also by even scheduling a debate between say… Bill Nigh and a creationist, the illusion is created that these are equal things, equally deserving of our attention and time. before you ever get into the moderator bias creating an impression that the truth lies in the middle of these two people when in reality only one of them is speaking in good faith.

“that’s good”

One is foot-pokeystick. The other is mounted-pokeystick

EDIT: I’m a moron

Congratulations! You’ve re-engineered Jousting with that first one

EDIT: This is why I should’t comment on things before I’ve had my coffee. Jousting, not Fencing

i know one person who’s interesting in hosting some queer focused fediverse infrastructure, however they wants no part of the threadiverse since they considers reddit and reddit-alikes to be intrinsically prone to toxicity

@[email protected] , when your instance is online again let’s have a discussion about what resources i can make available to you that will center your community’s needs without someone like me colonizing the discussion.

(unless i have the wrong ladybutterfly, then my apologies)

i know this isn’t my place as a cis white dude, but can anarchist.nexus be a resource for a women’s space? i’ve been looking for gaps in the threadiverse we could nurture and foster. my #1 concern lately with the makeup of the hegemony of the threadiverse lately has been:

• eurocentricism
• authoritarianism by default
• black and white thinking (see above)
• unchecked and unchallenged mysoginy

my commitment to you as a cis white dude admin would be to stay the fuck out of the way of moderators looking to host a women’s issues community here, within reason. obviously it wouldn’t be okay to break instance rules against bigotry and such, but i can offer my commitment to shutting my mouth and knowing my role

edit: also, i bet @[email protected] and @[email protected] from my second original home instance would be happy to have a women’s issues community hosted on slrpnk.net, i’m still figuring out what my new relationship and responsibility to the threadiverse is now, but i think just like how there’s more than one world news community, there could be more than one women’s issues community so that people have a preferred and fallback space on days like today. the one thing i don’t want to diminish in this comment is the incredible work people like @[email protected] have done in creating a welcoming space on the threadiverse for marginalized people. i just don’t want that to be work that is only done alone. we should be collaborative towards a better, freer, world

at least 2/3 of the global northern empires have fallen for the dictator’s trap

your dad is probably the most technically proficient person i’ve heard of. most people i know using slackware are only using it in an enterprise server environment with a team to support it

for real! this should be about how we are on the precipice of letting people with debilitating conditions enjoy their lives and spend time with people they care about instead of immediately saying “just think of the implications for shareholder value!”

for real. it’s 2026. everything with social features is tiktok. instagram, facebook, youtube. they’re all tiktok

it’s a mnemonic to help people remember, not pedantry

epstein class needs fuckable battle twinks

toootally get that. the 5 brands i listed in that long post are the only ones i feel comfortable recommending for a reason

i don’t have anything specific on them. i’ve bought plenty of altra’s so clearly i’m not above buying wolverine

all of the major athletic shoe brands are up to shady shit because they profit from slave labor in the global south.

• nike donates to conservatives in the US
• adidas (who owns reebok) and asics furnish discounts to the IDF
• puma stays out of politics directly, but should still be side eyed for how fairly their laborers are compensated. of the majors they probably win the “most least evil” award
• under armour’s founders have been very active promoters of CPAC
• new balance has a recent legacy of their ceo backing conservatives in the US but has since replaced him. side eye them
• brooks outright provides shoes to the IDF

the only shoe companies that i feel genuinely comfortably recommending:

• luna sandals
• enda running shoes
• veja
• wildling
• xero if you’re into court sports like pickleball or basketball

they were both ranking nazi party members

Adidas was founded in the 1920s in Germany and remained in operation throughout the 1930s and 40s if that helps clue you in

exactly. both parties fundamentally support and enable eachother. it’s a decision between coke and pepsi. not enough people are aware of ale-8 or are able to get the word out about ale-8 for ale-8 to become viable without fundamental systemic changes to how all of this works. so for the most part, you should be out in the streets normalizing that an annual choice between two cola products is an illusion of choice, and then when you cast your ballot do so with the perspective of what it is on that ballot that gives you more room to have conversations about ginger-ale, orange soda, citrus drink, sassparilla, or even water.

we have a problem in this country where somehow not enough people know the difference between the two parties, and at the same time not enough people know how little that difference truly is. if we want to change this we have to educate people, and if we want to do that we have to focus less on the teams and more on the rules that underlay the sport

the best thing you can do to resist it i think is make sure the people in your life know you value them for them and not for their aesthetic charm. everyone tell a friend right now that you think they’re funny, or that you apprecieate their kindness, or that you value their perspective, or anything that’s based on their persona and not their physical appearance. and if you are struck by someone’s physical charm, pause, and take a moment to notice their outfit and compliment that instead. their outfit required them to make choices about their personal sense of style