Notices by Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io), page 3

@jenniferplusplus

It's a _very_ common thing to come up in union conversations, IME.

@gallego

@puppygirlhornypost2 This is the way.

@puppygirlhornypost2 If it was a non-destructive change I'd be more forgiving about the lack of a dialogue to do it—destructive, non-reversible changes should always have multiple safeguards—but I'd argue it should still be more obvious how to _undo_ it regardless.

But alas.

@puppygirlhornypost2 People frequently seem to not understand that the allowable number of times for this to happen is approximately zero.

Yet it _keeps happening_.

@Seirdy One of the very few advantages of having POTS, really.

I also get not liking what these things _must_ say. But that's a systemic problem that has nothing to do with the company's specific terms or the process of their changing them.

Ah, one of my least favorite online leftist freakout types has surfaced again: the "oh no they changed their terms and conditions and it is very scary and sus!"

I get the being scared, but again: if you are scared the antidote to that is generally education, not doom spiraling.

Some day I'll be able to sleep before my oncall shift. Today is not that day.

I do think that a lot of people are quick to dismiss flagging membership and the value therein.

People don't understand why people wear union pins all of the time, for example. We've also forgotten how this has been used historically.

But on the other hand, I _also_ find that a lot of people think that they can put on a bracelet or slap "part of the Resistance™" in their bio and call it a day.

There's a balance.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-part-of-the-resistance-inside-nyarlathoteps-death-cult

This can be an in-code that's not widely known to outside audiences (handkerchiefs) or something blatantly obvious (wearing your red CWA shirt on Thursdays, wearing a union pin, etc).

The point is that you aren't just being passive about it. You aren't saying how others should see you.

You are saying "this is who I am."

"Ally" makes for a pretty poor identity.

Not "I am doing this on your behalf" but "I am being asked to do this because it might help."

You can't wear a safety pin or a bracelet and say "I am a safe person." It doesn't work that way. You can't put hashtag-protect-trans-kids in your bio and expect it to matter or to even tell me anything particularly positive about your character (it tells me you know the words, not that you believe them).

But you absolutely can wear a safety pin to communicate, say, membership in the punk scene.

Where allyship can involve flagging support it usually involves something that puts your skin in the game.

Showing up to an allies-welcome LGBTQ meeting, for example, can help provide cover for queer people who are at the meeting. Wearing a flag pin to show support can draw the same hostility that we would get.

This is a complex topic, not always appropriate, and not one I want to get into except to point out: where aiming to provide cover, it's best done in coordination with the marginalized

There's a difference between flagging membership and flagging safety or allyship.

You can't flag safety in a meaningful way. Allyship is similar.

You can _absolutely_ flag membership and this technique is very, very old and very, very powerful

Both can be easily co-opted, but that's not the point. One puts your skin in the game in a way that the other does not. One says "this is who I am" the other says "this is how you should see me"

I suspect many disagreements come down to this perception

This void isn't going to scream into itself.

Oh I get to see my therapist on TDOR. Well good day for it I guess.

@ttpphd tbh I'm more concerned with the average leftist around these parts than most libs.

Oh hey once again someone with "trans rights are human rights" in their bio and _terrible views_.

Prediction:

People are going to be yelling "DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE" while stopping at traffic lights for their parade that they will call a protest.

#politics

Ugh. Adjusting a floating bridge is such a PITA.

@puppygirlhornypost2 oh I smell a challenge!