Here, but not here. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what drove me off Mastodon. #Zionism, #Islamophobia, #AntiArabRacism (an odd one to affect me, since I am NOT #Arab, nor have I ever claimed to be) were the usual suspects.
Instance #admins & #mods did what they do best on the fediverse: they attacked. I was but one of a handful of #ProPalestine voices on here that needed to be silenced. #Dogpiling is one of their tactics. People come out of the woodwork to attack. It overwhelms.
They do this until you finally can’t take it anymore, and you leave. You stop logging on because you feel so sick and depressed from it all. You’ve been #harassed and #bullied nearly to the point of breaking. You’ve been called horrible names by horrible people who have thousands of followers.
The #Fediverse fucking sucks. All of social media sucks. It’s all just a toxic waste land filled with pathetic people who have nothing better to do than to attack #minorities. 😑
— Which most likely means they took their own life after being #savagely#beaten in a #bathroom by their fellow #classmates. Which would still be as a result of the trauma they faced.
Trump gripes trial is 'unfair' after judge's #GagOrder
(it was just in regards to the judge’s staff.)
After the trial wrapped up yesterday, Trump aired his #grievances in a post on his social media platform, saying the trial is “unfair” & again suggesting it was an attempt to interfere w/his presidential campaign.
@pluralistic, I apologize if I have missed it, but have you written or spoken about the lawsuits involving AI large language models and copyright? Given your background, I would be very interested in your perspective!
I'm going to post about some of those past work experiences & how they impacted me, as a POC media woman & how they led to me eventually #quitting that line of work.
I welcome shares from lived experiences from other #POCwomenInMedia too.
That last part was from being told I'm ungrateful because they gave me opportunities to meet big #celebrities & I shouldn't talk badly about any of the celebs because I'm 'lucky'.
FUCK THAT NOISE. How TF am I lucky to be #bullied by #sports pro industry for refusing to be #unprofessional with athletes? How TF should I be grateful that sports promoters want me to be OK with sports guys being inappropriate with me - WHILE I AM WORKING??
Before I say what it is, I am NOT posting this as clickbait (which is how it's often used)! 😂 I'm posting this as a Maths teacher who knows this topic inside-out and wants to help people to understand it better. There are MANY mistakes that people make and get the wrong answer, and I'm going to cover them in bite-size chunks each week for a few weeks
12/12
Failing to do what I have outlined has led to a situation where literally half of the population gets the wrong answer to 6/2(1+2), and even worse a lot of those people then try to #bully people who actually have the right answer (I know, because I've had some of them try to bully me, a Maths teacher, into "admitting" I was "wrong", and I've seen at least one time someone was #bullied into exactly that). We can help eliminate that by never being "lazy". e.g. always write a(b+c)=(ab+ac).