Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

you say you listen to queer elders? ok name five of their songs

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

if your posts are indistinguishable from that of a CIA plant trying to sow controversy and foil collective action, maybe consider making different posts

the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

good programs are like cow tools

teat, hot hip, and thigh

we probably need some more

how many forum categories is too many ?

(i didn’t put marxists on this poll because everybody already knows they’re fuckable)

obviously there are other kinds of Lady but that’s not the question

which would u rather?

would you pour Sprite in your coffee?

who wins ?

TorrentWitch87 can torrent anything. But can SHE torrent one quirky single-season chinese drama which used to be aired on Netflix?

me: being a sysadmin is kind of like being a mom…

gf: ok…

me: and @aescling is a cat, so the services she syscatmins are like her litter

gf: ok…

me: so the server that she hosts them all on is like her litterbox

gf: no

@aescling do you want to learn how to host a forum software

forum categories:

Meta
• Info
• Help & Requests

On Topic
• Web Philosophy
• Linking & Networking
• Tools
• Show & Tell

Off Topic
• Media Recs
• Political Theory
• Daily Life
• Current Events

if you have more than 250 active followers your notifs are already a forum

“cool people” = less than 250 active followers

i would like a forum for cool people on here who make websites

reminder to update the copyright year in any files you touch

i used to write fedi software and contribute interesting meta and have thought-provoking discussions with well-known names and faces and believe in the power of community and the power of individuals to help each other and save lives and chart a collective better path forward. then something happened. hmmm

sometimes i see someone on here from 2017 and they still have a following and still are well-liked and i wonder why i failed to achieve that

and then i remember i explicitly gave up on this place as a community and have no interest in maintaining social networks with the kinds of people or in the kinds of ways it would take to make that happen

and then i judge them

girls LOVE HAVING CLOTHES
and HATE COPS