Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

the city of Hamilton just banned all forms of protest, in response to ongoing issues with the cops arresting queer/trans activists who dare speak out against them

shits fucked yo

the only income we have is the little bit we get monthly on our patreon and from commissions. we are frequently in need for groceries, meds, doctor's appointments... shit comes up and pretty often we have to make a rushed request for help and it sucks.

https://www.patreon.com/Fidgetcetera to help us monthly, and https://www.paypal.me/fidgetcetera to help more immediately.

you can also contact us about commissions for art like we have on https://acey.eerie.garden/art/glitch and also feel free to grab our music on https://red-onyx-music.xyz/mx_ace_fucking_jaycee.html for free and then paypal us to dodge bandcamp fees and still feel like you're supporting us by paying for our work

also ppl can always DM for the personal paypal which takes less fees!

It's wonderful seeing so many people getting into Evangelion / It's heartbreaking seeing so many people have Wrong Opinions about Evangelion

As I mentioned briefly last night, I have a new book out!

The Princess, Her Dragon, and Their Prince: a standalone polyamorous romance

When a dragon conquers her kingdom, Princess Cherish knows who she can turn to for help:

Another dragon.

But will her parents accept this savior? And what of her friend, Prince Eclipse?

https://books2read.com/princessdragonprince

"well i tooooold you guys the nazis would figure out how to undo it so we shouldn't even botheerrrrrr"

sometimes the act of being seen to even make a fucking miniscule effort to state you are no friend of nazis is important, even in open-source software, you fucking fossbro idiots, which is something you all might realize if you stop assuming every single person has the same technological expertise that you do

this is technically her old design, but this piece of Annika is almost what i'm going for with her new one hhhh

( 🎨: luxatile )

What people don't seem to get is that blocking nazis is literally a way of protecting lives. If you've never been driven to near suicide from online harassment, you probably don't understand that. It's not about "not wanting to hear opinions you disagree with."

And if you think what nazis believe is "just an opinion" then you're no ally of mine.

Fair warning: if you're going to tell me I should let the nazis in and debate them to defeat them, my first instinct will be that you are also a nazi...because that is and has always been their first step. And I'm not afraid or ashamed to block anyone I think might be a nazi, because guess what: me choosing to ignore you isn't 'censorship'; you are not entitled to my time or my ears.

Don't 👏 Platform 👏 And Debate 👏 Nazis

@codesections @mxsparks @lawremipsum Let me get this straight.

You want my input, because you as community managers want to be responsive to the needs of the communities your actions impact ... but you have nothing to say in response to the hundreds of words I have posted about the thing that you are doing.

Now, I wasn't talking to you and I didn't expect you to care about anything I had to say, but if you are going to reply to a post about you to ask the poster for feedback, it doesn't say good things about your sincerity to ignore /the feedback in that post./ It makes you sound more like someone ticking off a box than someone reckoning with what people have to say. It makes you sound like someone putting up a front of reasonableness rather than someone who wants to learn.

Which, honestly, is why I wasn't talking to you. Is why I was talking to everyone who isn't you, in fact, both so they have a better idea what to expect from you based on your past actions and so they - who have no ego tied up in the matter - can think to themselves, "geeze, I don't want to screw up the way they are screwing up" and not screw up the way you are screwing up.

I'm not even talking to you now, replying directly to your post. I think it's possible you're listening, which is why I have tried to be polite and share useful information - after all, it's important to me that people have the chance to become better people, whether or not they take that chance - but as I have explained, I don't expect you to care what I type here. Preserving your own self-image as someone who listens to people who criticize them doesn't require you to process any of these words, and processing these words would mean eating a /lot/ of crow - and honestly, no one moment causes the kind of comprehensive change in worldview that I would expect you to /need/ to truly deal with what you've already been told.

If I knew you or had some position of authority over you, it would be different. For that matter, if I knew you or had a position of authority over you, this would be a direct message, because people are better at receiving hard-to-hear feedback in private, without an audience. Changing your mind in public feels humiliating - even when (as in this case) it would garner you far more respect than it would lose you - so if I thought I had some power to change your minds, I would speak in private to you.

But I'm just a stranger on the internet. And you've already shown that you don't care.

So ... good luck? I don't think you're going to succeed and I'm not interested in giving you feedback that you won't listen to, but I've been proven wrong before. And if you read this far, thank you for your time.