Posts by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #A56YQ2EsBxNDivyNe4 by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2021-03-11T15:38:06Z
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@redstarfish what do you recommemd instead?
(DIR) Post #A5I5n64lJ6itD9FQxM by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2021-03-17T05:14:04Z
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@aljazeera They really, finally did it! Holy shit congrats to the organizers in Japan!
(DIR) Post #AAisQszy2VeS7TrjGa by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2021-08-26T16:40:11Z
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@aljazeera I know this is a bot and won't respond to me, but is this *really* a top priority right now?
(DIR) Post #AJXxg28bt7Gx0x9VI0 by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-02-24T16:11:33Z
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The US being bad does not magically make China or Russia less bad. Incredibly, more than one thing can be bad at the same time. They can even be bad in the same ways at the same time.
(DIR) Post #APT59hLRuFEiJiOYSG by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-10T17:08:22Z
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Anybody know what this #tool is? I found it in a #woodworking kit, but it was next to some very long #sewing needles, and it looks to me like it might be some kind of #weaving or #FiberArts thing.
(DIR) Post #APT59zF1Msn1ozWfw0 by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-10T17:22:11Z
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Alright, consensus is it's a netmaking shuttle! Given it's from Maine, my guess is it was used to make fishing nets. I thought it looked like a shuttle, but I'd never seen one quite like this before and all I know about weaving is what I get through osmosis being friends with folks who weave. Too cool though! Thanks for the ID everyone!
(DIR) Post #APT5ABjEwM5mYBkyhc by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-10T17:26:25Z
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Now the danger of handing me a new type of tool is I'll want to learn how to use it...
(DIR) Post #APdN62w5QmbqsSXW08 by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T15:08:37Z
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I'm getting really frustrated about the hostility towards CWs from new users, so here are a few random points about CWs.The biggest misconception I see about CWs is this idea that they're for hiding icky bad content so normal/sensitive people don't have to look at it. CWs are for giving people more *control* over what they look at and when they look at it. It's like the difference between asking someone "hey, wanna see a cool frog?" and shoving a frog in somebody's face. (1/?)
(DIR) Post #APdN63RHYnYyRD8Qcq by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T15:12:51Z
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If your argument is that people who don't like what you post can just mute or block you, you're arguing that people who don't like having frogs shoved directly in their faces shouldn't get to look at your frogs. There are lots of people who will love your frogs and want to look at them, but they want that chance to say "Yes, I would love to look at your frog!" for themselves.(2/?)
(DIR) Post #APdN643DHlu8KqsikS by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T15:27:20Z
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CWs also make it easier to share your content. Say I see your cool frog and I go "Oh wow! This is the coolest frog ever! I want to show everyone this cool frog!", but I know there are people following me (or even just in the same local feed as me) who don't want a frog shoved in their faces. Well, now I can't show ANYONE your cool frog because it's going to be a problem for those people.(3/?)
(DIR) Post #APdN64en23xiDOSjJo by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T15:30:02Z
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It's also considered polite to CW any images (or extra-long text for those instances that allow it) that take up a lot of space on the timeline. If you lived through the era of "Do you love the color of the sky?" posts on tumblr, you should understand the appeal of this.(4/?)
(DIR) Post #APdN65EaswbO0RDK7s by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T15:51:29Z
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CWs aren't some sort of Badge of Shame among the Mastodon instances. They're a part of the local culture. We use them to be good neighbors, to make godawful puns, to give each other little surprises. That's in large part because Mastodon was built up by a pile of tired, disabled, traumatized, queer folk, and we built a space where we could engage with the world around us more easily. And then we used the same tools to be goofballs. Because that is how a human do.(5/?)
(DIR) Post #APdN69ZekZpJSv6CVk by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T16:31:32Z
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People have trauma about weird shit sometimes. I, for instance, am badly affected by Christmas stuff. Decorations, music, all of it makes me feel anxious and irritable and miserable. This is because of Reasons that I'm not sharing here. Is there anything inherently Bad about Christmas? No. Should people enjoy the holidays? Yes! Do I appreciate it when people CW Christmas stuff? EXTREMELY.
(DIR) Post #APdN6CIOdCnpuG2xWa by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2022-11-15T16:53:44Z
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And circling back around to engaging with things, but on your own terms: I'm also badly affected by talk of parental abuse, especially abusive mothers. However, I want to read about these things, because reading about them helps me think about them and feel less alone. I just need that moment to look at what I'm getting into and decide for myself to get into it.(7/?)
(DIR) Post #ASiMOQxRURhPEIyJMW by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2023-02-15T20:19:44Z
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@RebeccaRHelm Image description: a juvenile marine snail, suspended in dark water, its shell translucent green and its body translucent white, with six huge, transparent, lobate "wings" studded with bright yellow-orange darts like stars against the black.
(DIR) Post #ASiMVRoGijpXtp1cxM by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2023-02-15T20:21:01Z
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@RebeccaRHelm Image description: a juvenile marine snail, suspended in dark water, its shell translucent green and its body translucent white, with six huge, transparent, lobate "wings" studded with bright yellow-orange dots like stars against the black.
(DIR) Post #ATe5VHwsXFNBboMbI0 by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2023-03-15T16:43:25Z
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@hackaday definitely the constant and deeply invasive spying on me primarily for purposes of trying to sell me as much useless junk as possible.
(DIR) Post #AVWNTEj8la6BV13O3E by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2023-05-10T19:11:36Z
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@element So what I'm getting from this is I need to stop using Element with my ESL students immediately, because the entirety of the police forces in my entire country are one mediocre excuse or bad election away from kidnapping and/or shooting any nonwhite immigrant regardless of immigration status, and you're eager to help spy on potential police violence victims. Is that accurate?
(DIR) Post #AuUmWRKts5kQrcqCsS by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2025-05-26T18:57:02Z
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Small, petty complaint: LXLE is dead and it feels like *everyone* else is using/switching to XFCE instead of LXDE for their lightweight distros. I know it's not the end of the world, they're not that different in performance if you have reasonable amounts of RAM, and I was never enough of a power user to take full advantage of LXDE distros' flexibility. For me personally, there is not actually a huge difference except I have less stuff to poke at/learn about. But I'm just. Bothered. Bleh.#linux
(DIR) Post #AuUmWSQFpfcoEWLzrU by polyplacophora@wandering.shop
2025-05-26T18:58:45Z
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I am not enough of a linux nerd to have valid opinions on this but I am autistic enough to get mad about having to switch to a New Thing.