Notices by Schools are superspreaders (pixplz@mastodon.social)

@inthehands She's right, to a degree

When someone in your so-called online community quietly disappears, and nobody notices or asks what happened to them, is it really a community?

@QasimRashid Empathy isn't sympathy. Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. If I picture myself doing and saying what Charlie Kirk has done and said, then yeah, I can imagine pissing off someone so much that they would want to kill me. Empathy, sure. But no sympathy, ever, for Nazis.

@dalias Bullshit assignment? Writing a literary analysis of a classic novel isn't a bullshit assignment designed to waste their time.

@dalias @briankrebs Many of the kids are not OK. At least 1 in 5 high school students who I work with are using chatbots to cheat on all of their assignments.

"No reasonable progressive activist would have suggested, at any point, that these massive companies were genuine friends or allies. But now, the social networks — and the broader tech industry that has enabled more than a decade of American mass movements — are more clearly identified with, or even as, the enemy. This reality has been missing from a lot of the commentary on L.A."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ice-protests-progressives-social-media.html

#LosAngeles #LAprotests #Ice #FuckIce

On days like these, the Fediverse feels like a news desert :(

@Gina Are anti-LGBTQ+ mods still welcome on #Fosstodon?

@btp @Gina@fosstodon.org @gina To be clear, filtering words like "queer" and "trans" isn't about not wanting to contribute to such discussions, it's about not wanting to even SEE such discussions. Fucking be honest about it.

@btp @Gina@fosstodon.org @pixplz

"Choosing to opt-out of LGBTQ+ discussions does not make one anti-LGBTQ+."

Yes, it fucking does. You should know better.

They claim not to be against LBGTQ+ people, but they want to avoid ever seeing that term in the Fediverse?

Give me a break. You are not fooling anyone.

This is precisely why so many people still have a problem with #Fosstodon.

Y'all seem committed to not learning any lessons.

#defederate

@gina

@fu In your experience, what's it like being totally full of shit?

"THE PANDEMIC IS OVER. WE'VE MOVED ON."

@MediaActivist Update: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-suggests-rehiring-doge-staffer-who-resigned-over-racist-tweets-2000560955

@AnarchoNinaWrites Sorry, to be clear, the only version I know about from 2011 with a live disc is this one https://www.discogs.com/release/2730353-Ride-Nowhere I would very much like to know which one you're referring to, if you're able to provide any details

@AnarchoNinaWrites Wait, wha… ????

@AnarchoNinaWrites This one? With the lenticular cover, a book, and two discs? Essential. Can you believe I had a chance to see them play this very show along with Lush, but it was a school night, so… ;(

@AnarchoNinaWrites I was coincidentally listening to this album today and agree with ranking it number two. The way the songs are ordered, though, which I'm fussy about, could have been different. Kyoto Song shouldn't be second, it's too slow. Baby Screams should've been in that spot. Go with that one.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I thought of including that as an option in the poll…right after publishing to the poll, of course

"I'm leaving Twitter and joining Bluesky"

@igd_news Nah