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this website is doomed; i can’t figure out how to follow my good friend John Mastodon

ah yes, the founders of Communism

Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
John Mastodon

my downloads folder is full of blobcat and dragn emojos

The people therefore that was with him saw, he who was once declared crumbled, was now raised from the dead, and across their many communities they posted this status and rejoiced.

12:17, The Book of John [Mastodon]

@KitRedgrave the question is really one of agency; if games are a tool then the agency is on the tool-user, whereas if games are a preconfigured set of experiences then the agency is on the people who created that set

this has implications for how we talk about like, sexism in games; like if you do a sexist thing is it your fault for doing it or the gamedev's fault for programming it in? these approaches give different answers

@nightpool@cybre.space this is about what i expected given current discourse around games, although i think it might be a recent phenomenon and things might be about to swing back the other way

NYT why you publish this article don’t you find it embarrassing

but here in New York City, white boys run around making sure people pay $16 on their toll exits

driving to and from pullman, oncoming cars have a tendency to flash their lights at you to signal there's a cop lying in wait up ahead and that's just solidarity

« To avoid detection by speed and red-light cameras, as well as bridge and tunnel tolls that can reach $16 for a car, scofflaw drivers cover plates with camera-proof screens and sprays, as well as stickers, tape and other objects. They scrape off letters and use temporary paper tags and even retractor mechanisms.

But as this tampering has proliferated, a hardy band of vigilante inspectors like Mr. Kuntzman has sprung into action, hunting for defaced plates to un-deface and posting their exploits online to raise awareness and urge more enforcement. » imagine being this much of a cop

gen xers: there is a thin slice of a few years of millennials out there who heard you and one day will carry the torch

honestly the weirdest part of growing up in the 00s and early 10s was learning that the remix culture and anarchist sensibilities i learned on the internet were actually not widely-held beliefs but incredibly punk

okay but like who DOES want to build a feministpunk tech organizing space with me lol

if you are wondering who specifically on the federated timeline i am subtooting, don't worry, it's lots of folks

does this person bother me? yes

does this person bother me enough to where i want to strike up a conversation with someone here about why they follow them? no

probably fine then

@egnor yeah and i mean i don’t have a problem with checking in respectfully once or twice, especially for a recent issue, and it really depends on a lot factors regarding the specifics, but

this was inspired by a moderation note on one instance about some people on a different instance who were harmed by people on a THIRD instance and that rubbed me the wrong way; like, don’t outsource your moderation decisions to people who aren’t even on your instance. if you don’t think the people who caused the harm have done enough work to fix things, make that call, but don’t hide behind somebody else when doing it, you know?

in the case that the harmed people ARE people you are responsible for, i think that the focus should be on figuring out what they need, and making sure they have that. make sure they feel safe and in control. if that means kicking someone else out, then so be it, but that’s not where you start the question, imo.