
white, early twenties, disabled, lesbian, plural. a cat that just so happens to be a person. sister of @yrgirlkv. makes things, sometimes.
last.fm (cassandra-rose)
"I'm not touching that site ran by a bunch of commies"
"you promise??" 
our heuristic is that anyone who brings up their dislike for communists unprompted is a fascist, and that's never led us wrong.
For a long time I used to say "I hate software" whenever somebody told me about an irritating bug (or I ran into one myself). People would look at me strangely and say "I thought you were a software engineer?" and I'd say something along the lines of "Yeah, the more you know about software the easier it is to hate."
At some point somebody pointed out to me that all the focus on a strongly-negative emotion probably wasn't so great, which is a valid point, so I've largely shifted to just sighing and saying something "software, amirite?" But the sentiment remains!
probably why they named themselves anti-software software club instead of software haters r'us
Software hurts my bones. Especially when you can tell some aspect of a system took more development effort to cripple than implementing it in a sensible way. I digress, I should be writing my own software right now, not talking about others.
"Cant stand software!" 10 min later, posing for a selfie with software "me and the bestie!"
yeah. we have a private joke "computers are terrible and nobody should use them". we had to stop saying it when we realized that there are a lot of young people who take what we say seriously and don't necessarily realize that it's intended more as self-criticism (for building terrible things) than as our actual position.
if you are a young queer or neurodivergent person, you should absolutely learn all about computers. because knowledge is power and computer stuff, in particular is an important form of power in today's world, and this stuff helps our community prosper. because, for example, it means there's never a shortage of awesome queer punks who can build social sites to hang out on when corporations stop wanting to give us that...
but once you've learned about computers we hope you'll also join us in remembering to stay humble and acknowledge the reality that humanity's hubris will be its undoing and all that
I’m on both mastodon and cohost and quite frankly mastodon doesn’t have enough eggbug
one of my favorite critiques of cohost that I've read so far was from someone on the fediverse who said that we sounded like monarchists
the monarchs (@staff) collecting money (cohost plus) from the peasants (the CSS criminals)
sounds about right
Guy who has only seen non-hierarchical society, looking at his second society: Getting a lot of 'monarchist' vibes from this…
the fediverse also has hierarchy though. like, several layers of it even. it's just that some of that hierarchy is less formalized into technical power and instead is enforced through reactionary rhetoric.
sigh I mean, Cohost is a hierarchical power structure, that is the reality. it's probably the best possible hierarchy for this purpose, but it is a hierarchy and that will surely be its undoing someday. let's just hope there's a good couple years first, before it's forced to re-enact its founding violence in ways that exacerbate the existing fractures in society and all that. let's also hope that in that process we all get some good ideas for what should come next.
compared to my ideal platform, Cohost has the advantage of existing. it turns out to be a substantial advantage.
yeah, I absolutely understand what they're getting at and can't disagree with it (and I do want to decrease the amount of power over the platform held by us over time) -- I just find immediately flattening every hierarchical power structure into "monarchism" really funny
no, yeah, we weren't there for the conversation so we can't really comment, but that sounds about as unhelpful as the habit of far-right USians of classifying everything they don't care about as "socialism".
nobody is immune to dogmatic behavior, certainly not ourselves. it is important in all things to proceed with intellectual honesty, and to always be working to put our ideas on solid foundations.
Lmao if non-commies self-select themselves off cohost, that sounds good to me!