At the risk of becoming too anti-casual, anti-gay slurs were so common in the US up until the mid/late 90s, if you weren’t there for it you just have no idea. One of the Bill and Ted movies (I think the first one?) just randomly dropping it in there as a joke, where the slur is the joke, is a good example of just how it was then. There’s still bigotry but it’s not as casual and pervasive.

If it is that’s news to me, I thought they were two different services.

You still get the image, but that explains why they’ve always been concave for me 😂

If all they ever told you was to relax your eyes then it’s not surprising they don’t work for you, that’s not very helpful! Feel free to skip the rest of this if you don’t want advice on how to get them to work.

For me, the best way to get them to work is to cross my eyes and let my gaze drift out of focus. When I was a kid I read a tip in a book to press your nose up to the book, look at the picture, and keep them in that position as you pull away. That works well for me too if I’m having trouble doing it on my own.

Nebula is one I’ve been interested in too, I always see creators I like advertising that they’re on there as well. If anyone knows how it compares to Curiosity Stream or other services I’d be interested to know (hope this isn’t too off topic, OP).

Option (4): Venus. Apparently the planet Venus is a very common cause of UFO reports.

1,073,741,824 moments so big

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How do you measure, measure a gig?

Fundamentally, your question is “does it make me a bad person if I have done bad things?”, which is so complicated that people make entire philosophies and religions out of the answers to that, haha.

My view: you can be a good person who has done bad things, if you change your behavior and try to make amends. That doesn’t mean everyone has to accept or forgive you, but it’s a necessary part of being a good person.

You’ll be sorry when one day that plastic bag that wasn’t in the path yesterday jumps up and kills you!

What are you talking about? What I quoted was about transgender asylum seekers. Seeking asylum isn’t a crime.

Gauri Sreenivasan, co-executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, said the orders will harm transgender people who are seeking to make an asylum claim in the United States.

Under Trump’s policies for example, a transgender woman could be placed in a detention facility with male detainees.

That obviously puts trans asylum seekers at risk of violence.

Probably, I was just asking OP so I’m not doubling up on admin pings if they’re already on it

They can’t, but I think it’s something that should be taken into consideration on continued federation with LW. LBZ came very close to defederating with programming.dev something like a year ago over some transphobia from one of the admins, who was much more opening to learning and remedying the situation than I believe LW is going to be, based on past experience.

Did you ping/DM/etc ada or any of the other LBZ admins about this? I don’t know how closely the admins read the mod log, this seems something worth being aware of considering this is the second time in a few days one of the LW “Community Team” mods (still don’t know what that means, other than they are higher in the hierarchy than regular mods) has made a hinky statement about neopronouns.

Thanks for the info!

Oooh, is it subscribing that starts up federation of community content and not searching for it? For some reason I was under the impression that just putting the !communityname@instance into the search bar did it

None of that is showing up on my instance, is this just federation being slow on one end or the other? The announcement post you linked isn’t loading for me, either.

Is expressing my opinion about something jumping down your throat? Which part do you feel I need to phrase more politely?

Like, legitimately, I’m not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings here. You also know from my other reply that I’m trans and my comment comes from that background. If I’m not allowed to even say that I found something borderline transphobic without it being too combative or whatever, then to me that’s not a great sign.

I’m nearing an age where it’s not going to be physically possible for me to have my own soon, and my overwhelming feeling is ‘good.’ I never wanted to get pregnant and was always told I’d change my mind. Well, if I do, it’s going to be when I’m at an age where I’m far too old for it to matter anyway, lol.

I’m a trans man and nobody has ever hurt me by using neopronouns. The people who have harassed and assaulted me almost certainly feel the same way about people with neopronouns as they do about me. People who use neopronouns are my siblings, and if someone needs me to throw them under the bus to respect me or my pronouns then frankly they are also part of the problem.

Tl;dr, there’s a reason that people you can’t get on board with using she/her don’t set the standard for what a real pronoun is.