SpookyBogMonster

@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then people started “well red is this, yellow is that, green is that …”

  But the stripes always meant something:

  Hot pink = Sex Red = Life
  Orange = Healing Yellow = Sunlight
  Green = Nature Turquoise = Magic/Art Indigo = Serenity Violet = Spirit

  Flags being symbolic was never the issue. The progress flag was made in lieu of black, trans, and intersex queer USAmericans being excluded from big, corporate backed, pride events, which brought to the fore, a slew of intra-queer tensions.

  By making this new flag, it was a way of symbolically coming together. And it’s stuck around because of, well… Everything going on lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly , I think the chevron works. But instead of adding all of the extra stripes , I think it would have been better to make the chevron a single color.

  Gilbert Baker, before he died, added a lavender stripe to the original flag to for ‘diversity’. I say we blend the chevron with Baker’s vision and have it be a singular lavender color

  That said, while I think that would be more aesthetically pleasing, I have come around on the progress pride flag in the same way that I like the flag of Maryland. It’s so busy that it’s circled around from being ugly to charming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen TERFs use it less, as they’ve started to win the “trans debate” less of a need to disguise their shit as “protecting lesbians”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a side of human rights

  You mean like expanding the United State’s illegal drone assassination program?

  That status quo comfort you’re yearning for is exactly what lead us here in the first place.

  That stays quo was built on incredible amounts of violence inflicted on the global south, and now the imperial boomerang is coming back around.

  So no, I don’t wish we had a little of that status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t discrace the good name of my friend, Portable Document Format

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I suppose not, but neither do must forms of art. Amateurism, real or percieved, is even a hallmark of many genres, like punk for instance.

  But that’s kind of missing the forest for the trees. For the poster to look at a genre that is historically dominated by white people (and one with a history of far-right politics at that), and contrast it as requiring more talent to produce than a predominantly black genre of music… Let’s just say that raises some alarm bells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I adore my T-480! I put Linux Mint on it, and it does everything I need it to do, with basically no fuss, and no garbage from Microsoft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao what a fucking racist loser! You can’t even respond with anything meaningful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia isn’t even a part of this discussion. I’m honestly more offended by your opinions of teenagers.

  But that aside, it’s not about “defending” these States. It’s that your tone is dripping with orientalist racism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever

  “Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!”

  Fucking listen to yourself. I’m not on TikTok. I just don’t care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that people are often unfairly dismissive of Metal as a genre.

  But people are also often unfairly dismissive of Rap and Hip Hop. A lot of the time that dismissal is rooted in racism.

  Now, go listen to some MF Doom, and tell me rap doesn’t require talent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it’s actually ready?

  Today’s vocab word is Vaporware