infinite love Ⴟ @trwnh@mastodon.social

@eloisa @dansup IIRC the "hide follower/following lists on public pages" was a compromise after I requested hiding the counts entirely. Gargron didn't want to hide the numbers entirely because he said it made it easier to identify sockpuppets. I still don't agree fully, though -- it should still be an option.

@eloisa @dansup all i'm getting is that if twitter removes follow/er counts then mastodon can remove follow/er counts

@nightpool Hatoful Boyfriend: Beach Edition

@matilde so prejudice needs to be confronted in public, destroyed at every turn, not allowed to flourish, given no respite. the revolution starts in culture before it moves on to organization and eventually government

no one ever said cultural change was easy

@matilde on a revolutionary timeline, at some point, it's not enough to settle for iterative improvement on something that ultimately needs to be scrapped entirely

that still says nothing about the prefigurative politics of, idk, getting people to actually support that? if you have the revolution too early, then you're going to be fighting reactionaries and counterrev forces for a loooooong time

@SquidPresident young, light-mustachioed stalin was bae

older, thick-brimmed mustachioed stalin was daddy

@ballpointcarrot @KitRedgrave there needs to be, like, an indie/AP CMS or even a static site gen + minimal server. i'd love to just chuck all my content in subdirectories on my static site, like... /posts for a meta-view of everything, and /articles and /notes and so on for the different types. the minimal server would compile text documents into JSON and then handle the inbox/outbox logic, and that's about it

And honestly, the biggest environmental challenge is not having ready access to a support net. No healthcare or psychologists. No guarantee I can fix anything if it breaks, like that 6 months I spent without a working computer. No guarantee of food in my stomach or a roof over my head. All this is like an omnipresent miasma.

Maybe it's just something i'll need antidepressants for? But I feel like there should be a way to break this ingrained habit of mindlessly refreshing feeds when there isn't anything new. At least I don't feel like I have to read everything here on Mastodon, though! That's a huge plus. I just feel like relevance is utterly warped outside of this space, e.g. YouTube.

I need to put in the energy to foster a healthy environment, and I'm maybe halfway there?

I feel like I've made progress overall, but I still find myself unable to do the things I want to do. The last thing I need to overcome is the sense of boredom at feeling like I have nothing to do. I need to relearn how to dedicate my time once again. And I don't really know how to do that, with all the existential angst and the general stress of wondering how my life is going to continue, how I'm going to survive.

@andeluuu Like, if an evangelist is spreading the word, then the opposite (antonym) would be someone receiving the word. So what would you call someone spreading the word, but not in a good way?

@andeluuu No, more for the devilish equivalent. Not the inverse, but the converse.

For what it's worth, the antonym of "evangelist" is "layman": https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100759723489180461

@andeluuu Satanists aren't really preachy, though.

@Robby Someone similarly came up with "diabolist", but I actually discovered the root word is "evangel" i.e. "gospel" and not actual angels: https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/100759723489180461