Leraje

Depends on how you define ‘bigot’ I guess. To me, a bigot is someone who is intolerant of another person or community despite the fact their existence in no way materially affects that persons ability to live their life. I can’t have empathy for people like that but I might try once or twice to talk with them about it, but only a couple of times - if they’re still a bigot after that, fuck them.

I’m not sure Jack Nicholson can only play themselves but he does seem to get cast as the unhinged character quite a lot.

Fork it, carry on with being FOSS for now, develop a few killer features that everyone will love that would take a small FOSS team years to develop. When it becomes the industry standard, make it closed source. A year later start charging for it.

Because they’re parasites?

I’m not sure the argument that they bring in money via tourism is accurate. No tourist comes to see them, they come to see the Palace etc. Tourists still visit the Palace of Versailles even though there’s no monarchy in France.

you would read it

I couldn’t make it through book 3 of that series. Oh hey, a new character - I wonder if they’ll rape/be raped by a close family member or die hideously? Maybe both?

Martin endlessly confuses unrelenting misery for an interesting plot.

1980’s Stephen King has entered the chat.

One of the most disturbing things about Blue Velvet is that Dennis Hopper got the part by telling David Lynch he had to play Frank Booth because he was Frank Booth.

Threads - UK based movie from 1984 which is a speculative fictional account of what would happen in the event of a nuclear war.

Mirlo, which is similar to subvert, but a worker owned thing rather than a cooperative are dipping their toe into federation with more planned I think:

“…If you want your artist profile to be follow-able from other websites, you can now “Enable The Social Web” and people can subscribe to your feed from other places. With support from our NLNet funding we’ve finally enabled the ActivityPub standard integration on our site, so that people across the internet will be able to follow your artist account…”

Great to see so many open source ethical alternatives popping up.

You can take it as confirmation of the depressing truth that most people will ignore and even try to justify horrific behaviours if the perpetrator is in a position to enact things that they agree with.

There a lot to choose from! I haven’t read this translation myself but I know people who have and say its very good - the Richard Howard edition: https://www.tfobooks.com/book/9781567928273

I’m both cis and hetero. There is not one iota of evidence I’ve seen that there is any sort of movement that wishes death on cis and hetero people, or that organises vigilante groups to hunt down cis or hetero people to beat them up, or that invents bizarre rumours about ‘what they do’ or conflates cis and hetero people with paedophilia or that tries to organise campaigns to get cis or hetero-centric book removed from libraries.

There is no formal or informal system of oppression towards cis and hetero people. It just doesn’t exist.

There’s so many variables to each persons threadiverse experience that its difficult to quantify another’s experience. I don;t think there is an objective default experience. It depends on what instance your on, which also might dictate which software as the two main players don;t have feature parity, it then depends on how you use the available tools each software type has, how you sort your feeds, which communities you’re subbed to, how willing you are to simply block and move on, what your own beliefs are and what sort of experience you expect.

You’ll only think its a ghost town if you are someone who spends the majority of their time on social media. The flip side of that is that there’s also a sizeable amount of people who might simply check in once or twice a day. To them, its not a ghost town at all.

You’ll only think its full of hate if you’re not prepared to be on an instance that curates the hate away and you combine that with liberal use of blocking tools when some gets through.

And there are lots of other wider societal issues going on too - Westernised countries (which includes the majority of users I see on here) are largely descending into right-wing, xtian-fuelled, uber-capitalism, bigoted hellscapes and lots of people are understandably scared and angry about that. Scared and angry people lash out. Doesn’t excuse it a as behaviour but I don’t think growing fear and anger is a threadiverse-specific issue at all.

The answer is that there is no one-sized fits all answer beyond finding the best fit for yourself in terms of instance/software/tools/feeds and posting/commenting on more of what you personally enjoy and maybe lessen the time you spend on here and social media generally. It doesn’t have to be always on, just something you do alongside other things like reading a book, going for a walk etc.

There’s a fine line between celebrating the history of your ancestors and performative cultural appropriation. Being interested in ones ancestors is one thing - swearing that you’re ‘fiery’ because of your Irish ancestry when you’re 3 or 4 generations removed from that ancestry is a bit weird at best.

I think the US does have a culture all its own - some of the world’s best authors, musicians, artists etc are from the US. It does puzzle me that some US folks are so desperate to claim deep cultural ties elsewhere when they have a pretty good culture already, formed in part from those ancestors.

• Twin Peaks
• The X-Files
• Dark
• Chernobyl
• Happy Valley
• Line of Duty
• Luther
• Spaced
• Wolf Hall
• True Detective S1, S4

Someone needs to check your harddrive mate. You’re way, way too invested in splitting this particular hair.