mrrao

There needs to be shorthand for "I agree with the basic good that you are defending, but your obsession with winning arguments online has caused you to warp your whole worldview and deny the complexity of reality just to make sure every aspect of the world supports the basic argument that you are defending and you need to stop."

There’s an organization called Advance Peace in Fresno CA that combats gun violence by providing mentoring and social services to people likely to commit gun violence that has singlehandedly reduced our local violent crime rate and recently the federal funding for it has been denied for some reason and surprise surprise the violent crime rate is going back up OH WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS

very good bsky post compelled me to make this rant but I am on my hands and knees begging fursuit makers to PLEASE have a place that people can view your rates without having to make a fucking account to even LOOK at it. have your shit somewhere other than meta's pockets with instagram and facebook. make a shitty website and put it there. if you wanna put it on social media then have it so it's on a site that people can access your links if they're logged out. I am so sick of being directed to the goddamn app store while I'm just trying to find information in a way where I don't have to contact you directly and get your hopes up. I should not have to give a website my personal information to even be able to look your way.

Frankly, I don't buy the theory that the repeated sweeping deletions of trans women's blogs have principally been the product of bad-faith mass reporting campaigns abusing automated moderation. I've been falsely mass-reported before, on multiple occasions, and nothing's ever come of it. Someone is pulling that trigger.

either staff is doing it themselves or they're intentionally ignoring obvious reporting campaigns, which is the same as doing it themselves

woke Aerosmith: dude looks like a they/them

I'm sorry Steven Tyler I wasn't familiar with ur bigender game

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

One of the most important things to remember if you care about the world is that the propagandizing of "it's too late to do anything about the environment/climate change" is coming from the same people who pitched "climate change isn't happening". They don't want us banding together to make good things happen.

I think it's unfortunate that the Nazis inherited an already very efficient German state, industrial and military apparatus, because it created the persistent myth that fascism itself is efficient, which, lol

What's a more efficient way to serve the public interest: actually having mechanisms to monitor state officials for corruption and hold them to account, or just letting them loot the public purse to their heart's content so long as they stay loyal to the Leader? If you're not an idiot, the answer won't surprise you!