briefly stunned by that image)

A part of me has to wonder if cohost's reputation as a cozy lefty queer friendly space made the racism all the worse. Getting attacked by racism makes sense on twitter. It's not good or acceptable, but you expect it at least. You know what to expect from the nazi nest. You dont expect that from a group of folks you would otherwise consider to be progressive. I know the left isnt a monolith, but there are some bare minimum competencies you would expect at least.

I have seen a lot of comments on this site over its lifetime with a lot of "but we don't HAVE Nazis/racists/etc. here so this site is different" and I just kept thinking the fuck do you mean, there's nothing special about this site that makes it impossible for racists to sign up, and starting from the assumption that the site simply doesn't have that kind of thing is so dangerous.

this is definitely something that has been on my mind since the announcement. as great as this site has been in a lot of ways, the racism that led a lot of minority users to get harassed to the point of leaving for their own well being... it was awful to watch and makes me hesitant to gush too much. because that nastiness did exist and it did a lot of damage.

thank you for this. i hope in the future it won't have to be said.

very important to remember because yeah not everyone stuck around. i don't want people to gloss over the very real problems that have existed here. i still liked cohost well enough, but it felt bad that i couldn't guarantee my POC friends would have a good time here.

i did not see much racism aside from the cases i was shown by actual POC persons, however, i say this not as means to say that there wasnt so cause there clearly was, i do not need evidence in front of my face to believe what they say, but to showcase another problem.

that i actively had trouble finding POC people posting here, at least the ones i dindt actively searched for. i think more than anything this showcases the racism problem was very much real, so much so that POC were actively not posting or even being reposted and shared around, and that is... bad. if cohost was the place where people could be comfortable posting and being around then something clearly bad was happening that certain minorities dindt wanna do so. i came here to see people, and perspectives i havent seen before, cant exactly do that when an entire subset of people are seemingly just pushed under the carpet now can i?

wonder how it would've affected things if discoverability in this place was any better, I didn't really get exposed to the wider cohost population and it's many issues until really recently

this whole place just feels like a missed opportunity, I hope any future attempts can learn from it instead of just making the same mistakes again and again

puts some on my ice cream thank you

If it keeps happening, they make little mini plungers, or you could use a toilet plunger in a pinch (with sufficient cleaning after, of course). I had to do this recently and it worked well

nah you can disable swap if you have enough physical ram. no memory pressure, no problem

oh god. I'm long since acclimated to most permutations of this, my fursonas could hold senate seats next year, but damn this one hit

nah. rather be a horse. i got a friend who'd take you up on that though

close enough to dog and goes awoo so yes

Depends on what conditions are on offer post-coyoteification

Dude used to do T&S at twitter.

The sort of moderation that favors the appearance of "peace" over actual community or justice. Moderation to appeal to investors and advertisors.

Where calling someone a terf is a graver offense than advocating terf policy. Where showing a history of racist behavior is worse than said history. Where "just asking questions" is always valid.

🫠 i was juuuuust looking at that thread and at least people are tearing him a new one about it, but... idk if it'll penetrate all the layers of centrism brainrot

i have been enjoying the artist community on bsky a lot but i don't expect it to ever be any better than twitter there

"I can excuse the racism but not the rudeness"

what a dumpass

this is literally just that tweet about "there's no difference between good things and bad things"

yes, policies can be weaponized to favor people of color over racists. and should be. that is a great example of what weapons are for.

for some extra fun, compare the bluesky dweeb's response here with the tropes outlined on the White Supremacy Culture webpage. the venn diagram is a perfect circle

we have to destroy the Thought Experiment Industrial Complex

This is exactly what I mean when I say politeness is a tool of oppression. Marginalized people and abuse victims are expected to be quiet about their suffering, if they fight back even mildly they suddenly become the bad guy. And also the rules of politeness is very much designed with neurotypicals in mind and it causes neurodivergents to fall behind but that’s a whole other can of worms.

god this is awful. i don't use bluesky so i'd never have known otherwise, so thank you for bringing it to my attention.

I keep having people try to sell me on its code writing and it's like

Yall when is that ever the hard part

this is a beautiful rug and a good read, thanks! 😄

yotes to the left of me, yotes to the right here i am stuck in the middle

awoo

It's literally a fundamental part of the racist playbook yet they're continually surprised we can see through them

race, famously a topic unrelated to social dynamics

huh. I'll have to think about that ~Chara

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🥳🎉

white trans woman here, want to offer my sympathy if it's welcome. you are correct to push back on the monoculture and i hope to god more of my cohort starts to understand this. a lot of us need to shut up and read more.

I couldn't really find your account to get informed on this, but I did find a bunch of folks sharing screenshots that while cherry picked, do kind of make you look worse than you would were I able to read everything in context.

White women in the community definitely do get a lot more deference than they would otherwise deserve, so I can't really fault you in your conclusion.

This part though, "If you are not sexually and socially available and desirable, you simply don't matter as much" isn't a problem with just white trans femmes though, it's just a microcosm of bigger societal issues.

you got it 1000% with this description.

Listen I always believe in trying to find the original posts to see what happened anywhere on the internet, and since your account is gone I can't see context for what is a reply to what or whatever...but comments like "oh so i'm not the only one saying it! have y'all considered that y'all really are clones just barfing and shitting the same cultural shomit onto each other? because i don't have these problems with all of my friends, who are trans and not creepy white fetishizers looking at yourselves in the mirror!" which just comes off as weird AGP shit and the "secret penis" comment and this "sand country" comment (what the fuck was this)...and then calling POC who argued with you pick mes...you're gonna need quite a bit of Context missing here because all of these posts I see people (who definitely aren't all white) talking about on Bluesky right now look extremely inflammatory.

damn i leave for one second huh anyways just stating publicly I am Owning my Shit and reporting this exchange like i said i was gonna, karrius in this thread specifically is doing shit I'd qualify as cross site harassment.

beyond that idk im happy for you or sorry that happened

zil ur fine by me <3

it took me a HOT SECOND to figure out why i could only see 11 comments with none of the mentioned tomfoolery on this post- turns out past me had the sagacity to mute a bunch of these people already😊

putting things together from context clues, it sounds like they couldn't take what they dish out.

you all doing alright?

oh my god what the fuck

i've saw all that again and it never stops, because this ride never ends

the only funny thing i can see is that the same clique is wailing about Aaron from T&S just blocking them on his account

without any shred of introspection

MY ANUS IS BLEEDING

I thought it was "all things holy" but maybe my APD just sucks. Also I haven't seen Rejected in like 20 years

given the explanation for the technology i suspect it might just be a 556

love the justification sticker

I can't tell what the funniest part of this is, but I'm leaning towards either the text inside the box just too give a veneer of pretentious reality, or the filed off IC label.

