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   RealGene ☣️ (realgene@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 07:44:50 JST RealGene ☣️

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   @skinnylatte
   I bought my first laser printer at an office equipment surplus sale in the early '90s for $80. It was a Xerox behemoth that weighed close to 100 pounds, and you poured toner into it from a bottle.

   It emulated a Xerox Diablo daisywheel printer, so had the equivalent of four fonts, I think.

   It drew over a kilowatt when printing, and made all the lights flicker in my apartment at the time.
   I abandoned it to a recycler when I moved out.

   At the moment I have a monochrome Brother MFC, and a Xerox color laser.

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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 06:57:47 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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   @Jason @aires @mud212 another important piece of the puzzle here is that seemingly (as far as anyone could tell) innocent trans women were majorly overrepresented in the unjustified, inexplicable blocks, and so trans women got rightfully pretty upset and frustrated, since we're everyone's favorite scapegoat, and isolating innocent trans women while simultaneously accusing them of serious things — the blocks were automatically default-tagged with "hate speech, bigotry, poor moderation" instead of the block being nonspecific — is very harmful. And once those accusations are out, well, that genie is never going back in the bottle.

   It would've stopped there, but then Ro, the creator of the list, started accusing everyone who was upset with him — or questioned the block list's fundamental approach — as racists (which others try to justify by saying that there was a racist harassment campaign against a black queer instance called Play Vicious awhile ago and so Ro is somehow justified in assuming racist intent) and another big Black Fedi used started talking about "fashy trans" as if that was the main problem, and so people have kept being angry and pushing back because of how disingenuously the bad space's defenders have been handling everything. And for many other reasons. I actually have a big post pinned to my profile summarizing the issues with TheBadSpace, with receipts, if you're interested.