Notices by Rachel Thorn (rachel_thorn@queer.party), page 5

@rain Oh, look at that! You're right! Yay! Thank you! ?

Phew. That's better.

Wow, as I suspected, advanced web interface is really hard on my ADD brain. I'm feeling vertigo from the torrent of visual and verbal information. I envy people who can look at five columns and not feel overwhelmed. I'm going to turn it off, though it mean I won't be able to follow hashtags as I had hoped to.

To be clear, being polyamorous is NOT one this person's many, many faults. But I would hope that her ideas about "ideal poly" are repulsive to most people who call themselves polyamorous.

I hate crypto so very, very much. This is the kind of people who tink they can (and sometimes actually can) become rich playing the crypto ponzi game. Eugenicist scum. These are the same clowns who embrace philanthropy." https://decrypt.co/114719/tumblr-blog-linked-ex-alameda-research-ceo-explored-race-science-imperial-chinese-harem-polyamory

@idlestate @lunasspecto Except that it's leftists who @riverpuppy is)use this pejorative today. And today's "conservatives" (whte nationalists/fascists) have replaced the "liberal" slur with "radical left" and "communist." There's an irony in there somewhere.

Project Include is working on a blogpost/articles on nonbinary workers and on transgender workers in tech. We are looking for resources we can highlight, and experts and workers we can interview. We're eager to get many perspectives of people from a diverse set of backgrounds. We are willing to pay people for their time, too. Please reach out if you have ideas or can otherwise help!

@debarati Gorgeous! ?

Guysss omggg.????
This is my fun-est project EVER!!

@gaby 私の学生もleftをほぼ必ず「左」と訳しますよね。「去った」「残った」「残された」という意味もあるのに? 定義を最後まで読んでこのシチュエーションに一番合ってるのを選んでくれよ！と叫びたくなります。

Right, so: I get a lot of these kinds of replies. Not to dunk on Nemo, but the general tendency of telling folks to start their own instance with all of the features we want ignores crucial things that marginalized communities often lack: time and resources.

https://corteximplant.com/@nemo/109351863643584265

@bri_seven You are a goddess! I vouch for it!

@fireborn I see. Thank you!

@fireborn May I ask what you use to write documents on your iPad?

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a self-introduction toot from a new account. The person wrote, "I'm a Person of Color," without any further details, and I immediately wondered if it was a white person pretending to not be white. I have never seen a Person of Color introduce themselves that way. They would say, "I'm Objiwe," or "I'm Black," or "I'm Filipina American." They might say, "As a Person of Color, I..." but they wouldn't be vague like that in introduction...would they? Am I mistaken?

It's interesting that people who occasionally visit a place can often offer better advice to first-time visitors than can people who live there. I've lived in Kyoto a quarter century, but I haven't really "toured" Kyoto since, like the early 1990s? People who consciously "tour" Kyoto frequently, but don't live here, can give you much better advice than I can an how to have a pleasant stay here. Now if you're going to MOVE to Kyoto, I'm your girl.

@vaguelyweird That is of course the great contradiction of gender critical feminism: All gender is a social construct...yet somehow, at the same time, a woman's essence is defined by her biology.

@randimason Precisely! Which is why the olds say "Youth is wasted on the young." ?

@randimason Yeah, lots of wonderful people in that community, a couple of whom I still consider good friends, but we didn't know shit, and we were a bit too enamored of the generation of feminists that immediately preceded us. I really wish I had had the courage and wisdom to question all that.

@mynameisfiber I had not known of her specifically, though I Googled and CrashChaosCats sounds vaguely familiar. That's a sad story, but I'm glad it has a happy ending.