Most of the development effort went into the stickers

it may not surprise you to learn that the "eau2" is still on sale; it doesn't even pretend to have a fancy box. retail price only $250!

they put a sticker on the outside saying DONT OPEN THIS and then one on the inside saying This Is Not A Scam :) in case you open it anyway lol

I love that this thing has a sticker inside that basically says “Now, before you get mad at me…”

Holy fucking shit

I'm not sure there's anything you can do against someone who's already decided without your input that you're Bad :c

it's the best thing we have left and it's always been run by the least responsible numbskulls we've ever known

"nobody knows python" and what, nobody had a handful of free weekends to learn it? After someone did all the hard parts for them?? jeez

Here's how weasyl can still win...

Ey, congratz

general protection-fault outranks colonel panic, but the show authors didn't really understand rank so they often show colonel panic pulling rank they don't have to keep the plot interesting

Oedipus "complex"? I find it quite simple, actually

I agree

Bitches peeking into your bedroom, and calling you a pervert for it >.<

I literally just was thinking about how fucking obviously and deeply I had dysphoria but I didn't know that as an egg because nobody at that time was really doing much to describe what dysphoria felt like beyond "sometimes you get sad you don't get to wear skirts" or the complete opposite of "having to have declared yourself a different gender by the time you were 4"

Unless the sneaky thing here is with len(response.body) (or someone fucking with you via HTTP), why isn't content-length going to be the length of the body? If you don't mind explaining a second time today

for alternate kinds of fun, /dev/kmem (not available on every system, but if it is...)

fun (derogatory) 😅

I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS THE OTHER DAY!!

screensavers on windows are and have always been just .exe files renamed to .scr

windows doesn't even do anything special about it it basically just launches the program and handles the lock/unlock security for you

I downloaded some of those old screensaver files last year and threw them back on. They're still very easy to get.

gotta say this got a big ol' lmao out of me

Yeah fair :p

Them being off by default and the UI not having changed in 15 years is more of a “Microsoft stopped caring”

Leaving the feature unchanged from how it appeared in Windows 98, turning it off by default, and not packing in most of the screensavers anymore, is not active support. It's the opposite really, it's leaving the code to rot without removing it outright because it still works for now.

I wrote a bunch of .desktop files to get some xscreensaver hacks working under mate-screensaver on my Linux desktop, but there too by default you have two crappy options or else blanking the screen.

As someone with a collection of hundreds of wallpaper-sized art images, I have been extremely well-served by the macOS "Photo Wall" screensaver. It's a cheap trick, but every time I think, "Oh, hey, I love that image!" it puts an ever-so-slight spring in my step.

Real ones remember Flying Toasters, Pipe Dream and potentially making your own art for the 3D maze.

that's... a good way to put it, like there was this huge push to make everything efficient and why not just shut off the screen but the other half is eating up any kind of efficiency gains with ads and chromium in application trenchcoats and nagware built into the OS so now it's like fuck, why can't we just run the pipes screensaver

(is anyone porting xscreensaver stuff to wayland shit?)

i extracted all the windows 95 screensavers from an iso and they still work on windows 10 so i set my desktop to do the 3d pipes one for a few minutes before putting the monitors to sleep and it makes me very happy every time i see it :3

yeah i have very fond memories of admiring the screensaver on my family's old windows 7. it was real pretty.

lol I wonder if MS do this to game their efficiency numbers in a very literal since they started plastering carbon offsets on half the settings options and on their website and product details.

nothing to benefit the user, very little energy saved with modern displays, but in aggregate let's you lie about co2 because idling computers aren't running the display, but modern computers are idle half the day or more

The irony, of course, is that they're actually useful again now that we have OLED displays.

xscreensaver is a wonder. i don't use my linux lappy a whole lot so probably 98% of the time its life's purpose is to sit there and play an animation of 4d double rotations or an outside in type beat or moosay the time and date or even display fake error messages and so on. it's almost certainly not necessary for the screen at all, but it's so valuable to me (plus it pulls double duty by auto-locking the computer after a certain period of time). i've been meaning to figure out making my own ones for that thing

🐉 cyote! 💜 ~kel

I mean... I don't even fully agree with you on the original point, and still! That's brainworm-poisoned Twitter shit right there. -_-

I mean, they do exist. The Stop Cop City movement, the Dakota Pipeline protests, and even leftist militias are all out there. It's an uphill battle though because the State coddles one side and oppresses the other. I think you'll find that there's a lot more organization going on than what you might predict from what people say online

Amazing

Where is this?

i swear you have a knack for meeting parodies of reality that have become manifest

Damn my home mail server runs Debian, but at least it backs up to a system running on FreeBSD.

Still workin' on that tape drive though.

Gosh, yeah. Incredibly well put! I always worry that talking about this makes me sound like an asshole, like I'm being bitter and spiteful, but its so hard to deal with constantly. And I never say it to try to close off any possibility of sisterhood, I say it because I wish things felt more open for me to connect with others.

This is why I really dislike the "Transgender Shitposting" group on redacted-book, a lot of the memes are very white-centric, and some of the memes are literally stolen and uncredited fanart with Impact-font captions slapped on top (sometimes even being labeled "OC" or watermarked, ie. plagiarism), as if Japanese-made fanart is little more than public domain assets for anyone to use - never mind that many Japanaese artists have a "no unauthorized redistribution" clause.

I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling this way about white queer culture because I've wanted to say this but fear I'll be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge by the Silicon Valley queer community

I don't actually care for Bioncle.

me when a lot of trans people I know (including myself) never had a "dysphoria hoodie" after someone insisted to me that every trans person has them.

I think my least enjoyed expression of this is "You haven't watched (XYZ media thing usually made for children)? You have to, it's so queer!" Not only as though that's the only criteria that matters, but also as though said piece of media has been adopted into queer canon as pop-culture identity must-haves for 30 year olds.

God I feel this post so deep in my bones.

