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pokémon fans don't watch the anime they don't know about pollinators

remember when the pokémon anime had an episode about flabébé and it was just like “this is what pollinators are and why they are important”

as gary oak famously stated, “the ecology of pokémon is varied”

is my distaste for pokémon fandom actually grounded in a distaste for the aesthetics of contemporary American urbanism

that’s not the appropriate affect for that holiday??

people at work keep being like “happy thanksgiving” and i’m like ”…no??”

the fediverse IS bad; get over it and get to work and maybe we can achieve something cool

bad instances have always existed and every good thing about the fediverse today was hard-fought and hard-won. making it better will mean more work, fighting, and winning

i’m tired of reductive takes like “the fediverse shouldn't be bad; the fediverse should be good” which erase both the history of struggle and the actual tactics used to get us where we are now

we made this space our own through months of work and a fuckton of drama and infighting. but we did a good enough job that when mastodon took off, OUR culture was the one everybody associated it with

when mastodon first started, activitypub didn't exist yet. the fediverse was a bunch of GNU Social instances communicating over the OStatus protocol. these instances were well-established, and they did not take kindly to the popularity of Mastodon and all the new users taking over their existing, quiet culture

the existing, quiet culture, by the way, was a bunch of channer shit and blatantly anti-gay and anti-trans memes. the instance we saw most often on the federated timeline in those days was shitposter.club, a place which virtually every respectable instance now has blocked. mastodon didn't really *have* blocks back then

i don't have the words to properly situate this within the current discourse right now but you all should be aware that the fediverse is historically an anti-trans and anti-gay space also

• you’re into boys
• you’re REALLY into girls

its time is done; 2023 is the year we switch to saying thorofare

i just can't be bothered to write “ough” these days

they’re just not going to wrangle this very easy and obvious tag, aren’t they

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« Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, said he was confident about the holiday season as long as Americans continued to get vaccinated and boosted. » oh well if that's all

i can't tell if i should be surprised that this backport isn't working or that the original did

@nightpool@cybre.space or anything they boost, but yes, this is a fair point

i mean i think the critical issue here is that i support some government institutions and not others haha

not every organization funded or organized by a government loves cops, but if they are hosted on a government instance you kind of need to preemptively assume that they do. this forces an "all feds or no feds" moderation approach which i feel like could make things more difficult for people who actually have to work with federal organizations that aren't awful

i'm not saying the answer to this is having them set up an account on just any random server, btw, but i think there may be a compromise position here