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Hellripper (with a slightly blackened edge), Pest Control (crossover for a slightly DRI style) and you can't go wrong with BoltThrower or Sabbat (UK).

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

You can take it as confirmation of the depressing truth that most people will ignore and even try to justify horrific behaviours if the perpetrator is in a position to enact things that they agree with.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

In other news, people exist and some of them are dicks. Some of them just disagree with you. Some are/do both.

Also, maybe consider the possibility that there is no such thing as a 'hive mind' anywhere and its just a lot of people in a particular space don't agree with you about some things.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

And thank you too - thats the one!

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Thats it! Thank you!

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

I'm reading The Wax Child by Olga Ravn for next episode of the podcast. We found out after choosing it that it was longlisted for this years Booker Prize and to be honest, I can see why, it is utterly brilliant and, as athesitic Satanists, right up our street as its a re-telling of a 17th century Danish witch-burning - based, as they all were, on bullshit, lies and the male religious zealots hatred of women. Not a happy story but it is wonderfully written.

I'm also reading Kit Whitfield's In The Heart of Hidden Things which is the second in her Gyrford Series - if you like fantasy novels set in a rural, agricultural alternative England in which the Fae are an everyday thing (not tinkerbell type faries, I mean proper morally ambiguous Gaelic/Celtic type faeries) then this series is for you.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2w ago

As far as I can tell, none of their stuff is open source which is an immediate 'no thanks' from me. I am done just blindly trusting companies with my data, especially where there's a load of good alternatives.

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Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

There a lot to choose from! I haven't read this translation myself but I know people who have and say its very good - the Richard Howard edition: https://www.tfobooks.com/book/9781567928273

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Does the current US administration have a 'best' to send? It really seems like we should be framing this as 'least worst' and even that phrasing confers too much positivity.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 4w ago

LMDE - no idea if its the 'best' but its the best for me right now in that it does what I want, looks how I want and stays out of my way.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 1mo ago

Self hosted Standard Notes?

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 1mo ago

I'm both cis and hetero. There is not one iota of evidence I've seen that there is any sort of movement that wishes death on cis and hetero people, or that organises vigilante groups to hunt down cis or hetero people to beat them up, or that invents bizarre rumours about 'what they do' or conflates cis and hetero people with paedophilia or that tries to organise campaigns to get cis or hetero-centric book removed from libraries.

There is no formal or informal system of oppression towards cis and hetero people. It just doesn't exist.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 1mo ago

There's so many variables to each persons threadiverse experience that its difficult to quantify another's experience. I don;t think there is an objective default experience. It depends on what instance your on, which also might dictate which software as the two main players don;t have feature parity, it then depends on how you use the available tools each software type has, how you sort your feeds, which communities you're subbed to, how willing you are to simply block and move on, what your own beliefs are and what sort of experience you expect.

You'll only think its a ghost town if you are someone who spends the majority of their time on social media. The flip side of that is that there's also a sizeable amount of people who might simply check in once or twice a day. To them, its not a ghost town at all.

You'll only think its full of hate if you're not prepared to be on an instance that curates the hate away and you combine that with liberal use of blocking tools when some gets through.

And there are lots of other wider societal issues going on too - Westernised countries (which includes the majority of users I see on here) are largely descending into right-wing, xtian-fuelled, uber-capitalism, bigoted hellscapes and lots of people are understandably scared and angry about that. Scared and angry people lash out. Doesn't excuse it a as behaviour but I don't think growing fear and anger is a threadiverse-specific issue at all.

The answer is that there is no one-sized fits all answer beyond finding the best fit for yourself in terms of instance/software/tools/feeds and posting/commenting on more of what you personally enjoy and maybe lessen the time you spend on here and social media generally. It doesn't have to be always on, just something you do alongside other things like reading a book, going for a walk etc.

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Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

That sounds like its sent via SMS.

There are other auth apps such as Aegis on f-droid. No idea what Teams supports though.

Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

There's a fine line between celebrating the history of your ancestors and performative cultural appropriation. Being interested in ones ancestors is one thing - swearing that you're 'fiery' because of your Irish ancestry when you're 3 or 4 generations removed from that ancestry is a bit weird at best.

I think the US does have a culture all its own - some of the world's best authors, musicians, artists etc are from the US. It does puzzle me that some US folks are so desperate to claim deep cultural ties elsewhere when they have a pretty good culture already, formed in part from those ancestors.

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Leraje @piefed.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

Twin Peaks
The X-Files
Dark
Chernobyl
Happy Valley
Line of Duty
Luther
Spaced
Wolf Hall
True Detective S1, S4