Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@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.

Hi guys! So... I think it's time for me to shut down the raccoon.network Mastodon instance. It's costing a lot of money every month to host it, and I miss belonging to a bigger instance. So, from here on out, please follow me over at @tilton

Sappho, the tresses of her hair bedecked in purple ribbon, barges, lyre in hand, into a room full of women, loudly exclaiming "What's up, sluts?"

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/ "Kirk Drift" makes an interesting argument: that despite Star Trek TOS being steeped in the sexism of its time, Kirk's reputation as a womanizer is mostly a retroactive reclamation by 80s-90s nerds seeking to bend him into a prototypical modern action hero and normalize a specific contemporary brand of nerd sexism.

Do I know anyone, or know anyone who knows someone, who works for Github / Github Support?

DM me.

don't use slack

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/slack-chat-hackers-encryption.html

as if you actually needed another reason.

seriously

Also yesterday I learned of a truly terrifying organism called the monkey puzzle tree, which looks like a huge branching eldritch horror.
Its leaves are sharp and shaped like scales, and are clustered around each branch, making a terrible prickly tentacle.
Standing under it is immensely frightening and they're endangered and I'm going to give my life to their conservation

Andante, non presto... oh dear.

Thanks to Forepawz for the commission of his character!

#art #mastoart #furry

So rabb.it (the thing I have been using to share a screen and text chat with a room of ppl so we can watch things together) is shutting down at some point soon.

What do y'all use for this purpose? I like watching things with ppl who aren't physically nearby, and having a text chat means commentary (or other chatter) isn't disruptive. Is there an alternative to rabb.it yet?