@cleverdevil a proper Vegas win!

@matti “You don’t see it?…I see it, next by your pawfoot… ”

@audsbot great insights. It is this armageddon trump card which people play when they have nothing else. Yield, or else it is ALL over! Well, sorry mayan watch makers and branch davidians and human extinction proponents and all the rest, we've still got things to do.

“Time not important. Only life is important.”

@cleverdevil good luck in the meadows!

@help, turns out patience was the answer. thx all!

@gregmoore walking the talk is really the shit, no doubt, no joke

@cygnoir to explain a little bit more about what no one asked for, I had seen this as prescription-ist nonsense. I heard something like "You must use these words!" instead of what I’ve understood to actually be the case, which is a polite request to respect the social reality in which one finds oneself, thank you.

So obvious.

Think about it. You're in France; would you explain to Pierre that he is mistaken and his name is biologically Peter, or that we are still going to say Peter because French-ness is debatable?

Does that help one see how bat shit crazy resistance to this is?

@jamesarosen this mobbing thing right? also super-gross! (why I’m using vocabulary better suited to 80’s valley talk? I don’t know either) I somehow want them all to be actual people, rather than the robot hordes they increasingly are. Actual people can be reached and perhaps it’s worth it sometimes.

It does seem fittingly surreal that when the apparatus comes along to allow anyone to express themselves in exactly the way they want to—this internet thing—to everyone else alive on the planet, that so many would yearn for clouds of cotton conformity to ensure none are offended, so none can fool us for a moment to make us laugh, so that no one is surprised.

It is also quite terrible that some think pretending to be horrible is so funny and don’t see that they run the risk of becoming or actually are horrible. I work hard not to be that idiot...

...and I frequently get "free help" 🤒 from others supporting that aim.

@waldoj thanks for drawing our attention back to that comment @meetar made way way back up there.

Yes, huh. The throw away culture intertwined with mob afforded camouflage, together then amplified by little tiny furiously gyrating profit machines and spewed to the gratefully informed. Yeah, totally fucking gross.

Great point @meetar Much better at getting to what is going on than my whining about how the whole thing would work if only the whole thing worked...

@cygnoir I just updated mine here on mb. I used to scoff and prod at this, as if it were a game token (🤬🤯🤢🤮very em-bare-assing). It is the most basic and simple respect. What’s your name? Got it.

[ edit: not just the names, of course, but the pronouns as well, you see, because pronouns are semantically linked to their referents in ways that inform, often in subtle but reliable ways, our thinking on what respect means and how to express it and...why am I explaining this?]