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tothedaring

@tothedaring@kolektiva.social

Queer chronically ill artist in Brooklyn
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“To the daring, belongs the future.” — Emma Goldman

‼️ Currently inactive here, dm on Matrix at https://kolektiva.social/@tothedaring:matrix.org or email at tothedaring.sprinkled271@slmail.me for other ways of reaching me 😌

#Art, #Design, & #FilmPhotography, #Abolition & #QueerLiberation, #SexTech & #SexPositivity, #DisabilityJustice, #PlantMedicine & #Psychedelic Advocacy, #Privacy & #InfoSec, #StopCopCity

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Strandjunker, to random
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The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.

tothedaring,
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@Strandjunker that’s because the people sounding the alarm bells are being drowned out by the people comparing literally everything to the Handmaid’s Tale

gcluley, to random
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I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker.

Thoughts?

tothedaring,
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@gcluley fkn brilliant. please share how you go about implementing it if you do

thisismissem, to random
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Idk why but this always makes me think of drugs.. like, the not so legal kind:

(This is just my testosterone blocker, chill)

tothedaring,
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@thisismissem almost like the difference between them is arbitrary or imaginary... 😏

tothedaring,
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@thisismissem oh no yeah for sure. and when you add a scale into the mix if, say, you're trying to taper off a prescription, your heart races like the DEA is gonna kick your door down

eniko, (edited ) to random
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articles are like "the economic cost of long covid is too high, we need a cure!!!"

i mean a cure would be rad but we already know how to prevent long covid:

  1. vaccination
  2. ventilation & filtration
  3. masking

society is currently so disinterested in the ramifications of long covid we can't even be bothered to prevent it using cheap and effective methods

tothedaring,
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@eniko i’ve been saying they can keep the expired rapid tests… send me 4 packs of N95s

thisismissem, to macos
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Probably my biggest annoyance on MacOS is applications taking focus or foreground whilst they're opening. Like, no, I know you're opening, I'll get back to you in a moment, for now I'm replying to an email, stop popping up your loading screen.

(yes, this is a subtle jab at Discord, but they're not the only ones that do this)

tothedaring,
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@thisismissem glares at signal post-update

davidho, to random
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Most people don't need a car bigger than this.

tothedaring, (edited )
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@davidho before i went 100% anti-car, i was basically begging auto manufacturers to bring kei trucks and microvans to the states. they would've completely transformed new york's streets and traffic situation

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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My wife met a man in San Francisco (newly arrived from a country in Asia) who tried to pick her up and then got a bodily, visceral shock at finding out that she was married to a woman.

Apparently, you’re not allowed to be queer if you’re too beautiful! According to some straight men! (I hope he learns quickly, if he’s going to live here..)

tothedaring,
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@skinnylatte so much of SF life is a culture shock for the tech bros & VC clowns, isn’t it? heh truly hoping the city holds onto its soul thru this big era of change

tothedaring,
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@skinnylatte wild. imagine writing off millions of people and even considering uprooting your life to find the right dating scene instead of considering everyone else isn’t the problem

rolle, (edited ) to mastodon
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If we ignore the notion whether it should, what would make the Fediverse or Mastodon easier to approach for the majority of people? Getting rid of tech talk around the platform? Better, world class user interface? Somehow dismantling the whole domain and server structure? Just calling it Mastodon as one service instead of a Mastodon instance with domain, obfuscating it somehow? Just focusing on mastodon.social and ignore the rest? Acting as centralized service on the outside? Making it seamless via features and improvements? Is there any silver bullet?

I am not against the current state of things, on the contrary. Just curious and trying to think outside this box… of instances and other techy stuff. Could it even be easier to comprehend, or do we just have to continue educating people on the matter?

tothedaring,
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@rolle just my take, but i think with new users, there’re new winds of eagerness to address issues with the fediverse to make it more welcoming & appealing to get people to migrate from corporate social media, but the more i think about it, as our collective conditions' deterioration accelerates and our situations become increasingly dire—approaching what’s better described as survival rather than living—i’m more inclined to encourage everyone thinking about or working on improvements to consider applying that effort to the people local to us.

