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ada, 2 years ago

My mum wasn’t racist. She’s the one who helped me see that racism isn’t just the way things are. But everyone else in my family, in my town, in the media… It was everywhere…

ada, 2 years ago

My pattern with linux is that I tinker with it until I eventually break it in a way I don’t have the knowledge or skill to repair, and then I balk at the thought of starting from scratch again, so I just put windows back on the machine…

ada, 2 years ago

I’ve had nearly a dozen surgeries, and none of them have gone like that.

Sometimes I have a mask over my face, but mostly I don’t, then they give me a little prick in my arm. I feel cold travel up my arm, whilst the person counts down from 10. When the cold gets to my shoulder, which is usually when the countdown is at about 7 or so, I go under, like someone turned off a light, but just slow enough that I can just remember an awareness of being about to go under. There’s no weakness, no feeling of being unable to move, just cold travelling up my arm, and then lights out.

Then, I wake up, with an awareness that time has passed, though not an awareness of how long it has been.

ada, 2 years ago

Some of mine were like that

ada, 2 years ago

Last time I had surgery, I think I made a comment about the surgeon’s good taste in music. I was in Argentina, but the surgeon was listening to US 80s music :)

ada, 2 years ago

🦆u

Are you sure that isn’t “duck you” ;)

ada, 2 years ago

The good old you can always add more layers

This is the main reason I don’t like cold weather. I hate layers! :)

ada, 2 years ago

I can’t stand layers of clothing or stuffy indoor air, so both of those are worse than being hot for me

ada, 2 years ago

I mean, I prefer dry heat over humid, but I’ll take either over the cold

ada, 2 years ago

Honestly, I just love the heat. I strip down to as few layers as possible, put a fan on, and that’s pretty much it. Even when it gets really hot, I still find that easier than the cold. The question I really want to know is how do people deal with the cold!

ada, 2 years ago

This was the storyline for the old Jessica Alba show, a Dark Angel.

ada, 2 years ago

The double slit experiment is about observation.

When you fire photons through the double slits, one photon at a time, they cause wave interference patterns with themselves as if each photon travelled through both slits.

Yet if you set something up to measure which slit each photon passed through, they no longer interfere with themselves, and give you the two straight lines pattern, rather than the interference pattern.

ada, 2 years ago

Downvotes = disabled on my instance

ada, 2 years ago

Not needing to sleep.

ada, 2 years ago

Do you think lemmy/kbin’s relatively poor and insufficient moderation tooling is partly to blame for what you’re seeing?

Not as such. The moderation tools lead to redundant handling, and make it easy to miss reports you shouldn’t miss, and force you to leave reports open so that others don’t miss them, but the actual number of reports is more of a cultural thing than anything else.

Do you think that the communities based structure make this sort of thing more likely to be bad or problematic?

So, the microblogging fediverse (which I’ll call microfedi) existed for years before twitter crapped the bed. It housed queer folk who had left main stream social media, and those queer folk set the culture and ran the instances. So when twitter happened, even though the culture changed, there was a sufficient mass of existing instances to ensure that bigots remained unwelcome in the mainstream fediverse.

However, when reddit crapped the bed, by comparison, the threadiverse basically didn’t have an established culture. There was a handful of lemmy instances (we were one of them), but the only one of notable size was lemmy.ml. kbin didn’t even exist in any meaningful way until a couple of months before reddit died.

So, when reddit died, there was no established culture. Instead, people brought reddit culture with them, and reddit culture, because of lax admins, was much more tolerant of hate speech than microfedi. And so, people who are “reddit people” more than “fediverse people” set up lemmy and kbin instances, and brought those reddit norms with them.

So then, you get instances like blahaj and beehaw that are threadiverse instances, but have the “old school” microfedi approach to bigotry. We smash it down hard at the first hint of seeing it, but most of the instances we federate with don’t attack it so aggressively.

And thus, on microfedi, much of the work is done by remote admins before I ever see it, but on the threadiverse, it’s often just not done by remote admins (unless it’s aggressively hateful), and that means I end up seeing a lot of shit, and blocking a lot of users that wouldn’t have had a chance to get established in the microfedi universe

ada, 2 years ago

And that’s kind of what I mean.

To any trans person, that phrase is a klaxon. It’s an alarm bell that tells us the person we’re talking to is actively transphobic.

So we report it, the mod or admin who isn’t trans feels out of their depth, the trans person doesn’t have the spoons to explain it, and the transphobe stays in place, now empowered to keep their transphobia going, as long as they keep it at the level where most admins and mods don’t recognise it.

And that’s what the threadiverse feels like now.

But on microfedi, there is a much greater awareness of these things, and someone saying that would be dropped or defederated from most instances very quickly

ada, 2 years ago

So honest question.

Lets say someone comes along and says “Woman are adult human females”. A trans person reports this and tells you that it’s a dog whistle, and the person saying that is a TERF.

What would you do?

ada, 2 years ago

I mean, that’s the selling point of this instance. We are aggressively protective of the queer community. I explicitly aim to cut the toxicity off at the source rather than forcing each of our users to react to it after they see it. The wall is there to ensure we can exist without having to be on guard all of the time, and the HOA stuff is often driven by people who don’t care if we’re on guard, or actively want us to feel unsafe

ada, 2 years ago

Well, for me, it’s because the only meme group I’m even semi active in is explicitly for old memes :)

ada, 2 years ago

I use mine for internet in my pocket, not for calling people

ada, 2 years ago

I’m in a big capital city in Australia

ada, 2 years ago

Yeah, I remember toxic masculinity well.

ada, 2 years ago

Your instance connects directly to other instances. All of the lemmy instances doing that with each other is the lemmy network.

Each instance can connect with any other instance unless blocked, but will not do so until someone on your instance follows a community on the remote instance.

In short, there is no way to see everything, and there is no one true view

ada, 2 years ago

I don’t know about rule 1, but it’s off topic for this community, which could explain it