Lady of Longing @Lady@cat.family

lesser-known sister to “easter” just meaning “spring”

did you know “lent” is short for “length” it’s called that because the days are getting longer that’s all it means

according to ladys calendar carnivaltide ends on the 13th and lententide begins on valentines day. we are going to make a cake

“earth is warm but space is cold. to solve global warming, we simply need to have less atmosphere.”

i miss little goat

we have a local chain coffee shop across the street but i wish we had an indie coffee shop instead

(in case it wasn’t clear i’m making fun of critiques of mastodon)

@aschmitz i was about to say Eve Online lol

a minecraft server is literally like a cult, because there is no account portability and the moderators have all the power. but if there was only one minecraft server for the entire world, it wouldn’t matter that there still wouldn’t be account portability and moderators would still have all the power, because it’s impossible for a cult to be the entire world! that doesn’t even make sense but does not in any way challenge my previous assertions

i want to see the things that minecraft youtube microcelebrities are making every day and to be able to interact and contribute to them in inane and likely detrimental ways that everyone else will ignore or else start flamewars over, this is important to me

what if minecraft but instead of lots of smaller community-oriented servers we just had one big server, and the monsterhunters and casual builders and griefers all just had to learn to live together?? as it stands if i make something cool on one server, nobody on the other servers can see it and this is bad

@iitalics there are two responses to this; the first that we simply should not interrogate knowledge production and accept white christian roman thought as given so we can make sensible arguments that people can understand (American philosophy), the second that we can’t get anywhere without FIRST critiquing knowledge production, and having sensible arguments that people understand is an acceptable loss (continental philosophy)

@iitalics ah well, the problem here is that some philosophers are critiquing the concept of “understanding”, which is not apolitical or given (understanding is made possible only through recourse to a system of signs and symbols which is very political in composition, and to an ontology of concepts likewise)

and if the thing you are critiquing is how knowledge is produced (to be clear: how CERTAIN knowledges are produced at the expense of OTHER knowledges; these certain knowledges typically having the hallmarks of white christian roman thought), you have to take special care to ensure that the knowledges you are critiquing are NOT being produced by your argument; to wit, you have to make your argument “difficult to understand” (to a white christian roman worldview and frame of mind, which is the default frame of mind in which most philosophers encounter texts)