it's a racist stereotype that dehumanizes Natives by erasing us.
And miss me with your "but the Seminole of Florida support it." All I've got for that is that tokens get spent.
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#notyourmascot #changethename #ChangeTheMascot #thetimeisnow
Completely agree with you that names like Kalculator, Apache, GIMP, Matrix, and XMPP are really bad. Apache and GIMP obviously the worst for so many reasons #ChangeTheName but on a purely dissonance level “Snikket” wins the nails on a chalkboard leaderboard for me. And I’m in a glass house with dumb and regrettable names like brev and strse and Idiomdrottning.
Jabber is not the solution because it is one specific company’s trademarked version. That’s why the name “XMPP” came about: because those creeps at Jabber inc registered the trademark and then sold it to Cisco. Should they have come up with a better name than XMPP and does XMPP sound like eczema peepee? Yes and yes. One could devil’s advocate that the web does just fine despite names likes HTML and HTTPS but that would be wrong because the web does fine because it’s called the web. And Masto does better than “ActivityPub” and Gemini does just fine because that was a great name (not so great in hindsight ever since Google stole the name [and we can’t complain since we stole it from NASA] but before that it was awesome).
Now email isn’t called SMTP and the web isn’t called HTTP so maybe it’s fine that the protocol side of things still is called XMPP we just need a name for using the protocol the way mail is called mail and web is called web. That’s one of the things Snikket did right. Downplay that it’s XMPP (no-where on their main web page is it called that) but be fully compatible with XMPP and OMEMO. Their entire marketing pitch is so good actually but then they didn’t follow your naming advice so they kinda flubbed the landing on that one.
🧵 trump is demanding the restoration of the racist Washington and Cleveland team names in order to "MAKE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN".
I've been clear for years about the opposition Natives have towards these dehumanizing caricatures and names. I once took over a months worth of abuse from Atlanta fans for calling the tomahawk chop racist after my tweet was used in a HuffPo piece about trump performing it at the world series.
It's Mvskoke (traditional) or Muscogee (colonizer).
Muscokee isn't a Native Nation.
Governor Kevin Stitt really should know by now who he's going to lose in court to since he does it so often.
(When we said #ChangeTheName this isn't what we meant)
Okay so the solution is multiple clients.
Before Akkoma-FE (a web frontend I have installed) had post-editing or even “delete and redraw”, I used FediText (then called “MetaText”) to do that. I only opened it for that! Then went back to Akkoma-FE. These days FediText is not good for that because it loses the markdown formatting but Akkoma-FE is good for it now so now it’s the only thing I open it for. (And in both cases I have to be quick since I have app limits on.)
I make most of my posts in Emacs. Including this one; I have a shortcut set up that lets me long press your post in the RSS reader which lets me type the reply in Emacs.
And same when I want to post a link, I have a shortcut to use on URLs that opens Emacs to type the description (and the tags for link hut).
Or when I just want to make a text post of my own, that’s Emacs. It even lets me select some text from another post and hit a button and that gets posted. (This is all in addition to the excerpts that automatically get posted when I make blog posts. Yeah, yeah, I’m an insufferable firehose on ActivityPub, I understand that. I worry about that a lot but I haven’t figured out an answer yet.)
But then for quick replies to mentions and DMs, I use a Delta Chat plugin for that. The mentions become Delta Chat emails and I can reply right away. (If I want to use Emacs or markdown in the reply I can still switch to Emacs manually.)
I still use FediText for one thing: posting images and sound that originate on iPad (like screenshot from manga) since unlike Akkoma-FE it works from the share sheet, and FediText has a much more comfy space for writing and editing description text. Art that I have on my headless Debian machine (that runs all this Emacs and blog-posting and bookmarking stuff), I can post directly from there with Emacs to write those descriptions and GIMP #ChangeTheName to crop out thumbnails for my /gallery.
So Akkoma-FE has an app limit (of like 25 minutes and it also eats up of the 60 minute Safari app limit), FediText has an app limit of I don’t remember how much because I try to only use it for media posting, the RSS reader has a limit that’s lifted on Socials Saturdays which is where I can catch up with all of y’all♥︎, but Emacs and Delta Chat have no limits which is how I can post and reply to mentions all week long. A li’l solipsistic perhaps but I figured that replying to a question directed to me specifically was more urgent than engaging with what people send out more undirectedly to the wider world. (And even then I’m not on my Delta Chat 24/7. It’s fenced-off, too: I can only use it at home and notifications are off during the night and morning.)
All this a l’il self-indulgent way to say: use multiple clients! Each has its own strength.
Toma-NOT chop more like
There is no reason that any fan in 2025 doesn't understand the use of Native names & images is racist. Native dehumanization just takes a back seat to your entertainment.
If you won't support your team if they #ChangeTheName then it's not the team you're a fan of.
#TheTimelsNow
While I know we must seek joy in these dark times upholding systems that oppress others ain't it.
You're going to watch a game that features an anti Native team and a league that just removed "End Racism" from the end zone.
You're asking what you can do to stop what's happening in this country? The very least you can do to support Black and Brown people is change the channel.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290233/nfl-super-bowl-end-racism-end-zone
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