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I want to say I'm surprised. I'm not.

Situations like this are where a white cane becomes useful, especially if it's got one of the bigger tips, because you can whack the mansptreader with it and then when they complain you can claim it's an accident. Note: Also works on sighted people who take up the entire sidewalk or hallway or stairway so they can have a conversation with their friends.

I'll write this up once I'm done and have tested, since I've cobbled together a bunch of separate pieces of snippet documentation from various people's posts. If I can figure out how to make the shortcuts completely configurable, (I.E., asking for various URLs needed along with tokens), I'll share configurable versions people can use.

Have a fun time.

Still. In 2024.

@technocounselor That's one of the best parts of Downcast, and the corresponding lack of ability to import and export podcasts into Apple Podcasts is a real downside to Apple.

@stirlock Gotta say I wish American elections were like elections are in most places around the world with regard to length of time and money. We've been in a never-ending election cycle since 2016 with no sign of ending any time soon and honestly it's exhausting.

I have a sneaking suspicion that those of us who are shaking our heads at this are going to be the minority if we're not already.

@jaybird110127 That's exactly what this is.

I want to say that this is ridiculous and is just some random weirdo but I've been on Mastodon too long after the Twitter migration to actually believe this. Mastodon the culture has just gotten too weird.

@JamminJerry Yes I hope it changes soon too.

@Bruce_Toews This is a whole lot like current antisemitism discourse outside the Jewish community. If all these pro-hamas rallies were instead mini Unite The Right rallies, we'd be hearing endless justifications about how not everyone there is bad from the right while at the same time hearing unequivocal condemnation from the left, but since it's the reverse, we're getting unequivocal condemnation from the right with at best halfhearted condemnation from the left, because it's all fine as long as the target is not the people we like/agree with. And it's all disgusting.

@Bruce_Toews Yeah all of this as well. But it all still comes down to being fine with misogyny as long as it's directed at not them. Because I can guarantee you that if literally anyone else said half the stuff to them that Trump says about any given woman he doesn't like, they'd be up in arms along with all the opportunistic right-wing ponduts.

Because there's a sizeable chunk of women who are perfectly fine with misogyny as long as it's directed at not them.

Because there's a sizeable chunk of women who are perfectly fine with misogyny as long as it's directed at not them.

Man that sucks.

Man that sucks.

Fair point.

@wiljames Oh that bit about finding the door is an inside joke between him, Denise and John and I. Basically he was trying to use finding doors to various establishments as an excuse for the latest iPhone one time, so we started teasing him about finding the fucking door.

Lol I had forgotten about this.