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my take on technical solutions to problems on the fediverse 

it doesn’t fucking matter. i want every person who wants to fix the fediverse to go and read “Thoughts about Community Support around Intimate Violence” <archive.org/details/zabalaza_2> and then really reckon with how far away we are from ever implementing ANY of those practices in this space. there is not the will or maturity here to tackle any of the really difficult conversations that an actual community platform would have to grapple with on a regular basis, and technologies of community organizing delivered to a social context where people are more worried about losing their parasocial relationship with some popular account than they are about actual abuse doesn't create communities, it creates cults. and mastodon is a space where time and time again i have seen people pay lip-service to “restorative justice” as a way of justifying allowing abusers to continue sharing a room with them while making those same spaces unsafe for all of their victims. conversations about this never happen because the people who get hurt are forced to leave.

nobody wants to talk about this. there is zero will to do the hard work of fixing it. but you think maybe by distributing posts a little differently, things would improve? the beef between myasstodon and PV would have been ten times worse if friends of myasstodon were in charge of formal networks of federated instances instead of just informal ones. “but then you could just block them all in one go” literally when has federation drama ever been this simple

i’m not saying we can’t make things better. i’m saying the social change has to come FIRST. stop trying to build technologies for a community which doesn’t exist and can’t effectively use them. look at the communities we actually have and the actual history of this platform, and take a scientific approach to creating a space which is better. organize and build political consciousness. people will fucking make the technologies they need in their free time if you can get the communities and social support in place for them to do it; we’re not lacking in tech whizzes here

anarcha.org 

wait fuck when did this die??

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there’s nothing to do but get hoisted

moving 

i figured this wasn’t universal but i thought it had (a) been legislated and (b) also in other states

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moving 

“wait, Delaware doesn’t have [thing which was wholesale invented by the Washington State Supreme Court]?!”

pokémon 

hey if you ever wanted to change a tera type now is a great time to do blissey raids

pokémon 

the key gimmick is after the first two gyms you decide whether you want to do the east half or the west half of the state, then once you beat the championship the routes open up to do the other one

the east half contrasts apocalyptic flooding in the past with contemporary irrigation and dam projects

the west half contrasts lush greenery and urban development with apocalyptic volcanism in the future

yes the legendaries are kyogre and groudon

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pokémon 

i’ve been jotting down ideas for a fangame based on WA state for a while now and i think it has potential

baldur's gate 

the solution to every difficult battle is “stand just out of sight with a fireball wand”

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baldur's gate 

well it put me up against two basilisks with no way around them and i don't have anything to prevent petrification but i do have a fireball wand

me: [talking with the guy who wrote RFC 5785] what's up

guy: well, I've come up with a new kind of directory

me: cool, what's it called?

guy: it's called dot well known

me: oh

me: how many people know about it?

guy: well, there's me; I know about it

guy: and I guess now you know about it too

me: so just the two of us

guy: yeah but I'm hoping it will be, you know,, better known in the future

me: what's the dot for?

guy: oh, that makes it a hidden directory

me: so you're hiding it, in hopes to make it better known

guy: I ... uh, ... I mean, yeah

baldur’s gate; colonialism 

not the conversation i was expecting to be having, but ok

nintendo eshop 

oh no Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition is on sale

baldur's gate 

walkthrough guy extremely did not like the enhanced edition characters

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baldur's gate 

i'm rolling with multiple characters that this walkthrough was like “you’re gonna have a bad time if you roll with these characters” with but we managed to survive cloakwood so i think we’re doing alright

dnd 

i'm just saying if you're going to roleplay being not human, kink is one of the better reasons for doing it and they should pivot more towards that

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dnd 

do any races canonically have like two dicks or do they just exist for racism reasons

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