Hazel

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HazelNov 22, 2022
✨buff dog himbo✨Nov 21, 2022
People are so worried about "echo chambers" when it's sensible people/marginalized people trying to find safe/sane spaces. But like, where has keeping "diverse" spaces gotten us? In the sense of, where is the reward for allowing conservatives and bigots into common spaces? It hasn't made them more reasonable. It's just made us less safe, again and again, and normalized fascism and hate as valid and acceptable viewpoints instead of toxic ones that should be pushed out.
HazelNov 21, 2022
Show threadDan LuuNov 21, 2022

At a meta level, something I find mildly interesting is how many people are writing stuff on Mastodon about how it's impossible for Mastodon to scale up without using an ad supported model (b/c server costs), it's better to have ranked feeds because most people want them, etc.

The thing I think is interesting is that the people writing this stuff, implicitly, seemingly cannot conceive of a model where the organization is not growth and profit maximizing.

Show threadHazelNov 19, 2022
@hollie I agree with everything here but every instance I look at that looks good has closed sign ups rn. After around 6 years on here, using it intermittently that whole time, I feel none the wiser on how an autistic lurker like me, who just wants to read and boost toots from nice people I follow, gets on one of these cool well moderated boutique servers. I could probably make my own server, with me as the only user. Is this an option? Or will I get defederated by default by ppl?
HazelNov 17, 2022
Show threadV is migrating to @[email protected]Nov 16, 2022
@nova meritocracy is literally just a fancy word for eugenics.
People who can Do More Work get more resources and spread, and people who cannot Do Work at all get nothing and die. That's eugenics.
The fact that anyone thinks it could be a good thing no matter how you twist it is disgusting.
Show threadHazelNov 15, 2022
@janusrose Beauty in the Beast changed my life
HazelNov 15, 2022
Show threadjanus rose 🔊Nov 15, 2022
Wendy Carlos turns 83 today. we stan a scorpio synth queen 🙏
HazelNov 14, 2022
@[email protected] @mcc it may well have been, although sometimes changes like this just happen and it's hard to pin down reasons. The same process seems to have occured in Portuguese and Galician, but not Catalan, which still has 16 = setze
Show threadHazelNov 14, 2022
@mcc Old Spanish had seze or sece, from the same Latin root as French seize. RAE has an entry for it although it's archaic/obscure in the modern language https://dle.rae.es/sece
Show threadHazelNov 13, 2022
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Show threadHazelNov 12, 2022
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