Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

ok time to try out this dang thing

I would like to address the idea that "food companies have scientists whose whole job is perfecting the sweet/salty/fat flavors to make their products ADDICTIVE."

I want to know who really thinks it takes a 4-year degree to figure it out that it's awesome to fry potatoes

I fucking love being a girl and I fucking love that no one can stop me.

Tags on bandcamp are for both topics and genres. Assume a tag is a genre, and you can suppose that it means the band makes music in that genre. So apply the tag to the band, too.

But if the tag isn’t a genre (which you’d have no way of knowing without context), you’ve just created a context collapse. Which is, incidentally, the alt-right’s favorite tool for muddying the waters.

Writing songs about chocolate doesn’t make the band made of chocolate.

I can also see exactly the chain of events that would cause this to happen. The idea came from a good place, but it led to a horrible chain of events with horrible implications that had the opposite effect from the intentions.

Removing alt-right bands is a good thing! But they need to actually be alt-right!

Also I’m grateful to know someone at bandcamp who was able to get this fixed so quickly. Most people don’t have that luxury. Especially among the sorts of people who would run into this specific issue. I hope this can be fixed categorically, because I’m sure I’m not the only one to be affected this way.

This is why content moderation needs to be done by humans, not by algorithms, and why those moderation decisions need to be validated and continuously verified.

Don’t destroy someone’s livelihood because you think you’re doing the right thing without making sure!

Basically I had a song that was tagged as “alt-right” because it was critical of Trump and his followers. This led to my entire account being tagged as “alt-right” and therefore delisted as being a nazi.

Which is REALLY FUCKING IRONIC on many axes.

Since when do alt-right people self-describe as that, anyway?

This issue has been fixed thanks to a very helpful friend who works at bandcamp and was able to escalate the issue. It turns out that one of my songs was tagged with a thing that, out of context, flagged my account as questionable, and I had no way of knowing this or being warned that it’d happen.

“Content moderation gone wrong.” They’re going to figure out how to make it up to me and also hopefully this leads to a process change.

Have a tip from the furry fandom on how to diminish the influence of capitalism on you and your spaces: Become unmarketable.

The 2020s are going to be defined (and have been defined) by isolation. For me, you, and everyone else-- except the people who just don't care.

Not caring is always an easy way to get through the day, but it makes me sick to my stomach, so I won't live that sort of life.

The reality of the internet is that minorities who are not welcome in public spaces are now being pushed out of the pseudo-public online-spaces that defined the minority communities of the 2000s and the 2010s

@FreyaManibrandr I forgot the (cont.)!

Anyways, at present there aren't any minds we can communicate well with. Folks have been able to communicate with a few animals and their minds are different enough that they can't understand the concepts we might be able to teach, and become better able to understand and communicate more from learning. Or so my understanding goes, anyways.

It seems inevitable, however, that humans will diverge into seperate species or races, (cont.)

@FreyaManibrandr Thanks for sticking with me so far!

When I asked about definitions of harm, the idea was to think about it from the perspective of someone who would know what harm is and that they're being harmed. Many animals respond to something we'd consider pain, but don't understand the harm apart from their diminished capabilities. When death comes for them, they might understand it's possible, having seen others die, but not know how it works. Some animals do.

@FreyaManibrandr The point where it becomes important if something is alive is more when it has a will to resist, understanding to know there's something TO resist, and the capability to stop someone, or get someone else to stop them.

A gorilla might be territorial, but it doesn't own property, or know what that is. It won't take you to court. But it also thinks and feels in ways we might relate to, but are still alien to our own minds. (cont.)

@FreyaManibrandr Stars may or may not be alive in a sense, but they don't really do much besides physical reactions of their constituent particles, as far as I know.

Many animals on Earth are in some way 'intelligent' but have minds distinctly different from humans, and nothing but humans gets human rights from humans regardless of capability or intelligence, though they may get better treatment. (cont.)

@FreyaManibrandr The individual cells that make up your body aren't even all connected. Blood is a liquid, but part of your body, and each blood cell contains your whole genetic code. Each cell also contains a Mitochondria, with its own genetic code.

And all of them are made up of arrangements of the same particles as every bit of non-living matter. In a sense, you could say the universe is alive because parts of it (like us) are alive. (cont.)

First sona - Jasper the Chimera Bunny!

Pronouns: It/Its, They/ Them, He/ Him

Jasper has a special interest in ice and works as a glaciologist, studying glaciers. As a result of weird wibbly wobbly circumstances , they found an enchanted glacier during their job that gave him ice powers.