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@sonya Ah. Got it.

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@sonya Ah. Got it.

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Kickstarter to purchase 1000 weather-resistance plush Loraxes for placement on the local tree stumps #resist

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Kickstarter to purchase 1000 weather-resistance plush Loraxes for placement on the local tree stumps #resist

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@kuro heh, just had that pointed out to me. Good to know.

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@kuro heh, just had that pointed out to me. Good to know.

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@michaelenger That's got to be it. I'm using the web client, and it didn't occur to me to click on the little globe for some reason :rolling_eyes:

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@michaelenger That's got to be it. I'm using the web client, and it didn't occur to me to click on the little globe for some reason :rolling_eyes:

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@NCKPRLMN [extremely prophet voice] NOOO. IT IS STATED THAT THE MAGIC SHALL FADES WHEN THE UNANOINTED MULTITUDES DISCOVER THE PROMISED LAND

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@NCKPRLMN [extremely prophet voice] NOOO. IT IS STATED THAT THE MAGIC SHALL FADES WHEN THE UNANOINTED MULTITUDES DISCOVER THE PROMISED LAND

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“oh, that’s not good. And that’s not good. This one’s quite bad. This one’s terrible—absolute bollocks”

- realized this is what my inner monologue sounds like when scrolling through that ornithological compendium of horrors we all think so highly of

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“oh, that’s not good. And that’s not good. This one’s quite bad. This one’s terrible—absolute bollocks”

- realized this is what my inner monologue sounds like when scrolling through that ornithological compendium of horrors we all think so highly of

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@michaelenger That's good to know. But why am I seeing other peoples' replies?

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@michaelenger That's good to know. But why am I seeing other peoples' replies?

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@neuroecology Hmm. Let me think about that and get back to you :smirk:

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@neuroecology Hmm. Let me think about that and get back to you :smirk:

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Noticing that people replying to other people I don't follow are showing up in my local timeline. So now I'm worrying: every time I have a conversation with someone, am I polluting everyone else's timeline with an unending series of replies?

That was one thing "the bird site" got right: you didn't see peoples' replies to people unless you followed both of them.

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Noticing that people replying to other people I don't follow are showing up in my local timeline. So now I'm worrying: every time I have a conversation with someone, am I polluting everyone else's timeline with an unending series of replies?

That was one thing "the bird site" got right: you didn't see peoples' replies to people unless you followed both of them.

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*looks at the usernames on here, realizes I'm surrounded by witches* oh dear

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/witches-allegedly-stole-penises-and-kept-them-as-pets-in-the-middle-ages

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*looks at the usernames on here, realizes I'm surrounded by witches* oh dear

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/witches-allegedly-stole-penises-and-kept-them-as-pets-in-the-middle-ages

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@sonya ...okay, this is a weird bug: my reply seems to contain elements of a reply to someone else.

Suffice to say, me trying to stop myself from procrastinating at night has almost nothing to do with UK politics, other than the fact that I could easily waste an hour watching my friends on Twitter swear about Brexit etc.

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@sonya ...okay, this is a weird bug: my reply seems to contain elements of a reply to someone else.

Suffice to say, me trying to stop myself from procrastinating at night has almost nothing to do with UK politics, other than the fact that I could easily waste an hour watching my friends on Twitter swear about Brexit etc.

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@sonya I've resorted to outrageous methods of trying to keep myself on track: removing the browser from my phone, timing my wifi to shut off at a certain time, editing my hosts file to block certain sites (until I discovered the SelfControl app), etc etc.

It really does feel like I'm fighting with a different person—trying to imagine all the ways Night Chris could get around the safeguards I've set up.

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@sonya I've resorted to outrageous methods of trying to keep myself on track: removing the browser from my phone, timing my wifi to shut off at a certain time, editing my hosts file to block certain sites (until I discovered the SelfControl app), etc etc.

It really does feel like I'm fighting with a different person—trying to imagine all the ways Night Chris could get around the safeguards I've set up.

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@thewaether I think that's exactly what it is. Resorting to stereotypes here, but if you're an older woman from a rural conservative background, you were probably taught from an early age that men do what they want, and it's what makes them men. That, and seeing women who mentioned sexual assault branded as sluts, almost certainly instilled in that generation an extremely warped view of what normal, decent behavior actually looks like.

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@thewaether I think that's exactly what it is. Resorting to stereotypes here, but if you're an older woman from a rural conservative background, you were probably taught from an early age that men do what they want, and it's what makes them men. That, and seeing women who mentioned sexual assault branded as sluts, almost certainly instilled in that generation an extremely warped view of what normal, decent behavior actually looks like.

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@thewaether Yeah. That was horrifying. What I'm guessing is that older women are so used to being assaulted and abused with impunity that they really just see it as normal masculine behavior. That is sickening on so many levels.

