Notices by 𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social), page 2

@mia @_elena @stefan @ben @pancakes the functionality of friendica but sharkey’s ui would help bring in people currently still stuck in facebook

I use the men's room, not to make sure I don't make TERFs uncomfortable but to make sure I do make men uncomfortable.

It speaks ill of capitalism that those with the most means to resist fascism cowardly obey in advance and it speaks ill of the managerial state that it's so easily turned toward reactionary ends.

@liamvhogan I just want the markdown of social media. What would that be, everyone hand-craft their own RSS feeds?

@dansup it seems like not having privacy features would be more in violation of an EU rule to me. Whatever.

@BeAware I'm an admin of a few small instances myself but I think small instances have their issues too. The ratio isn't necessarily better and sometimes the mods have more blind spots just by virtue of being a smaller number of people.

One issue though is if normies want to try Fediverse and ask me, I'll tell them all the good and the bad. But Meta is just going to tell them the good about Threads and they have to find out the bad themselves.

I know it's corny to be pro-Fediverse on the #Fediverse but I don't care. It drives me nuts seeing people complain that the moderation on threads is bad, and so is the community on Bluesky and not even *mention* Fediverse. Like people here are too militant about it and will berate you for joining just now or having even the mildest of criticisms. That's bad, but it's still maddening to see people act helpless when there is another solution they should at least consider.

@BeAware yeah I was thinking that too or if they even decided to block all Akkoma servers. It used to work though. They might have noticed that a disproportionate amount of bad servers were Akkoma (which yes, fair) and applied a blanket temporary ban or something. Hmmm...

@BeAware thanks! It's not on that list though. I wonder if it's soft blocked in an internal list as a server that didn't respond at one point.

It appears threads.net has my Akkoma instance blocked. I need to investigate if I'm doing something wrong (did someone sign up and start spamming a threads.net account?) or some forms I need to fill out... #fediverse #threads

People are just bad at thinking probabilistically. If a pollster was saying Harris had a 48% of winning a few days ago and now says she has a 52% chance, that doesn't mean they were predicting a Trump win before and a Harris win now. These are both coin flip odds. I personally think Harris is going to win but it ain't over.

@left_adjoint the other feedback loop is my adhd makes me keep forgetting to call them and figure out what the hold up is

@fakertarians funny, I have kids and I'd be very scared for them if our country slid in an authoritarian direction like that. No one wants to consider the possibility of their kids getting addicted to drugs and I'll do whatever I can to prevent that. But you REALLY don't want your kids to get addicted to drugs then murdered by the state.

The corrupt org that previously said those women failed their "gender test" won't even disclose what the metric is. Someone from the org previously said that they were XY but their current position is that it's not based on having high T but some other "recognized" metric.

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0731/1462837-explained-the-gender-controversy-miring-womens-olympic-boxing/

@bcham he's a disciple of Moldbug, who blamed Protestantism for what he ironically calls The Cathedral. I wonder what normie American conservatives would think about that ideology influencing Vance as well...

@ryanhoulihan the extremely online always talk about revolution specifically because they know it’s not going to happen and it frees them from having to do anything else.

@ryanhoulihan I haven't read this yet but I plan on attending the book signing, but a trans man local to me (Salem Lynn Thornton) wrote a gothic young adult trilogy, with the first installment out now, Something so Lovely.

A few that might be on those lists because them being trans is mentioned in the books' about sections. Might not be your cup of tea though:
- Happy As Pirates by Jemma Topaz
- Sundered Moon by Fae'Rynn

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@ryanhoulihan okay I wrote a check I can't cash by committing to 3 whole toots so I'll just use something that I, a trans, wrote as filler for the last one:

It's a short story expressing my anger about sanitized history. It's about how past atrocities can distort one's sense of reality. Fun!

https://thomaswebb.net/stories/great-tree/

Also available as a printable zine:

https://thomaswebb.net/files/Great%20Tree-zine.pdf
(I also snail mail these for free)

I'm working on a second short story right now using dragons as a trans metaphor.

@ryanhoulihan I get that. I think part of the difficulty in making those lists is that many trans writers don't want to be pigeonholed. It can be bad for one's career or self-esteem. So while they're not in the closet, they don't put that info in the press releases, where those bloggers would be looking. I'll list a few authors I can think of off the top of my head

My friend Aran and her late wife wrote a cool sci-fi series, Sol: Legacy. She also makes awesome music https://aranmaybe.bandcamp.com/album/charades

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@ryanhoulihan it's never occurred to me to consume art just because it's made by a trans person. I just hunt out art that I like. And it just happens that so much of what speaks to me would turn out to be made by a trans person but it simply wasn't marketed as such.

This might be kind of like "Christian music" - if it's any good, it won't be called that.