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@leahmcelrath.bsky.social Maybe we should stop using the label "Antifa"

There are people who don't know what "Antifa" is, they think it's just another mob with a weird name causing problems

I had to explain Antifa to my sister, she had no idea what it meant

Call it what it is, "Anti Fascist"

Not "Antifa", spell it out, shove it in people's faces, make them understand what it means

No one can misunderstand what "Anti Fascist" means

And they know what those who oppose an "Anti Fascist" are

@claralistensprechen3rd You mean Will Robinson from Lost In Space (Billy Mumy)

And yes, I am that old that I saw it when it first aired

My point was that B5 is over 25 years old & is predicting events happening now

Just started watching Babylon 5 again from the beginning

And there's the rise of racism & nationalism

People intent on eradicating other people

Oligarchs thinking rules don't apply to them

Political rivals being killed

There's even a rigged election

I'm sitting here thinking "WHEN was this made 🤯"

I'm sorry twitter users who set up a bot to mirror your tweets over here

If I want to engage I've usually got to do it on twitter & every visit inflates musks ego & wallet

As pretty much all these mirrored tweets have (at)name(at)twitter.com ** in them I'm now muting anything with (at)twitter.com in it

So if you want me to see your stuff, post it over here

Anyone else who wants to do this filters are in your settings, if you get it wrong you can delete the filter

**replace (at) with @

I just realised it's Friday the 13th

I should have been experiencing mortal dread all day ... oh wait I do that every day lately, that'll be why I forgot

I'll have to squeeze some extra mortal dread in before bedtime

@sbamueller @cstross Re magic as a finite resource idea

Have a read of "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven

That explores the idea

@benroyce @deborahh I'm pretty sure that's how it works

It's been a while since I looked into it & there have been a few releases of the software since then so it may have changed

You could ask your instance admin

@Gargron

@deborahh @benroyce To the best of my knowledge if an instance administrator blocks another instance at the server level, then no one on that instance can see any posts from your instance & vice versa

The instances are defederated from each other, this is how rogue instances are removed

However if a user blocks an instance then all posts from that instance are muted for that user & the other instance can still see the users posts

@Gargron

@eff @zoracon 👋

@randahl Reminds me of Brexit

Roughly ⅓ of the electorate in a referendum that was advisory & required no action, drove off a cliff & took the other ⅔ with them

@cdarwin I believe this could be the last election the US has, but only if Trump wins

@bmacDonald94 @VeroniqueB99 Nice piloting there sir, you saved lives

@arstechnica So we're building data centres the size of several football fields, that consume more electricity & fresh water than a small country just so we can freak people out by faking a dead relatives handwriting

PinkNews refuses to cover trans issues on the basis it jeopardises ad revenue and is "contentious"

https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/breaking-pinknews-refuses-to-cover

Update: Pink News appears to have begun covering serious trans issues once more, after Skittles dropped their campaign

Note to self: put Skittles on the shopping list

@vwampage Don't know if you've noticed but ads for phones with the "circle it to search" gesture, which was never an AI feature, have stopped saying it's AI

@thomasfuchs I believe Trump actually lost the popular vote to Clinton by nearly 3 million votes

The Electoral College gave him the presidency

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election

@dgar @MarkIngs @bborn Because the night - Patti Smith

I always think of Pat Benatar but it's not

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlKTQ3Ig7A

@transworld My Gender Ideology was to see a doctor, be referred, jump the hoops, take the drugs, transition, be surgically reassigned & live out the rest of my life

I didn't push this on anyone else & no one pushed it on me

So it's not much of an ideology as it only affects me

I predate the GRA, Equality Act, SM & internet as we know it today, so it's not social contagion

This was in me from birth

For half my life fear was all that stopped me

I will be damned if I'm going back to that fear

@HannahHowe Unfortunately Labour looks a lot like the Torys these days, what with welcoming Tory MP's, adopting Tory policies & refusing to promise a repeal the more draconian Tory legislation

So this landslide is probably going to give us continuity Tory government with a red rosette rather than positive change & hope for the future

@ryanhoulihan Oh fuck! 🫂