Yet another person had replied to me the other day (the day our other friend was also being supremely annoying) to (condescendingly) tell me to ignore trolls and it's like man you don't understand these people are not trolls, they are supremely maladjusted FOSSbrained dudes, and it's even worse
@adamgreenfield I'm still waiting for this person to explain how we can rationalize the contradiction btwn absolute purity in software and morally compromised hardware, too. By their argument they should not address me, which funnily enough is my argument too 🤔
@inquiline I think he blocked me too! At least I was not able to click on this one guy’s profile when I looked, despite having not to my knowledge done anything at all to offend him.
@adamgreenfield I very much doubt you're blocked but it might be a federation thing, this person is on some slightly other kind of (morally pure) software (beyond my ken)
In any event, please do savor "wizard.casa"
and yes I think something is definitely in the water.
@beadsland Fortunately I'm going to bed where I will no doubt argue with scrolling text in my sleep! Thanks for kindly bearing witness to my foibles here
I'm going to delete my surly reply, and seriously consider muting replies to all posts, but ofc that will cast a much wider net than intended
@inquiline genuinely, I think this is something all unions in text-heavy spaces (journalism in particular, but also academia) should be fighting for specific related benefits. If your job is to communicate online, your workplace should give you additional specialized mental health benefits, free blocking tools and training, anonymity tooling, etc. etc.
@inquiline for better and (usually in this moment) for worse, you're not the only one with this entrainment/socialization! The stories of what journalists, in particular, endure in order to Be Online are just... horrifying.
But I have kept an eye on union negotiations in the media space for this for a while, and have never heard hide nor hair suggesting this. :(
@luis_in_brief That's really interesting. I've read "self care" and "what enlightened managers should know" genre pieces about this issue (in academia and journalism), but yeah not union space (tho I'd probably not be especially likely to encounter this myself anyway)
@inquiline judging from some convos with lawyer friends in this space, it seems that this sort of thing just hasn’t come onto the radar of union organizers yet — they’re very much working from a traditional “menu” of benefits/harm-reduction that newly-organized workplaces should ask for, and this Very Online Harm just hasn’t made it into the playbook yet.
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