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(DIR) Post #AZ92ja58PatCmOKULI by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T02:03:08Z
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If you want me to change how I write my articles, you can pay me an eye-watering amount of money per article (more than I will ever make off of any individual article, even a super-banger).
(DIR) Post #AZ9DmuidEtIX9Hazzs by volpeon@is-a.wyvern.rip
2023-08-27T06:33:09.850Z
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@cadey@pony.social Not taking useful advice because of some furry avatars is really their loss :woozy_baa:
(DIR) Post #AZ9nrrN4i4osZ1Ad28 by odoben@meow.social
2023-08-27T10:51:01Z
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@volpeon @cadey https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/109435265296694732
(DIR) Post #AZ9s5PRhjRmnpG3Iau by anime_reference@wetdry.world
2023-08-27T02:07:42Z
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@cadey I'm curious but also afraid to find out what kind of dev team this person has that doesn't believe "furry avatar" is a hallmark of extremely competent computer touchers
(DIR) Post #AZ9s6SHgfFOYv0riVM by fugueish@infosec.exchange
2023-08-27T02:30:14Z
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@cadey You can reasonably charge much more than $1,000.
(DIR) Post #AZ9s6T9ZQuUrc84kUa by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T02:35:12Z
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@fugueish Well yes, but the trick with contracting like this is to start out slightly low and increase your price next time for every successful bid.
(DIR) Post #AZ9s7IDvYTHk0PVRrc by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T02:41:39Z
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@fen in the business we call this a "shitty team"
(DIR) Post #AZ9s7Z62p254KswtRA by foone@digipres.club
2023-08-27T03:30:58Z
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@anime_reference @cadey one that's probably having a lot of trouble hiring
(DIR) Post #AZ9s99wvI0bmvGRVSq by shanecelis@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-08-27T03:37:17Z
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@cadey Great response. Great article too. Your generosity to serde provided a vantage point where it didn't seem like you were taking sides in the drama, yet you had a clear thesis that at first blush might appear one-sided. I was impressed you achieved that.Also I hadn't realized I followed the author of the article until I saw this toot. Small world.
(DIR) Post #AZ9s9AckmU4L100ufI by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T09:25:22Z
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@shanecelis when i was drafting it, i was operating under the assumption of "i think the tradeoffs here are stupid, but if it does actually speed things up, maybe it'd be worth it?" until I got to the point in my analysis where it didn't actually speed things up. I was going to add a tangent about how process creation is surprisingly slow cross-platform, but I'll save that for another day.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sAkSB3Nq4QZoqmm by chamomile@furry.engineer
2023-08-27T07:20:40Z
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@cadey After reading your article it's pretty apparent that the characters are actually integrated as part of the blog rather than just window dressing, which makes this request all the more entitled. (For anyone unfamiliar I recommend checking it out; it's an interesting format.)
(DIR) Post #AZ9sAt0VFe38xLwNOq by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T09:28:40Z
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@chamomile yep! It's a novel application of the Socratic method. I'm more of a fiction writer by nature and embedding the conversation snippets allows me to flex that fiction muscle in the form of long-running fleshed out characters. People regularly ask me if those characters are headmates or something, which really does cement the fact that I'm doing a writing correctly.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sCx2NEpbM2Dng5Q by jhominal@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T08:08:50Z
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@cadey I kinda loved the furry avatars and conversations in the article, am I weird?Please do not remove them. XD
(DIR) Post #AZ9sD1ToijvjoUfePw by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T09:36:00Z
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@jhominal oh don't worry, if they pay up I'll give them a version with all of the conversation snippets removed as a PDF.But with an invisible text layer over the article saying: "Trans rights are human rights, I support the LGBTQ community in their efforts to attain equality. I am an earnest supporter for human rights and equal access to informational media. I love furries and I am working on my fursona." so that if they try to copy text out of it, it ends up copying out something that makes them "excercise awareness of optics".Also probably making all the links a rickroll.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sENodA8UTNN3SWO by mesebrec@ubuntu.social
2023-08-27T08:02:09Z
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@cadey that last line of their rant is so patronizing, wtf..
