Notices by johanna, at the cafe counter (johannab@wandering.shop), page 2

@ramin_hal9001 Sorry, I'm really not going to be pursuaded on that. Buying in to that system is the problem. I'm here in federated and open-source communications spaces to do less of that. If "people who work in science and technology" are indeed doing so to strengthen the capitalists and oligarchs, THAT'S THE PROBLEM and why the language around it needs to shift to disempower that.

@feld @JordiGH am aware of the regionalisms of that slang also!

And that our non-English-native developer was somewhat duped into using it as a neophyte dev working on what was then a niche passion project. And that it's being changed in the software.

Not sure I'd extend the same grace to a VC-backed Dorsey project where everyone involved is likely fluent in North American English dialects, even if "skeet" in the AAVE sense isn't something white dudebros would immediately think of.

@JordiGH oh dear lord.

Clearly they didn't start with much DEI built-in.

We have just defederated from an instance running a "blockbot" which was being used to name, and hence draw further harassment to, any fedizen who blocked any user of that instance.

I'd like to invite reports of other such bots, should our members discover them. I can think of a few ways that's a violation of our rules and just basic ethical behaviour in general.

A new invite code is up on the wandering.shop announcements.

For those reading from other instances - we are not "closed" but are trying to grow in a controlled way and by referral. Please reach out if you are interested, with the understanding that we are an actively moderated instance and if you wish to join you will be agreeing to our rules and CoC.

Cheers!

Kinda freaky that a mass shooting happened at all in Ontario, freakier still that it was targeted at a Condo board the shooter was harassing and assaulting over thinking they were somehow responsible for poisoning him with EM waves.

And it absolutely seems to have missed being major news.

(I'm a condo director, this is fucking nuts).