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Derek Powazek ๐
I don't think that changing terms solves anything, but I'd love to see Democrats start referring to asylum seekers and immigrants as "American applicants," because that sure as hell was what my grandparents were, and it might satisfy the egos of the "best country ever" types.
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Derek Powazek ๐
People who say they donโt like nazis, but turn around and take money from nazis, and give money to nazis, do in fact like nazis.
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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virรกg
@fraying I found out what Substack is this morning. Well, this was a quick round trip ๐๐
Derek Powazek ๐
If someone posts their Chanukah menorah and you respond with something anti-Israel, that's antisemitism. If you don't understand why, do some reading about how Jews are an ethnicity and Israel is a state with a government that most Jews don't even support. If you're tempted to argue about this with me, just save yourself the trouble and block me. I don't want bigots following me, anyway.
Derek Powazek ๐
I have never been so personally called out by a meme in my fucking life.
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Derek Powazek ๐
Today is my birthday and if you'd like to do something nice, please donate to https://translifeline.org to help support my trans friends who could use a few more allies right now. Thanks.
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Annalee Newitz
@fraying thinking of you and all the chickens, goats, bunnies, dogs, and other life forms booping around with you today.
Derek Powazek ๐
So it *IS* possible to crawl up your own ass so far you come out the other side. Huh.
Derek Powazek ๐
No, I didn't make it up. It's a real thing. A real stupid thing.
Derek Powazek ๐
People use orchids as a metaphor for fragility, but theyโre only fragile when theyโre grown outside of their natural habitat. When they're where they belong, interconnected to a vast network of fungi that feeds them, pollinated by insects that coevolved in mutually beneficial relationships, in a dense forest of peer species that create the perfect environment for them to thrive, theyโre really very tough. Orchids aren't a metaphor for fragility, they're a metaphor for community.
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Derek Powazek ๐
I wonder if people using mastodon know that, without section 230, no one could legally afford to run a mastodon instance in the US. Section 230 protects what we do here every day. Politicians threatening 230 are threatening free speech on the internet.
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Dream Wishes 3
I truly believe in Mastodon and think it's going to be the next big thing and all the corporate players are here for various reasons, good and ill, because they also believe that. The one positive is them coming here is a self fulfilling prophecy of Mastodon's rise, because they will bring more users to the platform. I just truly hope Mastodon's FOSS side will adapt and win out in the end. I think it CAN but I don't know that it WILL
Jack Coates ๐
@fraying Iโd love to see it, I blog with Wordpress.com and would like to have direct integration
Derek Powazek ๐
Thinking thoughts about how email is a decentralized, global, publicly available messaging system, but thereโs a barrier to entry because you donโt know everyoneโs email address, and how that small bit of friction prevents so many social problems.
Derek Powazek ๐
The fediverse and ActivityPub are basically โwhat if email but default to publicโ and I think that has some troubling inherent problems that the FediDudes really do not want to talk about.
Derek Powazek ๐
There's a difference between reinforcing community norms and gatekeeping. If you don't know which one you're doing, check your tone and imagine being on the other side of it.
Derek Powazek ๐
I was one of the first users on Flickr and Twitter and Blogger and many other social sites, and you know what they ALL had in common? People who came in and declared "The way I use this thing is the right way and anyone doing anything else is bad and wrong!" And in all cases the community evolved away from those people soon after. |