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V, the Dyke Creature
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happy today for those who celebrate
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Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com |
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Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || A techie TransLatina Ph.D Candidate at the UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || 📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; preorder here! www.littlepuss.net/logoff
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V, the Dyke Creature
@creature.gay
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happy today for those who celebrate
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
@edithcharles.bsky.social
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Weaponised trauma is trauma I categorically will never give a shit about. If you decide to use whatever happened to you as a cudgel for coercion, then I no longer have to care about what happened to you. I have tons of trauma so I have the right to see that for what it is: not symptoms, but a choice
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Nice!
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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"Put your right hand in the box." "...What's in the box?" "Bluesky."
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Yeah, I know you get it, sister. 💙
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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I want to believe that this place could do more than just point mobs at worthy targets. But I admit a certain amount of pessimism on that score. I don't know if this place can truly be a space for healing the afflicted. Only offering the illusion of momentary vengeance--same as it ever was.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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It means connection to durable resources and trustworthy organisations; it means helping people deepen healthier ties that leave them less dependent on the platform; it means ensuring that they're not just another bit of #content, in other words.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Caring for abuse victims will require meaningful stewardship, guidance back into the arms of trusted friends (especially those with whom the victim has a physical connection--someone they can see in-person), and often guidance away from the platform.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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That's not on us as individual users to solve, because I don't think there's a way to build places like this that'll *ameliorate* this issue--never mind fix it. But it is incumbent on us to not hold out the false hope of healing-through-Discourse.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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It's far harder to build a sustainable community, however. Social media is frequently a carnival of traumas on display; they drive engagement, ratchet up the emotions that keep people posting. But the platform will never, ever heal you, nor give you peace.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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This whole thread is worthwhile, but Kairi drills down to some of the more important questions here. It's easy to preen on behalf of victims whose stories you exploit and who you'll never check in on again--just another resource to burn through, one more disposable account.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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One of the worst issues with these platforms is that there is simply no way to build brake lines into them. If a mob can sustain itself? If there's enough raw libidinal pleasure in keeping at it? It'll go on indefinitely, long past any sense of proportional justice. *Boredom* is the sole limit.
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Taka Hanazawa
@takahanazawa.bsky.social
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It's SO WILD that the Moon exists!! Consider, She is: -RIGHT up there -Approximately as big across as The Continental United States -Made of rocks -Again, She is RIGHT up there! -You can SEE Her -She lives in Space -She lives in SPACE and you can SEE Her
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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*whips off her glasses* My. God. There's a Haus of Decline character spitroasting the entire planet.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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I keep warning people about getting ragebaited by headline screenshots...
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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This is a blameless, holy creature.
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Kate Draws 🌈✨️ Commissions OPEN!
@tacticiankate.bsky.social
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Recent dnd comm :)
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New Year’s Steve
@lessdismalsci.bsky.social
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Kinda wish I had a Venn diagram for the overlap between “bellingcat is a CIA op” and “environmental activist group funded by an oil heiress that accepts donations in cryptocurrency it totally legit and grassroots”
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
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I love hearing authors read their own work. Author readings are the lifeblood of book culture -- i miss bookstore readings and spoken word events. So in my latest newsletter I offer some tips to help authors do a better job with reading out loud 📚🎤🤩
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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This was one of the best Bond themes, and the music video just slams hard.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Not exactly web design, but... real ones remember Presario Plaza.
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LittlePussPress
@littlepusspress.bsky.social
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"One of the most thought-provoking books I have read all year." Thx Largehearted Boy!
@quinnae.com's playlist for LOG OFF 👇
largeheartedboy.com/2024/06/19/k...
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An Evan
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Faine Greenwood
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Apparently someone at the Boston Fire Department had a wonderful, vindicating day yesterday, during the 911 outage:
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Jerry Chen
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gone but not forgotten
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Adam Rakunas
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Oh yeah, I liked it too. Watched it years ago with an ex-girlfriend.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Okay, yeah, the Waltzing Matilda theme is *really* good.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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I'm even sadder that I missed it now. That must've been *incredible.* As a Civ nerd I'd have died.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Not unreasonable. I have no strong views, I'm just glad I predicted this event. Called shot.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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...Wait, did that choir perform the game's theme?
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Ripp, I am living, laughing, loving right now. I am hooting, I am hollering.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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YES! Called it!
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Anyway, which Civilisation VI national themes slap the hardest? For me it's got to be Russia and Japan's Atomic Era music; I often put them in my games just to have their themes come up in the music rotation.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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It's shitty, but it's why platforms like this are bad for certain kinds of real talk.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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It's not even the length that's the issue. It's the format. The longer a thread gets, the less coherent individual posts are, and the likelier it is that you'll get taken out of context and criticised for not, somehow, exhaustively taking everything into account.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Some topics need to be handled delicately, there's no thread long enough on a platform like this to do so in a way that is meaningful. Like, I'm a Latina who often passes for white. I cannot describe that reality accurately or ethically in a single post. Or ten. Or thirty.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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I mean, I'd never accuse you of trying to explain this *earnestly*, my good Kairi. ;)
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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It would be a good sociology thesis for sure!
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Also, I want to assure anyone trying to earnestly parse the "Japanese people are white" nonsense Discourse on here: this is an absolutely terrible place to do it, nothing you say will have the right level of nuance, it's a minefield, you will say something offensive, and you shouldn't try. Not here.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Unfortunately, that's how a lot of Discourse shakes out on platforms like this. A lot of identities or terms that describe prejudice (-phobias, -isms) become mere synonyms for "person I dislike who is uncool." It's anti-politics.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Well, it's not *American* propaganda, so clearly it must be correct.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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"Fingerblasting is ableist" is just such an incredible sentence. It's a perfect simulacrum of meaningless Discourse.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Australian PSAs rather infamously don't fuck around.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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It's because clout chases *you.*
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Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Rowan's one of the best sisters I know, and her games crit still influences my own thinking. Toss her a coin or ten.
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