i don’t know why i decided to make part of this account persona naming birds, but i have a schtick to maintain at this point

i name them… Madrigal, Haven, and Hammerin’ Hank

also by even scheduling a debate between say… Bill Nigh and a creationist, the illusion is created that these are equal things, equally deserving of our attention and time. before you ever get into the moderator bias creating an impression that the truth lies in the middle of these two people when in reality only one of them is speaking in good faith.

i name this magpie… Sacha

“that’s good”

so we’re clear i’m really not into an anti-intellectualism. what i’m into is knowledge sharing without barriers based on class hierarchies

too many people have the attitude of “why contribute to something when X corporate service works fine”

but more and more, with these companies giving less and less of a fuck and relying on stale and outdated knowlege calcified in training data that itself didn’t represent the real world as well as they think, the information we share with eachother for the love of sharing will become more valuable

We need both more citizen science and citizen journalism

The key is every person famous enough in history for you to have learned their name sucked. You have to find the things they did well and find ways to bring those forward into the current day, and find the things they failed at and find contemporaries from their time who had the right idea on those things and bring that into the current day, too.

And also be acutely aware that the things you say and think and do will someday be reviewed and found lacking. So be open minded. Don’t assume any one demagogue or political faction is completely on the nose about every single thing. Perform the due diligence to force out intolerance and foster a true era of good will and love.

I name this Martin… Gwendolyn

I’m going to weigh in that this is a case of PTB even if, as some others you could have been more graceful. The role of a moderator is primarily to prevent things from spinning out of control like they did here.

That particular mod left his old home instance after realizing it had some problems, and was acting better for a while, but has been returning to many of his old ways. In particular:

1. He has been getting less and less respectful and inclusive
2. He has not been open minded, which is required for a learning environment
3. He has a eurocentric perspective on genocide and atrocity that ignores that even though pre-colonial societies were not perfect, the current state of the world is a very direct result of an attitude that any one society is more advanced/developed than the others they encounter

One is foot-pokeystick. The other is mounted-pokeystick

EDIT: I’m a moron

Congratulations! You’ve re-engineered Jousting with that first one

EDIT: This is why I should’t comment on things before I’ve had my coffee. Jousting, not Fencing

i know one person who’s interesting in hosting some queer focused fediverse infrastructure, however they wants no part of the threadiverse since they considers reddit and reddit-alikes to be intrinsically prone to toxicity

@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone , when your instance is online again let’s have a discussion about what resources i can make available to you that will center your community’s needs without someone like me colonizing the discussion.

(unless i have the wrong ladybutterfly, then my apologies)

i know this isn’t my place as a cis white dude, but can anarchist.nexus be a resource for a women’s space? i’ve been looking for gaps in the threadiverse we could nurture and foster. my #1 concern lately with the makeup of the hegemony of the threadiverse lately has been:

• eurocentricism
• authoritarianism by default
• black and white thinking (see above)
• unchecked and unchallenged mysoginy

my commitment to you as a cis white dude admin would be to stay the fuck out of the way of moderators looking to host a women’s issues community here, within reason. obviously it wouldn’t be okay to break instance rules against bigotry and such, but i can offer my commitment to shutting my mouth and knowing my role

edit: also, i bet @poVoq@slrpnk.net and @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net from my second original home instance would be happy to have a women’s issues community hosted on slrpnk.net, i’m still figuring out what my new relationship and responsibility to the threadiverse is now, but i think just like how there’s more than one world news community, there could be more than one women’s issues community so that people have a preferred and fallback space on days like today. the one thing i don’t want to diminish in this comment is the incredible work people like @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone have done in creating a welcoming space on the threadiverse for marginalized people. i just don’t want that to be work that is only done alone. we should be collaborative towards a better, freer, world

at least 2/3 of the global northern empires have fallen for the dictator’s trap

your dad is probably the most technically proficient person i’ve heard of. most people i know using slackware are only using it in an enterprise server environment with a team to support it

for real! this should be about how we are on the precipice of letting people with debilitating conditions enjoy their lives and spend time with people they care about instead of immediately saying “just think of the implications for shareholder value!”

for real. it’s 2026. everything with social features is tiktok. instagram, facebook, youtube. they’re all tiktok