Sotonohito @sotonohito@octodon.social

Hey #POC #QPOC #QWOC #WOC on Mastodon I wanna talk to you!

I'm Tiara, queer immigrant woman of colour currently based in Australia. A huge chunk of my Mastodon presence right now is about race on Mastodon (or complaining about coder bros) but beyond that I'm also interested in arts, writing, games, performance, travel, intersectionality, liminality, and signing up for anything interesting.

Come say hi :D

"People in this culture really love food" is the worst food writing clichés. All cultures love food. Just once I'd like to see an article that starts with "People in this culture despise eating. They consider it a filthy act, done under a cloud of shame. Flavor, texture, and sustenance: all are abominations across the land. The national dish is a hard bread made of sawdust, moss, and penance."

("British food is bad" does not count as an instance of this. That's its own cliché.)

I think trolls have managed to set a very low standard for internet conduct. Between overt rudeness and genuine politeness, there's a large middle ground that isn't obviously unacceptable but also isn't how friendly people behave.

Remember that Black people are almost 4x times as likely to be arrested for having pot in the United States.

Blaze that shit, and BTW institutionalized racism is bad and weed is safe.

Do rich people think that there's different kinds of money? Like oh no, I ran out of "health care" money. Luckily I have all of this "relocate to another country" money with my "never hungry" money and my "random shit I don't need" money.

Also also: If you claim to care about free speech you should also care about the basic principle of voluntary association, and thus people not wanting to hear or propagate your speech. *For any reason.* Defederation is a *basic requirement* for free speech to exist on Mastodon as anything other than a recapitulation of the worst corners of the internet.

I could really use some help with macOS UI work for this Mastodon client I'm working on. I'm struggling ridiculously with the core concept of NSTableView cell resizing.

Please boost.

Every single time...

Hey dudes. Don't @ women telling them to not speak about their experience with harassment.

It is, in fact, more harassment.

New analysis of Magellan probe data suggests a new model for tectonics on Venus. One that may have worked on Earth for our first 2bn years.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/on-venus-tectonics-without-the-plates/

Uh oh someone sent me a box of masculinity again.

CWs aren't "censorship" or putting your toots behind some kinda wall, they're basically equivalent to lowering your voice so only the intended people can hear you in this crowded bar, as you talk about stuff that's potentially upsetting, TMI, or whatever.

People don't want CWs on "politics" (which really means "the news") because they're oversensitive and afraid of seeing the news, they read they news, they just don't want it to be a 24-hour punditry vortex in here.

"In 10 or 15 years, we will look back fondly on the days when there were only a few thousand Middle Easterners dedicated to destroying the U.S. and willing to die for the fundamentalist cause."

I mean, that was sort of obvious even then but holy shit "serious" news was afraid to criticize the war at all much less CORRECTLY PREDICT ISIS

http://www.theonion.com/multiblogpost/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-regio-11534