Pat @Pat@qoto.org

The correct answer is the second one, "aware/attentive to issues of racial/soc. injustice".

Only three participants in the poll, so I guess not many people care.

So, I guess I won't be too concerned about it either. We'll just use the term as a marker -- when someone uses the term derisively, they are self-identifying as a racist.

#WordOfTheDay

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Today's word of the day...

Globophobia

🎈

@jillianne

yeah, I guess it is...

Bottom line, when evaluating a new instance, one thing to consider is how many other instances they block. The fewer they block, the better.

Also, make sure you copy your current mute/block list to use at the new instance.

@theAPprofessor

The 3-dot icon, bottom-right...

@theAPprofessor

Here's a link to the rules (near the bottom of the page...

https://qoto.org/about/more

@theAPprofessor

To put a toot in a content warning, just click the 'CW' under the text input area while you are composing the toot.

If you want to change a toot to add a CW to it, click the the three-dot icon (...) under the toot and choose 'delete & redraft'.

@theAPprofessor

CW = content warning

Although it is not against the rules of this server, you probably want to CW gross images. The site mods probably wouldn't ban for it, but other users might block you.

@2ck

Government needs to step in to regulate these big tech pinball manufacturers because their machines are addictive.

(Oh, never mind, they aren't competing with mainstream media so it doesn't matter.)

#sarcasm

@theAPprofessor

You might want to put this pic behind a CW.

@EvilK

I think this might be fake news.

@jillianne

Just make sure you pick one that doesn't block a lot of other instances for trivial reasons, that way you can still look at their federated feed every so often and not miss out on non-writing related stuff.

ref: https://mstdn.social/@stux/109842401048650657

@mc

I think horoscopes are generally written in a vague way, like fortune cookies, so anyone who is told that it applies to them will agree with it.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/109105002319515469

#humor #lgbt #lgbtq #religion

There is only one true interpretation of Leviticus 20:13. It says that if two men have sex together, they have to smoke some weed first…

‘If a man lay with another man as he lay with a woman, they both shall be stoned.’

@farooqkz >"I don't like to discuss this further...."

Black resigns.

For the rest of you, here's how it plays out...

If farooqkz says that the guys in my toot above are not Muslim, then Islamic law does not apply to them, so what's the problem?

If farooqkz says that they are Muslim, then people can be Muslim and still believe that gay sex is fine, in which case the issue is a choice and farooqkz is saying that his position is his choice -- he is choosing to be homophobic.

@freemo @BobKerns @tonic

@gnusuario

walk"

@MasterNinjaTS

>"Another dwarf planet has a ring? C'mon inner solar system, step up your game already.
#Quaoar"

Perhaps the solar wind and CMEs push away the material that would normally form rings around inner planets. Also, many rings are composed of ice which would not exist nearer the Sun.

The Sun's gravity may also play a factor.

@empiricism

>"However, Earthquakes don't directly harm people (on average). It's collapsing buildings that hurt people."

And tsunamis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_Earthquake_and_Tsunami

@pdguned

As far as I know there are no programming languages whose names begin with an Arabic numeral, they all start with alphabetic characters. Maybe you could find one that starts with the roman numeral for zero. 😆

@HaoYin

Like a sandbar, except instead of gravity they collect via the electromagnetic force. Get it?