Considering that I ended up getting banished from my personal bubble, I’m betying that I would have ended up on the outside of that wall anyway, so yeah!

For me, it was the massive uptick in bans that proved the manipulation was real

I mean, you DO understand that the current situation involves granularity like we have never witnessed before, algorithmic fuckery that we have been warned about, and the fact that access to Twitter data in controlled by the guy who initiated all of the fuckery involving twitter, right? What I’m saying is that your standard for evidence is not in touch with the current reality. Fortunately, this guy can’t seem to hide his intentions, so we really don’t need an in depth analysis. The only ones who would wish for the rest of us to demand such a thing in order to believe what we are seeing in front of our very eyes are the ones who would benefit from the truth being obscured… Oh. I think I understand now

If it is done by skinheads then it is automatically NOT punk. Just like No Doubt does not make “ska”, but especially, very much, absolutely more so!

What do you mean? Of COURSE we do!

When commentary itself does not embed its main point within it, it becomes part of the problem it is addressing. The entire point, as far as I can tell, here, is that being careless with words can actually cause others harm. Shifting the narrative to the rewards gained by achievement is where the comment goes astray. It would help me stay focused on the main point of, instead of telling me how praise or for performance is somehow bad, the commentary described the reverse, perhaps helping me to understand a little better, the ways in which the struggle is often overlooked, and the rewards not given in a way that benefits the whole. It is short-sighted to give rewards based on excellence, especially if those rewards are necessary for survival. My abilities will wane over time. Does that make me, then, less deserving of the ability to simply survive? The main point of dehumanizing language still holds, though. It stares us in the face everyday. They are not “HOMELESS people”. They are “people who…(sleep rough, live on the street, have been thrown away by society, etc.)” It is important to remember the humanity, and to start there. We are all born helpless, and die helpless. Everybody, at some point, relies on others. Dismissing those who need help is anti human in its entirety.

Former food service worker here

Perfection

I have family, DEVOUT Christians, that live in the actual holy land. I asked them “who is that?” in response to their posting a picture of white-as-fuck Jesus on the Facebook page for the family village. They have yet to respond

Reddit shares plunge after missing engagement numbers due to fall off following enshitification

The SOUND of a fart

Reddit is total trash at this point A LOT of people are saying it

I have a container of spring water that was left to me by the shaman that collected it

Once upon a time I got called a terrorist WHILE I was performing on a community theater stage. The bright spot was how quickly my fellow actors and the rest of the patrons shut that down

AND deranged. I posted a comment about the blow back that seniors are going to feel from the disruption among staffing in the caregiving field, and got banned from a sub, along with comments that I was “calling for elder abuse”. It was fun while it lasted, but I am DONE looking forward to watching Lemmy explode