Power corrupts. I wouldn’t want to be the reason a responsible mod starts making bad decisions.

I still think it’s bad to give more power to the powerful.

Can two relays communicate with each other?

Office supply shops and universities often have printing services available to the public.

Yes. The first chicken egg was laid by a non-chicken reptilian ancestor. And the cycle of violence between Israel and Palestine began with the 1948 Nakba, the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing operation which ended with 78% of Palestine’s land occupied by Israel.

Give it back. There are people alive today who remember being forced to flee from their homes by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba. Let them go home.

Get a folding table and print a hundred pamphlets. Make sure they have a call to action on them. It can be a representative’s email address, a link to join a local org, or just the word “vote”.

Make signs so people can tell who you are at a glance. Come up with a catchy name for your movement.

Look up the protest laws in New York. Try to stay on public property or on private property where you’ve been allowed. Be polite to the cops. Don’t give them a reason to think you’re performing violent speech.

The two examples look the same to me

Why favour mods of the existing community? Won’t that centralise power and make it harder for this space to forge its own unique identity?

Israel is dropping bombs on Gaza and telling the civilians whose families are murdered that it’s in the name of Jewish sovereignty. No wonder some Palestinians hate Jews. Israel is telling them to.

Stop killing their babies and their mothers, and they’ll stop joining Hamas.

Maps are a social construct. Let’s cross Israel off the map and write Palestine there instead. A Palestine where Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and people of every race and religion can live together in peace as equals.

You can spin up your own Bluesky instance

…which is still managed by the Bluesky central server and can’t connect to peer instances without that server.

The idea that you can tell someone’s moral character from microexpressions is hippie woo-woo.

The idea that you can detect the presence of mental disorders from microexpressions is quite valid.

I assume that what you can do is physically possible. Therefore, it must be the latter.

Most of the “reading people” done by neurodivergent people (especially former abuse victims) is simply developing the ability to diagnose people with the same disordered traits as their abuser. For example, if your abuser suffered from anger issues, it’s quickly identifying when a stranger struggles with anger.

However, discriminating against people based on mental disorders is wrong.

You know when a dog was abused by a woman, and then it barks at all women? Yeah, it’s that. Just more specific.

They didn’t vote for Trump, though. The election was stolen.

Gorillas actually have tiny balls, and therefore have no biological reason to manspread.

They do it cause they’re dicks