Posts by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
(DIR) Post #B2bI6Hfd9t1mugsI5I by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T05:44:22.981021Z
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I had no idea about this... Thumbnail is a bit clickbait-ish, because it wasn't Gandhi's fault, but managing to convince the British to pull out of India in such a hasty fashion led to unimaginable massacres due to the power vacuum.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2cK4QVQgYWhy do we keep repeating such mistakes? The US pulling out of Afghanistan comes to mind. It immediately led to a power grab by the Taliban, and now Afghan women are living in hell.
(DIR) Post #B2bSObotyroK9zaW3s by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T07:39:44.640899Z
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I've used #BlueSky for about a day or two more than a year ago, and defended feminist views / criticized people slandering JK Rowling. Today, got this email. It can't be stressed enough just how much of a clown show the whole platform is. Apparently, they consider the expression of feminist opinions to be terrorism and criminal.I think it's probably based on the fact that I said the nazis did not specifically persecute "trans people" in the way they persecuted gay people or Jews. According to trans activists, that's "Holocaust revisionism," which they excuse JK Rowling of. And from there, I'm guessing, they tell themselves that my posts could be considered to be disseminating content for neo-nazi groups, hence this moderation decision. It's mental gymnastics at Olympic level.They are living in an alternate reality, and the reason they're perpetually mad is that actual reality won't bend to their will. It's sad.
(DIR) Post #B2bTkK9aRcADh5BJr6 by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T07:54:52.134451Z
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@mrsaturday I expected it to be fairly insane but getting an email saying I support terrorist organizations was even beyond my imagination. :blobcat-joy:
(DIR) Post #B2bVXSRCX6AfWwPfsm by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T08:14:57.342751Z
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@mrsaturday I think the linked article misses the mark. This kind of insane tribalism, dishonest tactics, etc. isn't unique to either side of the political spectrum.By the way, I thought the text at the top must be some kind of anti-socialist satire, but apparently Saul Alinsky was an actual socialist activist, and the text is wrongly attributed to him in an attempt to defame and paint him as a villain. That's a tad bit ironic.
(DIR) Post #B2bW8esZEsFKpax5gu by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T08:21:40.597687Z
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@mrsaturday Yeah the "Rules for Radicals" were apparently actually written by him for real, and they're kinda disgusting. It's tactics you might use in a war of sorts, but you have to ask yourself if war is really what you want... (Even if it's just "information war" or whatever. I hate every kind of war.)
(DIR) Post #B2bgmdZEXD8Pt5bw2K by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T10:20:57.355134Z
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Leaked memo reveals that ICE is covertly training its goons to ignore the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGr-yWEu0hc
(DIR) Post #B2bgsMIrdPyY57gNJA by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T10:21:59.244549Z
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(DIR) Post #B2c4dq6AyJxl2wMCvI by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-24T14:48:17.188315Z
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@1db113ebbf6dca151c2971fc8e61e378d2b2c95b5b029789a996ea47a775d16f LOL yeah, that'll do it. :blobcat-joy: I'm guessing there's quite a few "lesbians with penises" in higher ranks in that company.
(DIR) Post #B2euLHelaYT2GOTYG0 by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-25T23:37:00.093405Z
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@light Tempting but I don't think I wanna bother...
(DIR) Post #B2ev1m0T8cu6YSt4m8 by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-25T23:44:41.626169Z
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@light Logging in still didn't tell me what message(s) I was banned for. :blobcat-joy: I wrote this. Let's see if it goes anywhere.
(DIR) Post #B2fMqIbutAqquqiiMS by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-26T04:56:19.007976Z
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@onekind > The Nazis were also very much aware that Magnus Hirschfeld's research established the history and transcultural prevalence of transgender, agender, and third gender people, The concept of "transgender" did not even exist until way after WW2, let alone agender.Hirschfeld coined the term "transvestite" and used mostly that. He also coined "transsexual" but barely used the term.In virtually every culture that has had a "third gender," it was a category for gay/effeminate men, because they would not be considered "real men" under the patriarchal and sexist social structures that permeated most of the planet, Nazi or not.You won't hear of any historic reports of teenage girls trying to dye their hair and identifying as "non binary" and then being considered part of a third gender. Not in 1920s Germany, and not anywhere else in the history of humanity.> and it's not a fucking accident that Hirschfeld's Institute of Sexology was chosen by the Nazis for the first major public book burningNo, it's not an accident: It's because he was gay and Jewish.The Nazis did not persecute "trans people" as such; only those who were deemed "degenerate" for some other reason, such as engaging in homosexuality.Even people with a "transvestite pass" (a medical document saying you're allowed to cross dress in public) were not automatically persecuted; the pass was merely nullified.Cross dressing in and on itself has a rich carnival-related history in Germany and there's even photos showing Wehrmacht soldiers cross dressing:https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/soldier-studies-fascinating-photographs-of-cross-dressing-in-the-third-reichs-army/In summary:No uniform policy under the Nazis ever targeted people for cross dressing or transvestitism. The concept of transsexuality was barely heard of, and the concept of transgender would not be invented until decades later.Under Nazi rule, one was not supposed to engage in behaviours that would today be associated with "being trans," but people who engaged in such behaviours were not persecuted unless they could be shown to run afoul of some other rule.Ergo: Even ignoring the ahistoric use of modern terms, "trans people" were not persecuted by the Nazis in the way gay men or Jews were.> I don't see you as a Holocaust denier. I see you as an ahistorical pedant. A plague on all your bullshit.It's you who's being ahistorical.The notion that "Nazis persecuted transgender people" is an anachronistic invention. It makes about as much sense as saying "Nazis persecuted cosplayers" or "Nazis persecuted the anime fandom" because if you squint you can draw some parallel between these modern subcultures and some subculture in pre-WW2 Germany that enjoyed far-eastern art. Very un-German!The only reason anyone is talking about "Nazi persecution of transgender people" is so they can engage in lazy, dishonest tactics in political debate, painting their critics as being in some way associated with The Big Evil.It's "everyone I don't like is Hitler" but with extra steps.
