@rey try not to Wham! into anything, if you decide to go-go anyway

who called it "coal" and not "dinous ore"

@JulieSqveakaroo blrt

[sympathy for feeling of being alone in a crowd]

@riley That absolutely tracks; consistent with "taxing the rich is stealing".

@eobet

I'm not sure that's the best solution either -- though I see no reason why it couldn't be a per-post or per-user option.

I'm sure that'd get shot down, too; there's been a lot of "not invented here" syndrome at Masto Central. Maybe now that it's under new(ish) leadership, they'll reconsider some of these decisions?

Failing that: one of these days, I will dig into the code...

@dave @flippac

@alan

I just do [abbreviation for company][year]@[one of my domains].

@alice

@servelan What an amazing invention -- a coin with negative value!

Instead of taxing the rich, the government can just send them billions of these.

(Side note: the gift-link still requires a login. Make of that what you will.)

@alan I do that anyway, as a way of (a) being able to block large amounts of spam with high reliability and (b) finding out who has leaky databases.

@alice

@rnd Looking forward to when people start using LLMs to reverse-engineer proprietary code and, you know, un-break it.

@lauren Probably a combination; I'd say there are some clear improvements that could be made, but the value of not breaking a Pretty Darn Good Standard has not yet made them seem worthwhile.

@riley They often do seem to talk in terms that equate to "the evil plot to do their legally-mandated job".

"Bribing constituents by giving them what they want" is one that particularly sticks in my mind.

@BigShellEvent t-shirt: When the System Abuses You, Abuse It Back

realtalk, tho: 6+ years ago I updated my license to reflect the court-accepted name-change. I made sure to bring in all the documents necessary to get a RealID, and they said they'd give me one, but what they sent me in the mail was not, in fact, a RealID.

This time I renewed online, not expecting any change -- and it said they'd be sending me a RealID this time. ...and they did.

So I guess whatever error made it not happen the first time didn't get etched into my records but was just a transient thing. "The World May Never Know", as the lollipop commercial used to say.

Ironically, I now have a "RealID", in my actual name (i.e. not deadname).

Funny how these things work out sometimes.

@sus That must be why they say people need to limit their "scream time"... :blobcatthinkingportal:

@flippac That sounds like an excellent suggestion.

I'm not sure where to poke to try and make this happen, but I'll keep my eyes open for opportunities.

@dave

@dave

Would this change (in the code/design) be helpful, do you think: for posts that are in reply to something, give the original poster the ability to {reveal publicly, if non-public} and/or {completely delete, for everyone} those replies.

Maybe someone has come up with a better idea, but that's what comes quickly to my mind.

@flippac

@dave OMG THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH. I knew of the phenomenon ("I'm being abused but nobody else can see it") but not the mechanism.

Thank you much!

@benjojo "Tell me {you've got bad security practices} / {how to hack your site} without telling me."

@Researchbuzz Some interesting psychology going on, there. It feels a little like he's struggling towards a realization that maybe the cult of the Right isn't a great place. (...not that he'll necessarily make it to that realization.)

@Mascqueerade

Ooh, that fits! ...and is also consistent with the fact that, since patriarchy uses gender as one of many divisions to keep us from uniting against them, transgender people threaten their control by challenging many of the narratives the patriarchy uses to keep the gender division in place.

@siege