Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

i’m upset and i don’t even care about the OTW. how do the people who literally volunteer there not see this as hugely embarrassing?? do they not realize that this is the first impression MANY #EndOTWRacism / #VoteToEndOTWRacism newbies are going to have of their board/process/meetings??

“there aren’t any mods online” yes, thank you for repeating my criticism back to me

« Text terminal development primarily happens in the free software community, of which Microsoft is only occassionally a member. »

calling up my associates like @weirder.earth!mastodon.art!mastodon.social!Sprite whatsup

“it’s like email” i sleep. wake me when it is like uucp

@Satsuma this post implies there was a big Discourse but i sure haven't seen anything

wait who banned pokémon porn??

under socialism, these weights would be reversed, and designers would be mandated to facilitate the participation of ALL persons in society

it is no surprise that freedom of speech (a private, egoistic concern) has trumped the right to hire a designer for your wedding (a concern primarily of participation in broader society); this is the expected outcome of liberalism

remember that « none of the so‐called rights of men goes beyond the egoistic man, the man withdrawn into himself, his private interest and his private choice, and separated from the community as a member of civil society.  Far from viewing man here in his species‐being, his species‐life itself—society—rather appears to be an external framework for the individual, limiting his original independence. The only bond between men is natural necessity, need and private interest, the maintenance of their property and egoistic persons. »

⅌ karl marx, “on ‘the jewish question’”

@montag supposing you have a two-column CSV of english and spanish words (en-es.csv), a program that selects a random line from a csv (randline), and a program which displays the first of two values and prompts for the second (prompttest), the first case is

cat en-es.csv | randline | prompttest

“flipping the cards over” is in fact fairly trivial and natural to do in this case

cat en-es.csv | randline | awk -F, '{ print $2 "," $1 }' | prompttest

i’m not saying this just to be contrarian. but i think your original point is a bit wrong in treating arbitrary or emergent manipulation as something that needs to be “programmed in”. in contrast, i think in many cases it has been deliberately programmed OUT

we do have (very old) techniques and paradigms for manipulating data in computer systems in much the same way as one might manipulate a physical object. these techniques have, in many cases, deliberately not been used in modern applications, because the developers of those applications have found it undesirable to give users that kind of power

@asterisk i worry that i made my point too subtly so to be more explicit: i think it’s entirely okay to consider oneself a “trans lesbian” and not a “transbian”. those are not necessarily equivalent terms. but i want to acknowledge that this also goes the other way, and there are people for whom the latter term is the one they identify the most strongly with. when they are talking about their communities and culture, they don’t have to be talking about you

@asterisk it is important to remember that many young trans women have not had good exposure to real (queer) lesbian spaces and that their most significant encounters with cis lesbians have probably been witnessing vocal TERFs. transbianism is a form of lesbianism which is explicitly not cis. that is why the term gets used

@asterisk as i have seen it used, “transbian” usually signifies that the people the transbian finds attractive are significantly (altho not necessarily exclusively) also trans. it often appears in the plural; e·g “transbian couple” = couple of t4t lesbians

“trans lesbian”, in contrast, makes no claim as to the cis/transness of the desired partner. in fact i think a large part of the popularity of “transbian” as a term is to counter the (TERF) assumption that trans women are only interested in cis women partners

so yes, the terms are not equivalent. but not in a malicious way, i don’t think