Brutkey

Cassandra is only carbon now
@xgranade@wandering.shop

Seeing "punish the behaviour you want to see" go around again, and it's good advice. But it's also a bit infantilizing: I honestly think it's OK to criticize people for the technical choices that they make, and the resulting societal impacts of those choices. Similarly, I think it's OK to express frustration with peoples' reticence.

Being human is OK? It should fall on you to be a saint, absorbing everything from people around you. Not every emotion or expression thereof is tactical.

Cassandra is only carbon now
@xgranade@wandering.shop

You bet your almighty ass I'm frustrated that people finally left Twitter for another corporate enclave. You bet your unholy posterior that I'm frustrated that people still expect me to communicate exclusively over WhatsApp, SMS, and Discord DMs. You bet your feeble heiney that I'm frustrated people assume I'll go out of my way to accommodate Windows and macOS workflows when they won't budge an inch for my Linux-based ways of working.

That frustration is human. Unproductive, sure, but human.

Cassandra is only carbon now
@xgranade@wandering.shop

Anyway, it's good advice, listen to it and boost it, please. But also make space to be a messy human being who has very real frustrations with the people around you. Both can exist.