in written Spanish if you want to denote gender ambiguity you can use the ‘x’ letter, @ symbol or any other generic enough symbol.
Hearing someone say latin-“x” in English can be jarring to hear though, that’s as much as I’ll say.
i prefer -e for this reason; it’s pronounceable.
tell you that violence is a terrible thing that can never be excused or condoned.
aha! but they say violence has no place in the so-called United States (if you ignore wage slavery, prison labour, the police, and the entire capitalist system). violence overseas always serves their interests, until it doesn’t.
checkmate tankie /s
i think it would be more symbolic to extend the rainbow peace flag over it.
growing up, the most common ‘counterargument’ (read: dismission) to ‘global warming’ i heard was ‘great, i love summer!’
i had to become a singer before i had the lung capacity to sigh hard enough.
I’m not disagreeing, but it seems to me I’ve known of white supremacist groups that do want other races to exist, but as subjugated classes.
not OP, but at least in Europe the raceless racist trope is more common, particularly among liberals. in one breath they’ll say that the concept of race is pseudoscience (true), but then conclude that this means racialisation doesn’t happen (uhhh). then in that same breath they’ll say that people from Muslim countries are destructive radicals who are ‘incompatible’ with European culture, which is almost neo-racist, until you realise that they don’t know what a ‘Muslim’ ‘looks’ like, and that in practise it’s ‘anyone with dark hair and/or a von Luschan index higher than 20’.
it’s not that they want to subjugate brown people: it’s that they wish they had never existed, and that they could never see them again. but the people they vote for to accomplish this do want to subjugate brown people.
before you know it: the group of ‘incompatibles’ has grown to encompass 2/3 of the world’s population by hair colour and skin index alone, and antisemitism is back on the table. but they believe in nonviolent democracy and the ‘rule of law’ and eat organic so it’s ok.
sidenote: this is why a lot of far-right supremacist groups in Europe tend(ed) to be more about (national) ethnicity than race. historically, even people from neighbouring countries were parasitic ‘others’ to be corralled and expelled.
Did you look for a nest or another bird in the original shrub?
i didn’t see anything in the bush at first glance. i tried to see if it was leading me somewhere, but it didn’t seem like it. i didn’t want to stress them out by approaching them too quickly or digging thru the bush.
they did seem very small, so it’s possible they don’t know how to feed themself. it’s not too far, so i can try checking on them sometime soon. i don’t want to invade their home, tho.
my guess is it was trying to get you to help one of its friends or something.
that was my first guess, but it didn’t seem like it was leading me anywhere.
i’m a little worried now.
I’d have had a good search around the area befriending crows can actually bring you some benifit like shiny gifts
when i was homeless, i shared my food with a crow. i got them to bring me coins by feeding them double portions when they brought monies.
or in some cases crow bodyguards as they actually recognise individuals as friends etc.
that’s my current relationship to the corvids in town. a long time ago i rescued a magpie from two seagulls, and since then all the corvids no longer fly away when i come near them. the magpies even defended me from a seagull one day!
but they otherwise don’t approach me, and we don’t ‘communicate’.
that was my first guess, but after i tried getting back on the path they only kept putting grass on my feet. i tried holding still, backing away, moving toward them, moving back into the grass, making noises, and checked in the bush — it just kept putting grass on me. i didn’t immediately see anything. i was afraid of scaring or upsetting them, so i left.
someone else suggested they’re a juvenile that doesn’t know how to feed themself.
but what about these posts that are like:
ah right, yeah. i updated my original snippet with the styling for hiding posts also.
It is good though that we don’t have republicans groups here, so half the problem is solved on Lemmy by default.
there are neocon and alt-right instances, but they don’t normally federate, or they’re quarantined very quickly (usually for posting CSAM… hmmm…).
some apps and frontends let you filter posts and comments.
if you’re in the browser: blocking an instance from your account settings will block postshide communities from that instance. this also has the benefit that you don’t get notified when someone from a blocked instance replies to you or sends you a message.
to hide comments and other posts in the browser on the default frontend, i use a userstyle:
/* hides posts */
.post-listing:has(* > .person-listing[href$="@lemmy.world"])
{
display: none;
}
/* hides comments and replies */
.comment-node:has(* > .person-listing[href$="@lemmy.world"]),
.comment-node:has(* > .person-listing[href$="@lemmy.world"]) + .comments
{
display: none;
}
/*
* hides post separators in feed.
