I don't know about #Monsterdon tonight; I found the movie but it had a lot of buffering issues and then announced that I didn't have an internet connection. Gonna give it a whirl after altering my RAM settings but I'm not optimistic.
Alrighty! Tried Internet Archive again, still had buffering issues, so @miru it is and I've got my bingo card at the ready, with thanks to @Cherizilla for that!
Starting to have buffering issues with Miru but they're nowhere near as bad as Archive. Had to get another bingo card, the window got inadvertently closed.
Oh, I get it. There's the Venus Fly Trap and now we have the Mars Fly Trap. No chlorophyll (that one finds on Earth) and neurological system says FUNGUS.
Okay, Rogue's Project just froze up so continuing on My Portal...I did say over there that the sound was some sort of marine monster? Surprised because it sounded like somebody farted in a bathtub.
An amoeba enzymatic eating of tissues. Hey, we've got a minuscule version of that IRL in Oklahoma, but it's called the brain-eating amoeba. No shit, people.
Seriously? They wait until final credits roll before showing something on that dual trace oscilloscope, and it's only one thing, and it resembles somebody's EKG that has flatlined. GAWDamytee.
Okay, about those bufferings and freeze-ups for last night's #Monsterdon--turns out there were complications from my internet service provider cutting in and out intermittently too. There were some severe storms that I was afraid would hit here, but they didn't, yet nonetheless they took out about a mile of utility poles south of here and there was no electricity, among other services, in that area, according to one OKC TV channel. YIKES.
Welp, it looks like I've been banned from #Monsterdon without a clue as to why. The guy who makes it happen went into a snit about I don't know what and he brought the ban-hammer down. No idea why he went all bonkers but he did and so good Monsterdon folks, it's been good to interact with you and it was fun. Now will somebody please talk some sense in to a guy who went nuts and won't explain? Or maybe I can just follow the hashtag without the lunatic? I don't know--it's not like I miss the lunatic but I'm going to miss Monsterdon.
@davesdogmaggie they mean me. they clearly never checked the pronouns on my profile. I only saw this because I didn't realize they had more than one account (they're both blocked now) it was because I set a boundary, even gave them permission to subtoot to me as long as they didn't @ me, they ignored that boundary with a winky emoji so I blocked. if that makes me a 'lunatic' so be it
also I can't actually ban anyone from monsterdon.. its a hashtag thing. anyone can participate and multiple people post every week about what the movie will be. like half a dozen people or so
I've got more than two accounts; I have only 2 Friendica accounts and nobody goes around checking everybody's profile on anywhere, so that "requirement" is just bonkers. What's obvious is that It never bothered to see who follows me and whom I follow, to see that I'm inclusive of whomever of every pronoun. It just want to pick a fight over nothing, and it's fine that I want nothing to do with people who pick fights over whatever nit It chooses to pick to launch into a snit. Hashtags open to the public are, well public.
No one can reason with the unreasonable and It pulled the whole drama thing out of Its ass because It is a drama queen, not because there was any substance to any of it. Its invented "issue" had no substance and still has no substance, but because It is a hothead for the helluvit, good riddance to bad rubbish then.
@davesdogmaggie You are 1000% an insufferable asshole, but I respect that you shot for the moon by trying to claim you're fine with pronouns or whatever while also purposefully misgendering someone. A bold move if nothing else
@Peter Griffin @Judgment Dave Peter, you make zero sense at all, hon. If you want to be called IT too, I can accommodate. I've had trans friends for years, one in particular I've known since before they transitioned medically, so you're full of shit on so many levels. Both you and your hothead maniac are now both IT as far as I'm concerned.
@Judgment Dave Thank you for that, much appreciated as are all the good Monsterdon people who enjoy it. It's still rather traumatic to have someone fly off the handle at one for no reason, but I think hugs from my actual trans friends will go a long way to make it go away.
@davesdogmaggie Yes. Just follow the hashtag and post to it during the show. You don't need to follow any particular person or account. There are entire servers that don't federate with each other but still have accounts posting each week to the hashtag.
y'know, i'm coming in days late, dollars short, as just a person passing by who's not really involved, but.
hey, after you're told someone's pronouns, it's not cool to then ignore that and go with "it". that's not you respecting pronouns. that's you being spiteful and deciding that someone gets a dehumanizing pronoun typically only used for inanimate objects.
you don't get a gold star for being oh-so-inclusive when you pull a jerkass move like that. you have to actually be inclusive, and that means not weaponizing the fact you refuse to use someone's proper pronouns.
similarly, if you think that it's too high of a burden to quickly check somebody's profile for pronouns - you can even just mouse over their username on desktop in many builds of the various softwares that run the fediverse... why are you demanding that people respect you as an ally because they should instead... do an inventory of who you follow to show that there is a variety of pronouns available.
