Lexi Alexander @Lexialex@octodon.social

The plot thickens on Paul Engelhard’s ban from the bird site. A bunch of my friends who have access to the head honchos of Twitter approached them about it, not even they could fix it. Apparently this is a German Twitter hate speech issue. Now I have to compose a tweet in German and @ German Twitter...which is my least favorite thing to do. My German isn’t that great anymore. Plus, I have to address German hate speech laws. Sigh.

I‘m usually mortified of people with anime avatars. Quite often I block them on sight. So Mastodon is where the good anime fans are?

Everybody and their grandmother is sending me tweets and lists of people suggesting I should direct Batgirl. But nobody wants to send me the bad things LOL. I remember precisely how I blocked about 200 mad DC fans one day, I’m sure there are people who are salty hearing my name come up that often. It’s a shame I’m missing this. There’s nothing better than butthurt comic book movie fandom

@fdgonthier I hate that page. They keep editing stuff about my dad out which makes me think they’re anti-Palestinian. I tried to edit it once, they told me I can’t edit my own bio. So other people have more authority about me than me

@fdgonthier I’m not famous at all. People who worked with me have to imdb me because they can’t remember my name

@fdgonthier I’m so glad I saw this 😂

I’m getting a lot of Google alerts that only say my name, Twitter and Batgirl. Contrary to popular belief, I swear I am not Batgirl.

@demonkind @starbreaker very good. But why does it take skill to get a table. Shouldn’t a table be easy to access for all?

@deejoe @BigAngry I think he is on FB but since I don’t do FB, I’m not certain if he posts the same things there. Twitter really was a good way for younger people to get an idea of what it’s like to be considered a foreigner in your country. I can’t count how many times kids replied to his commentary with “oh wow, I never thought of that”.

@kevinmarks good point. I just remember Hollywood movies shifting from having German bad guys to Russians. Frankly I didn’t mind the German bad guys. We should have stuck with that for a bit longer. (Never saw a Polish bad guy. How do you even write that, every Polish person I’ve met is sweet as can be and although Poland is being dodgy about history right now, they didn’t start the war)

I’m trying to figure out what the percentage is of movies/shows with a Muslim terrorist plot versus the number of real terrorist attacks by people with an Islamic background and then compare that to the percentage of movies/shows with a white American terrorism plot versus the number of real life white American terrorism attacks.

@kevinmarks a return to the 80’s.

@kevinmarks oh that’s right. I remember the plot I didn’t remember they were Muslims

@starbreaker he’s pretty big. It’s winter I guess. They eat well in LA

Good morning. Tea with friends before work starts.

@kevinmarks I watched it. All seasons. Can’t remember this part though. But it’s been a while.

@gargron of course but the point is to be heard. He’s had a bunch of prominent followers there who retweeted him to people who need to hear the stuff he says. I mean, I went from 55k followers on Twitter to 150 here. It’s certainly more peaceful but it’s a much smaller echo chamber

I don’t want you guys to let up on getting @paulengelhard’s account unbanned for those of you who haven’t abandoned Twitter). He’s a tremendous voice because nobody is more “othered” than a POC German. Black and Asian Germans are constantly spoken to in English by Germans, because “they don’t look German”. Different experience for Arab or Turkish Germans, we are expected to speak fluently. Paul is the kind of voice that needs a microphone during these dark days. Not for his sake but ours.