*
* (a) it's more compact this way.
* (b) they get left behind when hiding posts.
*
*/
.my-3 { display: none; }
EDIT: corrections. more code. put inside a details block.
la oficiala lingvo de la Eŭropa Parlamento estas ‘neresponda’
yeah.
that’s all i’ve got to say, but i have a strong urge to say it.
i thought it was primarily because a lot of major renegotiations are scheduled to happen in 2028?
i was phone
if i had a penny for every time a neocon accused me of being ‘uncivil’ right before and after casually dropping a slur…
It was a revelation to me: to have flat structures, you not only need to make it possible to organize without hierarchy, but you also need a process to constantly weed out emerging hierarchies.
i’ve noticed this is a common source of disagreement i keep having with nonanarchists.
where someone thinks that i’m advocating purely for the organisational aspects of anarchism, but not also materially, socially, culturally, and politically. they’ll dismiss my criticisms of the current system or proposals for alternatives as ‘that would never work today’, and instead cite monolithic, mythological essentialisms like ‘human nature’ at me which is just their opportunity to mansplain capitalist logic to me and throw down some ‘might makes right’ moral argument. people who think tool libraries would never work because one time their underpaid coworkers kept stealing other persons’ food from the breakroom fridge or something and well that’s proof of the greed inherent to all human beings and no we will not interrogate what leads them to stealing food. material conditions? what’s that?
anarchism to me isn’t simply a worldview or a form of organisation: it’s a lifestance, a lifestyle, a way of being, a way of thinking and a way of acting — and i believe it works best when it is all of those things. social change is cultural change is political change. when i advocate for change, i’m advocating to change both the system and the people who recreate it.
‘but how will you prevent [insert consequence of hierarchical conditioning] from happening under anarchism?’
this was originally supposed to be only two paragraphs, but it uh… expanded. but i feel like screaming into the void, so here goes.
wow. great timing. i was recently constructively terminated after over a decade in a ‘flat hierarchy’ company under very similar circumstances.
thanks to financialisation and an upcoming IPO: they started aggressively bullshitifying our day-to-day to fit investor expectations; 1:1 copy-pasting procedures and org charts from places like Amazon and Google without interrogating why they work like that. more than 2/3 of our job was now time estimation and timekeeping, and all of the engineering and maintenance work i was previously doing was outsourced, and instead i was being very obviously tricked into doing feature work on things literally no customer wanted, but which we needed to have because ‘all the big players are doing it’. (this eventually included third-party ‘“AI”’ — to replace already existing solutions to already solved problems, just so we could say we were doing it as if customers can somehow verify that or fucking care — my ethical reservations to which were a contributing factor to my demise.) for the first time ever, my performance reviews were poor because i was out of my element and completely disinterested and disengaged.
this after they internally promoted a coworker to be our ‘lead’, while maintaining the ‘flat hierarchy’ claim (under the usual ‘we’re a family’ toxic rhetoric, but also ‘we don’t do hierarchies in this country’).
a coworker who consistently gave me glowing performance reviews, but then reported to the C-suite that i was a ‘culture issue’ and that i lacked clear communication — coming from a person who never checked Slack or email and who regularly misread messages or shut down conversations around process to protect their ego, to a person who had sent over 70% of Slack messages in our team channel and who wrote almost all of the documentation and was treated like the office mom/secretary. (i had male coworkers regularly pressure me into writing their emails for them…)
a coworker who went on to sabotage all of our existing procedures which i had primarily designed and implemented because it didn’t align with the vibes-based, top-down advice in the one-week managment seminars they were being sent on. granted, they didn’t need much help with that: getting anyone to improve anything at that company was like herding cats if you weren’t at least one step up on the org chart.
