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@Sophie Sounds like your system has a gatekeeper. Not that ours has ever done that to us. That we know of.

@minego That was supposed to say "movielens". It's a movie recommendation engine.

@minego I don't think I've seen Field of Dreams and don't really remember Batman, but movie thinks I'll prefer Batman by 0.4 stars.

@Scmbradley @emilygorcenski Requiring all admins to accept some kind of centralized moderation would be against the spirit of it (and I'd guess not technically possible), but I think we will have to allow for sharing that effort in some way if we want this to scale.

@pikhq As a system with the ability to switch between headmates that are affected by autism in differing amounts, we think this would be very useful. /genuine

contrarian birdsite/fediverse, drug use related 

@recursive I get hung up on just understanding what those are talking about. I'd rather discuss actual feelings and behaviors.

@minego Microsoft Wireless All-In-One Media Keyboard. Touchpad is easier on my thumb than a trackball, and stays in one place so I'm not always searching for it, or having to pick it up and re-place it.

The heroes in teams aren't the ones pulling all-nighters, gambling big and saving everyone at the last minute.
They're the ones who put in the work every day to stop those situations arising in the first place.

@minego I'm guessing most of us thought about this one the same way.

Hey, I'm seeing a lot of politics/advocacy posts that don't have content warnings. I'd like to boost those, but I don't want to do it without a CW.

We made up a pronoun set for "exclusive we" (any use of "we" that does not include the reader/listener), it's wex/xus/xur/xurs/xurselves. It can be used by systems or singlets, in any situation to make clear the listener is not included.

We suppose a corresponding "inclusive we" set should be made to make it clear the listener is included, so for that we propose: wein/nus/nur/nurs/nurselves.

Whenever I hear an autistic person say "ok, so" during a conversation, I get very happy, as I am about to learn an entire semester's worth of information in the next 15 minutes.
The most wonderful phrase.

@Sophie If there are biases in a "random" system that you're not aware of, they can still affect you. Although the closest thing I can think of to an example is the bias in the "browser ballot" shuffle algorithm.

@sota767 Same, I just hadn't appreciated how it's not what a lot of Twitter refugees are looking for.

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