your friendly neighborhood leftist agitator
this TL is an "ironic"-bigotry-free zone
your friendly neighborhood leftist agitator
this TL is an "ironic"-bigotry-free zone
y'all, please send virtual hugs to the Brazilian people tonight, who lost their entire national museum in a catastrophic fire. thousands of artifacts that date back thousands of years were lost, as well invaluable artworks from many cultures. this is a terrible loss for humanity.
as an anthropologist, artist and a lover of brazilian culture, and as someone who studied tupi, this loss is staggering and tremendous.
Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence.
We're going to live in a very weird world man.
something that techlibs will never understand. you need guiding _principles_ more than rules, because rules will be gamed by the worst people until your community rots
"we are enforcing the code of conduct evenly" ok, what are you doing when a public figure with a history of transphobia and a large built in audience signs up? they haven't broken any rules yet. what about the users who came here to get away from that? anything in the code of conduct about that?
So. Let's clear this up, since Bofa has been inexplicably silenced on .social and I'm on both.
Bofa does not harrass or use slurs against trans people. Many of our users/friends are trans. If you heard this nonsense secondhand, STOP spreading it. If you actually SEE one of bofa's users doing this please report it immediately to our mod @[email protected] bc I KNOW he's not down with that shit AT ALL and will take the appropriate action.
Are we cool? Cool.
Dudes, I cannot stress this enough.
Sometimes you just gotta shut the fuck up and listen. Even when you don't want to. Even when it hurts. We are conditioned to dismiss the valid concerns of women because we are conditioned to be sexists. Yes, even I am guilty of this.
Go in the other direction. If you don't like hearing 'men are trash', prove you aren't with your actions.
Be better, try harder. Put some effort into being a decent person and a whole new world will open to you.