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would you follow me into the darkness? 🥺
stay by my side and fight with me? 🥺

@konrad this isn't exactly what you're asking, but it is important to consider: one big structural priority to think about from the outset with ANY instance is “how quickly can we respond in times of crisis”

a common failing of democratically-oriented instances is that when something controversial happens (e.g. a user says something which is patently bad but not an obvious violation of the code of conduct) the amount of Process required for action leads to an external appearance of inaction to the rest of the fediverse. this is a problem because even if appropriate steps are eventually made, by that time other instance admins may have gotten tired of waiting and permanently severed federation. it's very important to be able to respond to issues in a timely manner, and that means having a person (who could be elected!) with the authority to make immediate judgment calls on difficult cases.

you absolutely do not want to be caught in this situation without having established a plan for dealing with it. the reason why most fedi instances are not democratically-structured is because being both democratic AND responsive is a really tough nut to crack.

this man on NPR is being like “to save democracy we need to get better at propaganda”

i am actually a very good ruby dev for not being a very good ruby dev

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doing good work at work today 😤

@mycorrhiza yeah i think “party identity” is definitely an interesting word choice on the part of this op-ed writer; i think actually what people are increasingly polarized regarding is the question of “where do we go from capitalism?” (with answers including socialism, fascism, etc) and Americans have just learned to speak about those opinions through proxy of a Democrat/Republican divide

i didn’t check the survey they were citing (if they did cite one…) to see what actual terms it used [but there are plenty of surveys right now showing that many people believe neither party deserves control of Congress, so stating that Americans have strong allegiance to “party identity” in that context is definitely baffling]

politics is a dialectic between differences and i for one embrace those differences shifting from what they were in 1992

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« A study using cross-national data found that Americans have become so tied to party identity that race and class polarize us less than politics. » is this person nostalgic for racism

Lady boosted

new york times today:
- fed wants to raise interest rates again to curb spending, because inflation
- retailers really want people to spend money this holiday season, because inflation

bea once called my writing “tiresome and pretentious” lol

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one problem with reading a lot of old shit is i have no idea whether a contemporary reader will tolerate « So thinking, I gather myself for departure, and pen a quick note for Link on his return. »

@coriander join me in celebrating Witchnight on 29 November

suicide squad
the suicide squad
the suicide squads
the suicide squads’

@aescling @coriander p.s. i have it if we want to do a Viewing in the discord server

@coriander honestly the only Miyazaki films which i really consider Culturally Significant are Nausicaä and Mononoke and personally i think Nausicaä says it better; it's the one where i’m like “yeah this movie will change how you think about art if you let it”

(there are other Culturally Significant Ghibli films but they have different directors)

• it’s got science going too far
• it’s got body horror
• it’s got strange and powerful creatures beyond human comprehension
• it’s got an invisible yet deadly and pervasive illness
• it’s got people being constant fuckups as they attempt to enact their petty politics in a world they do not control or understand
• it’s got an incredibly hot yet morally ambiguous lesbian

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every time i try to read gothic fiction i am just like “why isn’t this Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”

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the Nausicaä movie is great because it is like what if we had romantic pushback against the age of science and reason but it WASN’T poisoned by European intellectualism

buddy i guarantee you port 8983 is not already being used by another process

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.