@aud it really is

@aud I yell, as my dick is sliced off by flying shrapnel

anyway that's why we need to market an anime sex pillow that is irresistible to gamers but also explodes into shrapnel the second they try to shag it, thanks for reading

unfortunately there really are people with their heads so far up their arses that one of the reasons they'd go along with fascism would be that it promises to restore some mythical "golden age" of gaming that never really existed, by disempowering if not murdering all the nasty feminists and brown and Black people and gays who keep making their games """woke""" -- that is grimly comical

if you ponder for a while the sorts of things that make fascists uncomfortable and therefore angry, it becomes apparent how deeply pathetic fascists are; and yes I believe that it is part of fascism to attempt to dictate the "right" things that art can portray in order to steer it away from supposed "degeneracy" and back to a mythical state of purity; "gamers" are ridiculous in and of themselves and they should be mocked, but the success of right-wingers at turning "gaming" "culture" into a breeding ground for fascism is worth taking more seriously

they should make a version of Kids Say The Darnedest Things, except it's Gamers Lose Their Shit At The Darnedest things and it's just self-identified "gamers" pissing their pants because a game dev has the temerity to put a woman in a video game etc., and they play sad trombone sound effects and canned laughter whenever a gamer is on screen

@aud thou shalt have a biscuit

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we should use horrorshow as an adjective more often, examples:

• damn buddy that blouse is horrorshow (positive, affirming)
• she had legs that went all the way up, and a horrorshow arse that just wouldn't quit (flirtatious, appreciative)
• went to a horrorshow party this weekend, it was fucking banging (excited, enthused)

@aud don't you know the best protests are ones where you don't cause a scene and don't disturb anything or anyone -- for example, screaming into a pillow at home alone; that's a respectable protest!

have you ever manhandled the jambon?

@aud you're gonna get in trouble, RMS is chugging over here red-faced and yelling, pumping his little legs

@aud what the fuck

personally i won't be checking out bluesky because i've got pals here and i like the little silly space i've made, and I'm invested in trying to make things here a bit better; I also don't think putting eggs in another for-profit social platform is something i'm comfortable doing

HOWEVER I completely 100% understand why folks would choose bluesky over the fedi, there's so many good reasons to go there (your mates are there, it's easier to use, they actually have reply controls and shit), and very few reasons, in comparison, to come here (it's volunteer-run, so what? most folks don't care about that, and it doesn't mean much if those volunteers are pedantic, racist reply guys); I don't begrudge anyone choosing to move their social media lives to bluesky over here, it makes total sense

maybe if mastodon--the software that is the fediverse in most people's eyes--had spent the last few years working on reply controls and safety stuff, reply fetching, debugging federation issues, and providing better ways of rooting out racist shitheads, it could present a viable alternative to another vc-backed centralized platform -- but it didn't, so it can't. The fact that it tried to style itself as a direct replacement for corpo socials for so long is a bit embarrassing at this point, because it's not a fight it could ever win and so it's not a battle it should have chosen. But it is what it is!

at this point, i'm much more interested in the possibilities afforded by clusters of allowlist-only instances that lean hard into the federated nature of the software rather than trying to paper over it; i think the "world's town square" approach to social media is not really something that interests me anymore (and it never did, really...); so I think the best thing that "THE FEDI" could do would be to basically die off or completely mutate into something much weirder and more interesting, and i'm all for that

@oliphant There's work being done to bring this functionality into Mastodon as well See the stuff @jonny has been doing for example: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615

@oliphant awh, my silly diagram

Me seeing all the USPol on the timeline today

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