these technologies could be made useful to help connect people when there’s limited power or cell towers are shut down, and i think it’s up to the people that have this experience & technical aptitude to help get them prepared for when disaster strikes.

petergleick, to random
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Just your daily reminder there isn't any issue, crisis, disaster that the sleazy GOP won't try to spin to their political advantage.

tothedaring,
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@petergleick @AnthonyJK that’s their whole shtick. that’s how politicians work. every president and congress has manipulated news cycles for political gain. why wouldn’t they? im almost certain you don’t believe it, but the parties aren’t that different—it’s all either self-preservation or furthering their own interests. like, the biden admin just buried the construction of the border wall under half a dozen other ‘positive’ headlines

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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How to use Mastodon

Lots of people have asked me about mastodon, and lots of people have said they've found it difficult. SO I wrote a post, because I believe we should think carefully about where and how we engage, and who benefits.

With big thanks to @feditips
@micron

and many others for the suggestions

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2023/10/04/how-to-use-mastodon/

tothedaring,
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@gunchleoc @osma right.

So let's "think through the implications"...

For one, many of us moved to the fediverse to keep our data out of the hands of monoliths like Google / Alphabet but some are journos that need to be findable or academics that want to maintain a web presence, so from the jump, this granularity makes perfect sense to most people here.

Next, many of the accounts belong to organizers, blogs, distros, and the like—some of whom maintain anonymity for safety—publishing content that puts them at risk of doxxing or state repression.

Finally, some of us want to be able to disappear from the web when we choose—whether for safety in the previous case or general personal privacy—and taken together with the post auto-delete feature, the granular ability to minimize your presence is practical and welcomed.

evacide, to random
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If you're not already using the Privacy Badger extension with your browser, you could always start now.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/new-privacy-badger-prevents-google-mangling-more-your-links-and-invading-your

tothedaring,
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@evacide Ooh, this is helpful.

For -sharing- links, I built a shortcut for iOS & macOS that strips most trackers out there—Google, Meta, and beyond.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7b158e01ca9d40228131cf29ce4bb7c8

I’ve set it up so that the “back tap” feature runs the shortcut and scrubs the link, but it’s just as easy to add it to the home screen next to a messenger app.

Lockdownyourlife, to infosec

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    tothedaring,
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    @Lockdownyourlife hi — not to add any stress here, but thought i'd flag it for you and anyone looking to register...

    seems like my reg is being rejected for using an email alias or for blocking the 3rd-party domains and such the Kanjabi platform looks like its reaching out to. i'll keep trying for a workaroud tho 👾

    tothedaring, to random
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    okay where do i find vietnamese coffee in brooklyn ?

    whole bean, preferably, but i’ll take pre-ground

    all the bougie markets nearby that carried brands like Nguyen have recently cut down their coffee range and only carry the bigger roasters like stumptown or mainstream coffee like dunkin’ or sbux

    tothedaring, to random
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    🔔 Friendly PSA for people on @kolektiva & adjacent instances and those following or supporting the movement:

    A group known as Refuse Fascism (@/refusefascism/@mastodon.world) is on Mastodon and they seem to have a sizeable reach.

    This group is associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party a.k.a. RevCom as well as Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, none of which are to be trusted and I would suggest considering adding them to block lists.

    These groups are known among organizers to:
    • collaborate with police
    • stifle dissent
    • perpetuate harmful ideas & myths
    • perpetuate racism & transphobia
    • swoop demonstrations or co-opt movement engagement for their own ends (like funneling green protesters into their cult-like patterns of behavior or their fundraising efforts—including merch—that diverting funds away from longtime and legitimate outfits)

    The last point is critical because prior to the Supreme Court decision to overturn protections, they had no established presence or platform in this movement space then spun up Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights to capture newly generated interest among new or young activists. They appear to be using the same playbook for the movement.

    tothedaring,
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    If you’d like to read more about RevCom / Refuse Fascism / Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, their patterns, history, and criticism have been covered in @Vice and @theintercept by @annamerlan and @robertmackey

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axx7q/the-abortion-rights-group-other-activists-want-nothing-to-do-with

    https://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/rise-up-4-abortion-rights-protests-revcom

    markmccaughrean, to random
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    If you're reading this close to the day I posted it, 13 September 2023, then you were born on this planet & are overwhelmingly likely to die on it.

