Lena @NBLena@witches.town

knight: let her go! it's me you want
dragon: ok *sets the princess down and starts kissing the knight*
princess: hey uh. can i get a kiss too
dragon: sure thing *starts kissing the princess as well*
and they lived happily ever after the end

Interesting parallel between (a) alt-right trolls who think "free speech" means freedom to crush and poison communities and rob them of better, richer conversations (2) laissez-faire free market types who think economic "freedom" means a world where most of us are employed by companies capable of limiting our freedom in so many ways.

Both embrace "freedom" as an abstract principle but destroy it in practice.

Why are neo-Nazis not treated/seen in the same way as terrorists?

I don't understand how a group promoting violence and race-divide (rather than religious) is a more legitimate political view than ISIS? 😓

"Human beings act in ways that are motivated by economic rationality, and will always seek to maximize profit"
*looks upon millions and millions of words of fan fiction*
friend
your model has something of an explanatory gap

Toot!

https://mastodon.infra.de/media/iHDSs7ML-EA8h3BB3zY

if you love to code, does that make you programmorous

okay, so my gf luna is currently in a very, very bad place, and she needs money.
basically, she's being denied food and such by her parents, so she needs to get the money for it on her own.
it'd be nice if you either sent something to help her out or boosted this

https://www.paypal.me/looktolaluna

it's priiiiide ✨✨✨✨✨ with @NBLena https://witches.town/media/hHFDNCOrHeZqzZK8Kj0

https://mastodon.social/media/ekdR1PqIyqg7yYrHaz4

if all else fails, i also set up a patreon recently, maybe if that takes off i can do online code tutoring as my thing https://www.patreon.com/QuietMisdreavus

however disturbing its other functions may be, if FaceApp helps some kids realize they're trans it will have been a worthwhile fad-app

If you see someone being harassed on here, in any way at all on any level on any scale, call that shit out. Don't sit there and think 'hey that's not cool' then keep scrolling. Type those thoughts out, hit send. Let harassers know that kind of behaviour isn't tolerated and let the people being harassed know they're not drowning in a void while everybody looks the other way.

as real bombs continue to murder real people for no good reason, let me say again: fuck war games. fuck games that normalize warfare, make it appealing, make it entertaining.

in my experience 9 times outta 10 when a guy says "I was joking / being sarcastic / being ironic / etc" after being called out for being a jerk he's just covering his ass.

To dig into "real": a concept must have​ not just intellectual gravity but emotional reality to you. "Integrative complexity" smarty pants guy in that video almost certainly only means the former, which is why he can maybe say eg "I've thought about rape jokes intellectually and come to the conclusion they're fine". Versus, y'know, all the things a survivor feels and experiences and has to live with every moment of their existence. Grasping emotional reality is harder work.

So much hurtful speech online happens when someone says, "This isn't real to me, and I find it amusing", and then digs in when others push back saying it *is* real to them.
So I dunno, if you find yourself arguing with an asshole for being gross, maybe it's useful to focus on how real it isn't to them? Offering this just in case it's helpful.

A friend did a video recently: https://youtu.be/ACaSxxutMuk (major CW)
(I think I'm actually way more sensitive than her, but that's beside the point, IMO it's well-considered.)
The phrase I come back to is, "it's not real enough for you yet". If you joke about rape but you + anyone close to you have never been affected by it, it's not real to you. Maybe you'll go your whole life without it becoming real to you, maybe you won't. Until then, assume it is very real to others.