Notices by Shantini (shantini@techhub.social), page 4

A tool that is helpful to me when trying to figure out if someone is telling the truth: look at the power differential. Think about whether people with less power are inclined to fabricate accusations.

The point where you start insinuating that people who are being carpeted with bombs are making up the number of deaths, is the moment you should start questioning when you lost your humanity.

Another tool I have found helpful is to not conflate people (or their religions) with governments.

Just cut my own curtain bangs *well*, 16 year old me would be so proud

Soapbox:

Very few people care about the owner of a social media site when they sign up.

Even fewer people care if it’s open source / democratized.

Nobody gives a shit about the historical conventions of said site.

People just want a good user experience and to do minimal work to use it.

It’s super privileged to tell people to “simply stop using Twitter.” People who rely on mutual aid can’t do that here due to much smaller reach (and sometimes even server rules). People have life-saving community on Twitter that doesn’t exist elsewhere.

Ever try sharing a Mastodon link to someone who isn’t a user? It’s a garbage experience and if you run a business or something Mastodon is not the place.

Stop putting the onus on marginalized people to make your platform succeed, that’s a garbage take!!!!!

This place is never going to be where “everyone” is. I’m sorry. Give up on that. Twitter was easy to sign up for, had search, and you could share public links to Tweets without friction. This place has too much “ideology” and too little functionality.

Additionally, just because a person is on here doesn’t mean they’re a fediverse evangelist or enjoyer. Many of us are just here because other people came here from Twitter. Many of us will also leave once a better alternative becomes available.

@inthehands right but you can’t do that at scale - it’s a culture problem, not an individual one. You can school some percentage of them and still more will appear.

@inthehands it comes and goes in waves, got a wave of it this week

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