RoseTintedGlasses

RoseTintedGlasses , 11 days ago

A trans communist I've talked to a lot over the internet for ages, she introduced me to her wife and a load of other trans communists from across the world and helped put me in contact with people to get hrt from and helped me pay for it after I got cryptoscammed out of the money I was using to buy it, also given me a lot of advice on self injecting and general good social advice. Also helped me get through a pretty traumatic situation I was going through several months ago that kind of fucked me up mentally.

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 12 days ago

fr, one of my favourite wads of all time, i used to stream myself playing it to them and then they'd stream themselves playing myhouse.wad bcs they werent good enough at the game to deal with ancient aliens, imo the first episode will always be my favourite though because the whole collision of the mayan / sci fi aliens / standard doom aesthetics is just so cool (also bcs ive played the first episode through on its own so many times when ive just got a little bit of time to kill)

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 12 days ago

im such a fiend for tv slop, like my favourite shows are garfield and friends, the big bang theory, and ancient aliens and also futurama but i dont think that really counts as slop tbh (though tbf i only really like ancient aliens and the big bang theory bcs i like watching them when i go over to visit my grandma (a lot of the time she doesnt really have the social energy to interact for too long but she likes having me around the house so i'll go over and we'll talk a bit and then she'll get tired so i'll just potter around with the tv on for a bit and then ill make her dinner or something))

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 12 days ago

im not out to my grandma yet though so she just sort of thinks of me as her weirdly effeminate grandson

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 14 days ago

yeah the guy's some weird tradcath mf who got big from making a load of videos defending the crusades, while ignoring the brutal violence that the catholics carried out against the muslims (and justified it by saying that the Ummayad Sultanate invaded Iberia (what we'd call Spain nowadays) at the start of the 8th century so killing an entirely different group of Muslims (the Seljuk Turks) on the opposite side of the mediterranean at the end of the 11th century was entirely justified)

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 14 days ago

i spent like ten minutes trying to read this to the tune of californication and failed smh

RoseTintedGlasses , 16 days ago

Omw to adopt this line of thinking uncritically to argue that 9/11 was entirely justified and should happen again once a week throughout every republican state in the US because some of the victims would probably happen to be transphobic.

RoseTintedGlasses , 16 days ago

America's transphobic as fuck though, why should I give a shit that 3,000 transphobic Americans died on September 11th? tbh, I'm glad that there's 3,000 less transphobes in the world actually

RoseTintedGlasses , 16 days ago

You're the one unironically saying this about Palestinians being murdered by psychotic IDF fascists because they might be transphobic, not me

RoseTintedGlasses , 22 days ago

it reminded me of this kind of edgy meme i saw a while ago

CW: video celebrating of WW2 nazi party officials offing themselves

https://packaged-media.redd.it/07j21vp94ri71/pb/m2-res_240p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1714582800&s=c8ac3f06e79733ab58e50c2ab1d818575184e1f0#t=0

link in case the embed doesnt work properly

RoseTintedGlasses , 24 days ago

This is the future the woke left wants

RoseTintedGlasses , 25 days ago

They have very simple demands, they're not giving some pie in the sky stuff like "have Joe Biden tried for war crimes and abolish capitalism" or something; the protests all have demands along the lines that their university boycott Israeli companies and cut ties with weapons manufacturers aiding the genocide. To claim otherwise is completely infantalising to the protestors who are risking their university positions and physical health to protest despite the police crackdowns.