I don't call that "tradition" or "common sense" or any rational reaction to modern hypersensitivity. I call that Stockholm Syndrome.

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@thewaether Yeah. That was horrifying. What I'm guessing is that older women are so used to being assaulted and abused with impunity that they really just see it as normal masculine behavior. That is sickening on so many levels.

I don't call that "tradition" or "common sense" or any rational reaction to modern hypersensitivity. I call that Stockholm Syndrome.

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@thewaether Fox is bad, but they seem to aspire to some veneer of respectability. I'd say it's sites like Breitbart and TheBlaze who are the most dangerous.

This bathroom business is so fucking stupid. I've been on two campuses with gender-neutral bathrooms, and the bulk of our sexual assaults have been cis guys on cis women or, less commonly, gay cis guys on other gay guys.

But, that's actual facts vs "predators in bathrooms attacking our children while liberals gloat".

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@thewaether Fox is bad, but they seem to aspire to some veneer of respectability. I'd say it's sites like Breitbart and TheBlaze who are the most dangerous.

This bathroom business is so fucking stupid. I've been on two campuses with gender-neutral bathrooms, and the bulk of our sexual assaults have been cis guys on cis women or, less commonly, gay cis guys on other gay guys.

But, that's actual facts vs "predators in bathrooms attacking our children while liberals gloat".

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@thewaether I know. It's fucking horrible. Sexual assault is not taken seriously at all.

The only reason I thought it might have an effect was because—beyond the redneck-bro aspect of the right—there's that whole wing of old-fashioned morally upright men who think women should be protected and cherished (sexist, yes, but that's another discussion). Trump's antics should, and did, offend their 19th-century sensibilities. He lost support over that. And it still wasn't enough.

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@thewaether I know. It's fucking horrible. Sexual assault is not taken seriously at all.

The only reason I thought it might have an effect was because—beyond the redneck-bro aspect of the right—there's that whole wing of old-fashioned morally upright men who think women should be protected and cherished (sexist, yes, but that's another discussion). Trump's antics should, and did, offend their 19th-century sensibilities. He lost support over that. And it still wasn't enough.

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@thewaether Heh. I must've said that a hundred times last year: "Oh boy, he's really put his foot in something he can't scrape off this time." And then, well, you know.

Sadly, it didn't surprise me that people looked past the Muslim stuff—Muslims are not treated well here right now. What did surprise me was that trashing POWs and sexually assaulting women didn't end him. When that failed to leave a mark, I thought: shit, we really are living in some different times now.

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@thewaether Heh. I must've said that a hundred times last year: "Oh boy, he's really put his foot in something he can't scrape off this time." And then, well, you know.

Sadly, it didn't surprise me that people looked past the Muslim stuff—Muslims are not treated well here right now. What did surprise me was that trashing POWs and sexually assaulting women didn't end him. When that failed to leave a mark, I thought: shit, we really are living in some different times now.

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@thewaether What do you think made it such a surprise—out-of-touch liberal leaning papers who just didn't talk to any right-wingers? Was it really that shocking?

Because I did hear a lot of "oh boy we never saw this coming" here, and I think that *was* the case—with a few exceptions, most people on both sides, including conservatives, didn't think Trump had a chance in hell. Mainstream conservatives thought the Republican Party had doomed itself with someone like Trump.

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@thewaether What do you think made it such a surprise—out-of-touch liberal leaning papers who just didn't talk to any right-wingers? Was it really that shocking?

Because I did hear a lot of "oh boy we never saw this coming" here, and I think that *was* the case—with a few exceptions, most people on both sides, including conservatives, didn't think Trump had a chance in hell. Mainstream conservatives thought the Republican Party had doomed itself with someone like Trump.

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@pixelpaperyarn @jwithy This, exactly. I hate when I'm having a conversation on Twitter and I had to resort to pubescent-texter-sounding language like "ur" and substituting numerals for words because 140 character limit.

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@pixelpaperyarn @jwithy This, exactly. I hate when I'm having a conversation on Twitter and I had to resort to pubescent-texter-sounding language like "ur" and substituting numerals for words because 140 character limit.

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@thewaether Yes. It's absolutely less funny if you're surrounded by enough people from the other side to see how it could really happen.

This kept coming up in the election post-mortems: Liberals were stunned, but a lot of his supporters had always believed he'd win. Trump himself said it: "Oh, I'm doing great! I've got tens of thousands of people at my rallies." And nobody who wasn't in the thick of it believed that that meant anything. Confirmation bias at its worst.

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@thewaether Yes. It's absolutely less funny if you're surrounded by enough people from the other side to see how it could really happen.

This kept coming up in the election post-mortems: Liberals were stunned, but a lot of his supporters had always believed he'd win. Trump himself said it: "Oh, I'm doing great! I've got tens of thousands of people at my rallies." And nobody who wasn't in the thick of it believed that that meant anything. Confirmation bias at its worst.