Meta, racism
After whatever moderation “mistake” made by mastodon.social that caused Tracy Chou’s post about reading white authors to be deleted, mastodon.online (also administrated by Eugen) has also suspended a Black user for unspecified reasons (likely similar).
This is why other communities are talking about defederation. It’s not one or two users being assholes. It’s moderation decisions that silence BIPOC (particularly WOC).
https://mobile.twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1594711597359980547
Background: https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1594348646396559361?s=20&t=qBjb_v48IGlUIfy15Og9eA
plurality (+)
It turns out that Watchful is very good at sensing how we're feeling, so getting them back in front has helped us be more responsive to basic needs like hyrdation, but also to mood/whim. Instead of holding strictly to a routine/system, we're putting much more weight on what we feel like doing at the moment. We think the change has made us happier and better at our job.
religion (~)
I'm still not a Buddhist, but I've made a personal commitment to follow the five precepts, as I currently understand them. Dabbling in study of Buddhism, things that seemed challenging, wrong, or nonsensical at first become more reasonable, correct, or plausible, as my understanding increases.
It's kinda scary because I find myself wanting to accept teachings on faith that they'll make sense someday, which is something I really dislike about organized religion.
Supplementary survey: they/them reflexives, The Sir/Ma’am Issue, and Spivak vs. Elverson
https://gendercensus.tumblr.com/post/649367187544588288/supplementary-survey-theythem-reflexives-the
queer speedrunning marathon that i'll be helping with
Submissions for Undefined Behaviour 2 are now open!!! It is a marathon looking to explore glitchy, unusual or marathon-unsafe runs, as well as related queer gaming content! I'll be helping with it and i recommend checking it out :D find out more at https://t.co/kuCqZ21oer
continuing my first playthrough of Lenna's Inception by exploring 汇瑩档䌠瑩y https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
continuing my first Lenna's Inception playthrough, might finish today? https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
Practicing Kirby's Dream Land Extra Mode. Some day I hope to be good enough to finish. https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
re: super nerdy dream
But, I couldn't do any damage because upon reloading all but one of my party members were chibi-fied? I guess whatever bypassed the counter also bypassed this status effect, but on reloading a save it's based on the event counter. Apparently the remaining party member is supposed to be able to win somehow, but I either bypassed a check for some needed item, or some other important thing that's supposed to happen.
re: super nerdy dream
The technical explanation, which I remember from the dream: the final boss has multiple phases, and the game allows you to straight-up leave and save in the middle of the fight. The phases are tracked with a general event counter. Somehow I got past phase 1 in an unintended way that didn't increment the counter. So the counter was still inside the boss fight, thus the boss was still there when reloading.
@gendercensus People who checked "woman" or "man" checked "enby" less often, but for most identity words, anyone who checked them is more likely to have checked "enby" than the general set of responses. I would guess that people who choose an identity word (except binary, woman, man, none, or cisgender...) are more likely to choose another identity word, and if so this doesn't tell me anything about "enby" specifically.
@gendercensus I see no clear pattern with regard to more "feminine" or "masculine" identity words.
@gendercensus I wrote a quick Python script to determine the percentage of people who selected each identity checkbox that ALSO selected "enby", and here's what I got: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TB4QRRFysp1LGOEoOEfPts8J9otufNCrCwYK2eGWLqw/edit?usp=sharing
The US national election will soon be underway and a lot of people are feeling very stressed and upset about it.
PLEASE use the #uspol content warning on posts about the election, and any other relevant content warnings to posts venting about current events. Mastodon is some folks last online refuge to escape the constant barrage of bad and terrifying news, so let's respect our friends and neighbors by using the Content Warnings so others can choose to engage with us if they want to 💖
Gender Census 2020 Report #4: The Pronoun Question
https://gendercensus.com/post/632150168128700416/gender-census-2020-the-pronoun-question