why is it that you doing a quick check of readily available information is too much work, but y
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y'know, i'm coming in days late, dollars short, as just a person passing by who's not really involved, but.
hey, after you're told someone's pronouns, it's not cool to then ignore that and go with "it". that's not you respecting pronouns. that's you being spiteful and deciding that someone gets a dehumanizing pronoun typically only used for inanimate objects.
you don't get a gold star for being oh-so-inclusive when you pull a jerkass move like that. you have to actually be inclusive, and that means not weaponizing the fact you refuse to use someone's proper pronouns.
similarly, if you think that it's too high of a burden to quickly check somebody's profile for pronouns - you can even just mouse over their username on desktop in many builds of the various softwares that run the fediverse... why are you demanding that people respect you as an ally because they should instead... do an inventory of who you follow to show that there is a variety of pronouns available.
why is it that you doing a quick check of readily available information is too much work, but you expect people to cross-index your followers and followed in order to know your virtue? if you expect people to thoroughly examine your profile, your followers and your followeds, then do a little off-the-cuff data analysis of the pronouns they list, you clearly know that people list their pronouns! you even know where to find them, because you know where to look for them. so why do you expect people to analyse this data for the people who follow you and the people you follow... but consider using this information, which you know is listed, and you know is readily available, and you suggest people disagreeing with you seek out for many people, is too far?
it can't be that looking at someone's profile for their pronouns is too much work. that's what you expect everyone to do, to prove that you are inclusive. the fact that you think it's too much work for you to do, but expect others to do it in quantity, really shows how sincere your "inclusivity" is. you've got to do more than lip service if you want to be known as inclusive. you have to actually do the including. especially if you're demanding much more work be done for you.
here's a better tactic: if you want people to know you're inclusive to every pronoun, and you've just been told you're using the wrong pronoun for someone, try this instead!
oh look, a way to be actually inclusive by seeing where the pronouns are written.
"oops, sorry about that, my bad"
use information gathered in step 1 in order to speak of someone with appropriate pronouns.
ta da! you have actually been inclusive!
here's what NOT to do in this situation:
"it".
glad i could pass by and clear that up for you! hope it helps!
Solarbird
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Solarbird • •No idea. What's Miru?
Solarbird
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in reply to Solarbird • •Def bookmarking THAT! Thanks!!!
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#TheAngryRedPlanet
Starting to have buffering issues with Miru but they're nowhere near as bad as Archive. Had to get another bingo card, the window got inadvertently closed.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
"Cheesy stupid pickup lines" ought to be on that bingo card.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
17.5 is not a ratio, kids. 17:5 Is a ratio of 17 to 5.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
They've got a dual trace fancy oscilloscope and nothing to show on it.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Who the hell wrote this script? "If your ears start to twitch, lemme know fast so I can twitch with ya."
WTAF
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
So the lights are on full volume.
WTAF
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Intravenous sodium lumenthol.
WTAF
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
There needs to be a Dr. Freud square on this bingo card. Mental block claptrap detected.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
"Improbable Physics--check.
Ultrasonic freeze gun is the whipped cream topping for the only-red-light-on-this-planet thing.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Oh, I get it. There's the Venus Fly Trap and now we have the Mars Fly Trap.
No chlorophyll (that one finds on Earth) and neurological system says FUNGUS.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Shout out to ants! ...except they're not inexplicable.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Shout out to HF DXers! Ionosphere mirroring mentioned!
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Well well well, one truth about the male of our species: the speech on cowardice.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Oh please. The water is fine because the Geiger Counter says so.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Oh--that noise was a marine monster? It sounded very much like somebody farting in a bathtub.
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Okay, Rogue's Project just froze up so continuing on My Portal...I did say over there that the sound was some sort of marine monster? Surprised because it sounded like somebody farted in a bathtub.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Then I wanted to comment that Sammy got what he always wanted--the Martian girl.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
An amoeba enzymatic eating of tissues.
Hey, we've got a minuscule version of that IRL in Oklahoma, but it's called the brain-eating amoeba. No shit, people.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
Seriously?
They wait until final credits roll before showing something on that dual trace oscilloscope, and it's only one thing, and it resembles somebody's EKG that has flatlined. GAWDamytee.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •#Monsterdon
#TheAngryRedPlanet
At least I have a BINGO to show for tonight. That, and I think those Martians have the right idea, but that doesn't excuse Sam's demise.
Radio Free Trumpistan
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in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •David Zaslavsky
Unknown parent • • •@davesdogmaggie @claralistensprechen3rd Yeah, agreed, this post at the top of the thread doesn't make sense. At best, it must be a misunderstanding.
As far as I know there's no way to ban someone from following or using a hashtag, therefore it's impossible to ban someone from #Monsterdon.
