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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

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I use mine for internet in my pocket, not for calling people

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I’m in a big capital city in Australia

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I’ve had nearly a dozen surgeries, and none of them have gone like that.

Sometimes I have a mask over my face, but mostly I don’t, then they give me a little prick in my arm. I feel cold travel up my arm, whilst the person counts down from 10. When the cold gets to my shoulder, which is usually when the countdown is at about 7 or so, I go under, like someone turned off a light, but just slow enough that I can just remember an awareness of being about to go under. There’s no weakness, no feeling of being unable to move, just cold travelling up my arm, and then lights out.

Then, I wake up, with an awareness that time has passed, though not an awareness of how long it has been.

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Last time I had surgery, I think I made a comment about the surgeon’s good taste in music. I was in Argentina, but the surgeon was listening to US 80s music :)

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We can remove hate speech though, and conflating hate speech with “every single piece of art we find objectionable” is dodgy af.

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It’s not hate speech to hate on trans folk, insists the person who isn’t trans

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For me it was a shift in perspective. It sounds trite, but basically, I turned “having fun” in to the thing I’m trying to win. So I still optimise and strategise, but sometimes it’s to make ridiculous moves that will make people laugh. Sometimes it’s to keep the game close, and sometimes it’s just to try and win. It all depends on who I’m playing with and the mood at the table

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Aren’t we all using aliases (aliae?) to obscure that part of our online identity?

Never have, probably never will

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Blue. Always blue

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This is the way

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Yep, this one was in the wild! It was hanging out near a cycling track, just eating grass seeds at dusk

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For any given activity level and body weight, people with active testosterone in their system have more muscle mass and less body fat than people without significant levels of testosterone.

Body mass division doesn’t solve the problem

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Antenna used to work differently, but were changed to be less performance intensive (and less useful) somewhere after the rebrand to Firefish.

Before the change, they were the single best feature of Firefish IMO

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I found the extra flexibility really useful. I could have an arbitrary number of words or hashtags in each antenna, rather than 4 like mastodon, which allowed me to cover all of the variations I wanted. I could use multiple words on one line for a boolean “and” function. Rare words, I would use without hashtags, common words, I would restrict to hashtags.

I could follow instances, I could follow people, I could follow keywords, and I could follow regular words, with more control than basic hashtags.

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It’s a minefield. At the moment, most public research is generated by folk with ulterior motives using deliberately skewed assumptions and comparisons. The ones that aren’t lack sufficient data to show meaningful conclusions.

Joanna Harper is doing work in this space, but she’s in the latter category.

Sulphur-crested cockatoo with beak and feather disease, Pallamallawa New South Wales Australia, 2009 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Image description: A sulphur-crested cockatoo sitting on top of a chain link fence, in front of a shaded, green leafy background. The cockatoo is featherless aside from two small yellow feathers on the top of its head, and some feathers on its wings....

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Being regular humans doesn’t stop them from being monsters. The only real monsters are people.

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What you’re describing is very common. We build barriers to self acceptance, but even when we finally break through them, they don’t just disappear. They linger and hinder us for a while. Deconstructing those barriers is a project that takes time, self reflection, learning about yourself and self acceptance.

And what makes it worse is that once we chip a hole in them and see the other side, and realise that we can really genuinely be there, the fact that we’re not there becomes harder to take, because those barriers were part of our self defence. They weren’t healthy, but they existed to help mitigate the pain of the closet, and once they break, the pain of the closest is harder to bear.

You’ll get there though, and it’s worth it. Once you’re on the other side, looking back at where you came from, you’ll shake your head in wonder that you managed as long as you did like that

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I can’t “imagine” conversations in that way, so it’s not something I’ve experienced

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That’s an existing out of the box feature. Admins can remove any content on their instance, wherever it came from originally. It’s just that the removal doesn’t federate to other instances unless they’re also a moderator of the community it was posted to

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I mean, you pick your instance for that stuff. If you value “free” speech over the wellbeing of minorities, then you join an instance that doesn’t remove stuff.

If you’re on an instance like mine, that is specifically focused on being a space for vulnerable folk, then removing horrible shit, even just locally, is a big positive.

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Admin removals not federating for groups they don’t moderate is important, or troll admins could just delete everything in every group simply by spinning up a throw away instance.

Admins can also make themselves mods on communities hosted on their instance.

And the reason for the distinction is that communities often have rules beyond the instance. We host 196 for example, which is incredibly busy. I have no desire to watch all of the posts and moderate off topic posts or posts that forget to mention “the rule”. So I watch for abusive users and other stuff that requires an admin, and leave the community rules to the mods

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And spatulas!

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This guy isn’t a bin chicken! He’s the bin chicken’s snobby cousin!

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I don’t know about rule 1, but it’s off topic for this community, which could explain it

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wtf is that website?

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But unless it’s free, the majority of people wouldn’t be able to afford it anyway. Remember most people live week to week with no savings buffer.

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You can drive for 30 hours and still be on the same highway in the same state in Australia.

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Australia is roughly the size of continental USA, and I do fine without a car

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These days, yeah, but I used to live in country town Australia, without a car or license then either. I admit, that was harder, and did limit my options, but the majority of people don’t live in country towns in Australia or the US

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Where are you going with that? It’s harder to get by without a car in lower density places…

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It’s not quite unique to a specific device. You can store your private key in a password manager or something similar, and then access it from other devices

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Well, I’m an individual, just like everyone else

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They’re great, aren’t they?

(Sorry, I couldn’t help myself)

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Solasta does this really well, and it surprised me when I couldn’t do the same in BG3

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That would involve me signing up for Twitter again, and there is no world in which that happens

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