But comparing gay porn to execution videos as if people taking part in a performance with consent is somehow the same as someone *literally being fucking killed* is just.. I don't even understand how a person could stitch those things together

If you don't like what a server hosts, block them. If you don't want to, that's on you.

It's absurd and entitled to expect other servers to curate your timeline for you, particularly when you can do it yourself.

“YEEEOOWWWWWW!!!”

“Ma’am?”

“The counter *bit* me. Must be static from your carpet, or you have a ground fault”

“Ah, our apologies. We are acting on credible reports that there is a precog operating in the casino. You have tripped—and passed—one of our precognition defenses. Please accept this one hundred credit chip and our assurance that our protocols keep this establishment honest and free of cheats”

Of course, I knew all that. I can only see ninety seconds into the future, 105 wind assisted, but that’s enough to know the zap was coming and to carefully *not* avoid it. Still stings but. Gonna sting your “honest” house in return, bitches.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

So, my uni women's rowing club decided to restrict membership to cis women only. In response, a new "open" division was created that anyone can compete in.

Lots of women left to join the open division instead, and now the women's club are complaining about losing their best rowers.

Be transphobic, lose support.

That's the conses of your quences, folks.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116839836642767852

Was für ein widerliches Arschloch!

much of the fediverse is "public" in the same way a conversation between friends at the beach is public. sure you can hear what we're saying as you walk by and even join in, but if you sit silently beside us with a tape recorder to transcribe everything we say for further dissemination you're still being a creep

Someone reminded me that I didn’t used to swear much online until the whole C++ committee debacle. But in the middle of that someone got pearl-clutchy about swearing and I concluded:
IF YOU FUCKING DON’T CARE ABOUT A MAN CONVICTED OF RAPE AND POSSESION OF CSAM YOU CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT SWEARING

The kids who think it's fun to be cruel to others grow into adults who think it's fun to be cruel to others.

And they don't make friends—they make victims and accomplices.

"Boys will be boys" is what got us incels, school shooters, big tech, and the current state of politics.

This new "tags.pub" instance that just blasts out boosts of anything with a matching hashtag is ... annoying.

Pointless.

Practically abuse.

It just boosted a post of mine with *seven* different accounts. Didn't ask for permission to follow/do things with my content.

Its account overviews say "You can opt out!", which is absolutely *not* how bots should be interacting with people in the Fediverse. This should be opt-*in* only.

How is this okay? Frankly, I think it should be completely defederated, it's not operating in good faith.

#Fediblock #OptOut #consent

@evan @Timo_Micro @alice

Your informed flow is backwards here.

The person would need to inform your service that it is okay for your bots to boost their posts.

Opt out is not consent. If I touch you, and then say, "If you want to opt out of me touching you, write NoTouch on your arm." You never gave consent to the initial touch.

@evan so you do want to have the conversation again and again. okay, if you feel that way, i will oblige.

opt out can have the effect of causing harm first, then putting the onus on the harmed party to solve the issue. it is uniquely positioned to harm marginalised people and folk who don't habitually use phrases like ‘threat model.’

and it is always prompted by a broad swathe of assumptions that are always flawed.

“x server has y setting. they must clearly want this service” is a prime example.
or “user x knows admin y’s stance on this issue and will be comfortable with their decision.”
or even “user x will recieve notification y”

opt in is a more rights-based approach that emphasises safety for the user upon whom the service is being inflicted. opt out is a more move fast and break things approach that emphasises the needs of the service.

there we go, we've had the conversation. again. really excited to do it again. it'll be a third time with you, i think
@Timo_Micro @alice

@mullvadnet
I was thinking about how you might try and respond to this and I was expecting you arguing about there being two owners and that this is a private thing and bla bla bla. No surprise here. But implying that the people who want a refund now, also don't want to "protect the right to express and access views we disagree with" is insulting. I can't even begin to describe how angry I am right now. **Who** actually tries to remove the right to free speech and free expression? It's exactly those fascist assholes who just got a part of the money **we** spent on **your** service. You can't disconnect yourself from this. I have to consider you hostile towards me, my friends and my family and will not renew my subscription after it runs out next week and will recommend my peers to do the same. I won't continue to spend my money on a service where a part of that goes to people who want to see me dead

Edit: oomf said she got a refund for the remaining subscription time even though the transaction is longer than 14 days ago. I guess it's worth a try

@mullvadnet @lostgen

Money that goes to your company goes into the pocket of a man who supports Nazis. Whether you consider it your "mission" is irrelevant when that's what the money is doing.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822239177782622

If the fascists that #mullvad's co-CEO is financing come to power, the following things will cease to exist:

- Free speech
- Free information
- Privacy
- Freedom of the press
- The right to express and access views the fascists disagree with

This is not hyperbole. We have ample historic proof that this is exactly what will happen. And that's only for starters.

You're actively shitting the bed, @mullvadnet

Don't roll around in the shit. Get out of the bed. Clean up. Otherwise you and your mission are absolutely and terminally meaningless.

"... investors are making a bet that the #AI they’re funding will be so good that employers can fire half their workers and replace them with AI, with the proceeds split between AI companies’ customers, and the AI companies themselves. Failing that, they’re making a bet that AI companies’ sales staff can convince employers to fire half their employees and replace them with AI that *can’t* do their jobs, and that no one will figure this out until after the AI companies' investors have cashed out"

A week after the teleport network had opened, it was already routine. Johnson stepped onto the plate and thought about the Bank Street station.

He arrived at the leisure park. He complained to a guard, who said:

"It takes you where you need to be."

Behind him, his daughter's soccer game started.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116815390429482765

Was für ein widerliches Arschloch.

The most frustrating thing is that so many of us just want a quiet life, free to just do our do, not hurt anyone, have a bit of fun, eat nice food, enjoy beauty all around us, be safe and sound.

And yet, a tiny handful of self absorbed arseholes who wish to fuck the world for their own $$ benefit.

I've now been asked by a few people if I was surprised or had expected anything else.

The answer is: I did not know what to expect. I knew preciously little about Karl Stefanovic before this drama - and now I wish I had kept it that way.

Upon his departure from Nine after interviewing fascist agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon on his independent podcast, Karl Stefanovic has been quoted thus:

“So, here’s what I believe in. The public deserve to hear perspectives. This country was built by hard-working Aussies from all around the world and they were bound by the same values but very different experiences.

“So, on my show, I’ve spoken to people who have different perspectives. I know that winds some people up. Sometimes I agree with everything a guest says, sometimes I don’t. But, importantly, you get to make up your mind. You have the right to hear from different voices.

“Freedom of speech here and around the world is what this show is about. You don’t have to listen to my show. You have the power. You are smart enough to make up your own mind.”

But is he really looking to platform 'different voices'?

In the past months, almost all the people he has platformed on his show were from the right fringe. Several One Nation members, multiple shows with Clive Palmer, show titles screaming about 'migration crisis' and 'NDIS fraud'. Saying 'Australia lost its way' because a suspected war criminal is being put on trial.

Stevanovic isn't about a diversity of voices. He is routinely and enthusiastically platforming the far right in the name of free speech. He's pushing an agenda. Fuck this guy.

#australia #media

To the dickhead who just aggressively accelerated his Porsche SUV towards me while was crossing the road at what seemed to be a safe distance from incoming traffic:

Go fuck yourself.