Here's a link to the list of demands of the student protest in new York, for instance

And here's a picture of the list of the demands of the columbia faculty protest:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/ed522b2a-e8e9-4e1c-a9d2-7a1dd5919f9b.jpeg

RoseTintedGlasses , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

As someone who's a mod for a few LGBTQ specific comms on blahaj and is in the blahaj mod chat (keep in mind that I'm not an admin btw) I can confirm that there's been some brigading of specifically this instance and it's users (because it's tied for position with hexbear as biggest trans focused instance on the lemmyverse, it's widely federated so more visible to transphobes, and the users on hexbear are basically psychotic so anyone wanting to harass trans people tends to go for the squishier target of trans people here rather than go to hexbear and get dozens of replies telling them to post pictures of their dick, sending them pictures of a pig shitting itself and calling them a "hitlerite KKKracker" that deserve to be executed by firing squad and then being off and on harassed by the bears for the next two weeks) by transphobes in the past but normally it's just one or two people doing it at once across a load of alts and they pretty quickly get banned. Also since the admins are in Australia, sometimes it takes a while for accounts to be removed and get site wide bans because admins are asleep when trolls from Europe and America are active so the transphobic comments get seen by more people before they get ban hammered.

At one point there was a pair of tiny instances that had open sign ups and literally no moderation that accounts were just being made on with the specific purpose of harassing trans users on here but they got defederated. By now, most of the overtly transphobic people have gotten bored though and stopped doing it.

There's also the occasional problem with the sort of "i'm just asking questions" transphobic gender critical stuff the person you're replying to was mentioning, but because that mainly comes from people using their actual long term accounts and not just trying to drive by harass users here, once they get banned they usually don't tend to come back; since Lemmy's growth has slowed now, a lot of the bad gender critical people have been banned by now and there's not many new ones coming in.

TL;DR: there's been problems with overt and covert transphobia in the past but it's mostly been dealt with by now but we still get the occasional thing every now and again.

RoseTintedGlasses , 26 days ago

what i meant by that is blahaj is no longer being explicitly targeted for harassment and we don't see as many gender critical types as we used to, not that they're gone. The problem with moderation is that we can only ban someone for transphobia once we've seen them being transphobic which means other people will see it too, also if someone never interacts with blahaj we're less likly to see them to ban them in the first place, so comms on instances other than blahaj are more likely to have transphobes on. There's also some limitations in the mod tools because mods can't forward users to the admins for instance wide bans after giving them comm bans so we have to use a matrix chat to message the admins asking them to ban them which is clunkier and occasionally some people slip through the cracks.

Out of curiousity what was the username of the person you had an argument with and what comm was it on? Because if they still haven't been banned or just got a comm wide ban by mistake I can message the mod chat to get them permanently banned instance wide.

But also yeah, the "soft transphobia" thing was badly phrased on my part, you're right, i'll edit the comment.

RoseTintedGlasses , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

we do our best to get rid of the committed transphobes, but unfortunately there's also far too many people in the world in general who think they're great trans allies but refuse to notice the anti trans dogwhistle and talk down to trans people who point them out. Unfortunately, we can't really deal with them unless we pivoted to become a siloed off walled garden instance, and honestly the will just isnt really there from either the majority of the users or the admins to do that.

If seeing these types bothers you a lot, i'd reccomend maybe checking out hexbear.net because they boot these types out at the drop of a hat, and basically just chat to each other in their own local comms - the only thing is that along with all the pro trans stuff they post they're also very pro china and pro-veganism, occasionally anti-anarchist (despite anti anarchist sectarianism being banned and anti anarchist posts and comments getting removed and users occasionally banned for them there;s a sort of vibe that anarchism is only accepted as long as its not overtly critical of anti western countries in the wrong ways, also they have a whole thing of making fun of "reddit anarchists" which frequently bleeds over into just being plausibly deniable sectarian posting), quite anti-trot and very anti-liberal and arent really willing to budge on these positions so if that doesnt mesh with you you might not like it.

