Posts by aredridel@anarchism.space
(DIR) Post #9j1RwPLbw5ngrZoQyG by aredridel@anarchism.space
2019-05-21T03:24:43Z
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@ceejbot Same. Though watching a lot of people get themselves into fight or flight situations around here, I'm not sure it's working particularly well. Not zero, for sure, but it is a weird cultural affectation as much as it is useful.
(DIR) Post #9j1T2fORI8dwJrgRvc by aredridel@anarchism.space
2019-05-21T03:37:06Z
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@ceejbot Gosh this is weird seeing an article that is so very about my friends and the way they grew up ... without ever mentioning my friends and the way they grew up.
(DIR) Post #9j90s3BPG4oNSsPsx6 by aredridel@anarchism.space
2019-05-24T03:48:56Z
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This rings so very true to me, and it's strikingly useful in my ongoing attempts to explain how boundaries aren't rules. It's actually about emotional independence, healthy separation so we can know and love both ourselved and others.
(DIR) Post #9kc9utEnZjwHFOLfo8 by aredridel@anarchism.space
2019-07-07T18:14:08Z
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We really need a new radical feminism that understands gender but avoids the pitfalls of naive "gender critical" and steers far clear of being coopted by the authoritarians and right that creates TERFs.
(DIR) Post #9ys8JA1iukdKHy0zzc by aredridel@anarchism.space
2019-03-24T19:28:34Z
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The four kinds of 90s queer girl roots:- The Spice Girls- Xena- Willow/Tara- Carrie BrownsteinTag urself I'm a Carrie Brownstein kinda queer.
(DIR) Post #APFR11dc8mjMRn6WjQ by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-04T03:39:45Z
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@jalefkowit Sure does. The normies are coming, for better and worse, but it is making critical mass feelings
(DIR) Post #APFRYE9gcfDGpDwCRc by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-04T03:45:58Z
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@siina @Graycot @jalefkowit Yeah, dunno. This one feels different to me. Who is showing up isn't just the queer techies who want to play with the tech; not just the ideology-first FOSS nerds, but people who aren't actually that invested now seem to be actually connecting, not just trying it out.
(DIR) Post #APFyLWgnhOix1wyh84 by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-04T02:13:29Z
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@chartier Local instances should totally be more of a thing. It's such a great way for the serendipity of the local timeline to actually mean something
(DIR) Post #APIkZd2c41wWtstHay by aredridel@anarchism.space
2020-07-05T21:58:38Z
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@restioson Because there's white supremacy and everyone else. Anti-blackness is particularly pernicious, but it's referring to a whole swath of people who have nothing in common except their humanity and that they were designated an 'inferior' race.
(DIR) Post #APIkZdPegMNI3LfgVk by aredridel@anarchism.space
2020-07-05T22:05:37Z
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@restioson And specifically, white people did this _to justify slavery_. The lack of symmetry kinda fell out of that. These aren't natural groupings, this was done with a specific agenda.
(DIR) Post #APImygfRuyqhIN8HbM by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-05T18:34:51Z
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Blocking mastodon.social sure is a choice. Yikes.
(DIR) Post #APSvfmCwMYsr7j4Z1c by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T14:24:22Z
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"Just use CWs like subject lines"People's subject lines: "Re: re: re: re: your healthcare"Body: "Wanna get coffee?"
(DIR) Post #APSvfo9p77ZxAdd6Rc by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T15:11:29Z
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I know the idea seems simple but people are actually really bad at email subject lines. I used to teach this informally to my customers—mostly an over-65 population of rural folks. Mostly slightly wealthy retirees; mostly educated. They really struggled.Some of this is a UI problem: what you call something and how you frame it really matters. Subject lines are big, blank, and up front. They are an open ended text field, prompting in a different context than displayed.
(DIR) Post #APSvfpmV4o6wCsjVMu by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T15:13:33Z
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Subject lines are also _above_ the body, and people tend to execute user interfaces to to bottom, especially when they're form-like.This means that people either need to try to describe an email they have not written yet, or need to loop back. Or not try. Mostly: they don't try. The cognitive load is too high, and they struggle to know what "the right way" is. They cannot empathize enough with a hypothetical receiver to guess the context it will be received in accurately, and they bail out.
(DIR) Post #APSvfrDpifZKfwWqbw by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T15:16:56Z
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This is actually the kind of categorization problem that autistic folks tend to be really _good_ at, and good at doing, by the way. Most people however are not good at it.And there are _no_ social cues present for an email subject. Not even reference to your own email that you've not written.
(DIR) Post #APSvfsaucLckvoKnDs by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T15:20:36Z
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I used to teach the military style BLUF: bottom line up front. I'd say "write your email. Okay, now what's the most important part, probably near the end. Conclusion, or action you want them to take. There's your subject line. Also it's okay to make it the first line too."If they're really clever, I'd teach them what TL;DR means.
(DIR) Post #APSvftz3S4WvEydaUa by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T15:21:07Z
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A significant number of people struggled with even this technique: they did not know and could not identify the topic of their email, even after writing it. This runs deep in their entire communication patterns, and I could not find a way to reach them in a meaningful way. I could maybe, _maybe_ get them to mark tone: "Happy (event)" "Hey, this is important" and "Just chatting" as a subject line, worded as appropriate for their context.
(DIR) Post #APSvfvGSgq33DFn0GO by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T15:25:43Z
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oh, context: "my customers"—I used to run a small internet service provider in a rural area of Colorado. I was literally the person helping all levels of getting older people to send email, often for the first time ever.
(DIR) Post #APSy7aNK9JdSRUJkvI by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T16:20:37Z
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@lanodan Yup. But most people's idea of articles is more People magazine than something published by PLOS. And the titles there are bait :/
(DIR) Post #APV7z8kyL2EIKGuVHc by aredridel@anarchism.space
2022-11-10T16:59:08Z
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Is there a way to just like ... mute "Mastodon Twitter Crossposter"? Like mute based on the posting app?