like jam or bootlaceshe/him, cis, itinerant amongst the instances. en_US.UTF-8
(Profile image by Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin (challiyan) - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, see pinned toots)
like jam or bootlacesdrifting a bit from my take on DM's
this is mostly to note that, and that I am unpinning
https://toot.cat/@idlestate/111569810645327489
like jam or bootlacesI think I might be OK with occasional DM's from longer-running mutuals.
like jam or bootlacesA while back, I tried to make this point in a reply to someone else's thread, I think.
In case I haven't done so yet under my own thread, here it is, possibly to pin:
When I make or see a call to "CW politics" what I [take that to] mean is CW'ing local partisan electoralism.
Particularly if it is exhortatively spammy, doomerist, depersonalizing, and not in any way unique to the flow of the zeitgeist. I don't come here to put my face in front of the firehose.
I do not mean that examining the -ism's to which we are subject or which we perpetrate in various ways is "making things political".
I do not mean that people talking about their lived experience should be harassed in the name of prescriptivist (and often unexamined) norms, particularly in preservation of privilege.
"I voted today" or "I had this experience volunteering for a community project" seems fair to exclude from a politics CW (but since I hold that CW's are effectively like subject lines, a CW even for those is fine!)
YOU SHOULD DO A THING!
or
THIS PIECE OF NEWS IS TERRIBLE/GREAT!
or
[HA HA|BOO HOO] THESE PEOPLE ARE SO [BAD|GOOD]
I only need so much of that in my media diet and really do not lack for opportunity to see it.
If you CW it, I very likely might read it anyway.
If you don't, your reach will shrink, not grow. At least, so far as I'm concerned.
I try to apply this to my own posts. I don't always get it right on the first try.
Since I rarely block, I figure I'm also fairly forgiving this way of other's stances.
(breaking this out to pin. Please do not reply directly. This is a statement, not a lead-off to a debate or discussion)
like jam or bootlacesGoing to stash this screenshot of my previous profile here
https://toot.cat/media/iO0C1imC7lgS3Axx4zQ
like jam or bootlacesSwitched out my display name
"rellik moo"
and put in
"like jam or bootlaces"
like jam or bootlacesWrote this for someone in particular but it sums up my feelings well enough I might as well put it out there on the public TLs and maybe pin:
[Using the fediverse] is like computing more generally: There's a lot I liked about it from way back, but it warms my heart not one bit to see someone be put into a position where they feel like they have no choice but to use it.
So, I'm glad it's here for you to use but I'm sorry it's happened this way.
like jam or bootlaceshowdy, toot.cat!
Glad to finally have a couple of accounts here, this one (@idlestate@toot.cat) which I expect to use like a normal fediverse account, cultivating a list a mufos, watching the timelines and all that, and the other account (@emittingstate@toot.cat) in which I plan to come when I feel like being noisy and put some topic on long-form blast.
see my replies to this thread for further meta comments about my use of this account
like jam or bootlacesdrifting a bit from my take on DM's
this is mostly to note that, and that I am unpinning
https://toot.cat/@idlestate/111569810645327489
like jam or bootlacesI think I might be OK with occasional DM's from longer-running mutuals.
like jam or bootlacesdrifting a bit from my take on DM's
this is mostly to note that, and that I am unpinning
https://toot.cat/@idlestate/111569810645327489
like jam or bootlacesA while back, I tried to make this point in a reply to someone else's thread, I think.
In case I haven't done so yet under my own thread, here it is, possibly to pin:
When I make or see a call to "CW politics" what I [take that to] mean is CW'ing local partisan electoralism.
Particularly if it is exhortatively spammy, doomerist, depersonalizing, and not in any way unique to the flow of the zeitgeist. I don't come here to put my face in front of the firehose.
I do not mean that examining the -ism's to which we are subject or which we perpetrate in various ways is "making things political".
I do not mean that people talking about their lived experience should be harassed in the name of prescriptivist (and often unexamined) norms, particularly in preservation of privilege.
"I voted today" or "I had this experience volunteering for a community project" seems fair to exclude from a politics CW (but since I hold that CW's are effectively like subject lines, a CW even for those is fine!)
YOU SHOULD DO A THING!
or
THIS PIECE OF NEWS IS TERRIBLE/GREAT!
or
[HA HA|BOO HOO] THESE PEOPLE ARE SO [BAD|GOOD]
I only need so much of that in my media diet and really do not lack for opportunity to see it.
If you CW it, I very likely might read it anyway.
If you don't, your reach will shrink, not grow. At least, so far as I'm concerned.
I try to apply this to my own posts. I don't always get it right on the first try.
Since I rarely block, I figure I'm also fairly forgiving this way of other's stances.
(breaking this out to pin. Please do not reply directly. This is a statement, not a lead-off to a debate or discussion)
like jam or bootlacesGoing to stash this screenshot of my previous profile here
https://toot.cat/media/iO0C1imC7lgS3Axx4zQ
like jam or bootlacesSwitched out my display name
"rellik moo"
and put in
"like jam or bootlaces"
like jam or bootlacesWrote this for someone in particular but it sums up my feelings well enough I might as well put it out there on the public TLs and maybe pin:
[Using the fediverse] is like computing more generally: There's a lot I liked about it from way back, but it warms my heart not one bit to see someone be put into a position where they feel like they have no choice but to use it.
So, I'm glad it's here for you to use but I'm sorry it's happened this way.
like jam or bootlacesoof. Just noticed URL for my avatar picture was truncated, so I'll put it here and pin.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rambutans.JPG
like jam or bootlacesGoing to stash this screenshot of my previous profile here
https://toot.cat/media/iO0C1imC7lgS3Axx4zQ
like jam or bootlacesoof. Just noticed URL for my avatar picture was truncated, so I'll put it here and pin.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rambutans.JPG
like jam or bootlaceshowdy, toot.cat!
Glad to finally have a couple of accounts here, this one (@idlestate@toot.cat) which I expect to use like a normal fediverse account, cultivating a list a mufos, watching the timelines and all that, and the other account (@emittingstate@toot.cat) in which I plan to come when I feel like being noisy and put some topic on long-form blast.
see my replies to this thread for further meta comments about my use of this account
