Notices by carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)

As many have been pointing out, it's the enforcement we're worried about.

... and now, the closing talk for April's #SFRubyMeetup @ #Sentry HQ, San Francisco Bay Area: Irina Nazarova (Evil Martians): Start-ups on Rails

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PSA: The demonym for Burkina Faso is Burkinabè

Burkina Faso is a name made up in 1984 by our socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial president Thomas Sankara. It joins the 2 biggest languages, Mòoré and Dioula, to mean Land of Honest/Upright People.

There is only 1 demonym, and that is burkinabè. Bè means child in Fulani, another major language. Child of the Land of Honest people.

Burkinese, burkinabese, or any other demonym is a colonial attempt to dilute our political history.

@Shrigglepuss THAT PART!!

@blogdiva For me, I think some self-defense is going to be violent by necessity. Maybe a lot of folks don't want to hear it but that's the reality.

So I guess I don't see it as ceding ground to the oppressor, more presenting the bitter pill up front rather than cloaking it in semantics. Fundamentally, though, I agree. It IS self defense.

@mike_wazowski some context: shrig is a mutual of mine as well as some of my mod team, and their Fediblock post drawing attention to the suspension is why we knew about the server to block it.

Fedilore did absolutely nothing to help my mod team and is banned on this server, they merely tried to distort the reality as I explained in my post.

The criticism relating to racism is tied in with other analysis I made in the post this is replying to, which you will be able to read in full if you just scroll to the top of the thread

@Hoehlenmensch good question, I am speaking in a moral sense rather than a legal sense in this case. I am fully aware that part of the purpose of the law is to preserve the status quo; therefore under this system (in the US anyway) the law is designed to prevent the oppressed from using violence in any way

@swelljoe reading the history of the civil rights movement, I think nonviolent wings of the movement were able to deal with the white government ONLY BECAUSE they didn't want to deal with the folks that were more willing to commit violence.

I also think, looking at history writ large, power is never surrendered willingly.

@being Jim never could.

@TofuTheSquirrel @JonathanMBR yeah ain't no Cuumga lol. Or Democratic Drp. Fongo

And several others are just unreadable. And one is blank lmao

@TofuTheSquirrel @JonathanMBR has to be

@JonathanMBR the sentiment is good but what is going on with the names of these countries lol

Here's what the folder structure looks like, it's basically the same as before.

@argumento @CosmickTrigger yeah I'd say that enough places have experienced colonialism including via Catholicism that definitely aren't considered Western

@tobi yeah it's been very telling for me when I have seen who's interacting with their stuff and every time it's the same handful of people, each of whom started to interact when their abusive behaviors or their instance's mod team's behaviors went public and they got in hot water for it.

And as for whether there's more than just racism motivating it, who knows. But I will say racists get motivated to go on crusades all the time. When white supremacy is so steeped in your bones, racism becomes the glue that binds your community together as well as the fuel that invigorates you to action. I mean, there's a reason Strom Thurmond held the filibuster (ish) record for as long as he did. So while there could definitely be more going on, I think racism could explain this behavior all on its own.

Looking back at pictures of lynchings in the US and the white fury on display in the lunch counter protests, the school integrations, etc it all lines up. It's the same rage behind these posts, just a much more pathetic version of them.

Seems like we keep going in circles with the racist disinfo getting circulated by the likes of fedilore. Every few months, they make up more distortion of the truth and circulate it, and every few months there are some new white folks who decide to tune in for the first time and get upset about the lies they are told.

Let's take a recent example, although fedilore has used this same trick several times before. Here's a post of theirs: https://mastodon.social/@fedilore/114356007777167981

So you can see that this post is a screenshot of a Fediblock post by Shrig for Loli dot rodeo. Right next to that screenshot is a screenshot of a heat rating from TBS. The instance has no TBS source instances suspending or limiting them. Fedilore will often then compare that heat rating to the heat rating of jorts dot horse, an instance that they feel was wrongly suspended. Their argument is that "the point is transphobia not safety".

But the thing is, fedilore made that post barely 3 hours to the minute after Shrig's Fediblock post, meaning there's barely been any time for anyone to take action after seeing the post in the first place. As a matter of fact, just a few more hours after that post, my mods banned the instance. And as of a few minutes ago it has a 20% heat rating, meaning that another source instance took action as well.

So here we can clearly see the kind of underhanded tricks that fedilore will often use to manipulate the truth and distort the facts. They purposefully tried to make it seem like no TBS source instances cared to moderate pedophilia, which if you look closely at the details and timestamps is clearly an unfair take. But this is the kind of stuff they do all the time.

Oh, and you may be asking yourself if, in their efforts to chronicle bigotry on the fediverse, they so much as mentioned how eris recently misgendered me once again. As it turns out, just like every other time a Black person has been misgendered on this platform, fedilore said absolutely nothing.

Stop taking these charlatans seriously. They are liars, racists, and they will never admit to either of those things. Show some discernment.

#FediBlockMeta

@furfag turds already popping up from the Great 4chan Toilet Flush of 2025 I see

@aroacemagicalnerd @puppygirlhornypost2 @FinalGirl 100% this. As a team, I think it's safe to say that we never want our users to censor themselves to protect us bc the shitbags will always come for us regardless of what we say. That's why we have this server, after all. It was a great post, both the thread and the addition!

@FinalGirl :black_trans_knife: :black_trans_knife: the mod team just waiting for someone to get upset about shit talking Mastodon

@FinalGirl and don't forget our #1 rival doing most of the actual fighting and winning, which we conveniently omit from our history lessons