@noracodes i half expected that this was bespoke nora
@noracodes what interface are you using?
I suppose I should make a proper #introduction post!
My name is Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam, and I'm an artist & independent scholar who lives in Philly. My personal/creative/intellectual work has centered on Black history, Black expressive culture, Black radical politics (especially #afropessimism), and the U.S. South. I'm also a co-creator of the #YourSlipIsShowing ht on Twitter, which tracked disinformation campaigns on social media.
@eevee those feeties!
Trying that manual QRT thing, where I link to a post instead of boosting, so that I can provide context.
So! Dr. Sarah Taber is relaunching the 'Farm to Taber' podcast, which is brilliant, about agriculture history/industry/inequity/mythology, and one of the very few podcasts I've ever followed even without a transcript. Next one's gonna be about whaling! https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/109326297668711218
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RT @philstreets@twitter.com
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Celebrate bitches! It’s my day!
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@noiob thank you
my home away from the whitelist is mastodon.social, however the follow list there and my follow list here have significantly diverged at this point.
is there a good tool out there to reconcile these lists? #meta
about how racist harassment works on leftist fedi
@AskASwiss @timnitGebru I mean obviously the targeted individuals/instances block and defederate with the most obvious troll/Nazi/4chan instances who use slurs. They're not even the problem.
What isn't solved by blocking is when a "nice, leftist" queer admin and their friends start shitposting about a Black instance, making false claims against it and playing innocent when called on it.
That admin's server is blocked, problem solved, right? But they keep up the badmouthing and lying, whipping up the atmosphere of hostility, and direct people to harass the Black instance over conflicts that don't involve that instance at all.
While the Black instance is attacked left and right, they are now ALSO attacked for blocking the original instance. Oh why did you block them? They are so nice and leftist! Do you hate queer people?
They can defederate, yes, but at that point they're so exhausted and there is so much hostility in every direction, it becomes easier to leave.
So they leave.
And the original admin and their friends who harassed them play the victim, and get lots of sympathy. They remain popular and accepted.
It's not the easily-blocked Nazis who are the problem.
It's your nice white friends.
Transitioning in mid-life
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