Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social
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I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!
Joined Jan 2023
@RickiTarr persistence from the discommunicators. Time is a real factor for thought. Convincing influential people such that they don't think they're lying so they can use their social capital. Persistence. Saying it over and over so that people get tired of hearing the disinformation, then it feels benign and can seap ito actual thoughts.
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Suddenly everyone on the right is completely unconcerned about people eating the cats and eating the dogs.
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"How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a reality TV star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon, of truth and honesty."
--- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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33. I walked by a poster. ‘There’s no aluminum in this cage. It’s not nickel either. It is a nickel less cage.’ (Photo of the actor)
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SEEING HOW THE JERKOFFS WHO RUN AMERICA SEEM SO EAGER TO THROW TRANS PEOPLE INTO THE WOODCHIPPER, I HAVE FOUND THE HILL I* WILL DIE ON:
@RickiTarr thanks for this. A friend of mine was recently murdered. Wallowing in despair was fine for 4 days, but I need positive momentum and I need people in my life talking about good things. This is good. I'm going to try to make some art for him with all of his friends (he touched a LOT of people), now I get to meet more of them
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I'm going to start listing some good things that have happened in society, and I know a lot of you are going to want to say, Well, that's all over now, it will all be taken away, but remember nothing lasts forever, even the bad stuff. So, instead of giving into despair and hopelessness, think for a second, and instead of tearing down hope, add to the list.
The idea that we would have open legal gay marriage in my lifetime wasn't something I believed would happen, but here we are.
I can buy legal recreational Marijuana in my state.
The show Drag Race not only exists, but it has for a long time, and it's very popular.
AIDS is no longer a death sentence.
And to add to that, you can take a drug that will just stop you from getting it.
There is a vaccine for Malaria.
I can just go buy an electric car.
When I was a kid, parents hitting kids was the rule, not an exception.
In my teens and 20's, I never met a transitioned or transitioning Trans person, now I know lots of them.
Abortion pills exist.
There are tenant union.
There is a vaccine against cervical cancer.
Women make up more than half of the college educated work force.
Millions of people showed up to protest police brutality in 2020, I know that's not enough, but if you compare that to the past, or even Rodney King, it's a big fucking deal.
Things are rough, and we are scared, but we haven't just been treading water, and we won't just sit in misery. It's never going to be perfect, but we can be better.
@aram this is why I created my own internet radio station with 24 days of music from my own collection that plays on shuffle so I can listen to it instead of corporate mediated enshitified garbage.
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Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
@vkc huh. I didn't actually know that.... hrmmmmm
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Friendly reminder that if you're designing any kind of personal information form and you decide to:
1. Validate names for "bad words"
2. Put a minimum characters limit on names
3. Have two separate fields for "first" and "last" name
Then you're doing it wrong with a shitload of very western-minded assumptions that are not universal and will cause issues
@davetroy thanks for this. I had no idea. Well. Vague distrust, and a general unease.
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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements.
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My milkshake brings the boys to the yard. My fries attract women to my veranda. Sometimes I forget to put the twist thingy on the bread and get ants on the counter.
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Hey fellow queers, kinks, and poly peeps in Washington state: my BFF @jonobie is accepting new clients at her therapy practice.
If you or someone you know in WA is looking for a therapist I encourage you to check her out. She *gets* us because she's one of us. And if she's not a good fit for you she may be able to point you to someone else.
She's also one of the very best people I know.
@gairdeachas @jonobie thanks for this!
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A lot of people are suddenly realizing that their orgs or communities need digital security and privacy training. If you are a person with a technical or teaching background and you think you might be the right person to give such a training, you should check out the Security Education Companion for teaching materials and tips: https://www.securityeducationcompanion.org/
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I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!
Joined Jan 2023
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