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@arstechnica
I appreciate this comment on the article: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/disease-detectives-gathered-at-cdc-event-a-covid-outbreak-erupted/?comments=1&post=41841370
it's easy to cast aspersions on the conference attendees and point to the apparent irony, but nothing suggests to me that they were, in the main, reckless in this.

@eamon fwiw, a common Markdown variant allows you to put the links on their own lines and just include a link reference inline

@EverydayMoggie @DeliaChristina thanks. I get how it can feel like asking for a kind of self-editing, but I also see that a certain topic flooding a person's feed, for instance, can be tiring....I guess I see it like, at least most are saying with that, "I like seeing your posts, but I can't engage with [X topic] so frequently". CW actually are the tool in Mastodon to meet that situation. Rather than filtering or obscuring, it is like making engagement with whatever more intentional.
So, I think you're right that folks can just not follow you or block you, but I think CW are trying to avoid that and let people's voices be heard while also giving folks a break from things that might stress them out when they need it. It's not some platonic ideal of how to achieve that, but given the technical difficulty of some other approaches, I think what we've got is a viable local optimum

> 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_(unit)

@DeliaChristina (🤨 "Rovers"? are you trying to bait me?😆 )
What's the "stuffiness" you mention? I get the racist stuff: I cut my teeth on 4chan in the late '00s and early 2010s, and what I've seen on the fedi is similar. It's teen/tween edgelords who think being racist demonstrates their freedom of thought and intellect (it does, but the lack thereof), and bigots who... typically have something else going on.

Although I'm black, my being black has never been a prominent feature of any of my online personas. My face is on my Github profile, but that's about it. Probably because of that, I don't really get what most other black folks are talking about when they talk about not feeling welcome. I've thought about somehow being more intentionally, legibly black so I can understand what y'all are talking about, but I don't put my face everywhere for other reasons.

@Vrimj not exclusively! at least some well-respected leaders in my organization are unfailingly focused on the people. we value the technical, but we do more than pay lip service to the interpersonal skills needed to actually make an engineering firm work

This is a fun channel showcasing a bunch of stop-motion animations of posable anime figurines
https://m.youtube.com/@Animist_1
#anime #animation #video #stopmotion #stopmotionanimation

I can confirm that they're roosting above my door. I stepped out to put my trash in the bin last night and peeked one of them there. before I'd see one in the nest and one nestled in these little plastic needles (which I think are supposed to deter birds🤔), but I only definitely saw one last night
#swallowbird #birdwatching

@kristinHenry

a bit of a tangent/braindump, but your post sparked the idea since it's public, but deals with instance-specific rules: how do you think about folks from another instance interacting with vis.social members and whether or not they respect some of those rules? It occurs to me that it would be desirable to have, for instance, everyone who I interact with *via* qoto.org follows qoto.org rules, but IDK how that happens practically. Is it reasonable to expect someone to know the rules of *every* server in the fediverse they might stumble upon? If instance admins curate other instances with compatible rules to federate with, and can rely on effective moderation on those others, it's all peachy, but for the broad "federate with everyone except these # servers", it's hard to keep it all straight.