Notices by Anthony Trevelyan (trev@icosahedron.website), page 5

posting my soundcloud in the mastodev hashtag every day until it blows up or I get a switter invite

@rysiek fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow, as we all know.

that song came out on my birthday some 6 years ago and it's been haunting me ever since

@ida his channel title is "I LOVE MYLAR BALLOONS! BAN POPPiNG NOW!" and he's got another video about how much he hates Danes.

He reminds me of someone I knew in college who got way fixated on the idea of girls mud wrestling in kimonos and got in trouble for beating the living hell out of the vending machines.

The vocalization of a woodcock is called a peent

@halcy as old as the lichthaus is it looks incredibly modern tbh. I'm kind of amazed anything was designed that way in 1916

@halcy okay but if *I* was at nordlicht

May we never confuse honest dissent
with disloyal subversion.

I was wrong earlier when I was so absolute about instance-level blocklist transparency. I have no doubts that people will harass instances that don't want to see their posts.

Thanks in part to social media, there's a huge gray area between "private citizen" and "bona fide public figure" now and I don't think we've really established protocols or even ethical guidelines for how to deal with that

The fallacy of thinking that innocence alone will protect from accusation or prosecution has *many* historical counterexamples.

People can get mad and mob you over things that aren't actually harmful, or worse, that you didn't actually do.

"Don't be abusive if you're afraid of callouts" ignores the fact that some folks can't properly delineate abuse from "something I didn't like" or, for social or rhetorical reasons, will choose not to.

And worse, contextualizing disagreement as abuse, or creating a public narrative to reverse the victim and offender is, itself, abuse. Inappropriate contextualization is all it takes.

It's not as simple as "callouts good" or "callouts bad" because

~ there's clearly a time and place where it's appropriate to warn people about someone's patterns of abuse. ~

But if you think interpersonal conflict, in/outgroup dynamics, social capital, and the power to spin a story with assumed motives don't play a part, then you're missing the reality of it

Currently drafting Neozapatismo and Lessons For the Fediverse on this napkin

I'm charging my Patreon when I publish this, be warned

I want a reductress article for what to do when that public figure you liked turns out to be a neoliberal reactionary

@CornishRepublicanArmy people with minor substantive disagreements about political theory that don't actually much affect the implementation or outcome of the revolution also get the wall

@pea WHERE is your APRON

Hey, if you work in data science, smart buildings, or IoT, and you're interested in joining a new business unit in Phoenix, shoot me a message! I'm building a team and I need engineers and researchers.

Feel free to boost!

[do not @ me with your IoT takes. i have heard them already]

@serenissima Stephen Krashen: Examining irregularity, formulating rules and teaching complex facts about the target language is not language teaching, but rather is "language appreciation" or linguistics. Language acquisition is a result of monitored exposure to comprehensible input.

Curriculum planners: *sucks teeth* that sounds like a lot of work y'know

@shonalika The thing about these commenters is, I know they're capable of getting it.

If one asked me where I'm from, the moment that person heard my accent they'd know I'm American. I promise no one would be interested in hearing about my Cornish or Irish ancestry because I've only ever been there on holiday, and some folk would even gatekeep me if I identified that way just because of my ethnicity.

And no one has a problem understanding that because I'm white. The double standard is so apparent.

Are you less likely to interact with an explicitly Masculine Coded person on the Fediverse?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No