Huh. The definition I've seen most is, roughly, that transgender people are people for whom the set of genders they are does not match the set of genders they were assigned at birth.

i feel this so hard ough

this was my understanding, but the question i have is why didn't we switch over sooner? in '81 i figure signaling rates were low enough that the simplicity of parallel was a reasonable tradeoff, but it feels like 1996 was waaaay late for people to go "hey, you know what, this sucks, maybe we should bite the bullet and do it the way we all know is Correct", you know what I mean?

when are we going to get the fabled perpendicular port. or tangent ports. two lines AB and CD converging at point E ports.

I'd wager it's one of those things where like... serial communication can be slightlydumber. If you have a 16-bit parallel link, that's 16 bits you have to keep aligned. If you have 16 nominally independent serial links, alignment is downstream's problem.

there was one simple reason why parallel ports fell out of fashion: clock skew. Parallel ports are fantastic at pushing more bandwidth when you have low switching speeds and small transistor counts; every wire has to be connected to a relatively simple piece of logic, and you can have dedicated wires for some functions to avoid having to encode/decode them as packets in hardware. However, writing was on the wall for ATA and other parallel ports by the 90s. As clock speeds increase, so does the difficulty of keeping delays caused by different wire lengths in check, and this along with the ability to put more logic on a board naturally pushed standard developers to add more signals in-band and to keep wire links as simple as possible

w/r/t PCIe: it's not a classic parallel interface, but it's not "sixteen serial links" as you described. There's data striping involved in a 16x link, where each 8/10b or, more recently, 128/130b sequence is sent via a separate link. there's a somewhat complicated logic involved in recovering the data from all 16x links while accounting for wire delays between them, and I think actually a requirement to keep wire lengths within some picoseconds of each other?

That's more cursed than average, even for email!

fuck it undelivers your email

emails suck anyway

burn them all! 🔥

Ha ha, I don't

Uh

Why are these individual instances? Thought you’re meant to like, have a big postfix instance handling many things? Idk though how this works beyond the scale of "uwu little personal toy mail server that rejects everything with invalid spf which apparently would make steam emails disappear if I used it for real"

Also curious what’s the MTA? Some in-house solution?

Good gods, WHY?!

That sounds like it comes from the same cognitive territory as the zip-bomb

computers were a mistake

surely there must have been an understanding, at some level of the Twitter hierarchy, that they were profiting by keeping troublemakers around, right? I suppose they would have justified it in terms of "metrics" ~Chara

They're profiting from it, so they'll play dumb forever

I've legit seen someone talk like blocking people is some sort of "accept defeat"

and it really is some alien fucking shit, i swear.

When the only language the culture you're born and raised in speaks is "Throw the other person in a camp and/or kill them, and take their land for your own", you grow up with brainworms.

That kind of reaction is just another sign that there is still so much work to be done.

its maybe hard for culturally-christian americans to imagine anything like this beyond personal, total, life-and-limb self-sacrifice because thats the hegemonic moral paradigm (pretend hegemonic moral paradigm is a normal thing to say)

oh haha, "Turtle Island" took me a moment, I'd forgotten about that one, good name

What's a good book on Land Back?

With the shitheads in charge of the land now, I don't see how it could possibly be worse and many ways it would probably be better.

We're so indoctrinated with the idea that everything has a single owner who has absolute control over a thing, when the reality is that most forms of "property" (but especially land and living things) have a wide array of sentient beings who are affected by the choice of how to treat it, use it, and maintain it. None of us can live without Earth's ecosystems keeping the planet hospitable for all live to thrive. But that conflicts hard with the last few hundred years of Western philosophy, including folks like John Locke who were directly influential on the British colonialist project.

it can vaguely be construed as a face with a beaky nose, or (other way) someone with a lock of hair hanging down

that looks like a face terezi homestuck would make

The story of half our build scripts at work:

"hey guys, lets use go instead of Make/bash. That's modern."

"Hey guys, why are all our build scripts just go code that shells out to the docker and gcp CLIs?"

#The New Bert & Ernie

LOOK AT THESE GODDAMN CLOWN HANDS

DBZ powering up scream

that's me, on the right, wondering if my head will fit into that gorgeous maw for completely not horny reasons. I want it so bad.

NO, just LISTEN. I was HIGH when they fucking HIT THE GODDAMN TOWERS.

We have been TRYING to REACH YOU concerning your CAR'S extended WARRANTY

"Why is my left hand twenty percent bigger than my right?! Why is my left EYE twenty percent bigger than my right?? WHAT IS THIS SHIT"

"I don't CARE about your clown nose, Troy! You don't have to brag about it being a bargain, you got it at a DOLLAR STORE!"

more! people! should! be! saying! this!

LJ 2004 🤝 carcinization

YESSSSSSS i was thinking of Google Circles while i read this!!! it was so surprisingly effective at group management, I'm sad no one else major has tried

:yeah:

yeah sounds about right for me — “how I feel” is too biased on account of damage

Why are they Like this? >.<

yeah it extremely sucks but 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ guess that's just my life now

DOGG TELL ME ABOUT IT

What kills me is walking into establishments past signs saying "must wear masks inside!", every time I get on the TTC the voice saying "masks are strongly recommended on the TTC", the big "masks are strongly recommended on the TTC" posters, and I'm the only one in a mask sometimes. If I'm not the only one in a mask I'm one of three people on a whole big streetcar. Nobody hears the "strongly recommended" notice, they've tuned it out. I actually tuned it out and I realized suddenly a couple weeks ago I'd been ignoring the notice every time I get on for about 2 years

What about if you feel happy after 9pm?

Counterpoint: everything useful I have applied for with an online form, from food stamps to FAFSA, was done in a fit of anxiety rage at 2 am

...as were most of my panic attacks. So fair, maybe.

wikipedia says its from 2007 so i think this may be a case of misinformation on the internet

edit: forgot countries existed that are not the united states with its abnormally high drinking age oops

I WAS INCORRECT 😭

noooo im not ready to be old yett

Honestly I have to ask which meta? Because I havn't seen much direct about Cohost's? And the one I witnessed over on Masto is... well it's not conflict-avoidant, I'll say that much. XP

You’ve immediately exposed your Yu-Gi-Oh! Influences with the layout, typing, and ATK/DEF styles especially the “?” Undefined aspect!!!! I SEE YOU!!!!!

I would play that

that's great

i love this tale

>:3c

Between Dragoneer and IMVU... pulling a stunt like that is the very definition of chaotic good. XD

roughly cube shaped

This is so fucking good holy shit

🐺 Holy shit this goes hard.

