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sometimes when people say "can we normalize X" what they really mean is "I feel insecure choosing X for myself unless everyone else does so too"

but like, that's your problem, not everyone else's

RT @nosilverv
men only want one thing and it's literally not going to therapy

"how could you willing enter such a toxic community, they could say absolutely anything with barely any moderation!?!"

get ready for an uptick in the "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" argument, and the stigmatization of decentralized & privacy-forward tech

why don't you just use Twitter and Facebook, huh? are you a racist Nazi pedophile?

how do I keep accidentally acquiring more cats

when I was 10 I "fell" in "love" with a boy I met on Neopets simply because he was the first boy I encountered who used emoticons like :3, xD, ^^ as well as proper grammar & spelling. I thought only girls did that & figured I caught myself a rare specimen I needed to hold on to

A mishmash:

Speech probably should be guaranteed at the protocol level.

big tech are either neutral publishing platforms that are insulated from the legal consequences of the speech of its users or they are 'editorializers' that bear the responsibility for what is said by users and users don't really own their own words. Can't have both.

you either die based, or you live long enough to see yourself become cringe

goal for 2021: become more familiar & comfortable with the decentralized web, learn more about the efforts in that area, reduce my reliance on centralized platforms

RT @NamebaseHQ
NEWS ALERT: Sci-Hub has created a censorship-resistant Handshake gateway available at sci-hub.hns!

Connect directly via @NextDNS: learn.namebase.io/starting-fro
Connect via a @HNS gateway (uptime not guaranteed!): hns.to/sci-hub.hns

hearing someone say "12 minutes" or "a dozen eggs" is fine, but "a dozen minutes" sounds odd

Ender's Game and Madoka are pretty similar if you think about it

You can now challenge someone to game of #chess over toots! castling.club/ 💪

It's actually a standalone server in the #fediverse, implementing #activitypub all by itself. 😃

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