Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's more incidental/emergent than intentional, though. And that can happen with any group that has more than a certain number of empathy-impaired people participating. (Including most groups of teenage girls.)
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I wonder how many people remember when the censorship online was wielded against queer people? Lots of writing sites in the 90s wouldn't host any queer lit, for example, and being gay on main (in non-queer spaces) was...not advised. I
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by Mezzie 4y ago
And there's a cultural resistance on 4chan to obsessing over one person and trying to get the group to back you up. "Not Your Personal Army." KF are mean librarians. 4chan are just 12 year olds.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
There's multiple layers to it. Those people are sometimes right that an INORDINATE amount of moral panic are focused on LGBT+ people. (Again, all the people who tried to prey on me were straight dudes and I think the percentage of pred
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by Mezzie 4y ago
What is he saying now? I agree it's unlikely CF would give a justification. (Hence why I said I don't necessarily believe Null.)
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The hilarious thing is that neither side are good or nice people. I've been queer online longer than keffels has been alive and I've been anti-censorship the entire time partially because I remember when people were trying to cens
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by Mezzie 4y ago
My understanding is CF provided this information privately to Null/Josh Moon and then Null/Josh Moon decided to be public with it. I may be wrong. (I don't know if I believe Null, personally, but both he and keffals are abo
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Honestly? First, teaching me programming and about electronics and computers. I was a girl born in 1988 so that wasn't a given, and I've both dodged a lot of bullets and have a lot of skills that turned out to be very useful. (E.G
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I've lurked on KF with an empty account for a couple of years. (I have an interest in niche drama and as a lesbian, trans drama is pushed into any space for lesbians ANYWAY). I didn't see brigading, but I did see doxxing. And of c
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The difference is probably that KF mocks individuals in easy to locate and follow threads. 4-Chan's set up is just too chaotic; proving that 4-Chan is going after a specific person would be...difficult. KF organizes its mocking into ea
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Post enough slurs about queer people and somehow the harrasment happens without anyone having been explicitly told to do it. Post enough slurs about Muslims and someone will eventually shoot up a mosque in New Zealand. They'd do t
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> I found it shocking that the person behind the dropkiwifarms campaign does openly say they are making home-made drugs, and proudly say they will organise for children to take it without parental consent. I'm sure this must be ille
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Null/Josh Moon shared this, so presumably that's where the parent commenter heard it.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Thanks for showing me this. Gonna show it to my therapist.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
That is probably why, yes! I was put under. I'm glad that your child was okay.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Legally blind, not totally blind. I had really bad strabismus plus vision bad enough that it wasn't possible to correct my vision before I had surgery to fix my eye muscles. Since that didn't happen until I was 4, I spent my first
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I want to try EMDR but I need to find someone who can adapt it to me since I don't have fine muscle control in my eyes and I used to be blind. (I'm a statistical oddity! YAY!)
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I know I didn't until I took a database class in grad school. (I'd worked with databases before and was taught them as a kid by my dad, but I needed some kind of 'proof' for CV purposes). I didn't call it 'norm
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I believe both TIM and Chip's Challenge are available on Archive to play in browser. The first game I remember playing on my own is the first Commander Keen. I was very proud of being able to start and run it on my own from DOS (I was
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I buy scratchy lottos sometimes (the cheap 1-2 dollar ones) because I find the act of scratching them to be tactilely pleasing. $1-2 for a couple minutes of fun and the possibility of winning enough to get myself some candy for 'free&#
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I've dabbled in "gray" things but never anything that would get me sent to prison (I lack the risk tolerance), but in case, I turned to that kind of work because playing by the rules (at the time) got me nowhere. At the time,
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'd agree with this. I've never done psychedelics (at least not the kind that are experimentally used for mental health; I did Molly once but fuck that comedown), but I spent years depressed, anxious, guilty, etc. and then I start
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Software engineering. ;) (I'm a librarian.)
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Or kids using their parents' pins? I was raised by 2 hackers/information should be free types and they knew I had an email address and a website when I was 7. They didn't have a problem with it, and they wouldn't have ha
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Hey there! I've been online and in digital social spaces for 29 years, so I went ahead and sent you an email if you're still looking for information.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Way less stress. I'm working part time for the moment and it looks like I'll have to get something else full time, bc my original plan for making it work fell through. But if I ran out of money in the meantime, I could easily get
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I quit my salaried job and now I work at a lingerie store. The staffing issues at the lower level of society mean that the wages are actually going up - I make 15/hr and could ask for more. (I don't plan on staying long term so I
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by Mezzie 4y ago
My hypothesis is that a lot of people were willing to work for the system when they believed the system could protect them from bad things. Covid upended this sense of security, since the system was not capable of handling it and/or gu
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm not sure if I agree on the dichotomy of technical vs. social solutions. Where would you place something like efforts to increase a population literacy rates? It's not a new technical advantage, but it doesn't suck or limi
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's more that 'wandering off into the wild and doing your own thing until society settles down/it being worth it to try again' was an option. Now we're at population levels that require some amount of technological

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