june @odinsdream@octodon.social

Toots not being searchable was actively requested as an anti-harassment tool.

Full-text search allows bad actors to search on words representing viewpoints they don't like (for example, "Quran" or "abortion") and attack the people using them.

I mention this to provide context, not as a defense of the idea.

@bea for real... if it were just little tags in a bar at the bottom of the post or something

i just... hate... embedding hashtags in content, it's so very bad

like, no wonder Western society is racing backwards to the safety of authoritarianism and outright fascism

most folks simply have no idea how to make hard decisions on their own, our society has utterly failed to give us any training in how to be ethical when nobody's around to enforce it

everywhere people resort to appealing to authority

someone in your community accused of sexual abuse? "oh, uh, well, we're not comfortable deciding for ourselves, we'll only act if there's an actual criminal conviction". running to the fucking _cops_, basically

liberals are _really_ fucking bad at this. they want to believe they're fair and enlightened and all that but really they've just vested an imaginary impartial civil authority with the ability to make these decisions for them

(so now their way of fighting Trump is to cheerlead an FBI investigation from the sidelines. again...running to the fucking cops)

saw this item on the hellbird site a short while ago

https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/954461696302526464

tl;dr version: Facebook will be letting users vote on what news sites are trustworthy because Zuckerberg says he's "uncomfortable" with the company making that decision for itself "in a world with so much division"

like, is anyone fucking surprised that the most famous of the new masters of the Universe is too chickenshit to make an ethical decision?

but really this sort of thinking is everywhere, on every level

everywhere, a frightening number of Americans' answer to having to make ethical decisions about other people is to ask someone, _anyone_ to make the decision for them

PS: every Dem lawmaker who's bending over backwards to give Trump his stupid fucking wall should be fired out of a cannon straight into the goddamned sun

just a reminder that the reason the president is awful is because he's an awful person and a fascist and is acting like both of those things.

it's not because of
1) his mental healthy status
2) his fatness
3) his choice in apparel
4) the number of past relationships

This is handy

Via: https://twitter.com/socrates1024/status/902649363943612416

Pippin Took: (bowing) Greetings Lord Denethor. I bring Gandalf the White, Wielder of the Flame of Ilurien, Wizard of the Istari Order, and his horse, NightModem.

Gandalf: *coughs*

Pippin: DoomBell.

Gandalf: ..

Pippin: DeathDial?

Gandalf: Shadowfax.

Pippin: Oh, right. And his horse, DarkSkype.

I think the biggest thing mastodon has done for me is redefine my normal.

Most people I follow are queer, and many (if not most) are trans/nb (also most are at least somewhat anticapitalist). Suddenly my political views and sexuality and gender presentation are... well, not weird at all. Suddenly I have a peer group where I can be myself and be... kinda moderate actually.

Then there's just the level of caring. @ghost, @bea and @amphetamine provide a skeleton of a support structure that has literally carried me through one of the toughest times in my life with minimal difficulty.

Your occasional reminder that we smashed the divine right of kings, and one day we'll smash capitalism, too.

so this one time i changed my legal name and then wrote up the process as a step-by-step guide to the actual Kafkaesque dystopa that is the legal name change system.

#trans #transphobia #namechange #legalnamechange #mywriting #nightmarefuel

http://www.brinsolomon.com/blog/2018/1/6/so-you-want-to-change-your-name