moggers87 @moggers87@mastodon.xyz

What fresh hell is this?

I'm writing up a description of something that's kind of like "ephemeral postage stamps" (they disappear/expire, after a while). I'm currently calling it "ghostage stamps".

I can't tell if this is the best name or the worst name.

Experts say you shouldn't take your phone to bed. I'll give you an example of why:

For a while I used one of those sleep metric apps, where you put the phone on the bed and it uses the accelerometer to measure your tossing and turning as a proxy for sleep quality.

According to the data, my best night's sleep by far was when the phone fell off the bed. Slept like a *rock*.

other times, i am gay

"Illium" was another name for the city of Troy

"-ad" is a suffix that can be used to mean "the story of"

Therefore "The Illiad" is properly translated as; drumroll please...

Troy Story

As we've seen on the fedi, any neutral stance on 'politics' results in bigots being able to harass and abuse at will. We've seen this with Masto main and mstdnDOTio two of the most high profile platforms run by white guys who have refused repeatedly to take a hard stand.

There is no such thing as having a neutral platform. Either you are against bigots or you're not. There is no middle ground.

Attemping to play the middle *always* favors bigots. ALWAYS.

It is delusional to believe otherwise

It is wholly disingenuous to conflate the push to de-platform groups that mean to perpetuate hate and violence to a generalist push to control the flow of information. That point is complete and utter bullshit.

People such as myself that advocate de-platforming bigot do not give a single solitary fuck about controlling information. I want to *reduce harm*. That's it.

Anyone that gets on a high horse about how that idea is SLIPPERY SLOPE is purposefully trying to derail the point of it.

Like Ive already said, if youre upset about how ppl *react* to racism, homophobia etc more so than the oppression, you're the problem, not the rest of us.

Whilst you park yourself in ppls mentions telling them to be nicer, that does nothing for a political and social shift, you're just telling us to lay down and accept the oppression and violence you supposedly hate yourself.

Back to front, cognitive dissonance, call it when you want, you allow our oppression

If you've ever wondered how books get onto archive.org, this is how

A highway interchange in the Takao Mountain, near Tokyo, Japan