🩸BEAUTIFUL, OUTSTANDING! Core ripping and soul igniting! Thank you for sharing your work, this was a lovely piece to read.

after reading all of these Pepper Ann does seem like a gender

excuse me??? pepper ann was originally 7up mascot Fido Dido's lesbian bestie??? im losing my mind over here!!!

i love these, thanks for posting them!

@atax1a this chost is accidentally(?) the plot of Bloodborne.

taking a big glug of corn steep liquor and then drawing a diagram

RIGHT? Like, no mistake the meat industry is fucked and animals deserve to be treated better, but vegans are out here being like "oh no those poor cows, good thing plants exist only to be food and provide oxygen, surely there's no evidence plants and fungi are equally alive as other creatures. 🤡"

they can also see but how 😭 ???!

Do you mind linking the source for that quote? I want to read more

these are two foundational tenets of whatever the hell i'm talking about

And then those ideas cause @NoelBWrites to suffer at school

i will do what must be done, i will eat every 30 foot tall pile of cheeseburgers until everyone may see eye to eye once more

I just want to live in harmony with Mother Earth, why can't all these ecofash shut the frick up? >.<

you should get in touch with indigenous activism. you dont need to reinvent the wheel when its already existed for native people for a long time. i have a few books i can recommend you if youd like...?

You might want to take a look at the book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. One of the main points the book makes is that humans can be actively beneficial to ecosystems we interact with. Its a matter on living in good relation to the environment, not about the number of humans that are alive.

isn't this solarpunk?

the guy who wrote "The Population Bomb" was just a butterfly entomologist. Up there with mechanical engineer by training Thomas Midgely Jr. in guys who caused untold devastation by not staying in their lane.

This book might interest you: Black Social Ecology and Kohei Saito's books on eco-Marxism might intrigue you as well.

classic situations honestly

Thanks for reminding me to listen to Stromkern again

they were ~~defending the guy~~ [in the comments about the pillowfort poster] writing long discourse-guides blowing all the cohost drama out of proportion and stripping context[, saying it was useful]

I'm sorry y'all had to deal with him, too. He's classifying every opposition to his edgelord antics as being "from white people" even when I and everyone else I know who's mentioned his bullshit are nonwhite people. I don't believe anything he says is sincere, he's a racist farming outrage for his own entertainment.

Fucking hell, he's one of my followers too. Not anymore though, he can fuck off.

Heh, I already had him blocked.

Yeah, there's a type of White Ally™️ who seems to be more interested in being the Most Ally™️ and making sure everyone else Knows It, than actually like, solving problems. They gotta make it all about them, I guess, idk

another choice would be to use e.g. the us-international keyboard layout, though being a modification of the US one, it somewhat awkwardly has to use ' as a dead key

yeah we picked that one up in wastewater monitoring in April 2020

Implying they made it into the toilet and remembered to flush is perhaps a bit generous, honestly.

t2t's f2r. i m4y use the a10n to a3d s6g "a11y"

"blahblahblah".replaceAll(/\w+/g,w=>(w.length<=3)?w:w[0]+(w.length-2)+w[w.length-1])

I'm pretty sure the built in browser dev tools have accessibility checking tools I've also heard the advice to try using a screen reader software on your website and just trying to use it

For colors in particular, it's definitely not perfect, but as a "first pass," you can generally transform the color-space for all the colors and re-check the contrasts. Years ago, I found an SVG filter set, which can work for a quick visual inspection.

It's also possible to use the matrices in the filter to transform the colors in your current theme, generate a list of pair-wise contrasts, and check them against the guidelines automatically, but you're dealing with loose abstractions of loose abstractions, at that point, so you wouldn't want to rely on any result that tells you that you're fine...

Most I/O devices (other than screen-readers that are already software) probably have an emulator, too, though I've never looked.

great post

necessary words, here.

I once had a professor call my by the name of my teammmate who was also Chinese, he denied to my face that it was a race thing but now that I think about it I never observed him make this mistake with anyone else

because she had to grapple with the parts of her that were struggling to see us as distinct individuals.

I'm honestly not of the opinion that Euros accidentally mix up people of the same race, so it's interesting to hear your take on it.

Shoot the allure of white flight instead of actually fixing the problems they created really is kind of a thing isn't it?

hi

heyhey! o/

waves at you!!!!

hihihihi

hi fliss!!!

hello!!

I really wish there was a way to get people to watch some of the right-wing "homesteader" genre of youtuber (bearded men with $50,000 trucks and brand-new tractors mostly removing stumps from their yards, uncanny women rearing children named Bradley) to inoculate them against the cottage-core RETVRN TO DIRT leftist strain of the same meme.

🫂

You can with normal CSS, probably not with inline styles though.

👍

hell yea

the Internet Archive has it marked as unavailable for borrowing, bleh. not available through interlibrary loan either, from what I can tell...

i habitually walked through the tenderloin with an om-4ti and occasionally a pentax 67 around my neck and was not bothered one single time

the amount of times where people have like sighed and said "oh no" when I've mentioned that I'm from/near detroit

my experience has mostly just been "maybe be careful about that one place if it's dark"

in late 2021 (after the vaccines were out for a while and we took all possible precautions) I visited a friend in Portland. I was getting patted down at my local midwest city's airport and the TSA guy was making small talk. I mentioned I was heading to portland when he asked (probably shouldn't volunteer info in the future) and the guy looked at me like I said I was going to Syria. I half expected to be asked into a side room for questioning the way he reacted.

Like, it's literally just a normal city where people live not an active warzone.

im like, way more scared of getting run over by a car than literally anything else in a city. my fear of a particular city is proportional to the lane widths i think

I kind of wonder what they see when they look around Philly. it was my favorite city to live in without a car, just because it was so easy to get around with a mix of walking, busses and subway

I remember people talking about how terrible and violent glasgow is and like... pretty much all of it is concentrated out in the northeast and even then it's basically just shithead neds egging the houses

tbh they think that about Seattle too

There's so many people out there that are either paranoid about theoretical "big city crime" or their parents were; I still run into people from time to time that are flabbergasted that I took the city bus to middle school in San Diego

People are 100% only weird about it too because they don't like to think they have to do shit too. Like I wore a mask before the pandemic bc of allergies & I uswd to be self-conscious about my teeth and nobody mentioned it. All of a sudden I got people walking up to me like "oh I bet you're so pretty under there" bitch this is to protect you and your drink from my snot it doesn't matter how pretty I am

I thought the eyes were supposed to be windows to the soul or whatever. Isn't that how it's supposed to work? The humanity is stored in the tear ducts?

