A person I otherwise deeply respect has remained (very) active on the deadbird site, and is even paying for it, because (the person says) it fulfills a professional need that can't be met elsewhere.
My friend calls it "a deal with the devil." On that, we agree.
I have my share of hypocrisies, and try to manage them carefully. Sticking with a site run by an enemy of journalism and democracy was just too much to stomach.
"Thanks to hundreds of years of treating the male body as the default in medicine, we simply do not know enough about how disease manifests in the female body."
This is big one. I'm a woman who's been misdiagnosed for the simplest of things. Twice I've blown my ACL, and both times it took 6-8 months to diagnose ... even tho the first time I pulled the ACL right off the bone. My rotator cuff took 20 yrs. All because women aren't supposed to hurt themselves at work.
What the fuck did you just fucking type about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at MIT, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids with Anonymous, and I have over 300 confirmed DDoSes. I am trained in online trolling and I’m the top hacker in the entire world. You are nothing to me but just another virus host. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on the Internet, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with typing that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we chat over Lemmy I am tracing your IP with my damn bare hands so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your computer. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can hack into your files in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in hacking, but I have access to the entire arsenal of every piece of malware ever created and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the world wide web, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking fingers. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit code all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
This is one example of what happens when women are not involved in a space. It allows for casual misogyny, because men do not tend to call out other men for bad behavior, which further isolates women in the space and keeps new women from joining. Both as consumers as well as producers.
Having a more even spread across genders means that we should eventually see more content created for and by women, which in turn will make the whole thing more accessible, and may ultimately tamp down on some of the incel garbage that many online gamer spaces have allowed to fester.
For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently lemmy.ml is the result of a reddit sub ban of a bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty terrible stuff!...
The hardest part in trying to write about #Threads is figuring out how to compassionately describe both sides of the divide.
On one hand, I’m rooted in the #Fediverse camp and you have all seen me making fun of the cringe and status-chasing on Threads.
On the other hand, I’m a marketer and a long-time lover of many mainstream web spaces. I don’t hate a lot of popular culture. And I missed so many of the people who only now migrated from #Twitter.
This seems like a really great framework for thinking about how to help people suffering from any illness, physical, mental, or otherwise. I really appreciate how Hank has been so transparent about his experience with cancer, and how he's using it as an opportunity to try and share his experiences and knowledge with people...
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline (www.theguardian.com)
It gets really good after the first 31 episodes (lemmy.world)
I'm a trans man. I didn't realize how broken men are (newsweek.com)
When you run out of newer TV shows and movies to watch, what are old favorites you go back to?
What holds up to re-watches?
I gotchu (infosec.pub)
You can leave Florida under one condition (sh.itjust.works)
[Untitled] by simzart (64.media.tumblr.com)
Source simzart on Tumblr:...
Huh, this looks like a popular post. Imma check the comments and...
Right-Wingers be like (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Great list of games for one of my favourite systems - the GBA. What are your picks? (www.one37pm.com)
Women Continue To Represent More Of The Gaming Audience, Especially On Switch (www.gamespot.com)
Pizza delivery! (lemmy.world)
the holy trinity by wisba (pricefield.org)
Source: …tumblr.com/…/the-holy-trinity-my-life-is-a-littl…
some kim (discuss.tchncs.de)
TIL lemmy.ml is a pro-authoritarian CCP shill instance (lemmy.ml)
For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently lemmy.ml is the result of a reddit sub ban of a bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty terrible stuff!...
non-violence (lemmy.world) French
Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1192921...
Lemmy enjoying beeaans! 🤩 (sh.itjust.works)
What to Get for a Cancer Patient (youtu.be)
This seems like a really great framework for thinking about how to help people suffering from any illness, physical, mental, or otherwise. I really appreciate how Hank has been so transparent about his experience with cancer, and how he's using it as an opportunity to try and share his experiences and knowledge with people...