Posts by bstacey@icosahedron.website
(DIR) Post #APLbFNpVVTtTWQjMFE by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-07T02:46:33Z
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How the honest fuck am I supposed to grade papers when fascism impends?I have people counting on me for mundane tasks, and I am completely incapable of fulfilling those mundane obligations. I just ... can't. I can't function. I don't know how anyone else IS. Like, do you not get that every story about hope and decency and anything good in the human spirit is about to be proven a lie? Does the level of fucked that we are not penetrate?
(DIR) Post #APLbFOQ1Jj6JLfoW9o by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-07T02:54:09Z
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... Like, this is the point of no return. The excuse-for-a-party-of-adults will lose the House. Even if they manage not to lose the Senate this year, they will in 2024. Enough state and local offices will be taken by Trumpist election deniers --- peddlers of the Big Lie --- that the 2024 election won't be free or fair. The judiciary has just BEGUN its assault on human rights.It. Only. Gets. Worse. From. Here.
(DIR) Post #APMeI1iye0YWqwaX68 by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-06T22:09:13Z
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@mollyjongfast @joshtpm There's some weird history to it, like (if I recall correctly) their banning signups from Russia and other countries in the name of "security", which other people around the fediverse took as hostile to marginalized people and dissident groups within those countries. This generated some drama and bad blood, with a fair number of Masto communities deciding they wouldn't have anything to do with CounterSocial.
(DIR) Post #APMeI2DonLE4Ob1AAa by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-06T22:19:15Z
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@mollyjongfast @joshtpm Masto and the wider fediverse have had spikes of new arrivals before. Basically every time Zuckbook or Hellbird did something foolish, or announced that they were about to do something foolish, we'd get an influx. Some of the activity would die down after a while, as people decided the place just wasn't for them, but the level never quite went back to what it was before.(The fediverse is largely but not wholly Mastodon. Servers can be established using other software, too, and they all inter-operate by virtue of sharing a common communication protocol.)
(DIR) Post #APMeI6S9413xWBkf3Y by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-06T22:24:25Z
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@mollyjongfast @joshtpm This migration *feels* bigger and different --- more wide-ranging, more widely advertised --- than the ones that came before. But I think the old-timers are handling it in much the same way as the previous spikes: "Well, time to upgrade the server rental and explain the oat meme again."(Oat puns were huge for a while. Before the days of oats, there was the time of giving pineapples.)
(DIR) Post #APPJd4wXkU6X6oLBSK by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-08T21:07:10Z
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@joshtpm I just get in the habit of putting "uspol" in the CW line of a lot of posts. It's basically like a subject header or category indicator.
(DIR) Post #APSvNHTxrPyScNDSoi by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-10T15:49:14Z
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Hey fellow white peopleIf you're going to tone-police POC for talking about their own damn lives, have the courtesy to CW your remarks. "Privileged-ass mouthing off" would be appropriate, for example.#AllToneCopsAreBastards
(DIR) Post #APbkS7Tl86axy4rddQ by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-14T22:10:03Z
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@vriska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N66Hud_Tq4
(DIR) Post #APwinVu1MbMf8ID2zw by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-11-23T21:56:38Z
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Poll
(DIR) Post #AQiTABUr7rkkpIIsd6 by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-18T01:27:17Z
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When there was only one set of footprints, that was when John Mastodon boosted you from the sand
(DIR) Post #AQibhtVnIae4WhKMhk by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-18T02:05:25Z
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When John Mastodon saw the breadth of his instances, he wept for there were no more worlds to federate.
(DIR) Post #AQng3Rhyiu0MH0MH0C by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-20T14:02:42Z
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@skrishna @john I've been here for over five years and have never seen a "rule" against artist self-promotion being invoked. No such social norm exists, outside the heads of a few people who have now picked that as their way of asserting superiority.
(DIR) Post #AQvDFcRhHi7JdxsHxI by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-23T23:48:07Z
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The "we cannot do a journalism without quote tweets" argument is ... I'm sorry, it's the *worst* rationalization for that feature I have seen so far. My catty response would be, "Wow! You mean journalism was invented in the year 2015? Amazing!"My even cattier response would be that, here, on this site, I covered a "straight pride" parade turning into a police riot. I was posting, complete with CWs, with the taste of pepper spray in my throat.Find. A. Better. Argument.
(DIR) Post #AQvDFe1XPwNeXPeQSW by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-23T23:57:21Z
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... "Oh, but we need quote tweets to critique the big publications and keep them accountable!"Yeah, they sure did a great job stopping the But Her Emails train, didn't they.
(DIR) Post #AQvDFfevKzTnbr5OUK by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-23T23:59:13Z
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... But it's OK. Really. I get it. There are no unintended consequences in your world. Your convenience matters more than the safety of queer people.
(DIR) Post #AQvDFhPkoMX93O0J7Y by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-24T00:20:54Z
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... "Not being able to quote with the push of a button stifles the flow of information!"Well, so does people being driven out of your perfect fucking digital agora."Harassment doesn't have to happen!"What's stopping it?More to the point, why are you ignoring the people who have the most experience with this environment saying that it *will* happen? What, apart from sheer magical thinking, makes that most relevant information suddenly beneath contempt?
(DIR) Post #AQvDFitZIzybe8xdEO by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2022-12-24T01:00:34Z
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I'm sure that you, an individual person wishing for a Quote button, have only beneficial uses in mind. Really! I'm not being facetious here. You want to do good in the world. But lots of people, myself included, are seeing you pull up with your truck of well-intentioned paving stones, and history inclines us to be concerned about where the road will go.In an environment full of fragile white people, every software feature will eventually be a vector for white fragility. Not a fan of "CW your politics" being used as a faux-polite way of saying "shut up"? Just wait until the federated timeline is full of "See, this is the kind of impoliteness I'm talking about".
(DIR) Post #ARbW5sDmMgLCmGQ3oe by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2023-01-13T14:11:46Z
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@djsundog The building I lived as an undergrad was allocated, at the time, 1/65536 of the entire IPv4 address space.
(DIR) Post #ASMVzxr4dPOPxGxDiS by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2023-02-03T02:49:11Z
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I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.
(DIR) Post #ASemDuoBzAYoniRzFY by bstacey@icosahedron.website
2023-02-13T23:06:08Z
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<< Does anyone else think the Chinese balloon is simply an overblown Gender Reveal? >>--- Lois Lowry, 6 Feb 2023