Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

@0xAFAEBABE Mastodon for iOS desperately needs to start tucking long posts behind a fold, right now one person can force me to scroll for like 30 seconds straight lol (and I won't be able to read the CW for 15 of them!)

If you're exhausted **from** relentlessly examining yourself, let's talk sometime.

I got absolutely zero time to spare on weak people. And I certainly don't mean people exhausted by dispensing the strength life demands from them. I mean constitutionally weak people who are incapable of examining themselves.

@scanlime When I unfollow a mutual, I usually remove them as a follower as well, instead of continuing to put my posts in their feed like nothing has changed and ignoring the shit out of them until they wonder what's the deal.

@janusfox feel free to use my configs https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab

@scanlime sounds nice, have you got quicksync video or something? i think one stream into 1080 & 480 was hitting me for 500% on epycs

Whenever the dummy left makes you feel hopeless, always keep a couple of chuddy spaces in your chat client so you can take five, go part that curtain, and **shield your fuvking eyes at the stupidity**

Mastodon sure feels like the dog catching the car right about now. Democratizing real power in a hurry is always fucking ugly.

Beginning this thread, I struggled as I often do with where to start, and fell more than a bit short here. I should expand on why this followed from my advocacy for sensible trustful systems as a both dialectical and striving pursuit. I am neither for eliminating, nor maximizing, trust in any given system, but putting it where it works best to render sustainable patterns of humanist outcomes. Hopefully I'll have more time to write later today.

@TJJohn12 @pluralistic Ah dang, I've never had a problem with that. My only USB drive is an LG and it does work. You might be able to just pull out the TS files and run them thru locally

@TJJohn12 @pluralistic Hope this helps rather than annoys -- but check out Handbrake if you haven't already, it'll rip straight off DVDs, quickly and with less generational loss

Like, it's obvious that figures like Q/uanta Boy and initiatives like Bluesky are pushing systems designed to destroy community moderation power in response to its lamentable excesses (in favor of chaos and authority, respectively), and they take advantage of a strong and abiding individualism (read: competitive ideology, essentially, capitalism) that even few committed anarchists I know have openly endeavored or transparently sought to eradicate from their rhetoric, analyses, or attitudes.

Small communities take advantage of, and encourage to build, the sort of real material (or at least impactfully social) connection that improves human behavior, and maximize our responsibility for each other, instead of diffusing or delegating that responsibility so deeply that anyone can use their common sense to dismiss any individual's relation to it. It is easy to reject no-trust concepts the right wing proposes because they resemble ill-fated crypto asset marketing, but we must go farther.