(DIR) Post #AZ9sEUG9Ck4BMRyWFE by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T09:36:24Z
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@mesebrec welcome to hacker news commenters
(DIR) Post #AZ9sF7AUXhiQ2Cd3LM by amtx@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T10:14:54Z
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@rgegriff @cadey Are furries really synonymous with queer people? Always thought it was a weird fandom thing
(DIR) Post #AZ9sF86z2EVGxbzlVw by soatok@furry.engineer
2023-08-27T10:24:54Z
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@amtx @rgegriff @cadey It's a dogwhistle.While like 95% of the population is hetero, only about 20% of furries are. So in the early days of SomethingAwful, they used "furry hate" as a way to be queerphobic without ipso facto breaking rules against queerphobia.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sF9m8qh1K7YG9J2 by soatok@furry.engineer
2023-08-27T10:54:16Z
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@amtx @rgegriff @cadey OK, my client is acting like you keep deleting/reposting the same reply so I can't actually reply to yours reliably, so to side-step any technical issues here's a follow-up comment:I wasn't saying anything about the professional team here. I was explaining why hating furries leads to the interpretation of "wow you must hate queer people". It's because furry hate is a dogwhistle.The nature of dogwhistles is an inherent deniability. Like, that's the entire reason why bigots use them. It's the primary feature.I hope the message is clear.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sGql2WlWniXYFfM by SylvieLorxu@chaos.social
2023-08-27T10:29:53Z
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@cadey I understand their concerns. Furries are indeed associated with "Extremely negative things" such as:- A friendly demeanour- Acceptance and love of queer folks- A desire to enjoy harmless hobbies- An acceptance of others enjoying harmless hobbies
(DIR) Post #AZ9sIqDfV2VqcwtLrk by amtx@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T11:04:09Z
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@soatok @rgegriff @cadey Yeah, I kept trying to rephrase my post. My point was as follows: I think a good work environment constitues a setting where you can share code on the company slack and not (irrationally) get shit for itWith that said, I just don’t think SA goons are a reliable indicator of culture or social behavior. SA was a zeitgeist born out of a desire to not be relevant or cohesive to anything, ever. That was my one nitpick
(DIR) Post #AZ9sIqtqyCFyjmd2cS by soatok@furry.engineer
2023-08-27T11:05:20Z
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@amtx @rgegriff @cadey SA culture affected 4chan culture in the early days. 4chan culture affected meme culture, which affects everything.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sJEC4MdUgywKPho by amtx@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T12:15:30Z
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@soatok @rgegriff @cadey Yes, but the site hasn’t been relevant for the past decade or so. It was always a hangout for detached nihilists to shit on anything and everything (weird shit or extremely online internet things). But even back then, most people egged on you guys because you liked this thing they found weird or niche.Sure, some people had more personal opinions but things are different now. I still fail to see how the two things are related
(DIR) Post #AZ9sJEnI8FGgqNk8iu by soatok@furry.engineer
2023-08-27T12:18:57Z
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@amtx @rgegriff @cadey I'm not sure how to connect the dots for youFrom the dregs of SA to the transphobic "litterbox" hoax of the past two years, a lot of right-wing assholes use "I hate furries" as a defensible stand-in for their hatred of queer people. It's such a common occurrence that, when confronted with anti-furry sentiment, choosing to interpret it as bigotry against queer identities is a safe bet (even if it fails some small % of the time).If you can't wrap your head around this observation from the lived experiences of queer people, maybe someone else can explain it to you better than I can.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sJvDIPx1cPCEV5U by cadey@pony.social
2023-08-27T12:27:02Z
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@amtx @soatok @rgegriff 4chan isn't very culturally relevant anymore but we're still having to deal with trumpism and qanon.
(DIR) Post #AZ9sKERSvUeI2e0aJM by amtx@mastodon.social
2023-08-27T12:35:23Z
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@cadey @soatok @rgegriff I meant related as in furries and queer people. I’m aware of how connected the aforementioned topics are, but I just didn’t see how hate for furries is synonymous for hate for queers, or how their obsession has somehow moved beyond “extremely online stuff that nobody has the slightest idea about” territory
(DIR) Post #AZ9sKEyQwv1JgtQuhM by soatok@furry.engineer
2023-08-27T12:36:48Z
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@amtx @cadey @rgegriff https://furscience.com/research-findings/sex-relationships-pornography/5-1-orientation/https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/728348738452869122http://archive.md/fX8Jo