Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

Coup Update: Impeachment Abuse of President Trump
www.judicialwatch.org

me_irl #meme #funny https://redd.it/eas6we

There's no API to get unread notification count

Measles

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/samoa-extends-measles-state-of-emergency-as-death-toll-climbs-2019-12-14/

I think the language filtering experience might be more reliable, if I could set a default post language in my account settings.

If Mastodon then detects a different language for one of my posts, it should ask me whether it guessed correctly and let me intervene if needed. If it detects the same language I set as my default, it can simply proceed.

I just don't trust the language guessing to get it right, otherwise.

Don't obsess over performance of your code, obsess over making it readable and clear.

(in reference to my previous post)

No matter which social network you're on, following a diverse group of people helps you taking a peek at the other side of your personal filter bubble.

You don't have to agree with everything and everyone, but please, at least try to listen to people and their opinions.

It will help you appreciate your own life, and may just make you a little wiser.

old: #copyright #cartel #streaming #renting #drm
https://djmag.com/news/streaming-accounted-75-music-industry-revenue-2018

men are so ungrateful smh
imagine NOT loving smelling a womans hair and holding her as she falls asleep
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Trump Slams Fox News over Planned Interviews with ‘Sleazebag’ James Comey, ‘Corrupt’ Adam Schiff https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/12/14/trump-slams-fox-news-over-planned-interviews-with-sleazebag-james-comey-corrupt-adam-schiff/ …

@methyltheobromine
little spoon is the orange kitty
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@realcaseyrollins ... for the 3 people that own Google voice devices instead of Alexa.

@arteteco @freemo @realcaseyrollins @design_RG @mngrif @Surasanji @evaristus

Arteteco used a red flag word -- harassment.🚩

My experience persuades me that the word "harassment" has no place in the vocabulary of a QOTO moderator. There are other words and phrases which can be used to make the same point with better precision.

For administrators of QOTO, one of the costs of doing business is -- or should be -- the loss of this shorthand label because it's a loaded term.

BENEFIT OF DOUBT. It's easy to grasp how the default benefit of doubt in most other contexts lies -- or should lie -- with the person who feels somehow harassed or bullied.

But I'm troubled when the President of the United States claims to be harassed, bullied, abused, treated unfairly. There is an asymmetric power relationship which skews my assessment of complains we have heard regularly from Donald Trump.

And I'm troubled when any Mastodon administrator posts any variant of the verb "to harass."🚩

To me clear, this isn't about specific facts or perceived factoids. It's about tactics.

UMBRAGE. As a rhetorical tactic, Presidential candidate Trump often found cause to feel umbrage. -- see Webster definition: "a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult."

As President, this Trumpian pattern continues.

Trump labels whatever annoys him as "harassment." And he repeats his complaint over and over -- dismissing, distracting and overwhelming all other topics.

The umbrage tactic works well for Trump in American politics. And I've observed that it works here in QOTO.

I'm troubled when any synonym of the noun "umbrage" is used as a tactic by any Mastodon administrator.🚩

BOTTOM LINE. I see no evidence of umbrage in the words of @arteteco; and I can't yet parse how this has happened in his prose.

I think his post is an example of what I want to see but I don't understand what I'm reading. This is a nuanced POV. I feel what I feel clearly, but I don't have words to explain my mpression that I'm seeing something good.
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QUESTION: Is QOTO flexible enough to embrace complaint and its opposite in the same post?
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?