Void Abyss @voidabyss@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Aug 2021
@darth @freemo I think #fediverse admins should treat instances like email servers, only blocking the ones that send spam/malware the fine grain blocking is up to the users. From a user perspective you want to be in an instance that have a wider reach in the #fediverse not the most isolated/restrictive in my opinion.
@barefootstache @freemo I get it now, thank you!
@aven That's awesome! What TV model did you repair and what learning resources did you use?
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Yesterday I managed to repair a broken television by replacing a busted capacitor on its power supply board. As a novice with electronics and soldering, this felt gratifying and empowering. $10 and a few hours of learning saved needing to get a new TV. 
That's what the Mastodon issue tracker item I'm supporting, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20673, is all about: making quoting opt-in,...
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“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” John Muir #EmotionalIntelligence #Quotes #Nature #Wilderness
@jerry @SpaceLifeForm I find it very hard to miss the reply button but okay some might do 🤷♂️
> it appears that some times you respond to a post by essentially starting a new post, rather than replying.
Is this a bug or normal behavior?
> If you want to see an entire thread then you have to go to the original thread on the specific instance.
@Fez how can you find the original thread if you only have a reply?
@SpaceLifeForm The links I mention in the example are direct links to your toot from your instance, can you open them in a private window, so you might then see what I can not see.
The strange thing here is that the toot looks like a reply and technically I should not get your reply toot in my timeline and I get only your reply toot not the whole thread.
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RT from Michael Scaglione (@Scagz89)
With todays #TwitterFiles8 I thought it was pertinent to reshare this video about CIA manipulation of the public.
Hello
@SpaceLifeForm
I am following you and I receive your posts replies but not the whole thread which is strange and inconvenient #ux #mastodon
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@Sabcat les bâtards!
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One thing I've really been working on this year is binary thinking. When I encounter debates or internet disagreements, in the past I'd find myself believing that if someone disagreed with me on one detail or shade of their argument, they were against or opposed to me, even if other parts of our dialogue were in agreement. I found myself becoming distrusting of those who otherwise were very closely aligned with me, even more so than those who were ideologically very different, probably because I had already written them off or cut myself off from contact with them.
Through the life-saving psychoeducation reading I've been doing the past few years, I've learned that either-or, black and white thinking is exascerbated by trauma. When someone is in fight/flight, the prefrontal cortex is inhibited- that is where higher-order, critical thinking takes place. We are unable to deal with nuance when triggered. Think of fights where you say things to your partner like "you always_____ or, you never _____". In BPD terminology, we call this phenomenon splitting- when you can temporarily think about someone you care about only in terms of them being "all good" or "all bad".
Pair this with the fact that binary thinking is a feature of white supremacy culture. I am an anarchist who was brought up Evangelical (no longer am) where "if you're not with us, you're against us" thinking is rampant.
So interrogating where these phenomena come up in discussing leftist theory and praxis has been eye opening. Just because we are trying to leave certain cultures, doesn't mean those thought processes leave us overnight. They are ingrained in our neurological processes and take time to identify and relearn. We need enough felt safety to be able to access our capability for nuance.
@TheMemeticist@mas.to Damn what might have caused a respiratory illness to become a an autoimmune diseases?
@en3py @BleepingComputer Although I don't like this kind of big gov overreach, but in this case it's there is a merit to it, there are so many kids becoming addicted to online gaming and in-game purchases it's a disaster!
I saw my friend's kid cry like he is dying to get 20 bucks to buy online avatar skin. (not to buy food, clothes or go out with his friends).
That choked me a lot and made question of if I should get kids some day.
@taylorlorenz That's a low effort article, it's just a promotion for your substack, i.e "I got banned from Twiiter, please sub to my substack". Okay!
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Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.