    The only questions are when & how.

    And whether you care at all about the future of those who will survive you & those yet to come.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/earth-well-outside-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-scientists-find

    tothedaring,
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    @markmccaughrean @Ruth_Mottram Why do posts like this seem like nothing more than a race to tap into the environmental collapse hand-wringing with soapbox grandstanding to accrue social capital? Why are there zero ideas on the individual scale coming from anyone in this sector on how to address it? Why is there so little public support for mass direct action from you and your colleagues?

    "...whether you care..." is so incredible passé. It's very 2000s. We've all moved on. In fact, some have moved on so far from 'caring' and waited around for people in your position and similar to give direction that they've begun to stop caring again—coming full circle as they lose hope because all anyone has to say is something along the lines of 'we should do something' or 'this is a crisis but you shouldn't respond like -that-'.

    No, neither of you are 'the bad guy here' as they say, of course, but what are we all doing by just posting ever-increasingly alarming articles day in and day out?

    tothedaring, to random
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    "Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms ["covid" and "long covid"] and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words."

    @washingtonpost coverage by @taylorlorenz

    https://archive.ph/9NNHd

    tothedaring,
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    fr tho, how do we get people to jump ship and commit to deleting their twitter and meta accounts? we need to explore new angles, i think

    tothedaring,
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    @wjmaggos search would be huge, no doubt. it hampers the experience more than it seems like it should. it’s always the little things that turn people away or get them hooked

    petersuber, (edited ) to twitter
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    To share with friends who moved from to :

    " acknowledged…to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms ["covid" and "long covid"] and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words…“coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words."
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/threads-covid-coronavirus-searches-blocked/
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    tothedaring,
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    @petersuber for anyone that would like to read sans paywall, you can archive sites like this... https://archive.ph/9NNHd

    tothedaring, to random
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    While I am a leftist, I’ve always been baffled by the “LOL 9/11” humor. It’s so vapid and immature to me.

    It’s not exactly deep analysis to point out that US Gov was to blame as much as the hijackers and those that make the case that the attacks targeted financial and military strongholds are looking at it from a geopolitical standpoint, but neither make sense of or validate the childish look-at-me-I’m-edgy humor over the death. Yeah, who gaf about the buildings, but there were numerous innocent people killed.

    What’s interesting to me, is that there’s a pattern I’ve noticed about the people that go hard on 9/11 jokes. They tend to invariably be the least likely to engage in substantive political conversation because even my moisturizer goes deeper than their ideology, and there’s no chance in hell they’ll pull up when fash show up to counter-demos.

    taylorlorenz, to random
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    Right wing weirdos on here keep spamming my mentions about a time I ordered a $22 meal on Uber Eats that included avocado toast.

    The toast itself was $14.50 but with tax, tip, and delivery fee the total came out to $22. The toast came with an egg and a salad. All around a good deal imo!!

    But here we are 5 years later and these right wingers act like it’s some absurd luxury that I ordered a meal on Uber Eats once https://marsey.moe/objects/50646084-9687-41d5-b908-09a7c34d8c0c

    tothedaring,
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    @taylorlorenz it was a bigger indictment on 45's economy than it was on your spending habits tbh yet here they are

    mjg59, to random
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    Code for America just fired a bunch of people engaged in union activity so always remember that organisations nominally supporting the public good are not necessarily good

    tothedaring,
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    @mjg59 I think @sarahljaffee summed it up neatly in Work Won’t Love You Back: “The problems of today’s nonprofit sector are outgrowths of this necessary inequality: nonprofits exist to try to mitigate the worst effects of an unequal distribution of wealth and power, yet they are funded with the leftovers of the very exploitation the nonprofits may be trying to combat. Nonprofit work then is also caring work, also service work, privatized, on the one hand, unlike public school teaching, but supposedly not in service of the profit motive. Nonprofits are not, despite their supposed lack of interest in profit, exceptions to the capitalist system but embedded in it, necessary to its continued existence.“

    Kelly Hayes references it in the latest episode of Movement Memos: https://truthout.org/audio/our-movements-need-infrastructure-for-care-recovery-and-belonging/

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