StarlightDust
@StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 2 days ago:
I just keep their Facebook accounts logged in on my phone. Every few months, I will go onto their profiles and unlike pages like “Wear your poppy with pride” and deradicalize their algorithm. Poppies for British boomers on Facebook are like Elsa and Spiderman on YouTube for babies.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 4 days ago:
Originally they came about as a means of keeping women out of public life and in the home. Buildings would often designate toilets as “Men’s” as an excuse to make them inaccessible. Its really that daft and sexist.
- Comment on Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes 6 days ago:
I wonder if the improved Linux support will mean fixing it on the Steam deck, where it is still very broken.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
The admin behind it is also a man so its for (some) women by a man. Literally the opposite.
- Comment on Future generations will look at people who fear AI/Robots the same as how we today view people who fear other races/ethnicities 1 week ago:
Gen AI is, for the most part, weighted random number generation. It does not think/feel/suffer the consequences of racism.
Absolutely wild racist take.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
Nah but have you ever considered that the reason that you think that there is a male loneliness epidemic is because nobody wants to hang out with insufferable misogynists?
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
This is transmisogynistic and misogynoir as well as plain old misogyny. Don’t ask me to explain. Just don’t do it.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
It really seems like instance admins tend to do a much better job with a lot of stuff on here than the core devs. Its a shame that forking would take as much work as it would.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
Lmao look at that douchebag’s comment history. Its arguably worse that than comment itself. God I wish there was a male loneliness epidemic because these fuckers stopped talking.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
Yep. Picking the bear.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 1 week ago:
Lemmy has an undeniable woman problem that it carried over from Reddit. I’ve lost count of the number of pathetic blokes that I have blocked on here for anti feminism.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, a demographic with 40% who have admitted to being domestically abusive trying to further restrict children’s ability to find support and avoid isolation.
- Comment on Appers 2 weeks ago:
“Yer mum’s yer dad, Yer dad’s yer mum, Yer interbred, You Millwall scum”
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 weeks ago:
Now tell me, how is it women’s fault that men sexually harass them on the street?
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 3 weeks ago:
That’s just womanhood
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 3 weeks ago:
Nope. I just don’t like ableists. Go and make some friends.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 3 weeks ago:
Alright you fucking weirdo. Its a meme about an average friendship group. Go and make some; which you can do by not being a bigot on the internet.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 3 weeks ago:
Not to say shit like that. Its weird and ableist.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 3 weeks ago:
Read some Judith Butler or Angela Davis
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 3 weeks ago:
The claim that there is such a thing as misandry places them on equal footing and minimises the scale of cultural misogyny.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 3 weeks ago:
This is weird. What is actually wrong with you? Go and touch some grass.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 3 weeks ago:
No it doesn’t. You just don’t want to admit that you benefit from misogyny.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 3 weeks ago:
Every woman I know has experienced at least sexual harrasment. Most have experienced SA or rape. Even if a man hasn’t done it, he will probably stick by his shitty mates who do or will still stay friends with them because awkwardness and bravery is harder for them than silent compliance.
If its “not all men” then it is certainly all women.
I’m picking that bear over you.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 3 weeks ago:
Ok child murder supporter
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 3 weeks ago:
This is what happens when you read Israeli war propaganda online.
Genocide apologists are the absolute worst scum.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 3 weeks ago:
What the fuck? This is such an awful and stigmatising thing to say that oversimplifies what personality disorders are.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
Leaves on the line are actually a surprisingly nasty issue since they screw up adhesion. There was a nasty crash last year because of it that cut off a good chunk of Wales from the rest of the network.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
I monitor far-right groups pretty intensively and a good chunk of Paedophile Hunters are key organisers of said groups.
Its also not uncommon for far-right groups to be family operations where the adults will groom their teenage children into organizing and encourage their children to date other, often older, fascist organisers.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 3 weeks ago:
I actually imagine that there would be a lot of similarities to the structure of already existing anarchist organizing, particularly street antifascism.
Usually people will meet ahead of an action and discuss likely events and how to respond. If things happen that weren’t predicted, it relies on the initiative of people on the ground.
Usually people with experience will end up making snap decisions, though people will occasionally veto them. If there is an opportunity, the people who disagree will huddle and decide on a new course of action. If not, someone might just call it out a new course of action, which people will also sometimes veto.
I’m personally quite a fan of simple instructions that you can chant because it also boosts morale and demonstrates unity to the opposition.
At a recent example that I think was particularly effective, a group of spotters* were following a fascist march, one person shouted, “Come on guys. We can’t let them go unopposed.”
A second person indicated that they agreed by proposing a strategy, gesturing to link arms, saying, “Link up.”
A third person adapted that into a chant of, “Link your arms! Stand your ground!”
Spotters are a scout-like role who usually have the responsibility of keeping an eye on the opposition and relaying that information back to the action itself. In this case, the spotters realized that remaining as spotters was less useful and adapted accordingly, since the main counter was trapped elsewhere.
Interestingly, as the police decision makers were with the main counter, the police who were with the spotters were unable to act because their structure depends on a hierarchy whereas the adaptability of anarchist organizing doesn’t.
