Supporting Israel or health insurance companies is advocating for violence.

but using the phrase “women and enbies” in this context can come across as erasure of non-binary identity by implying that it’s akin to “woman lite” - I run a space for people of marginalised genders and this was one of the early lessons we learned, so just passing it on.

I can’t say this is something that would have occurred to me. I would have just figured it was a way to cover the categories of not-men. What’s the preferred terminology?

I lean more toward bottlenose dolphins, but orcas are cool too. I loved Free Willy as a kid

1. Ants (The proletarians of the natural world)
2. Moths (Adorable fuzzy little guys)
3. Dolphins (Incredibly smart, amazing swimmers, just want to have a good time)
4. Raptors (They look cool as hell and can fly)
5. Deer (Cute, bouncy, and live in forests)

It was mostly women pushing for the new name in the mod chat. As a dude I’m going to follow Mao’s advice and not speak on the subject.

I have hope that this is the case, since the first two movies portrayed violent resistance to colonialism as unambiguously correct.

Aime Cesaire has entered the chat

This whole subthread has been

We need Pathologic emojis

We missed our chance with Covid-19, but we have been given another

paid 300k a year to program

I’m getting ripped off

Ah, no, sorry. By “all this” I mean she was the one who was banning people left and right.

I have no clue.

It feels fucked up to say given how many lives it destroyed, but in some ways, the pandemic was the best thing that ever happened to me. It let me start working from home. No longer being under the office panopticon or having to mask (in the autistic sense) for 8 hours a day was a massive load off of my back.

notably, the main purveyor of this line of bullshit was TC69, who is my top suspect for the deletions relevant to this conversation, which I only feel vaguely safe saying because she deleted her account.

how many of her fan club have mod/admin positions? am I on someone’s Eternal Shitlist now because I am decidedly Not A Fan?

I know it can’t really make up for all that’s happened to you, but if it makes you feel even a little bit better, absolutely nobody in the mod staff (that I saw) was on TC69’s side after finding out she was responsible for the mass bannings. A lot of us (myself included) were openly glad to see her go, and there are no plans to invite her back.

Just wanted to let you know I read this whole thing and I appreciate you taking the risk to make yourself vulnerable to say something you needed to say. Yeah, in a perfect world, nobody would need this site, and it’s an indictment of our society that it’s some people’s only lifeline, but there’s a big gap between “is” and “ought.”

justice sensitivity is a well-known neurodivergent trait

Says a lot about our society that this is considered a disability trait.

It’s about exactly that, yeah.

Republicans are the abuser, Democrats are the enabler.

You’re a creepypasta protagonist, sorry you had to find out this way