Gonna have to get a mask that says "the window to my soul is UP THERE ⬆️"

once again vindicated in my belief that neurotypicals are not human

I'm honestly not sure if this whole thing is just missing speciesal social body language or not. its like if a bunch of dogs said, "why do dogs care about tail posturing"

This isn't an argument starter thing its an honest question of is this just simplifying the whole thing on purpose, or an actual gap in knowledge.

If anyone ever were to tell me they need to see my teeth I would bite them

What is so fucking galling to me is that there were other options. There were amendments that would have sought to resolve the issue of competing access needs.

It seems very clear to me that this decision was simply driven by people who don't want to bother with it anymore (to say nothing of being fed by the normalization if dangerous public health policy brought on by the sociological production of the end of the pandemic).

I'm a bit tired of seeing everyone's faces tbh >.>

listen I would love to be able to wear lipstick again but on the other hand: literally everything else takes priority omg. I'm so sorry to all of y'all, this is so dispiriting.

ahahah ohhhh nooo

cue somebody calling buying a product from a company that sucks "crossing the picket line" when there is no picket line

it's so frustrating because I love their energy, I love the hope and ambition that things could Really Change, but there's such a lack of understanding of even the day-to-day basics of how things work in grownup world

(also there is the problem of demands. I don't know which one you're looking at right now but the ones I've seen either have a big "TBD" for demands, or a massive laundry list of lefty political stances that poll at like 11% among the general public)

as a union bird myself, yeah, a lot of this stuff has the energy of people whove never talked to an organizer and seen what works, and also how to build power among a group of people with disperate interests. personal example here: im relatively covid concious compared to the average person, and as a steward at my shop i organized hard to try to continue the mask mandate when it was up for a vote whether it continues or not. i failed, because people are "done" (including young leftists). in the time since then, about four of those people have started wearing masks again, but that was due to their own judgement of the workers themselves going "hey i dont wanna get sick". covid/infectious disease organizers can do a lot but they work within the limits of the imagination of who they organize. and that, all that, is just one issue, a microcosm of a whole spate of crap thats restricted by taft hartley and other stuff too. as much as i think that reading more would absolutely help these people (and my coworkers more already tuned into leftist literature or near-leftist stuff like naomi klein were never hard to convince) the big thing to me is like...talking to people in the real world lmao. the techno-hermit's perspective is INCREDIBLY limited. "twitter isnt real life" goes way beyond twitter. you cannot do organization entirely from online, i think, without some way of making you talk to people you wouldnt ordinarily (and i dont mean debate, i mean long form narrative conversation)

This is part of why I think the call by the UAW for unions to align their contract end dates to April 30th is wonderful long-term strategy. There's clearly existing desire for large, cross-industry strikes but little actual organization as yet. However, if enough of the union contracts expire together anyway leading to a strike on the day that's explicitly for that sort of action...

stopped for a couple seconds stuck on the title of this post without reading further trying to figure out who "R.E.I.S." stood for that people were being exterminatory radical feminist at

god lmao

i'm sure he's gonna be riding that high forever

hahaha oh no, I'm sure valuable lessons were learned here that will be applied to the next Engineering Stunt

Champion tbqh

oh no :D the worst case

has he published a tutorial yet?

that's hilarious, engineers are great

absolutely peak mad scientist shit, congrats to him, my condolences

yeah

Dudes rock

hahaha, goals.

He's about to become insufferable

Optics was basically the only thing I could do back-of-the-napkin in engineering school.

I'm sorry, this is so devastating for you

Lmao I mean yeah, optometrists have screwed up my prescription multiple times, so I guess I'd kinda trust my own readouts more tbh

that would give me a dangerous amount of confidence if I managed it. best of luck

Cliff, as someone with engineer family: I'm so sorry he was right, good luck.

Works really well for something as simple as measuring how nearsighted you are in diopters. That one number that optometrists tell you, which tell you how 'blind' you are is really just a measurement of 1 divided by how many centimetres you can see clearly before there is blur. Which is something you can do easily enough at home. There are websites online that show you stuff like spinning graphs that calculate your precise visual acuity based on if you can determine which direction they are spinning. For someone not interested in all that math you could also just slowly walk towards a Snellen chart until all the lines are fully readable without any blur. But blur can be very hard to recognise so it's pretty subjective.

The hard part is if you have any astigmatism at all. Astigmatism is directional blur and it's a whole lot messier mathematically. That's why they typically use big machines that show you an image and stare at your eye to calculate your astigmatism. The only real value of an optometrist to someone like your partner is testing astigmatism and general eye health.

Best of both worlds is to just go to an optometrist to check your eye health, get your astigmatism and general blur measurements, and then say thanks and order glasses online. Luxottica holds a monopoly over pretty much every single pair of glasses on display at your optometrist, which is why your $20 pair of glasses is being sold as $200.

That's so incredibly metal

ENGINEERS FOR CHRIST SAKE

The 3M HF-800SD series has both a speaking diaphragm and an exhalation valve. It takes Secure Click filters which are way easier to breathe through than old-style bayonet filters because they have a lot more surface area and intake on both sides. It also has a fit test button (hold it to block incoming air, inhale, and see if the mask suctions to your face).

Most people are probably going to have to order the respirator and filters because it's 3M's "next generation respirator" and I've never seen one in a hardware store. They also make a full facepiece version for people who are hardcore

I've been wearing one at work and in public for three years and it hasn't worn out and still fits perfectly.

so fogged glasses aren't nec. a bad seal, insofar as inhaling causes the mask to seal better against the face, and exhales are positive pressure.

it's not better than a passive seal, I just don't want ppl to panic if they can't find any that "seal"

really been rocking the flomask for over a year now and i cannot go back to big beefy p100 boys. really only fit for wildfires- the caveat here is i know one person (out of many users) who does not fit the flomask.

it rocks though, super robust, and imho not that hard to fit test either. they literally make one for kids, its a no brainer

ive put it through its paces: eating, gdc, drinking coffees etc in public, you name it. the worst part is having to clean it once in a while and being mindful of moisture levels (same as p100 elastos, just jam some napkins in there, dump the napkins and call it good)

also, they offer higher grade filters which I use, they've held up even in giant raves full of 3400+ PPM co2 levels. my whole house rocks em, they're very good

not a fan that they use polyurethane foams (sort of now known to break down under heat / humidity, see: CPAP machine crisis atm) but those are optional (probably fine for an Event, a show etc but id ditch after 72hrs of active use personally)

unless your face shape cannot fit them- I highly recommend this. it also doesn't have the weird sweaty-mask-line problem envos did for me. they're cheap- and their design is so foolproof that even if you couldnt find filters for it anymore, you could 3d print replacement parts + find n95 material to slap in there. It's such a SMART design of Faceplate, Faceplate Part 2 with Rubber that sandwiches between them, it was literally a winner of a contest to make a next-gen mask for the govt

the best part is people can understand you good and no one is offput or intimidated by it. absurd protection with few trade offs, love 'em, hoping one day you can just find them in stores.

downsides: not in europe (YET, they're working on it, im having to ship one to my friend in prep for GDC)

I've been an envomask user for almost two years now and I swear by em but I never got the desiccant thing to work. Tried two different packet sizes, but it's just untenable if you need to speak at all, which I do because I work in food service. I've just learned to accept the humidity as an indicator that it's working as intended.