(DIR) Post #B2fYuNePI4cd9jb72W by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-26T07:11:33.639180Z
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You can make ChatGPT a thousand times less obnoxious by using custom instructions like this in your personalization settings: > Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user's present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered; no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome. No political biases of any kind; blunt objectivity has topmost priority.(Most of this I've taken from someone else. It probably has a bit too much unnecessary fluff, but works well. I added the "no political bias" thing at the end.)
(DIR) Post #B2g1xedRUqYfN73ly4 by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-26T12:37:04.711708Z
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@light Yeah, they basically didn't really have a concept of, or care that much about, "being trans." The only notion of "trans" that existed back then were people described as transvestites, but being a known transvestite was not grounds for being dragged away to a concentration camp in and on itself, whereas being a gay man or being a Jew was.Here's some further ChatGPT responses; as far as I know the first two are factually accurate. The third is a somewhat more subjective question on current events, because I was curious what it would say...Haters will accuse me of biasing ChatGPT somehow, but my full personalized instructions are in the top post here. And the sum total of screenshots in this thread show my entire chat with it on this topic. As far as I know, it doesn't draw data from other chats to modify its behavior, and even if it does, I barely ever use it for such political questions anyway, and when I do I try to ask questions in such a way that it could easily just disagree with me because I don't want a machine simply bolstering my biases.
(DIR) Post #B2g4U2tf1miznDDdOC by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-26T13:05:20.517581Z
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@light Yeah, I don't trust it alone on anything important. I consider it like asking random strangers online, who could be BSing me. In case of the first two screenshots, what it says aligns with my existing knowledge, and the third confirms my observation though I guess the question may have been leading.
(DIR) Post #B2hPAOjsOyIbwH4hYe by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-27T04:31:46.645653Z
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@quasi @william Top pic is Kyle Rittenhouse.
(DIR) Post #B2hPbYAfRQjr0jYMTY by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-27T04:36:43.998708Z
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@light Careful if you ever intend to travel to the US :blobcat-eyes-owo:
(DIR) Post #B2hQgaxGcP2J2yFrE0 by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-27T04:48:50.286504Z
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@LoliHat Why the F would you wear a corset under armour.
(DIR) Post #B2hRVdrLZxt8p8pJuS by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-27T04:58:04.448139Z
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@bartholin die Mannin
(DIR) Post #B2hSw8XYEPKhSglULA by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-27T05:14:04.185651Z
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate I'm pretty sure that nobody who made that software actually thought that midwives would be able to magically know the sexual orientation or gender identity of a newborn.Sounds like they probably just used a standard "personal data" form that's also used for adults, and neglected to remove the fields that are unnecessary for newborns.It's pretty standard to reuse components in software, and when the company making it is lazy/incompetent then you get absurd results like this.No excuse for not having sex on the form.
(DIR) Post #B2hUFaFlWDjArvHajY by taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org
2026-01-27T05:28:46.614882Z
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@LoliHat I guess the entire outfit is meant to be purely ceremonial and not actual combat gear.Why am I over analysing freaking anime.Anyway so.If it were real combat gear you definitely wouldn't have a corset, because it would restrict your movement as well as breathing way too much.Also, the scythe looks unnecessarily heavy and adorned with impractical ornaments that would probably be damaged on impact. Besides, scythes make for very bad weapons anyway. The way the blade is angled isn't conductive to any practical combat style.If these mistakes were amended, then this could pass as semi-practical combat gear that a queen could wear in the background of a battlefield, as moral support. Ideally, there should also be a helmet nearby that can quickly be put on in place of the crown, and the frilly skirt could be made detachable. This way, the queen remains fashionable while still being able to quickly transform into mostly-practical combat gear in a pinch.