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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
there’s something charming about dropping a line of dialogue like “Perfectly normal, non-traumatized thing to say” in the midst of some faux‐Edwardian pre‐modernist prose
honestly my favourite thing about my writing style being kinda oldfashioned is when it combines with very contemporary phrasings or tropes
fr i’m not doing NaNo but i do have a story i would like to get a first and maybe second draft of done this month
you can’t observe NaNoWriMo if you don’t observe November 
@aescling the US should subsidize all recommended vaccinations
@aescling is it going to stop being free
@noelle i think NaNo punishes people for being thoughtful and interested about their stories and i think that’s the opposite of what a good writing event should do
for a person like me who is really invested in writing as an artform, the time commitment is so much higher than it is for someone who doesn't care that it stops really being feasible
but that doesn't make me a bad writer? i think it implies the opposite?
@noelle i completed a novel one NaNoWriMo and wrote a chapter-sized short story the next NaNoWriMo and they took me exactly the same amount of time
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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
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
« 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
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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
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