If you wanna try a p100 that transmits your voice better (without a diaphragm) check out the GVS Elipse with source control. It's not the comfiest, but I wear it for medical appointments so I can hopefully be heard more easily.

This video compares speech intelligibility with a bunch of different masks, which I found helpful (although I imagine the effect might be different for people like me with higher pitched voices than him): https://youtu.be/KgPs2aoKZbk

Is there anything like Flomask available in the EU?

Staying home: don't have to have shit on my face (big sensory problem for me) and also don't get sick

i have been using the breathe99 b2 mask, another elastomeric ~n95/~n99 mask. it doesn't have niosh certification but it's worked flawlessly for me and it's got a very nice frame, the frame folds and has replaceable strap stuff, etc. Currently they're available from armbrust, which seems to have acquired them.

hell yeha!!!

I would say

awooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Yah, I'm kinda burning out on PNW culture now, although probably for different reasons. Or maybe all the different degrees of cultural weirdness here are connected, no idea.

trinitite would be a very interesting sample to look at!

Sorry to hear that :(

Sorries 💜

Es importante

Can't believe you'd call me out like this. 😾

Finally some good news!

Gato :3c

OAO

Sí OwO

Importante!

miau miau

wow! this is gorgeous! love the lighting and the pose 👀💖

Gringas should choose not to be like this >.<

There's a small chance I still have a Model M around somewhere. If I manage to find out where it is, I'll let you know.

tbh yeah this is the way. Give me some Gateway 2000 in a thique steel case with a Pentium MMX and you won't see me again for like a week while I go play all these MS-DOS and Win9x games

Have had a K2000(R) on a wishlist for years. Still want one.

what?! no, i would even know what to do with..... okay, maybe i could try playing with it a bit and...... actually that would be cool to have...... umbe, uwu...... okay, yeah, i would love to get these

I have the umbreon! also a keyboard but it's too large for me to take anywhere ::<

ok real though i would love to have all of these. also additionally i miss the old cassette/cd players (2-in-1 style) that kinda looked like boomboxes. used to have one of those in my house.

why is this so accurate lmao

even the ones I've never heard of are top tier fascinating, let me spend a month tinkering with them lmao

I'll be more than satisfied just with that SY77

🎨💎💿 such a good concept....

whoa

god i fucking hate gmail because they do shit like this but well goddamn done

How did you do it??

Holy shit

Modern day Sword in the Stone shit goddamn.

My god

What hell magic did this require

were they creepy or wet

None shall expel us etc

Okay but Georg Cantor was literally just correct.

This has one of the all time great visual proofs imo, so I kind of love it.

I found it here: https://cohost.org/DecayWTF/post/695146-please-support-my-ne

you are so correct

I watched a YouTube video yesterday because there was just no other way to get the information and it was something I was really curious about, and it was just like. I don't understand why people do this. This would have taken me four minutes to read at most but instead was twenty god damned minutes long. Really looking forward to going another few years in between ever doing this again.

I just don't get it, man. None of this shit deserves 20 uninterrupted minutes of my time, but somehow pausing and watching in several minute chunks made me feel even more insane. People do this EVERY DAY??? I don't know how anyone does this shit and frankly I don't think I want to. It's so bad!

It took me like four hours to install a Fire Emblem Awakening mod because everyone was just linking videos for what amounted to directory management

did they mean "video-forced"? as in forced to watch a video instead of interacting with shit in any reasonable way? because that's the only way that makes even slight sense

Yes. Very Yes. I don't think it's true, but I dig where you're going.

Feels like some suit somewhere glanced at tiktok and said: "Those are big numbers there. The whole internet must just be videos! Marv, this is our reality now!" And then the other dude in the room was like "Yes, sir. Of course it is. Very prescient of you, sir".

🤦

that's incredible and so nerdy I love it

Uh, hot?

this rules

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

"Dragon ball GT did nothing wrong" 🙁

postmodern who

from what i know of her this is incredibly, incredibly on brand

lol that's very funny

fuck christ

On the one hand I imagine that is possible somewhere, and on the other, uh… Tcl seems so fragile even in its box I’m fairly convinced it would just shit itself.

nice high score

okay so apparently this affects something called BIG-IP, can someone tech literate explain what that is?

Oh yeah no it's bad.

same energy https://youtu.be/bT4cKwBROno?t=324

Dayum o.o Ok yea this is veeeeeeery much your vibe! :D

damn these Fuckin' Whip

:)

the wankers are dying off but the wankels themselves are making names for themselves in racing because some car boys watched too many machining videos and discovered the secret: not having dogshit factory tolerances.

https://youtube.com/@RobDahm?si=OsgwkQjANXxWDsGY

the 'dorito full of bees' tag kept rattling in my mind till I had no choice but to go look up videos of this motor jn operation, and yeah! Accurate!

Sorry to hmm the haha but I keep seeing this and every time I wonder what the hell this particular application is. Like the whole thing is inside a second housing? It's got coolant holes around the normal combustion chamber so presumably it's not a weird huge cooling loop... so what the hell is it?

"dorito full of bees" gonna be with me for a while

i feel like only people who had a "read cory doctorow novels as a teen because they were free" phase are over him now

Ah, a more familiar e-mail look! (I use neomutt)

Crushed, devastated, weeping that the avg link doesn’t go anywhere

incredible post. I'm going to save this to my desk top.

jfk, probably

which one is that. I don't think any of the parties have run one of those since FDR

literally am going to walmart today because I need shit :agony:

Thank you. Now I have stuck in my head: horn music with a drum loop and an opera singer rapping disses against philosophy. Oh and uhh intermittent bagpipes.

so my brain DOES have this permanently locked away in memory somewhere, just waiting for the right moment to strike

this is so true….