RoseTintedGlasses , 26 days ago

the main kind of transphobia we see on lemmy kind of takes on a different skew than in most places bcs of the left wing nature of lemmy, so we don't really see any overt conservative types anymore bcs they all got bullied off but what we do see is that a lot of the time now, transphobia (at least of the gender critical type) comes from users who are life long committed dyed in the wool older democrat supporters or whatever who dont really agree with trans stuff or whatever but just accept it because they think everyone deserves to live their life and they oppose Republicans attacking us. So they'll make some faux pas about transness, be corrected by a trans user but then double down, get into an argument and then at some point just start being openly transphobic. So for instance a while ago i saw someone who kept saying he was really trans positive and woke and he didnt oppose trans rights at all, briefly make a shitty joke saying that on lemmy it was always the "leftist pronoun brigades" having shitty takes in the news threads, get (tbh kind of agressively) told what he said was transphobic, which he replied to by doubling down, and then a few replies on and he was saying that he accepted trans people but nonbinary people were all

[CW for transphobia:]

'mentally ill basement dwellers appropriating the trans struggle to cancel people for not accepting their made up pronouns'

but yeah, transphobia is a lot less noticeable on lemmy than reddit imo, but it is still there and some of the more right wing instances aren't particularly good about banning their transphobic users if they just use dogwhistles instead of being outright anti trans

RoseTintedGlasses , 27 days ago

Please, Joe Biden, please just do this one thing and presidentially pardon yourself

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 27 days ago

he's literally a congressman for the democratic party, i dont see how he could be any more of a democrat

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 27 days ago

Are Zionists disrupting a lot of learning institutions?

Since the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted numerous airstrikes on more than 200 educational facilities, including universities, in the Gaza Strip as part of its military operations in the Israel–Hamas war. The IDF claims such airstrikes are the result of the placement of military infrastructure and rocket launching from civilian areas, including schools. By late-March 2024, the United Nations recorded more than 200 Israeli attacks on schools in Gaza, with at least 53 schools totally destroyed

[...]

According to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs, around 500,000 Palestinian children in Gaza are unable to resume their schooling routine due to the ongoing conflict. The war has led to the destruction of 174 schools in Gaza, with 26 public schools and 1 UNRWA school being completely demolished and unable to open for the 2014/2015 academic year. Furthermore, 30 other schools remain closed as they are still being occupied by a large number of displaced individuals. 447 children who lost their lives in the Israeli military attacks will never have the chance to go back to school. The Palestinian Ministry of Education has issued a list of public schools in Gaza that were either severely damaged or destroyed, including the following ones:

Hani Na’eem School of Agriculture,
Abu Tammam’s Basic School,
Hayel Abdel Hameed School,
Mahdeya el Shawa School,
Subhi Abu Karsh School,
The Shujayea Martyrs School,
Beit Dajan School,
Ali Bin Abi Talib School,
Shujayea Basic School,
Abbas Secondary School,
Jamal Abd el Nasser School,
Moaz Bin Jabal School,
Mahatet Miyah el Karamah School,
Caesarea School,
Sukina Bin Hussein School,
Khawla Bint el Azur School,
Rudolph Filter School,
Ibn Zaidun School,
El Bareej School,
Fathi el Balawi School,
Maari School for Girls,
Maari School for Boys,
Ibn el Nafis School,
Absan New School,
Ghassan Kanafani School for Girls,
Ghassan Kanafani School for Boys.

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 27 days ago

yeah, joe manchin's a democrat too, i dont really get your point

RoseTintedGlasses OP , 26 days ago

Don't you get it? If they want to save the hostages they need to flatten the buildings they're in and cut off the supplies of food and water that Hamas are feeding them with, oh and they also need to shoot the unarmed Israeli civilian hostages because they thought they were unarmed Palestinian civilians!

RoseTintedGlasses Mod , 28 days ago

Notably all of the british press that pushed this story and have been constantly trying to undermine trans people, are completely ignoring this. this country sucks :(

RoseTintedGlasses Mod , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Unfortunately here in the UK there isn’t a leftwing paper that’s pro trans

There's Novara Media but it's not really one of the big boys compared to the others. They did a decent video of Judith Butler being interviewed by the lady from that "I'm literally a communist you idiot!" Piers Morgan clip about three weeks ago titled "Anti-trans ideology threatens all of our freedoms"

