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i like snakes and a free palestine

aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.


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Thinking about this a little more, I think one of the things that keeps people on Twitter even after the ads are hateful, is the illusion of a marketplace of ideas. Stay to debate the Nazis with facts and logic, or they'll "win!" Maybe even buy a blue check of your own so you don't lose visibility against them! We can't let them take this ground!

Except it's fucking taken, because this game isn't actually played with pure ideas and the left didn't lose Twitter through a failure of persuasion. The Nazi Bar Analogy does not describe a situation where the bar is owned by a Nazi but the bartender keeps working so he can explain to the customers why this is Bad, Actually.

I'm not really concerned with the money - yes you shouldn't be making ad revenue for these assholes, but it's running at such a massive loss that your fractional-cent view of an Epoch Times ad is not going to turn that around anyway. It's more that you shouldn't continue to legitimize Twitter as the "public square" where the best ideas win. Doing so is playing along with the conceit that Nazis somehow won the conversation, instead of the reality that they bought it.

Anyway I'm seriously thinking about how to put together a public pressure campaign to get schools, government offices, other such "neutral" institutions off Twitter. It's well past time to stop being normal about "well yes the Weather Channel has an account on a Nazi site, but don't worry, they only use it to post about the weather! 😊"


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in reply to @MelloMakes's post:

It's really wild to me some of the creators I follow that have not just moved on from it to something else, people who are very successful and do not at all rely on it for continued success and could be bringing their followers to another platform. I assumed way more folks would've left much faster.

in reply to @pervocracy's post:

yeah, going from "not posting new stuff to twitter" to "leaving twitter and removing the app from my phone.

Doesn't matter.

If people I like don't care about me, why should i keep following them anyway. it shouldn't keep me there.

I don't really interact with twitter, other than blocking, but I do go there to grab old photos, art and memes from my own 15+-year-old account and it's wild to see people and institutions I used to follow still posting normally, while their replies fill up with P□U□S□S□Y□I□N□B□I□O and bluechecks who aggressively misunderstand jokes and communicate only in slurmojis.

like, you all can SEE them, right? here, try my sunglasses.

recently i saw someone say something like "well i just don't seek that sort of stuff out" but come on, any random post that's not even about politics starts to get nazi replies after only a few dozen RTs, actual political stuff gets sought out by the nazis, and the porn bots reply to literally everything. i follow way less people than average and i can't look at twitter for five minutes without seeing it

Many years ago, I read a piece by Skud advising that people ought to leave LiveJournal and move over to Dreamwidth. And part of their argument was: I have moved many times in my life, and yes, that does mean some friendships attenuate, and so I make new ones.

And one of the commenters simply said: I have a single friend and cannot make any more, and she is on LJ and will not leave, so I either have to stay on LJ or be absolutely friendless. And that's why I stay.

And both parts of that exchange have stayed with me ever since.

That reply is so...depressing. Like, you can't not know you'll never make another friend again, saying it with such certainty is just.... it reminds me of a post where someone read about how someone wouldn't try Cohost because "I need an algorithm to tell me what's happening" and I'm like "what? No... Surely you have hobbies and interests? Surely...."

Anyway I'm seriously thinking about how to put together a public pressure campaign to get schools, government offices, other such "neutral" institutions off Twitter.

I am this close to registering the domain y-after.social to host a microsite like "𝕐: What Comes After 𝕏?"

i'm genuinely concerned with the number of furries i still see faffing about on twitter, especially those of a kink persuasion you know will get maliciously misinterpreted by nazis the moment they're found, and it's only a matter of time. i genuinely do not understand the inertia, do they not see the thousands of shark fins in the water when they go to that particular beach or do they just choose to ignore it because the sharks haven't noticed them yet?

Your mention of a potential campaign to get major public and other "neutral" institutions off Twitter is thought-provoking. The White House is on Threads now - would you consider moving from Twitter to Threads to be harm reduction at all?

So many of these institutions have such sclerotic internal IT departments (and accounting processes) that it was utterly gamechanging to be able to use something externally hosted and maintained, at zero monetary cost, to publish news. Even separate from the reach that Twitter had, and the ecology of apps, plugins, searchability, hashtags, etc., the fundamental logistical fact that it was easy to spin up a Twitter account without having to pay anyone or give a thought to hosting and maintenance made it so attractive to public relations folks everywhere, especially in legacy institutions. AND that is so inextricably intertwined with how unsustainable it is. :(

yeah like, you could kind of see the framework for Posting Through It forming even before the deal was formalized -- like, this idea that the site would just automatically fail on its own regardless of the actions taken by its users (although the site is wholly comprised of its users) and that therefore everyone could happily hang around and have fun watching it burn down. consequently now everyone hates it there but the idea of leaving has sort of been taken off the table altogether

like, every time Musk did some terrible headass thing for a while he would mockingly pull out the analytics to demonstrate that he was actually increasing site traffic this way, and it didn't ever really give people cause to think that they might have to interrogate their own accustomed reactions to the endless ignominy he represented.