I hate that I knew exactly what this was and heard it in my head at it's accurate volume

need someone to take me out of protected mode for real

Okay I know the second one!

in an alternate universe the Spanish fascists were called the fajitismo

otherwise I have no idea

That brutal period of Churroism in Belgium?

Hint for the second one: It involves the name Ignatius.

Alpha sensor? I hardly know her!

sickos_yes.jpg

I'm just curious gosh

the relationship between whiteness and conflict-avoidance is really something

my words aren't all together rn but there's something in there about how white family dynamics (specifically conflict resoultion skills here) are deeply informed by Protestantism + patriarchy which like- makes the focus more about atonement to authority.

and the reactionary response when a white queer breaks off of that is to swing far to the other side with that "i don't owe anyone anything" mindset that y'all are talking about. Which is effectively just placing themselves at the center of that atonement to authority framework cause they haven't legitimately dismantled that hierarchical mindset

found the fed

the very idea that anyone is supposed to genuflect for Kevin fucking Mitnick is astonishing to me ~Chara

FUCK YES FUCK YES

PUT KEVIN BACK (of the lineup)

What is dead is not gone. Simply changed and diffuse.

Everything is a record and you're the needle

that's... not the first time I've seen it suggested that this era will be a new darkage in history, few concrete records, libraries struggling to keep information moved to current media, everything made to have a limited working life. But I very much agree that what we do still means something

thankfully not

if only we had some kind of computing machine to look at all our big matrices of signals! i guess we'll just have to email each other giant tables :-)

surely there was some awareness at some level of Twitter management that they made their money from chaos and keeping rabble-rousers active?! ~Chara

Their side hustle is hypocrisy and they have a major stake in the hate industry.

This is entirely too accurate.

Being on an internal infra team I also get

Subject: Quick question Body:

Yeah hey I did a thing but nothing happened why not?

OR

Hey I saw a funny little hiccup on your frontend and it either means the network blinked for a second, or you broke the Frooboz Wizbanger, which would be pretty bad because then we'd lose all our money and get sued by German probably, but there's only like a 0.001% chance of that but you might want to look into it thx.

are you talking about throw-away societies?

Yeah, we got a pretty big collective fucking problem with assuming anyone using the 'right words' over here is the good person on the inside and doing the work, as opposed to using easily abusable tools in an abusive fashion.

alexes what did you do to them. what did you. DO to them

Canadian urban legend boyfriend

Sorry, your evidences and conclusion that the boyfriend was a hoax was very poor and built on ad hoc arguments. Also, he is right there, using his sharpie to draw on your face.

oh thanks he’s been in need of a debunking since i’ve been bunking him so much lately

he goes to another school

Your boyfriend was not peer-reviewed, has a sloppy citational apparatus, and must be dismissed as pseudo-science.

usually it's "both"

were you a meteor

she exchange on my key til i curve

including the venom sacks!

Yeah I’m starting to come around on this worldview tbh. I always thought MLK’s “the white moderate prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice” was just a really sharp observation in one situation, not literally the working schema for the majority of US society. But it seems to keep coming up…

that mode switching has always freaked me out when it's happened to me, because it's basically impossible to interrogate—if you point it out, you just make it worse. there's some bizarre combination of "I haven't changed at all, it's all you" going on with "the scales have fallen from my eyes like I'm St. Paul seeing The Truth™ for the first time"...I'm quite prepared to believe that you're basically seeing some latent Christian conditioning erupting to the surface all of a sudden, radiating self-righteousness in all directions. and you know what? as a weird semi-Catholic busybody, probably I've done this myself, though I try to be more honest about where my moralism comes from. ~Chara

i thought the upside down bird was the silhouette of sonic the hedgehog for a hot minute there ngl

[oozing through your Barrier] hello how's it going.

Either this doesn't work anymore, or I'm doing this wrong.

and like masks are a sensory nightmare for some peoples' autism. like my friend (who always masks anyway because u gotta stay safe). which is why it'd be great if we coulda handled it so they wouldn't need to today but lol.

we actually rarely get asked why we're still masking but it does happen and we just say "asthma" cause it's true and it's the only explanation i have the energy to give

i'm so fucking angry at all of the pride events around here

every time i get "it's endemic now" i reply with "you get how that's worse, right?" and only rarely do they in fact get it

i continue to be one of the only people i know outside this household who still masks. i deeply hate it

i hate it. a mask is like, the easiest most basic thing. it helps prevent flu and colds too! what's not to like! tired

it's so manipulative too—it's, like, passive-aggressively fishing for complicity and commiseration for selfishly throwing public-health concerns in the garbage, and if they don't get the commiseration they want, then out comes the litany of angry self-justifications and the accusations of "living in fear" and all the rest of it. ~Chara

i dont have any titles wait no i think i have the title to my car i have one title

oof that is a 100% accurate depiction

i dislike rich people

the only way it could be a more on-the-nose liberalization of Pride is if this White Googler went on to work for Raytheon.

everything okay

i feel like pedestrian-friendly infrastructure is one of those things where we directly feel the effects of it towards this cause the amount of ppl we talk to and events we learn about from just walking around is staggering!!!!!! all stuff we would just be completely cut off from if we were like. in a vehicle all the time instead

I'm not gonna lie, I often worry that the furthest extent of my leftist action is just ranting online and commiserating. That's not praxis, and I know it's not, but I generally don't have the energy to do much more. I usually don't even know where to begin.

This might be orthogonal to the point you're trying to make though.

this exact question is why we've generally disengaged from discourse and tried to focus on actually bettering our own life in service of improving our ability to materially improve the lives of others

Aside from the Fight Club reference, another place where the dismantling of everyone's worth, to assert that they are inherently bad and therefore not worthy of any grace is found in cult indoctrination: Essentially saying that only by joining the cult can you find meaning and value, because you are inherently a piece of shit.

The clearest place we see this cult indoctrination is in Christianity's Pauline epistle to the Romans, Chapter 3:

"20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

A perfect example of this phenomenon, making it very clear just how inherently toxic Christianity (especially Pauline Christianity) is.

This kinda just reminded me of the descriptions I've heard of toxic trans groups

I was thinking about additions to this, got to the end and realized i already did

"how can everybody be special" is such a weird sentence. "how can everyone possibly be unique??????" this feels borderline sociopathic and denies the reality that if you want to find Your Doppelganger you are almost certainly not going to. much of these people probably wouldn't say this about dogs.

