Notices by Dave Clark (bedirthan@dice.camp)

I no longer tell my friends to join Mastodon.

I say, "The Fediverse is pretty popular. You'd probably like [look up the best version and instance for them because I know their interests]." And then I tell them how to find me

@kingrat I don't think I said anyone was last year.
Jordan Morris was in 2020

One interesting thing about the negging #Sounders fans is that they keep insisting a player who was an MVP finalist isn't DP quality

@Tim_Eagon @artemis it's a primary theme of Falcon for example

@pfefferle two hours later "So what are we going to talk about today?"

LA Galaxy have 1 shutout since Aug 24
#sounders have seven shutouts in that stretch

If defense wins championships I'm confident

But also I worry because Seattle has 18 goals v. Galaxy's 32

@mekkaokereke one thing that Masto should have learned during the last X-it that didn't significantly increase daily traffic is something that Bluesky could also learn -- people who don't have long histories will move again, quickly.

See also Post, Hive, CoHost, CounterSocial, etc

Some of the people begging me to follow them to Bluesky did the same for at least three other platforms within the past year

Listening to This Wandering Day on repeat because I need Nori's faith in people

My 30 second scan of the 2024 D&D PHB is that the world of play is more thoroughly embracing high fantasy than ever before.
It is also a more varied world of culture than ever before. There's rice patties and canal cities and underdark markets

My next 30 second sweep notices that of the species images, only one doesn't have at least one character wearing corrective lenses

A list of what's wrong with the #Sounders

- maybe two total players performing above expectation and - one is a backup keeper
tactics that don't adapt to the circumstances
- players who are losing their minds, earning reds and yellows for no reason
- a wave of injuries worse than the rest of the league
- complacency
- they took an interest free loan on fans by misbilling us
- no urgency from the GM to improve the squad

That's probably not everything

@jacklaridian @tintenteufel @diotima @sonic81 No. I used specific words.

He used the language of racists -- that doesn't mean he's a racist. We all tend to exist on an imperfect spectrum of racism. It's not an on-off switch.

When one echoes phenotypical racism, phrenology, and race science while inventing a game they are responsible for those choices

@jacklaridian @tintenteufel @diotima @sonic81 no, I don't think that any reasonable person would read my statement and think that.

@jacklaridian @tintenteufel @diotima @sonic81 Gygax, who specifically and explicitly used the language that racists used to describe people from Africa to describe orcs, said that all orc children deserved to die because they are savages who can never be civilized.

He chose his descriptions of race to echo racists. He chose to advocate for fictional genocide towards people he described they way racists describe people.

That's a him problem. Not a me problem.

@jacklaridian @tintenteufel @diotima @sonic81 you're suggesting that the person who said murdering all orc children because they were orcs while using the language of racism wasn't racist?

What else is advocating for genocide of savages incapable of becoming civilized?

@fediversereport thank you!

@fediversereport I'm curious why the quite centralized BlueSky is part of your coverage

@darnell @fediversereport owned and operated by a billionaire, limited membership in closed ecosystem until this week, no one uses their protocol

and certainly not part of the fediverse and never intends to be.

For all the angst that Threads gets in the Fediverse the unwavering support for Bluesky due to some future intent to be decentralized is sure something

@tchambers @laurenshof I think Automaticc made their choice pretty clear. They federated WordPress and a few smaller of their platforms. It's only Tumblr that's slow and that seems to be a Tumblr thing rather than a Matt or Automaticc thing

@feditips @Tusky I've just missed that despite uploading plenty of photos