Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 6

@janl @thomasfuchs
yeh I feel like there's sufficient explanation for why those things happened without letting the perps off the hook.

@goatsarah @ajlanes
I mean...

@goatsarah @demoographics looking good on meg & desktop!

@goatsarah @demoographics
They show for me (in Megalodon) as attachments, which I didn't know was a thing. (I can click through to them, but they're displaying from your server.) Will try to remember to see what they look like in Mastodon web-native when I get back to my desk.

@karohemd @goatsarah I'll say! The lighting is incredible, too.

If:

- you're trying to pitch yourself as the THE person with THE solution to preventing harassment of marginalized folks on the fediverse...

- & you make it a point to issue thinly-veiled threats about what you'll do to your enemies once your "solution" is widely implemented

- ...then I submit you should not be trusted to implement such a solution - & perhaps not even to craft one.

Seen people passing around this link to a retrospective by Ian Hickson on 9 years at google:
https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1

special thanks to @anildash [https://me.dm/@anildash/111506988791615922] for pointing out something I havent seen mentioned: the paragraph were "Hixie" spends several sentences excoriating a specific black woman for her 'incompetent' middle-management decisions & skills. He won't have to look for another job again, but that's some seriously unprofesisonal & likely racist/misogynoir bullshit.

@thomasfuchs Did this go with a 99/4A (which IIRC was similar footprint to a Tandy ColorComputer)? Or was this for a big sibling of the 99/4A?

@mainframed767 @Sempf
Weirdly, they were well on their way to irrelevance when they did that. They produced a bunch of streaming video shows around then. I remember a lot of folks being super puzzled about the business model.

@Mastodon 'tone policing as a feature' would probably make me move off Mastodon.

@thomasfuchs
When dogs stop fetching you basically know they're getting old enough to worry about.
With cats it could happen any time & means nothing much, as far as I've ever been able to see.
It's a bit like how a kid one day decides 'no that breakfast cereal is actually poison, yes I am aware that yesterday I would eat nothing else.'

@thomasfuchs
Interesting!
I haven't done it so far just because my mental bandwidth is about maxed, but I'm seeing more & more arguments for at least getting familiar with how bsky works.

@thomasfuchs
Is sharing mute/block lists an actual UI feature, or does one do it via export/import? (E.g. I export & send to you, you import.)

@jwz @jhpot
I use it unironically on a regular basis. It's a pretty darn cromulent word. Reliably embiggens the conversation.

Note total failure by #AirCanada to acknowledge that the problem wasn't lack of a wheelchair, it was publicly humiliating a human being for the sin of being disabled. #accessibility #a11y
[h/t @knittingknots2 | https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/111324914769560604]

@goatsarah
I would not go to those lengths, but I sincerely & heartily respect that you have done so.

@jimcarroll
Don't they also do a Shaw Festival there? Or is that part of the larger Shakespeare Festival? [Insert appropriate crack about Shakespeare Writing the Plays of George Bernard Shaw.]
@mcc

I'd speculate on what Trump's game plan is with undercutting the GOP speaker process at every possible turn, but at this point I think he's just being pathologically disruptive. Plus I'm not sure he's bright enough to have a plan. He's just not a smart man, never has been.

@goatsarah @tommyyum
The principle motivating feeling of most American Republicans is fear. Even their greed is subordinate to & filtered through fear. (I suspect Tories are similar, AFAICS this is super common for conservatives in general.)

So 'stop being frightened of the guy who can unlease an overwhelming swarm of low-skill ratfuckers' is a noble aspiration, but one to which the majority of Republicans cannot obtain.

@mekkaokereke
& nobody's argued with that.