YOU-

I'm speechless.

sigh

Perfect setup! Well executed pun! 10/10

i can't believe i'm seeing this visichost again

yeag i dont like how insular it is. i can't find anything good and i just see the same posts reblogged over and over. give me a popular tag at least, like if you're gonna copy tumblrs ui at least take the good parts

yeah increasingly i'm finding it's just a handful of big cliques based around who got here early it was largely friends of the developers first and grew from there.

that fucking sucks. But hey, civility obsessed "centrists" and "allies" gonna defend that shit

the fuck >:o

could you go into detail about how assuming people dont use safari is gringo tech thank you

on my laptop the twitter post editor accepted pasting in images by including the image directly in the edit box(!?), and god forbid you pasted text, or ever backspaced :) idk why, even, since that was on modern firefox

It's called safari bc you're posting from the heart of darkness

why are you so fucking cool

the audacity would be impressive if it wasn't depressing

I too hate that tags are stripped from shares.

Okay I feel better that I'm not the only person who feels like tagging is useless, despite the fact that I've found literally everyone but people I already knew through them tagging their posts

It makes me feel like I'm somehow using the site correctly and incorrectly at the same time

What blew my mind is when i went on the official site update to vent about how as a content creator nor having recommendations or even my site stats showing how many people here click my links (to know if my articles are even gaining traction or not) someone told me the link tracking is deliberately disabled

So they’re more concerned about disabling sites that barely would get hits from this place from tracking users than making unified tags or recommendations or suggested people so as a content creator my shit doesnt hit a brick wall

Very infuriating tbh and it gives me big vidme worries, which eventually imploded on itself and briefly had the far right hijack it before shutting down

Agreed in full. The idea of having a list of “popular” tags is also really good IMO - something, anything to indicate where the action is.

broadly agree. also: if every post in a share chain uses the same tag, that chain actually will show up in that tag. this is of course extremely unlikely since the tags are automatically stripped.

"photos"? "photo"? "photography"? "digital photos"? some of these may have been used once, ever, but you have no way of knowing unless you open a new tab

not really a solution, but afaik the tag suggestions that appear as you type are ordered by frequency. i don't think it's officially documented anywhere? but it's definitely A Thing

there's a feature request on the forum thingy about this, that someone else put up. I chimed in to say that tags should always be visible on posts because it both lets you see what the original poster wanted people to see for tags, and lets filtering work correctly for muffles and such. I made a few suggestions.

cue power user types getting upset at me for daring to suggest that this is a problem, and claiming it'd just add clutter.

I got very sick of arguing that shit, and it kept popping up in my email every time someone chimed in -- and it was basically only those two dudes for a long time. hate it. can't even tell if the staff looked at that or have any plans to ever make tags visible on reposts, despite it being a much easier thing to implement than asks.

One of the reasons I like bathhouses (I mean, besides the fucking) is that the norm is to either make intense eye contact or completely avoid it, and there's really no in-between.

It is quite cool seeing people jump to "40k a year is where we start the guillotine" and be like uhhhhh what now

A lot of white leftists lionize poverty and think the operational definition of class in the marxist sense is just wage amounts (it's not, its a value neutral observation about ones relationship with the means of production).

On top of that they have a tendency to pedestalize the "good" (in this case people making under 40K) and see "the bad" (people making over 40K in this case) as somehow stained with a kind of original sin.

It's all just white western cultural Christianity where virtue is seen as a direct function of relative powerlessness and purity of moral posturing is seen as a greater priority then material action.

It's so fucking infuriating.

holy shit tim thank you for this, it covers and amplifies so many of our own feelings that we are shaking inside rn

I am talking here mostly about my job(s), and the concreteness of talking about tech culture and the tech industry (which is about something more than just top-down corporate culture; "queer furries run half the Internet" is only sort of a joke, and you have look at queer poly sexual networks and, probably, also the kinds of cis gay male sex parties that certain venture capitalists go to if you really want to understand how power flows in the industry) is useful. But "groups" isn't just that. I was in a mostly-white trans social group in the Bay Area for a while, whose group cohesion mechanisms activated to expel me when I raised Concerns about the role of a particular serial sexual abuser in the group. It's hard for me to say what direct role my positionality played in that. Maybe none at all. But "rally around the sexual abusers, as long as they're white, charismatic and cute" is a facet of white supremacy culture. And much later, I found out that some of the small number of people of color in the group never felt really welcome.

I'm also probably not talking about trauma enough here, and not talking about neurodivergence at all except as it relates to trauma.

If people tend to approach groups as substitute families, that has consequences for those of us who have no positive associations with families. If you grew up getting told "don't tell anyone about what happens in this house" (as I did), and you never fully examined that message, and you are thus doomed to re-enact it, you are going to have a very Particular approach to group cohesion and group loyalty. If you have examined that message just enough to know you want to tell everyone about what happens in this house, then you're going to have a rough time in it.

While I'm writing down thoughts in the hopes that they stop rattling around my head and DoSing me from thinking or doing other things: I actually think everybody shares this experience to some extent, because everybody has to disavow parts of themselves to fit into white supremacy culture. Including white supremacists. (There are some very funny stories about people who have been kicked out of literal white supremacist groups for either being not white supremacist enough, or being too committed to white supremacy.) But some people have a much easier time repressing it, and then those of us who can't repress it pay for their repression. So "everybody feels this way sometimes" doesn't imply "we are all in the same material position", as much as that line gets used to de-escalate protest from trans people, neurodivergent people, etc.

well you can't just say "hm, feeling kinda racist about you :/"

No yea, I didn't -immediately- come to the "bay culture" conclusion, but I'm definitely getting sniffs of it, and I hate how much that checks

im curious, what are the predictable problems? the not sustainable financial stuff?

i'm trying to understand this and maybe learn to shrink my "white person blind spot" a bit? if that makes sense? but i don't think i have enough context - for example i don't know enough about regional culture to understand the seattle/bay area thing.

are you just talking about white users failing to notice and challenge their ingrained biases and thus behaving in discriminatory ways, or is there some aspect of "whiteness" to the culture itself?

in another comment thread you mention that you "aren't going to tolerate being treated like another white trans queer," but i don't understand what kind of treatment that is

I'm in a Discord where basically one entire channel is mocking bad mental health posts (mostly from Instagram) and Dopamine Discourse is a regular guest 😝

I'm "dopamine fasting" when I forget to take my mirapex xD

Still so upset people just.. Gave up