RoseTintedGlasses , 28 days ago

reminder of the time that reddit revealed that the city they got the most visits from per person was Eglin Air Force Base, Florida: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/b9c67eee-a732-4153-9596-71d1052073c9.png

RoseTintedGlasses , 29 days ago

😭: "NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST BAN PEOPLE FOR HAVING POLITICAL DISAGREEMENTS WITH YOU"

The banned people in question:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/67afffe6-cf1e-40c9-a659-d3d6646dfd90.jpeg

RoseTintedGlasses , 29 days ago

modding comms is such a thankless job fr, like 99% of people are just completely fine people to deal with but occasionally you have some absolute freak just completely go off on you about something.

like, I had some guy get mad at me for deleting a comment he made for excessive hostility towards someone and then temp banning him bcs i found him posting a transphobic slur on his account while vibe checking him, so he decided to spend the next week replying to accounts on the comm i was modding accusing them of all being sockpuppets of me, repeatedly report spamming misogynistic slurs, dming me to rant at me and stuff, and ban evading with half a dozen different accounts to tell me I "gave a bad name to all trans people" and then he did the exact same thing again like three months later on a different comm i mod in response to some article i posted about homophobic laws in kansas being passed, after that he got permanently banned from the entirety of blahaj by Ada i think.

RoseTintedGlasses , 29 days ago

landlords should get a real job.

RoseTintedGlasses , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I could help mod one or two of these, I mod garfieldism, egg_irl and LGBTQ+ on here and I used to mod a ~200 user misskey instance.

I reccon making a Discord or something like that for solid communication would also happen.

Also there's a blahaj zone matrix room that you could do it on btw

RoseTintedGlasses , 1 month ago

I could mod car posting, the trams and trolleys one, and maybe the old timers young timers one

Here's a guide to creating a matrix account and here's a link to the matrix room, you'll need to @ Ada once you join to get added to the mod chat though, there's also another chat that we use as the main one that you'll want to be added to.

RoseTintedGlasses Mod , 1 month ago

Harry Styles maybe?
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d136ba23-37b8-4641-8b8d-a5eddc128fb7.jpeg

RoseTintedGlasses , 1 month ago

Yeah, in British politics transphobia is very much a bipartisan position shared with only rare exceptions by the right, the left, the far right and the far left. Shit sucks fr.

The BBC very notably has a very strong transphobic bias. For instance, on the day of Israel bombing the Iranian embassy I remember BBC radio 4 news spent more time talking about JK Rowling's tweets about the new Scottish hate speech laws that banned discrimination against trans people and then interviewed a prominent Scottish TERF to give a puffpiece interview about her TERF org and how great JK Rowling is (notably they didn't interview a single trans person) than they spent on the bombing of the embassy. Also a few days ago they gave a great deal of air time to the Cass Report which was basically made as a hitpiece trying to push for banning anyone under the age of 25 from transitioning (they then completely ignored all the criticism it received for it's awful scientific method).

RoseTintedGlasses OP Mod , 1 month ago

OP has “big proponent of killing all cis men” in their bio

its a very obvious joke

also you werent banned for participating in 196, you were banned for saying a slur and then repeatedly doubling down on it, spamming reports on various users in the comm with the reason just being "stupid c*nt" each time and commenting under every post i made with your half a dozen alt accounts over the course of a week

modlog screenshots:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/80596173-1d13-43ff-82c4-a2453efba45b.png

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/eafcc5bf-c9fe-4988-8b62-82b0ae52f110.png

RoseTintedGlasses OP Mod , 1 month ago

i've told you this like three months ago when you last did it but i'll explain it again, i got a report on one of your comments, and i dismissed the comment without removing it. Ada, the instance admin, then undismissed the report because she felt i should do something about it so iirc i removed the comment and put in a temp ban, then you immediately spent the next week accusing random people of being sockpuppets of me, report spamming the comm, and replying to every single post i made, that's when you earned a permanent ban on all of your accounts - the ban reason wasnt for transphobia, it was for being a weird internet freak over being banned from a comm you had literally never posted in before.