Notices by yon👻aaah! :heart_transgender: (yonabee@eldritch.cafe), page 2

i'm running around google i/o in a goose suit:

"check responses for accuracy with what? with WHAT??"

*honk*
*honk*

this is it, this is my goose arc

like what if copies of the encyclopedia brittanica had come with the disclaimer "please check entries for accuracy"

historically this would have been very justified, but. not helpful.

it's a meaningless statement in a world without access to the high quality and verifiable sources of information that search engines and the internet have provided

it really doesn't matter what eugen thinks or does, mastodon is open source and we can take the ball, the whole field, all of the goalposts and the players, and go wherever we like

tbqh it's us who need to stop treating eugen like some tech CEO who must be deferred to, and .social as 'too big to defederate'

.social would be a pretty terrible social network all on its own, so it's actually us who give them legitimacy, and not the other way around

:blob_cat_coffee: people thought the “fantasy” part of sci-fi/fantasy was the magical wizards and dragons, but really things like “computers will become smart if we make them really complicated” and “someday faster than light space travel will be easy and commonplace” are way more fantastical and less likely to exist than a dragon is

“Hi, I’m your new AI-powered television from BigCorpBrand. Would you like to purchase anything today?”

uhhh… could i just watch game of thrones?

“Copyright agreements prevent this television from broadcasting Game of Thrones in your area. Would you like to watch the similar show Gome of Thranes?”

please no

*strange and deformed willy wonka nonsense starts playing on the tv. for some unknown reason Elsa appears in this version*

identity is not something external that can be imposed on someone, but something internal that can be shared if someone chooses to share it

so whatever pfp someone uploads — that’s a picture of them. whatever handle they type in — that’s their name. there is no higher authority on who someone is than they themselves are

this fundamental right is at the heart of what trans people everywhere are fighting for, and anyone who disagrees might need to examine their own transphobia a little bit maybe

the beauty of the fediverse is that there is no one right way to do it, yet somehow we are also all doing it wrong

hard to believe that christmas was once an obscure and little celebrated holiday, until it featured prominently in the background of the movie Die Hard (1988)

if your approach to online safety doesn't include the fact that trans people are disproportionate victims of false accusations and online harassment, and does not have any approach to mitigate the damage of these false accusations towards trans people...

and instead maybe even perpetrates these false allegations unapologetically without ever offering any comment or retraction...

then your "safety" is not safe at all for trans people and you need to do better

can’t wait until people realize that neither google or meta make a single product that people actually need or want

today might be a good day to play some videogames. or become a tree and let birds nest in my branches. can’t decide!

i once read a horror story about a lady that turned into a tree but tbh it doesn’t really sound that bad. i’m excited to know what the mushrooms are talking about all night!

@roadriverrail I hope nothing weird happens!! I've got pretty sensitive skin so this is something I'm thinking about for sure.

I'm going for my first laser treatment today and I'm so excited/nervous/scared. I've been waiting so long for this!! AAAAAAAH!!!

I really really hope it helps because the facial dysphoria has just been killing me lately :(