Minor rant: I've finally decided to block one big-name account, which often posts useful information, when the guy can't be bothered to ever use alt text. The annoyance factor just got to be too much. Filtering out his handle and name, too.

Move passif agressif du soir :
Quand un nouveau mastonaute me parle pour la première fois, deux fois dans la même journée sous deux pouet différents, pour me dire , la première fois que lui quand même il est ni de droite ni de gauche (il mets même "apolitique" dans sa bio), puis me dire sous le second pouet que lui le capitalisme ça ne lui semble pas être vraiment le problème :
Déso pas déso : je ne réponds pas je bloque direct. Pour son bien. Et ma santé mentale.

#MaLifeSurMasto
#Subtoot

Supply chain. #subtoot

If someone has an expired visa, whether it's 2 days expired or a month, it's expired. In any country.

Complaining that a person should be allowed in because they're TikTok famous or in a band feels so very wrong.

Complaining that it's racist was a strange take. Even if the border guy has a swastika neck tattoo, if the visa is expired, it's still expired.

Attempting to compare this to the South Africans who were let in on bullshit, but still valid visas is daft.

I compagni troll su #Bida e #Cisti che mi insultano senza nominarmi né menzionarmi, che mi condannano erigendosi a tribunale popolare del fediverso e mettendomi in bocca cose travisandole come pare a loro ché tanto si parla di anni fa e su mastodon non si riesce mai a recuperare i toot vecchi, che suggeriscono neanche troppo velatamente che dovrei essere buttato fuori dal mio collettivo perché sarei razzista, sionista, islamofobo, guerrafondaio. Vorrei avere la forza di ignorarli ancora, ma non ce la faccio proprio più. e allora concedetemi questo #subtoot che è il male minore. Grazie.

Worldview:

"People deserve respect. Ideas do not."
-- (some guest lecturer in an undergrad class a long time ago)

It is my responsibility, if I want to be a decent human being, to treat you with respect, dignity, and kindness except (perhaps1 ) to the extent your behavior prompts a different response. This applies no matter who I think you are from my limited information, even if I think you're a racist, anti-LGBTQIA+, pro-genocide fascist. If those labels are not based on anything you've said or done, a decent human will still treat you with respect and kindness.

Ideas2 do not get any respect; the opposite, in fact. Ideas must prove their worth or be ignored. Ideas should be aggressively examined with careful, logical, moral thinking and, if relevant, with empirical data. To the extent they survive these ongoing tests, they get "respect," but it is always temporary. Ideas can (and should) be downgraded or thrown out often if they fail tests or if new information casts them in unfavorable light.

This applies to all ideas: eugenics, CRT, imperialism, Christianity, Buddhism, capitalism, socialism, fiscal policies, school board bylaws, etc.

Humans who believe bad3 things can (and should) still be treated with dignity and kindness unless such treatment leads to greater harm for others. This does not mean, however, that I need to pretend their ideas are OK. I can be basically kind and decent to a person while thinking (and maybe saying4 ) that their ideas are wrong, immoral, unhelpful, etc. If they get upset at this, it's understandable, but managing those feelings is beyond my responsibility.

Social dynamics get into this and make it messy and difficult. There are unspoken dimensions of Probable Cause to change evaluation of ideas, the Perfect being the Enemy of the Good, the question of when/if expressing ideas becomes an act capable of harming others more than necessary, power differentials, and other considerations. However, those are the principles I think make sense in this domain.

1 There are many who believe there are no exceptions.

2 e.g. the health benefits of essential oils or the belief that Everclear had more than one really good song

3 As defined by me, in my current state of development, of course. How else could it possibly be?

4 Of course, people sometimes do this out of cruelty or reactive aggression while claiming they are simply being honest. See the part about expression of ideas doing harm. Human psychology is a bitch, sometimes.

How to tone police under the radar. Mostly.

Valuable lessons learned from assholes tend to leave the lesson tainted.

#Subtoot #MediaSpin #isreal

FYI.
"Preemptive strike" and "Unprovoked Attack" are the same thing.

The difference is media spin.

A "Preemptive strike" implies an attack to prevent an incoming attack....

Not what is happening right now in Iran.

Good to see we suddenly have a large number of aviation safety experts able to apply their judgement from 11,000 miles away. #subtoot

Eventually realising that the person who keeps mentioning the famous thing IS the famous thing.

lol - marketing image detail on a local small-biz website:

AI hallucinated – but then again, a stock photo would probably have someone holding the soldering iron wrong, rather than this weird alien gear and meat claw.

The reason why you think that in the 1950s everyone was doing well financially with only one breadwinner is that you're ignoring the unpaid labor of women and the subjugation of minorities. I'm not saying that we're doing better off now than they were then, but the reason why white families could afford houses and cars and vacations is not utterly divorced from sexism and racism, shall we say? #subtoot

If you think LibreOffice is a Notepad replacement, I'm afraid you have no idea what the use cases for Notepad are. #subtoot

Recordatorio irregular: tengo a las personas que fingen discapacidad o enfermedad crónica en muy escasa consideración. Si quien niega derechos está a tiro de piedra de ser nazi, quien abusa de ellos para volverlos privilegios está a la altura de un colaboracionista.

Having a celebratory beer by the Ness on a lovely evening, thinking about salmon and genomics. (Our loss is also your loss Leicester, sorry). #FailingUpwards #subtoot #AcademicChatter #RiverNess #Scotland

Qué forrada de paisito dependiente que cuando muere un presidente se recuerdan sus reuniones con líderes de los países "importantes".

#Subtoot

When a dangerous thundercunt like Kennedy decides to swim in raw sewage...

Don't complain about it.

Encourage him to do it often.

#Subtoot

Shocked that Starmer is a fascist?

Where the hell have you been, to miss the fucking obvious signs of this that people have been pointing out for years?

"I expect better from Labour" = "I vote for a logo, don't bother me with details!"