So Kbin.Social has around 60,000 members now, but as a very early beta, the administration tools are still very lackluster. Most strikingly, this instance has only one admin, who spends most of his time coding. As a result, I think it would be best to host transgendercirclejerk's fediverse equivalent on an instance with better...
This is a message to the few subscribers to this magazine that I am migrating it to Blåhaj Lemmy for the foreseeable future, until kbin.social has better admin tools to deal with problematic users. I will add anyone local to kbin.social who wishes to moderate this community and appears trustworthy as a moderator....
This is a message to the few subscribers to this magazine that I am migrating it to Blåhaj Lemmy for the foreseeable future, until kbin.social has better admin tools to deal with problematic users. I will add anyone local to kbin.social who wishes to moderate this community and appears trustworthy as a moderator....
This is a message to the few subscribers to this magazine that I am migrating it to Blåhaj Lemmy for the foreseeable future, until kbin.social has better admin tools to deal with problematic users. I will add anyone local to kbin.social who wishes to moderate this community and appears trustworthy as a moderator....
I tried to report this magazine using the "contact" page a while back as it violates the kbin.social terms of service, but I guess as long as it's only one nutjob posting and all the posts are getting disliked, it isn't really a priority to remove.
For every Daryl Davis who can successfully talk down 100 Klansmen, you'll find 100 Black people begging for their lives trying to reason with the Klan in their last moments. For every thought of "I can fix them!" that you may have, you have to weigh that against how many more people you'll need to fix if you platform their ideas and treat them as something worth "respectfully debating".
Convincing people to leave hate groups is a great thing to do, but if respectful debate were effective on the large scale, and we have no shortage of people respectfully arguing that hate is a bad thing, why is the far right a bigger threat now than it was ten years ago? Do not tolerate the intolerant, do not debate the undebatable, do not respect the unrespectable.
I also definitely feel like it's best to take more decisive action against hateful magazines, but I'm just assuming that this is @ernest's logic: That people can block or clown on bigots until the bigots feel unwelcome, grow bored at the lack of an audience, and leave.
I've personally been thinking of migrating to Blåhaj Lemmy because of the inadequate moderation against hateful magazines on this instance, but I'm waiting to see how kbin.social's administration approach goes long-term. I think it would definitely be worthwhile for Ernest to invest in a bigger admin team and a more democratic approach to administration.
There are not a lot of Kbin instances yet, so it's hard to say at a glance whether an instance has actually good moderation or if it just doesn't have enough users to cause trouble to begin with.
Edit: I found a more expansive list of instances and fedi196.gay seems like a good one
Indeed. It's easy enough to back up your posts/threads/comments with "save page as" on each page of your profile, but you can't automatically transfer your followers, following, subscriptions, or moderated in a migration. You'd have to ask to be re-added as a moderator, have to contact your followers individually, have to add your subscriptions and following one by one to your new account... Has anybody made any sort of third-party tool to make migration easier?
On a quick search, I found this Forbes article and this article from Autism Housing Network. The Autism Housing Network appears to be a treasure trove of resources about this very interesting idea in general....
It seems like it goes more or less fine in practice, and I reckon this is probably because these communities end up being self-selecting to some extent. That the type of autistic person who thinks this sounds like a great idea would also be the type who'd have an easier time in this type of community, while the type who thinks this sounds like a terrible idea wouldn't move to that type of community to begin with. And that even of the former group, that different intentional communities would end up dominated by different types of autistic people who tend to get along better. You wouldn't just move in without any idea of who your neighbors are.
Speaking for myself, I've attended a monthly local autistic adults group in person, I've lived with my autistic brother for most of my life, in my time in public school I had special classes with other ND students and had a few ND friends, and I even spent a year at a dorm school that teaches independent living for ND folks. So for me the idea of living with other autistic people of a diverse variety seems pretty doable. There would obviously still be a number of problems that I'd need to solve with regard to interpersonal interactions or hypersensitivities, but that would still be the case if I lived in a predominantly NT community anyways.
I walk around in biodegradable clothes covered from head to toe in pockets filled with native seed balls, so that when I inevitably die from heatstroke within the next five years, the pockets will eventually degrade and spill out hundreds of seeds to sprout and feed upon my decaying corpse. Call that kamikaze gardening
How'dja get interested in that type o' thing? Should we all be transmisogynists now? What's the official line the staff is taking? Only, Discord roleplays take up most of the day, and at night I'd just like to binge an anime. I mightn't be able to devote m'self foll-time to the ol' transmisogyny....
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
Well, on Reddit, with subreddits, you can go inside with your shoes on, right? Then, what if you stepped on dog poop out on the street, and you went to a subreddit without realizing it... If the Redditor father and mother and eldest son and eldest daughter all stepped on poop and went to a subreddit without realizing it...
Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
I guess I'm drawn to the Japonic world that exists beyond textbooks for learners of Japanese. I feel like Japanese is taught very inefficiently much of the time, because language teaching tends to be a bit superficial in general, and Japanese in particular (and I'm sure also other Japonic or East Asian languages) sees some features unnecessarily exoticized, while other features are contrarily forced into ill-fitting categories of European origin.
So I guess for me, Japonic linguistics is about getting to know Japanese on sort of a deeper level: where the language came from and where it's going, the diversities of its dialects and sociolects, the various shades of its registers, and the sort of underlying logic of the language.
I really would like to broaden my scope into other Japonic languages than just the big one, and into East Asian languages more broadly, but so far my forays into those other languages have been much more limited.
Of course I also stim for the typical reasons, but I feel like I'll sometimes sort of "play up" certain autism-associated traits as a form of body language... I've also experienced people not understanding what stims are and misinterpreting mine, so maybe it's a bit naïve of me to do this.
Perhaps normally I would do those things for those reasons, but there will always be times when I can neither talk nor leave, and don't have a communication bracelet or smartphone on my person nor a good 'helper' nearby. In those types of last-resort situations, something like trying to call attention to my stimming ends up being really the only form of communication permitted by the all-powerful Zakon*.
It might actually be precisely because this "communicative stimming" is vague/indirect that draws me to it: indirect communication is for me not subject to temporary loss in the same way as the otherwise far more preferable direct communication; and because I so often need to interpret the weird body language of the neurotypical hegemon, I might end up deriving some sort of satisfaction from "turning the tables" in a situation where it's pretty much hopeless that I'd be able to communicate at all otherwise.
*"The Zakon" (← RU зако́н 'law') is my all-encompassing term for rigid routines, as well as hypersensitivities and related behaviors, and the outwardly irrational behaviors related to masking-induced social anxieties/over-analysis. In summary, the Zakon is the compelling force behind every behavior that prompts people to ask why I don't do the obviously much easier and better thing.
If Team Red is planting their own members in Team Blue in order to bamboozle voters, and if Team Blue is actively sponsoring the campaigns of Team Red, then can we truly say we live in even a two-party democracy? Or do we just have a single political class in a two-colored dress, who biennially hand us a half-broken "stop the baddies" button while pinky-promising to duct tape our problems if we press it enough times?
As a NO-US dual citizen who's spent a lot of time in both countries and voted in either country's elections, I would say that America needs PLPR like yesterday, but even PLPR is a deeply flawed system: still an improvement over the status quo by all means, but the real problem runs much deeper.
Reubens also definitely did not possess dozens of photos of child sexual abuse, for which he was arrested in 2002
Edit: The photos were classified by authorities as ｢child pornography｣, ｢obscene material improperly depicting a child under the age of 18 in sexual conduct｣, and most specifically as ｢people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation｣. Reubens denied all of these classifications of the photos, saying that the photos were just art and 100% not sexual. I wrote this comment under the assumption that Reubens was BS'ing, because I feel like the justice system would have no reason nor ability to arrest him and intentionally or accidentally describe his photo collection as worse than it actually was, and would on the contrary have every reason to let him off easy by accepting his plea bargain.
But I guess from the response to this comment that he was actually being truthful and I misunderstood/misrepresented the situation. As tends to happen when your only knowledge of a situation comes from Wikipedia. Sorry!
It could be that the type of Redditor who appreciates that type of transparency is also the same type of person who is most likely to migrate to a platform whose very code is based on transparency. I would get replies similar to yours whenever I admitted to mistakes on Reddit as well, and those types of replies always gave me mixed feelings, because something so bare-minimum really should be both mundane and expected...
I mean, it's probably not a particularly fun experience to only find out that you have this allergy after you almost fucking die eight hours after getting a vaccine with trace amounts of alpha-gal in it, in severe cases.
As the disease rises in prominence, I reckon we'll start to see at-home tests. I certainly hope that happens.
The absolute absurdity of a news article on nefarious data collection requiring that I enable JS to read it, just so that it can load a ridiculous number of trackers.
Indeed! Here in Norway we have a flag with "split and tongue" used as the state and war flag and ensign, but our civil flag is rectangular.
Nepal's flag is a thing of beauty. While the shape of the flag is ultimately based on a historical double-pennant, the shape is nowadays taken as representing a pagoda, or the shape of the Himalayas... I think this is a very clever form of symbolism, to utilize the shape of the flag itself to convey meaning. More flags should do that!