after years of burnout and postcovid malaise, months of medication shortages and being pestered about sixteen different things at once and only two of those things really being even remotely actionable, and once again being told i don’t communicate enough: i went off. i demanded proof of my communication problems, and had receipts to knock down every example they had off the top of their head — some of which had been resolved years ago, but they conveniently forgot that, and i had to show them receipts also of when we already talked about those incidents. i responded on the spot with receipts of every time their own incompetence led to downtime or failed projects. in the end, they made it clear that it wasn’t my communication that was poor, it was how i communicated — unemotional, clear, to-the-point — and (A) how i didn’t clean their shoes, (B) how i didn’t participate in the office plaguerat games, (C) how i didn’t work overtime, and (D) how i didn’t respond to every single message or request for ‘a quick call’ immediately no matter the time of day and with a resounding and positive ‘yes, sure’. i was even told i don’t use enough emoji. i repeated what i was seeing back to them, and their response was to sigh deeply, say it’s ‘not personal’, deny my observations by saying it’s ‘just’ about my ‘communication problems’, and then end the meeting early. surprisingly, no consequences for at least another quarter.
i had two more meltdowns after they got more and more aggressive, saying i should more actively solicit feedback on my work; work that was my sole domain. they started micromanaging and impulsively videocalling me to demand status reports. then issues started to pile up because task requirements were being filled incorrectly (by my manager), leading to incorrect work, which i was then blamed for for ‘not asking’ — as if i should always automatically assume that every task i’m given is incorrect and needs more clarification than ‘is everything you wrote here accurate?’ and confirming the usual bottom-up troubleshooting steps were done, or that i should just know precognitively what will go wrong in troubleshooting/implementation and what questions to ask before starting a task.
finally, the RTO order came, with a bonus PIP and a change of roles to put me physically next to my manager. because i love being hypersurveilled while trying to work. they refused my accommodations, telling me that i had ‘lied’ to them about my work, and that it was a ‘privilege’ that they would now revoke that i was allowed to work remote or skip unactionable, unnecessary meetings or have uninterrupted times of the day to focus. i also wouldn’t be allowed headphones or music, and i would have to log what i did every day down to 5 minute intervals with doctor’s notes for appointments, and my login, lunch, logout and appointment times would need to be preapproved (meaning: no more flex time to take care of myself, or my sick family member, who would now be left alone without care). my (now former) union said this is an ‘internal dispute’ and wouldn’t help me. this was illegal on several levels, but i already pay an extremely high ADHD tax and i was too tired and overwhelmed to deal with any of this, so i dropped the receipts of my manager’s fuckups to HR (which made the company more upset with me), along with my resignation.
i’m now effectively blacklisted in my industry in my area, because my current country operates almost entirely off nepotism hires, and word gets around. i want to switch careers, but to get work placement support, they want me to commit to going back, and i’ve told, kindly and not so kindly, ‘no’.
the thought of interviewing (again) makes me feel physically sick, and every fibre of my being fucking hates the lying and manipulative games you have to play to get a job. getting ghosted by 200+ companies only for the one responsive employer to ghost-reject you really sets off an emotional spiral. i hate having to upsell myself. i hate that i can’t answer ‘why do you want this job’ with ‘because i like to eat’.
i’m trying to get trauma and ADHD treatment, but i used one too many big words so the psychologist told me i’m ‘smart enough’ to ‘just handle it’. this set off another meltdown that put me out of commission for over a week, particularly because it reminded me of something my parents and teachers used to say to me all the time: ‘you’re so god damn smart, so why do you have to be so fucking stupid?’
something something i want to break an ablebodied neurotypical’s kneecaps and destroy capitalism. i don’t know how to end this comment.
i already have a pet theory:
now, the booster doesn’t need to be good. it would just be really funny if the immaterial benefit of saving the children turns out to be materially beneficial in an almost eviler way than forsaking the children for the antitank mines. (pls give fire resistance)
now, if the booster is bad, that would be thrice as funny: antitank mines forsook and children sacrificed, for shitty research that amounted to nothing really helpful.
this all could also explain how they’ve managed to survive so long.
the main three solutions i have to #2 are: RSS; userscript; or blocking the OP. i already use RSS a lot, but RSS clients can be arcane to customise the way i want, and i don’t like following aggregators from my aggregator. i’m satisfied with the official web UI.
my experience is also primarily with tired parents with mortages… who blame minorities for their unhappiness (so they vote right-wing) and get all of their social and emotional fulfilment from work (so they willingly buy into the C-suite cult).
they are also usually so tech illiterate that they have the vibe of someone who never learned a trade and fell for the ‘learn to code’ advice at some point in their life.