@rowyn i didn’t even question it i was just like “of course we should be looking at the cat whenever they’re talking about the cat, cats are fantastic”

@rowyn so the path is pathy enough for Zhenshay to argue about at least! interesting

also interesting that moon specifically is making it more pathy, and not them and zhenshay (or maybe it is and moons name is just safer to toss around)

@Lady i mean even if email wasnt down their boss is 100% reading that so it should match the emails

@Lady this feels fairly obviously self answering?

@pho4cexa they should not because respecting authorial control over the works of ones community members is important for community health and that requires allowing authors to adjust the accessibility of their work at will, which remains true even when non community members have dedicated themselves to being assholes who violate this principle

are you even human 94, spoiler? not really? 

@pho4cexa read a chunk of this today and definitely a novel which is operating in a different probability space than the ones i usually read which is fun

also, purely out of habit and unrelated to the novel, ended a phone call with my sister by refusing to hang up until she’d answered my physical wellbeing diagnostic questions and then had a weird resonance with some of the themes

@j_feral @platypus it seems like SSO may be down so if you sign out this will probably stop being true

@u2764 @gaditb i mean, perhaps but i think that is still quite problematic

@moonsea i think in the case of the Chinese spy this is actually the most likely explanation

@Betty ah yeah i heard about the microsoft one but that is oddly comprehensive

still these are all notoriously slopcoded sites at this point so it was inevitable to happen eventually

@aschmitz @wallhackio we were fine but there was a lot of loud noises from the hail and they woke me up :(

@gaditb i mean, the point of calling them pervert glasses is to emphasize their already confirmed to be frequent usage as a tool for sexual harassment and assault and as far as creating a definition of sexual deviancy which i would agree with condemning “sexual harassment and assault” seems pretty solid?

@rowyn amused that the “Zhenshay can speak for me” bit seems to have worked

And also, imo Valor WAS still on a path. it was a brand new path perhaps, but the houses trail was definitely pathy

@bright_helpings
i do think euphemisms are a bit different than normal slang / registers in that they do contain an implicit message that the thing you’re talking about is bad, or at least too sensitive a topic to be approached directly. and it is worth interrogating which things we believe that about, and why. and in this case particularly, i think the fact that the drive for euphemisms is the arbitrary decisionmaking of corporate tech giants who very much do not have our best interests at heart sucks.

but ultimately it doesn’t *really* matter whether the euphemism is a grandmother saying someone “passed on” or a teen saying “unalive”

@JessMahler @vicorva @rowyn @ljwrites do you find they interfere with your glasses? I’ve been curious about bone conducting headphones but held off so far because they always look like the over ear bits would make my glasses fall off

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