This flag uses a pall to represent the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the city, similarly to how the flag of Tuva represents the confluence of the Bii-Khem and Kaa-Khem into the Yenisei River, in their capital, Kyzyl. It's things like this that make some flag design experts recommend that flags shouldn't represent local bodies of water: it is very common for cities to be founded on confluences or forks.
Nevertheless, the flag of St. Louis is very distinctive and attractive, and I'd easily consider it to be among the best city flags of the Americas!
The motto of the Isle of Man is "Quocunque Jeceris Stabit", meaning "Wherever you throw it, it will stand". While the Manx triskelion well predates this motto, the motto is still a very nice piece of retroactive symbolism for what could be described as a very unique and striking flag, to say the least.
Migrating to !transgendercirclejerk@lemmy.blahaj.zone
So Kbin.Social has around 60,000 members now, but as a very early beta, the administration tools are still very lackluster. Most strikingly, this instance has only one admin, who spends most of his time coding. As a result, I think it would be best to host transgendercirclejerk's fediverse equivalent on an instance with better...
Migration to !transnord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This is a message to the few subscribers to this magazine that I am migrating it to Blåhaj Lemmy for the foreseeable future, until kbin.social has better admin tools to deal with problematic users. I will add anyone local to kbin.social who wishes to moderate this community and appears trustworthy as a moderator....
Migration to !goldandpastels@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This is a message to the few subscribers to this magazine that I am migrating it to Blåhaj Lemmy for the foreseeable future, until kbin.social has better admin tools to deal with problematic users. I will add anyone local to kbin.social who wishes to moderate this community and appears trustworthy as a moderator....
Migration to to !tranarchy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This is a message to the few subscribers to this magazine that I am migrating it to Blåhaj Lemmy for the foreseeable future, until kbin.social has better admin tools to deal with problematic users. I will add anyone local to kbin.social who wishes to moderate this community and appears trustworthy as a moderator....
Are TERF-centric magazines allowed on this insurance?
https://kbin.social/m/modernmisogyny...
Anyone know of any interesting resources about autistic/neurodiverse intentional communities or cohousing? And how do we feel about this movement?
On a quick search, I found this Forbes article and this article from Autism Housing Network. The Autism Housing Network appears to be a treasure trove of resources about this very interesting idea in general....
Thats one way to do it (i.imgur.com)
Emma Goldman, "The Child and its enemies" (April, 1906) (theanarchistlibrary.org)
Audio recording from AudibleAnarchist
US border agents habitually abuse human rights, report reveals (www.theguardian.com)
OC I hear you're a transmisogynist now, Tumblr!
How'dja get interested in that type o' thing? Should we all be transmisogynists now? What's the official line the staff is taking? Only, Discord roleplays take up most of the day, and at night I'd just like to binge an anime. I mightn't be able to devote m'self foll-time to the ol' transmisogyny....
Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons ｜ Orlando Sentinel (nordot.app)
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/
I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
she tou on my hou till i project
Do you have a moment to talk about... (lemmy.ml)
For those of you interested in or studying Japonic languages, what specific languages and fields pique your interest?
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
azrulemanga daioh (pawb.social)
Russia adds Norway to list of countries 'unfriendly' to its diplomats (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/999112...
I feel like I sometimes stim mainly to communicate "I am autistic and feeling overwhelmed right now" to onlookers when I can't easily talk. Can anyone else relate?
Of course I also stim for the typical reasons, but I feel like I'll sometimes sort of "play up" certain autism-associated traits as a form of body language... I've also experienced people not understanding what stims are and misinterpreting mine, so maybe it's a bit naïve of me to do this.
Rare Lobsterman W (szmer.info)
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Venezuela has formally proposed to join the BRICS group, says Maduro (www.riotimesonline.com)
North Carolina Dem-Turned-Rep Tricia Cotham Was A Plant All Along (www.wonkette.com)
Now that's grooming.
Love Denver's flag (lemmy.world)
Paul Reubens, actor best known for playing Pee-wee Herman, dies aged 70 (www.theguardian.com)
The actor died Sunday night, years after he had been diagnosed with cancer, according to his team
OC "You can't be a daddy if you have eggs" mfers when
When 1,500 daddies longleg crawl into their mouth and lay eggs in it
Unleash the science y’all (i.imgur.com)
Meat allergy from tick bites is on the rise—and US doctors are in the dark (arstechnica.com)
The allergy, called alpha-gal syndrome, came to light a little over a decade ago.
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project (news.artnet.com)
A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.
Nepal's national flag is the world's only irregular flag acting as both the state flag and civil flag of a sovereign country (en.m.wikipedia.org)
City of St Louis flag (lemmy.world)
Flag of the Isle of Man (lemmy.world)
Some U.S. territorial flag remakes
you are not immune to kaguya dub (youtu.be)
Best anime dub, tbh