Notices by Velocirooster adminensis :bc: (theropologist@beige.party)

At an airport bar and briefly saw a news chyron asking "What's up with Gen Z?" Idk, they slap? What else do you need to know Mr news man?

As someone raised by a single mother, who, once I got my license, often got sent on errands to go buy pads, and who has continued to do so, having been married for over 20 years to a real live woman who's a whole fucking person with bodily functions and everything, I really appreciate the type of masculinity that doesn't wilt in the face of totally normal and necessary sanitary products.

If there's one thing these fascists have made abundantly clear is that they value women primarily for their reproductive systems. And then they are gonna get squeamish about the normal functioning of that reproductive system?

And these are the same people who think you should have no problem seeing some white dude cosplaying in tactical gear carrying around an AR-15 in public.

Fuck these Nazi clowns and their fragile china-doll egos. I don't claim to know what it means to "be a man" but I sure as hell know it doesn't involve making women feel shitty about their bodies and forcing everyone around you to wonder if you're gonna murder them at any given moment.

How about just trying to be a decent human being?

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:

I've gotten several reports on the account of the Nazi that runs poster.place. Naturally, I was confused because I had long since defederated from that cesspool. I did a little investigation and found out that they were using some redirect service at momostr.pink to mask their actual alt account at coracle.social. I have neither the time nor the inclination to play web sleuth with these idiots, so I have defederated from both instances.

There were some folks following accounts listed under momostr.pink, but it seems this instance's main goal is to obfuscate real account names by generating obnoxiously long aliases that redirect back to the original account. This is highly suspicious behavior and I already have one example of it being abused, so I'd rather play it safe and just defederate from the whole thing.

If anyone at Beige Party was negatively impacted by this, please let me know and I will consider changing the suspension to a limit, so that people can follow individual accounts on that instance, though I would be highly suspicious of anyone trying to obfuscate their identity in this way.

Beige-bless :bb:

#fediblock

Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.

Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.

Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.

None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.

When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?

All of these hot takes about how Mastodon is too hard to use for mass adoption are missing the point entirely. We are not some tech startup trying to "disrupt" the social media ecosystem. We don't have VCs breathing down our necks pushing for continuous growth at all costs. We're just regular people out here building communities.

If people don't like Mastodon and decide to go back to Twitter, that's fine. They are not commodities to be exploited. If people like Mastodon and decide to stay, that's great! They are going to be more invested in the community because they are actually deriving real value from it.

If there's one thing the global capitalist system cannot fathom is that value can exist that is not fungible with monetary value. There are plenty of ways to create value for people that do not involve buying and selling. In fact the whole notion that value = monetary value is a relatively recent innovation in human history.

I'm not saying that capitalism doesn't have its benefits, but our minds have become so warped by its zero-sum game vision of the world that it's easy to believe that generating profits is the only thing that matters. We may have to play that game to justify our existence on this planet, but there's a whole world of value to be found outside of it. Just because we're forced to play the game doesn't mean the game is all there is.