Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@riversidewings someone stopped me in the grocery store to ask if i was sick “no, just being safe”
“okay but you know they made them voluntary now right?”

like the idea of someone masking voluntarily was just so incomprehensible that me somehow missing the fact that everyones been unmasked in stores for a year now was somehow more plausible 🙄

@OldBrushNewPaper happy birthday!

@maya …does it mean something besides teapot?

@EchoEkhi re: the volunteer wellbeing committee, an absolutely crucial piece of data which they (or really any competent supervisor) would need, and which ao3 is currently not collecting, is how much volunteers are actually working. Obviously the size of the commitment will vary (I would expect board members to work quite a bit more hours than tag wranglers) as will individual people’s capacities but people with higher workloads need more frequent checkins to ensure they can manage their current obligations & have things reassigned as necessary

Also, the whole “most nonprofits with this budget have paid employees for good reason” debate would go smoother if we had any idea what said employee would actually be replacing, workloadwise but thats honestly a sidenote

@Lady i’m not talking about quality i’m talking about function

you use narrative texts differently from short descriptions

@Lady their likelihood of survival does not turn them into substantial pieces of literature

they are more akin to reference texts useful for interpreting mythological fragments which survive from other texts than narrative works

@Lady ok then fight for a future where the anime is cited

@Lady first step is making pokedex entries significantly longer and more narrative

@craigmaloney@octodon.social and astonishing array of “things which really shouldn’t be trusted to cheap gaming controllers” are trusted to cheap gaming controllers:

@AspiringLuddite i am not on medievalist so feel free to ignore! but one thing i personally have been considering re: silence via suspend is that silences do nothing to protect *outgoing* data from my instance. facebook’s notoriety for its avid collection and misuse of user data makes keeping them from my data a much higher concern than keeping my instance from seeing theirs

@varve firing legal would definitely give me some hope things were moving in the right direction but i just dont see how that could happen without a perfectly unified board (which we can’t get unless the members not up for this election resign AND we manage a pretty serious majority over the ‘actually everything is fine’ contingent in the voting itself—considering how large the backlash for the campaign was in some spaces, i’d rather save my energy for fights that don’t at least require i cough up money to loose them)