BougieBirdie

I’ve been considering leaving this community anyway because the mods have been dragging their feet on this issue. But it’s a new mod team finding their feet, and a considered approach takes time, so I give the benefit of the doubt.

Encouraging someone to leave the community for expressing dissatisfaction that the community allows a nazi to use the platform might be a bigger nazi problem than banning nazis would be.

I woke up this morning and there’s three Stonetosses back to back in my feed.

If we could go ahead and throw them on the ban list, that would be pretty groovy

The action wasn’t evil, just the laughter. Kind of like the comic we’re discussing.

Hm, I don’t know that I like dictating what kind of underwear others should wear, but I do approve of their stance on blowing up Earth

Yesterday I watched a goose slowly walk across the busiest road in town, holding up traffic as it meandered. As soon as it got to the other side, it turned around and slowly headed back.

I like to imagine it was doing an evil laugh of its own

Opinions will vary here, but I like when the reminiscing comes after the request. If we catch up after talking to each other out of the blue, then you ask me for a favour, I tend to think that we only caught up because you felt obliged to do so to butter me up. It could be viewed as manipulative.

Bonus points if you ask me for a favour and I say I can’t right now, but you still take the time to catch up. That’s a pretty strong signal that you view the relationship as more than transactional. It also means I’m more likely to change my mind about doing that favour.