Pandora Parrot @pandora_parrot@beach.city

One thing I really love about CWs is that they enable me to opt into content on a minute-by-minute basis.

Filters are "heavy." Either I block all content of a particular type, or have to continually toggle the filter.

Usually, I just wanna be able to avoid certain kinds of content *at certain times.* . Particularly political/social justice stuff,. I spend a significant part of my daily job working on real-world impacting politics/SJ stuff. Need a break at times!

So apparently a few of my colleagues are posting really nasty shit about coworkers to this anonymous website for complaining about your job.

I don't like it, and I'm pretty sure at least one has referenced me on there, but I'm not sure.

So much of silicon valley is based on an abusive practice: Use investment money to capture an audience or userbase and drive off competition. Then raise rates once people have nowhere else to go.

This is how those electric scooter things work, Amazon, Facebook, and so many others.

We're being sold lies of how much things cost.

In a sense, these companies are borrowing from their future to pay for the past.

I just found out you need a Facebook account to use the Oculus Quest.

Holy shit.

That just... damn.

This guy Brandon has a post just a few steps down criticizing the black female 007 character and saying she's gonna be relegated to "Lifetime" with the "GetwokeGoBroke" hastag.

The bigotry is in your face. It's clear and obvious and right there.

Yet because the media got a few things... off, wrong, exaggerated, overstated, etc... He manages to convince lots of people there is no such thing and all such accusations are bunk.

It's horrifyingly effective.

This fucker got retweeted by Trump. https://twitter.com/usminority/status/1149536949662674944

Watched the video, and... damn. It's horrifying to watch this, because it's such clear propaganda. Take some mistakes the media has made, either in lack of context/nuance... and then use that to dismiss *ALL* of the accusations of bigotry, racism, russian collusion, etc.

You don't need to go farther than Trump's own tweets to find racism, bigotry, etc. Similar with this asshole.

I almost wanna start a politics feed specifically to follow such folks.

There are so many people on here that post such fantastic sociopolitical takes that I really want to follow... But they don't use CWs and I *frequently* don't want to be seeing that stuff on my home timeline.

Sometimes I think about how much of a mess segments of the Mastodon fediverse can be. But then I look at the far worse messes of Facebook and other social networks and I think... At least this mess is ours, and we have the power to fix it.