@iswyrm @SteveFoerster @libreoffice

right and if i were still on twitter it would be debilitating

but after having not been on twitter in years it's funny because it's so stupid

@frumble

i know and you can find plenty of posts by me shaming people still on twitter *in general*

my point is just that when an account makes a commitment to here, doesn't matter when they opened the account here or closed the account there, we should simply applaud and welcome them in direct interaction with them

it's just the smart way to go about it

@SteveFoerster @libreoffice

seriously the replies are hilarious

"So please delete your account here, otherwise stop annoying people with your moral compass"

"Decentralized is not the future"

"I never understood why Open Source should mean pretending to be poor and small"

"Mastadon is already quite terrible when you start with it I fucking hate INSTANCES"

"But Mastodon is communist"

"Mastodon is fascist social media"

i do NOT miss twitter

@frumble @libreoffice

be welcoming, don't shame

@mwyman @randahl

the moral upperhand matters

@randahl

here's another absurd story:

https://www.reuters.com/world/denmarks-joint-arctic-command-evacuates-us-submarine-crew-member-greenlandic-2026-02-21/

"Denmark's Joint Arctic Command said on Saturday it had evacuated a crew member who required urgent medical treatment from a U.S. submarine in Greenlandic waters, seven nautical miles outside of Greenland's capital Nuuk."

"WE ARE GOING TO INVADE! WE ARE THE TERROR!"

"ooh very scary! i'm proud of you, nice performance. but just pipe down now, it seems you need some help. let me get you a nice ride and a blanket"

@Wyatt_H_Knott @admin @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

@mloxton @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

@admin @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

strokes are high blood pressure so same as heart disease

@deusfigendi @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

true

our awareness of their stupid choices does not mean they are aware

thank you for the correction

@mloxton @PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

killing grandma for the orange god

@PizzaDemon @infobeautiful @ourworldindata

i don't know but i would say that some of those COVID deaths should be classified as homicide or suicide

people who died of COVID who did everything right but were betrayed by a MAGA moron who introduced the disease into their life and killed them

and MAGA morons who essentially committed suicide by COVID because they took no precautions and imagined their prideful ignorance was a magic shield, or just didn't care if they died

@amiserabilist @Mrfunkedude @TheBreadmonkey @Alice @Nickiquote @MAJ1

Kafka was quite insistent that there be no illustrations to bias in the mind what kind of creature Gregor had turned into in "The Metamorphosis". it was important to him the reader be unsure. some translations used "cockroach" and this has become fixed in the popular imagination

so again, i need to apologize, i am not even a cockroach

i am merely the subconscious projection of your own feelings of unease on a blank canvas

@amiserabilist @Mrfunkedude @TheBreadmonkey @Alice @Nickiquote @MAJ1

no i was also a cockroach before i fell asleep

i'm sorry, i'm not contributing constructively

@amiserabilist @Mrfunkedude @TheBreadmonkey @Alice @Nickiquote @MAJ1

i fell asleep and woke up as a cockroach

@LukefromDC @mark @nitrml @meowki @iju @ariarhythmic

well yeah

and new gang recruits are asked to shoot someone in the head as they watch for much the same reason

neither of which tell us much about the topic here

@LukefromDC @mark @nitrml @meowki @iju @ariarhythmic

100%

and that's why we can't do purity tests on resistance

purity tests destroy effective resistance

effective resistance that isn't pure is not a betrayal

we resist how we can, in the ways we can

this isn't an argument against your words, i'm just harking back to the argument up higher

@LukefromDC @mark @nitrml @meowki @iju @ariarhythmic

understood

but we're now very far away from your average normie who just wants to see cat pictures

and that's where this topic truly lies

@LukefromDC @meowki @iju @ariarhythmic @mellifluousbox @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering @Gargron

zero argument

and if you make the services you talk about user friendly enough that the average social media user can point and click and zero hassle, even better

until then, some servers are stuck in unfriendly districts

and that's not their fault

the govt is at fault

@LukefromDC @mark @nitrml @meowki @iju @ariarhythmic

.onion doesn't use exit nodes but it uses rendezvous nodes

and nobody wants to kill tor, the intelligence services love it

the foolishness is people who think something built by the us govt is perfectly anonymous

it *is* anonymous. to most every other entity