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Mastodon.lol meta | subtoot | suicide mention
You don't get to play the victim and claim that you were bullied when the inciting incident is you telling people to unalive themselves.
You are a crybully, and you choosing to shut your own instance down over the backlash instead of taking responsibility and apologizing for suicide baiting people is a bitch-made coward move.
meta, fediblock
Since there's apparently fediblock discourse again: "instance blocking is a last resort" and "instance blocking is a frequent occurrence" can both be true simultaneously.
There's an awful lot of people (including instance admins!) who still need to learn how to deal with community safety effectively and what the impact of their choices is on other communities.
If you want to see the amount of instance blocking reduced, then your focus should probably be on "eliminating the reason for it" rather than "telling people not to do it" or invoking cancel culture rhetoric.
This includes things like "understanding how one admin's failure to moderate leads to everybody else's workload increasing", and "when someone is behaving abusively, the primary focus should be on the safety of the victim(s) and not on the abuser, even when the abuser has trauma/etc. themselves".
youtube video re: JK Rowling's transphobia & association with larger hate movements (~28 minutes)
"JK Rowling's New Friends" by Shaun, posted ~3 months ago.
youtube video re: JK Rowling's transphobia & association with larger hate movements (~3.5 hours)
"I'm Done With JK Rowling" by Jessie Gender, posted ~2 weeks ago.
Yes, you read that content warning right: This is roughly three and a half *hours* of video detailing all the hateful bullshit JK Rowling has gotten up to, by someone who said author has directed harassment towards simply for being trans and critical of her work and behavior.
Meta
You know, Laurelai Bailey has always been a piece of shit, and never showed any signs of regret and remorse. The fact that people are wanting to give her a chance? That's a huge red flag.
If I catch anyone defending LB and citing "restorative justice" that's a block and report, and if the admins of that instance fail to take action, you can bet your ass I am dragging their names through the mud and recommending their instances to the fediblock.
"This right here is exactly what’s going on with the Wizard game and why so many LGBTQ people are calling y’all out. You’re here for the party, not the protest."
Source: https://twitter.com/ThatCmonster/status/1623863618667266050
meta, on community
There has never been a single unified "trans community." Any gathering of trans people large enough will inevitably fracture when someone turns out to be shit and the people with principles leave. The sooner you learn this and grow yourself some principles, the better.
If you don't want this to happen to your community, active, swift, firm, and unforgiving removal of known bad actors *and their enablers* from your circles is required. Swing the banhammer hard and often.
gender euphoria thoughts
This applies to all manner of physical and mental ableness, too.
gender euphoria thoughts
I think it's super neat that you can have each of "my fursona/OC is biologically my trans gender and is either aggressively traditionally attractive or more average presentation," "my fursona/OC is just as trans and flawed as myself, or more able to gender express than myself," and "my fursona/OC can do all kinds of wild sex and/or gender related stuff that's not humanly possible" and they're all equally valid and accepted means of pursuing gender euphoria.
psychology of trauma etc
I recognise an old self in traumatised people acting righteous and hyper-vigilant, and think about how I behaved that way until someone very generous to me said, ‘you can just forgive yourself for being in the way of harm. you don’t have to forgive the other person, just accept they behaved that way, and forgive yourself that you were unable to move away in time’ and as soon as I heard that I realised that it’s to do with a grudge against yourself and not people who harm
A tool's worth is directly proportional to how effectively it can be used to fuck up a Nazi.
This is why the Wii U Gamepad is the best thing we've ever been able to make out of computers.
praxis thoughts about hogwarts legacy meta
realizing this is the kind of passionate moral context that harassers could latch onto as justification for violence, so, for our own clarity:
we don't want this game to be normal
we don't want people buying and playing antisemitic stories
we don't want to strengthen the weight of that "beloved creator" image that JKR uses to enact trans genocide
we don't want anyone to tell us that blood libel simulator 2023 is a wonderful game by a wonderful TERF
so
we're not interested in hurting people
but we want everyone to know what Hogwarts Legacy is a legacy of
https://eldritch.cafe/@amberage/109838225628360920 is a nice roundup
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