Radio Free Trumpistan
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Unknown parent • • •@davesdogmaggie they mean me. they clearly never checked the pronouns on my profile. I only saw this because I didn't realize they had more than one account (they're both blocked now) it was because I set a boundary, even gave them permission to subtoot to me as long as they didn't @ me, they ignored that boundary with a winky emoji so I blocked. if that makes me a 'lunatic' so be it
also I can't actually ban anyone from monsterdon.. its a hashtag thing. anyone can participate and multiple people post every week about what the movie will be. like half a dozen people or so
Radio Free Trumpistan
Unknown parent • •@Judgment Dave
I've got more than two accounts; I have only 2 Friendica accounts and nobody goes around checking everybody's profile on anywhere, so that "requirement" is just bonkers. What's obvious is that It never bothered to see who follows me and whom I follow, to see that I'm inclusive of whomever of every pronoun. It just want to pick a fight over nothing, and it's fine that I want nothing to do with people who pick fights over whatever nit It chooses to pick to launch into a snit. Hashtags open to the public are, well public.
No one can reason with the unreasonable and It pulled the whole drama thing out of Its ass because It is a drama queen, not because there was any substance to any of it. Its invented "issue" had no substance and still has no substance, but because It is a hothead for the helluvit, good riddance to bad rubbish then.
Peter Griffin
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •Peter Griffin
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in reply to Peter Griffin • •Peter, you make zero sense at all, hon. If you want to be called IT too, I can accommodate. I've had trans friends for years, one in particular I've known since before they transitioned medically, so you're full of shit on so many levels. Both you and your hothead maniac are now both IT as far as I'm concerned.
Radio Free Trumpistan
Unknown parent • •Thank you for that, much appreciated as are all the good Monsterdon people who enjoy it.
It's still rather traumatic to have someone fly off the handle at one for no reason, but I think hugs from my actual trans friends will go a long way to make it go away.
suzanne
Unknown parent • • •Yes. Just follow the hashtag and post to it during the show. You don't need to follow any particular person or account. There are entire servers that don't federate with each other but still have accounts posting each week to the hashtag.
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in reply to suzanne • •Thank you very much! That's a relief to know.
Harp
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •y'know, i'm coming in days late, dollars short, as just a person passing by who's not really involved, but.
hey, after you're told someone's pronouns, it's not cool to then ignore that and go with "it". that's not you respecting pronouns. that's you being spiteful and deciding that someone gets a dehumanizing pronoun typically only used for inanimate objects.
you don't get a gold star for being oh-so-inclusive when you pull a jerkass move like that. you have to actually be inclusive, and that means not weaponizing the fact you refuse to use someone's proper pronouns.
similarly, if you think that it's too high of a burden to quickly check somebody's profile for pronouns - you can even just mouse over their username on desktop in many builds of the various softwares that run the fediverse... why are you demanding that people respect you as an ally because they should instead... do an inventory of who you follow to show that there is a variety of pronouns available.
why is it that you doing a quick check of readily available information is too much work, but y
... show morey'know, i'm coming in days late, dollars short, as just a person passing by who's not really involved, but.
hey, after you're told someone's pronouns, it's not cool to then ignore that and go with "it". that's not you respecting pronouns. that's you being spiteful and deciding that someone gets a dehumanizing pronoun typically only used for inanimate objects.
you don't get a gold star for being oh-so-inclusive when you pull a jerkass move like that. you have to actually be inclusive, and that means not weaponizing the fact you refuse to use someone's proper pronouns.
similarly, if you think that it's too high of a burden to quickly check somebody's profile for pronouns - you can even just mouse over their username on desktop in many builds of the various softwares that run the fediverse... why are you demanding that people respect you as an ally because they should instead... do an inventory of who you follow to show that there is a variety of pronouns available.
why is it that you doing a quick check of readily available information is too much work, but you expect people to cross-index your followers and followed in order to know your virtue? if you expect people to thoroughly examine your profile, your followers and your followeds, then do a little off-the-cuff data analysis of the pronouns they list, you clearly know that people list their pronouns! you even know where to find them, because you know where to look for them. so why do you expect people to analyse this data for the people who follow you and the people you follow... but consider using this information, which you know is listed, and you know is readily available, and you suggest people disagreeing with you seek out for many people, is too far?
it can't be that looking at someone's profile for their pronouns is too much work. that's what you expect everyone to do, to prove that you are inclusive. the fact that you think it's too much work for you to do, but expect others to do it in quantity, really shows how sincere your "inclusivity" is. you've got to do more than lip service if you want to be known as inclusive. you have to actually do the including. especially if you're demanding much more work be done for you.
here's a better tactic: if you want people to know you're inclusive to every pronoun, and you've just been told you're using the wrong pronoun for someone, try this instead!
here's what NOT to do in this situation:
glad i could pass by and clear that up for you! hope it helps!