Tsatnosk @zatnosk@manowar.social

"Make [X] Great Again" is fascist rhetoric.

It implies that there was a Golden Age where [X] was Good, and that "We" should return to that age.

It's a slogan designed to evoke the "Myth of National Rebirth"(1) that is central to Fascism, while still being vague enough that any disagreement can be dismissed as "Against [X]".

It's a dogwhistle(2).

If you use it, you're either ignorant, naive or a fascist.

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This is me doing re- #introductions

Hello! I'm a programmer and a (new-ish) parent, I've been running this personal instance since time immemorial.

I talk mostly about tech, but I try to branch out into artsy stuff on my secondary account: @zatnosk

From time to time I get #crazyidea|s, and some of those ideas have been channeled into my #MastoGram and #MastoCity projects.

I do my best to be kind and understanding, and I'm not afraid of some emotional labor for friends :)

Profile picture is: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clusius_dodo.jpg

When I think of a future with Open Social Media, I imagine three pillars.

1) Microblogging (ActivityPub), for sharing thoughts with strangers, ephemeral community building, and broad+global reach.

2) Forum / Stable Community (no good solution yet, AFAIK), for discussing, planning, buying/selling locally. All within a distinct group of people, membership of which can be managed.

3) Peer2Peer (Scuttlebutt?), for talking directly to friends, family, nearby people, and easily sharing files.

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To add a but to this idea, I think there's value in implementing topics in such a way that two topics can have the same name, yet remain distinct.

And simultaneously, two topics with differing names can be designated as equal to one another, such that clients treat it as one topic (possibly showing alternate names).

Tangentially, to merge two topics, I currently think that both original posters of the topics should confirm the merge.

Now running #Tusky v2.0beta.
Already loving the new profile view, the displaying of custom emoji in my name and the visible image descriptions

Ffs.

is not marxism.

Marxism is outdated.

Mario is a selfcentered bully who thinks Super Mario Brothers sound better than Super Mario Siblings, so he very early on forced his sibling to present as male and only use the -luigi part of their name.

Maluigi was ANAB (Assigned Non-binary At Birth), which is why the Super Mario Parents (yes!!) decided to mix the more traditional names Malou and Luigi to Maluigi.

Luigi's real name is actually Maluigi

If you had a garden in a virtual world, how do you imagine you could do stuff in your garden, that you could then use to influence a living virtual world outside your garden?