Notices by Raccoon🏳️‍🌈 (raccoon@techhub.social), page 2

@AnarchoNinaWrites
I don't necessarily remember what each person's proposed solution is. I literally heard things ranging from "elect Trump and hope things get so bad it forces a revolution" to "embrace veganism and sit-ins until the whole world converts to [insert ideology] and this solves the problem."

@AnarchoNinaWrites
All right, I will give you that: under the current paradigm, that is not something that will be offered as a voting choice. What is your alternate strategy?

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Because voting gives us more options when it comes to strategy. This last election basically handed the fascists everything they want, as opposed to someone who is merely complicit, who we could negotiate with.

@mekkaokereke
And I think, obviously, white people are going to have to use our privilege to try and protect black people, and to draw attention to instances of racism when we see it, just as straight and cisgender people need to work to draw attention to clear phobia, and how both men and women need to openly acknowledge sexism. We aren't going to get out of this mess by hiding and pretending that we are the only ones having problems.

But a better future is on the horizon, as it has always been. Our enemies are surprisingly few, their ideologies all but dead, and with hard work, we will inevitably prevail.

@mekkaokereke
I think it's obvious to everyone who's been paying attention that we've been going through some dark times. Part of me isn't sure we'd be on our way out if the election had had different results, but it definitely means things are going to get darker before they get better. And yes, it's frustrating to think we'll have to go through this, through no fault of their own, and I think there's some very justified anger at the people who decided to put us through this rather than understand what was going on and work towards a better future... But it is what it is, and we are going to have to live with it either way.

Now, more than ever, the most important things we can do are to band closer together, to build up our groups of support, protection, and resistance, and not let those falter under the people trying to divide us, and keep our ability to communicate things as they happen. Fedi is a part of that, if a small part, but so is going out and talking to your neighbors...

I feel like #SpaceKaren is giving free #donation advertising to #Wikipedia with this message.

If you don't want to donate to Jimbo, consider responding with a donation to the #EFF or #ACLU, as he's effectively threatening to target independent media here, and these are the groups which will be on the front-line against him when he takes control of the regulatory system...

@ruicarneiro @VoxClamans @jeff @ginaintheburg @bhahn @Szipek @alterelefant @chris @randahl
Zelensky and Netanyahu are too very different people, and Netanyahu is not relevant to talk about Ukraine: he was even one of only a couple world leaders to withhold support in the first year.

Historically speaking, the reason World War II got so out of control was because Hitler was allowed to advance rapidly through multiple countries over the course of several years before an actual united front was presented against him. This is why various outside democracies, NATO and non-NATO, have actively decided to back the Ukrainian government, to keep the fighting isolated to Ukraine and whittle down Putin's military capability. That's brutal, but hardly unreasonable, and encourages peace.

Let's be clear about this: this is a Dictatorship aggressing against a Democracy, and Putin has repeatedly shown he is not interested in cooperation with a global community or the interest of his own people.

@freemo
I thought that was the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and there were single-celled organisms with a nucleus... Did I misunderstand something?

@evan
Product designers should consider every group, including blind people, deaf people, people with epilepsy, any disorder someone might have but still want to use your product.

This is especially true with software, as the user base is going to be more neurodiverse than the general population.

@freemo
Yeah, there were regulatory rulings in the US and Europe for that.

Even still, a lot of people are deleting their Twitter accounts, and what I'm saying is that that is not the most strategic way to support Fedi. If you are going to delete your account anyway, it's better to use your account for dissent until Elon deletes it for you.

Edit: also, I've been posting JoinMastodon.org, which is a URL that is less likely to get blocked. If they start blocking URLs, we can always just rotate through them: they can't block a URL until they know what it is, and we have the resources to make several of them at a time.

@PhoenixSerenity
This is something that impresses me greatly about #MuhammadAli, that he was drafted, and, even though he could have used his celebrity status to stay safe, he used it to become a major face in the opposition of the #Vietnam war. The world got to see hearings with old white men calling a successful young black man "boy" repeatedly, chastising him as some sort of criminal for this simple act of not wanting to kill people for a country that didn't respect his rights.

It also affects the #transgender movement to this day that, despite him repeatedly asserting that his name was now Muhammad Ali, they kept referring to him by his #DeadName. Backlash to this set the tone for later rights of other people to go by different names.

If you still have a #Twitter account, consider boosting my posts about the #Fediverse there...

https://twitter.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1858185244014162136

Reminder that you can post about #Mastodon / #Fediverse on sites like Twitter, using the hashtags people are using to criticize them. I go there sometimes and talk about how we aren't owned by a crazy billionaire and how blocking actually works here.

#Moderator Issues.

New #report comes in.

No description.

Posts are all part of a thread criticizing the Mainstream Media, with focus on slanted reporting of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Nothing advocating any violence, nothing racist, nothing that seems like blatant misinformation.

No description.

Report was from another server so can't ask for one.

Forced to move on because there's no information about what is being reported.

Perhaps some ability to send internal messages in response to #reports, regardless of server, should be added to #ActivityPub? I know I've seen people talk about adding the ability to share moderator notes, and it would really help with moderation between servers on the #fediverse to be able to ask these questions and see what other #moderators are thinking...

@AnarchoNinaWrites
lol, glad you're honest about it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Question, what if we think you blocked someone as a misunderstanding?

@kagan @mikez_petm
Looking at the stuff from this account, as someone who's worked with text-based generative AI, I'm seeing a lot of the patterns of on llm trying to string together science ideas without a clear understanding of what those ideas are, and saying that the 27 km long thing could circle the Earth three times, because that's a thing that shows up a lot in popular Science journalism.

@mekkaokereke
Counterpoint: the majority of white women who voted for Trump are old. Women under 30 voted for Harris by more than a 15% margin.

I don't think I've ever done this for an individual user before but...

#FediBlock @FlyLogan@c.im, especially if you can see the comment above this.

I am reaching out to the server's staff, as this is clearly in violation of their rules, and I am not sure if they just haven't seen this yet or what.

Attached is a screenshot of the account's timeline, which is entirely abusive posts...

@admin @zhoal @Z @youronlyone @rperez42
Hey, C.IM staff, I wanted to contact you, first to apologize for dropping the above post without talking to y'all first. It was poor judgment, and I wouldn't want someone to do that to us.

Second, I want to know why that account hasn't been banned, as it has been used primarily to harass several people, and is clearly in violation of your rules. What's going on there?

Just want to keep an open line of communication.
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