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apparently nuclear take about ongoing discourse, kf 

you know, we can both listen to abuse victims and oust people who sexually abuse kids from our communities -and- not treat a board whose entire focus is the relentless harassment, doxxing and suicide baiting of vulnerable people for little to no reason other than "it amuses us" as a credible source

literally nothing is stopping us from just doing both

Going back to Twitter I now see the concept of "going viral" as what it actually is, a weird and unhealthy obsession actively encouraged by platforms through the frustratingly mysterious black box of their algorithims. And it's not like this is accidental either, this is gradual and deliberate social engineering on behalf of large corporations that transforms normal reasonable people into obsessive, dysfunctional content farms. We were never the consumer. We were the product.

late night worldbuilding idea 

*nearly 6 billion years after leaving the main sequence for that first toot, rather

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late night worldbuilding idea 

losing the deep atmosphere and no longer viable volatiles would be a fairly quick process if the solar system's history is any indication, and you'd likely be left with something that'd ostensibly resemble early Earth, if with less geological activity

hmmmm...

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late night worldbuilding idea 

what if I made the point of origin for one of the civilizations in my setting a former ice giant whose atmosphere has been blown off by the expansion of its parent star into a low mass red giant

apparently a 0.5 mSol star can keep a planet orbiting at Jupiter's distance in its habitable zone for nearly 6 billion years which is literally a better prospect for life than most F-type stars, let alone anything more massive

horny on main 

making out with enormous, corruptive, gasmasked rubber jackal blimps, tbqh

everyone was posting stuff by @jdlwerewolf@snouts.online while I was taking a nap in front of the computer so hey, let me belatedly jump onto this train 💙

gay frog conspiracy theorist 

is it me or does alex jones look worse every single time I see him

i guess that's what dedicating your life to harassing people for political gain does to you because I can't believe this man is only 44

aww hell yes we federating with a lot more instances now

also, friends from newly federated instances who tried to follow me before: you'll probably have to unfollow and refollow to make it not act all weird and quirky

got a cute new avatar by @GlitterDisaster@snouts.online!

aww hell yes we federating with a lot more instances now

also, friends from newly federated instances who tried to follow me before: you'll probably have to unfollow and refollow to make it not act all weird and quirky

"Dystopia basically writes itself. Utopia, aka imagining just and liveable futures, is harder and far more essential."
-- Maria Farrell
crookedtimber.org/2018/09/03/t

trans gatekeeping (+) 

That went like a million times better than expected, thank god

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trans gatekeeping (-) 

on my way to another appointment with a psychologist all the way over in fucking Amsterdam to discuss things that I've either already figured out or are completely irrelevant to my transition

wish me luck

moderation opinions 

There is by definition no single right moderation strategy, and the "drama"/conflict that arises from different strategies is normal.

If you attempt to find a universally correct moderation strategy you end up recreating the non-moderation or tone policing you see e.g. on Twitter, where moderation decisions have to be based on rigid law-like rules that are easily gamed and abused in the best case, and a formal shield for abuse in the worst.
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yeah can I have some of that uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh iced air

*is served a glass full of ice cubes and nothing else*

thank you

i came up with the term "information superhighway" in 1996 while driving my car through the front door of a Babbage's

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