the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@heatherhorns what on earth is a demo knight? could they not afford the full version???
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today has been a very low-executive-function day
we got very little done and yet also feel very un-rested
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@terrana Usually have two of those when I'm three-legged! The spine splits around the middle of the back.
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@Russell ii'd love to hear more about her! i don't really have any specific questions though
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@BatElite i frequently have more than one of those
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i was going to have this as a countdown from 4 to 0 but then we couldn't think of anything i have one of
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2 heads
3 legs
4 arms
0 binary
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@Russell massive junk because why not is a good kind of junk
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@LexYeen @iBolt07 @Russell ooooh. that's a good one.

i've also been known to go double-mouthed! that's a fun one, even if it probably can't work realistically
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@iBolt07 @Russell @LexYeen ...maws perhaps a bit more so. they're nto something we've done that much with but i feel like it's something i could be really into if shown the right way
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@iBolt07 @Russell @LexYeen i can appreciate bellies and maws! even if not, no reason to tell people to stop
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@trysdyn @LexYeen Would you stick with electric, or what would you cross-type to given the choice?
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@LexYeen @iBolt07 we've seen people (BIPOC, that is) saying it's worse than they're used to on fedi and complaining about people saying "well i don't see it happening over here", so i'm not sure--it might be worse here and i'm not sure how to help fix it other than spreading awareness and encouraging people to actually listen
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@iBolt07 there's also recently been a spate of white people replying to posts about racism with "not all white people", even when the person posting it *specifically* started the post with "white people don't reply"

which is just disrespecting boundaries *and* refusing to sit and listen rather than post kneejerk responses
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@iBolt07 there's been a lot of cases also of white people telling black people they need to CW their stuff about their experiences in what is very blatantly an "i don't want to hear about the racism you deal with"--CWs are not censorship, but can be used as such, and this attempt to force them on people is pretty blatantly meant to be
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@iBolt07 we haven't seen much in the parts of fedi we frequent but an ongoing and consistent problem on here is that black folks and other POC get attacked a lot.

like, one of the early good fedi instances, one called playvicious.social, run by a black person who was and is well-regarded by pretty much everyone we know, got so much hate and abuse thrown at it that they had to just take down the instance. people would block-evade by making accounts on new instances just to attack people
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@iBolt07 That was a deliberate design decision iwrc
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@iBolt07 i dunno, i'd like to change things to make it so black folks don't feel as uncomfortable and outright endangered as they do on here
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@JulieSqveakaroo i don't know, sorry. i don't mean to ruin your fun
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@JulieSqveakaroo i'm not sure what the right way to do that would be then

the CW itself was pretty uncomfortable to read
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