Notices by Shantini (shantini@techhub.social), page 3

This is really bad, and we’re going to see a wave of overt discrimination against LGBTQ people. It’s legal now.

"Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-web-designer-refused-work-sex-weddings-rcna68629

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-say-affirmative-action-ruling-used-pawns-rcna91861

People boost the most random shit on here

I feel like the forced birth pipeline starts very early - insisting that girls and women fit into gender norms and prioritize marriage and children above all else. Making them critical of their bodies and appearances to serve this purpose.

I even think transphobia is another manifestation of this - reducing people to their “biological” functions and using that to determine where in the societal hierarchy they fall. The same thing has been done with race time and time again.

This is why you can’t fall for what appear to be academic debates about “when life begins” and “are trans kids in sports getting an unfair advantage.” It’s never about those things at all, and in fact, those are deliberate, reasonable-sounding talking points generated to try to recruit more people to bigotry.

@inthehands see also:
- setup vs. set up
- onboard vs. on board

what’s a good search engine?

ObjCrimes

You know, every time I open this app I get upset. I’ll probably delete it.

shut the fuck up

The iOS “community” is fucking hostile. If you work at Apple, you are somehow individually responsible for every single failure of policy and difficulty anyone encounters. It’s all “I loved your WWDC talk!” to your face and “omfg you guys suck at replying to feedback” everywhere else.

Imagine being such a simp for capitalism that you’ll blame individual workers for your problems instead of a trillion dollar company

There’s the fact that marginalized people are frequently censored in some perversion of moderation. Then the fact that if you don’t follow the “culture” you’re ostracized. Then there’s the horrible ergonomics of conversation, coupled with horrible content discovery (stfu about tags).

Sometimes you stumble onto a good thing by accident and it helps you realize how much you hate another thing. Well, with my whole chest, I hate mastodon.

aka boring and tiresome and occasionally stressful unless I see a message from a friend

You gotta ask yourself - who are the people who don’t want quote toots? Who is that protecting? It’s white dudes who don’t want to be called out for gross opinions.

Then there’s just…I can’t be myself in this space. I can’t say anything that is not specifically intended for the white male gaze. There’s no hot girl shit on here because it would make all the dudes too horny or too uncomfortable. And you know what; that’s incel haven vibes.

Want to also thank @mekkaokereke for the phrase “HOA racism.” That’s completely what it is.

“Dudes posting their Ws” at scale.

I’m not sad or mad, I’m glad I have had this place to find my friends after Twitter burned down. But i would never call this a content platform. It’s a glorified email service.