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this tradition of males shaving their faces is weird when you think about it. most men shave their faces in the west but the natural state is having a bunch of hair growing out of it. we may have taken a wrong turn somewhere
... not entirely true i actually i do usually clean up a bit when i see my family. i could probably try harder when going out generally in public like going to the store and so forth.
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So this is a thing that is VERY VERY much nowhere near done yet, but I want to share what I've got so far. It's a list of as many retro games as I can find which had a trans person on the dev team or otherwise involved in some way, along with a quick summary of who and what they did. It's partially an attempt to counter the narrative that trans people are some New Thing that's only just showed up on the gameing scene and also society in general, which sometimes these kinds of lists can accidentally imply, and also it's just kind of a fun bit of HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL SHIT TRANS PEOPLE DID. I've found over 170 games so far, with quite a lot I'm still to properly go off on.
(Edit: That's over 300 (!) games now. Thank you SO much people who've pointed me at stuff I've missed. I'll be working on trying to play all of these and write up stuff about the ones I haven't really said anything about yet.)
Thank you so much everyone sharing and providing feedback on this. I'm aiming to flesh out a bunch of the games I've not said much about yet over the coming days. I've got some really fun ones to add as well from stuff people have shown me since last night and all.
I'm hoping this'll be a good resource for people when it's done ๐
I've added a few more games based on stuff peeps have mentioned to me. There's some Guitar Hero on there now, and Club Penguin, and another Sonic, and some more Pokemon games.
It's a good idea but maybe ask them If they want to be on the list, idk. The list will eventually end up in the hands of these "anti woke" assholes and they tend to doxx and harass devs for being trans. So being on the list might not be something everyone wants.
dang you really gotta play m.u.l.e.! way ahead of its time like much of berryโs work.
thereโve been a couple of attempts at remaking it over the years, i feel like it could actually work if it was a team of trans folks giving it the love it deserves lol
I see Maddie Blaustein is on The List for Pokรฉmon Channel's Meowth. Awesome. Can I also add;
Pokรฉmon Snap, where she voiced Meowth again. (Albeit a wild one this time)
Pokรฉmon Puzzle League (Panel De Pon dressed up as the Pokรฉmon anime) where she reprised several roles from the cartoon including Team Rocket's Meowth once again, Sabrina's Alakazam, and Lieutenant Surge.
And perhaps her greatest role on the N64, Pokรฉmon Stadium - in which she specifically voices Magikarp yelling "KAAAARRP!" in the Magikarp's Splash minigame.
sorry if this has been shared with you before, but you can add all the games mentioned in this interview (virtual lab, lady sword, quiz toukou shashin, chiki chiki tengoku, armored metal police jack) badgamehalloffame.com/intervieโฆ
An interview with the elusive Megu-tan -- the developer of Virtual Lab! We discuss their brief time in the games industry, the circumstances of their game's troubled development, and the endless wonders of virtual reality.
Just based on statistics, and the amount of Trans people working in tech in general, I'm willing to bet every single game made by any team counting more than ten people had at least one Trans person working on it at some point...
Fond player of M.U.L.E. here (on ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ C=64 breadbins) and ๐ฏon ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ appreciation! There's c64-wiki.com/wiki/M.U.L.E. for an infodump. Loadsa screenshots exist out there, too.
Fun fact: Native 4player support on Atari x00 series, modded versions for C=64 (Userport adapter provided) exist, too. A superb & entertaining group gameplay ๐ฅณ๐น๏ธ.
Fav random event quote: "YOUR OFFWORLD INVESTMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL DUMBNESS PAID $? IN DIVIDENDS." [Remember that was ยฉ1983 โฆ so contemporary, innit? ๐น]
holy SHIT, how did i not know that Jumper was made by Maddy Thorson???? I played Jumper ENDLESSLY as a kid. It was a source of major inspiration for me when I was a 12 year old making games on Game Maker
Oh wow, this reminds me that I actually knew one of the people on this list when I was a kid. We both frequented the same online forum. I suspected she was trans because I ran across her deadname, but she made it clear she did not want to talk about that, so I dropped the subject. People didn't talk about such things back then. She had no way to know I'd be accepting about that (and I had no way to know part of that was because I'm nb.)
Heya! I have another one you might want to include on that! I worked on Champions Online, which launched in 2009.
The only wrinkle there is that I wasn't out of the closet back when we first shipped the game, but I did end up working on it more years after starting transition, and my name's even been updated in the credits!
Thanks for making the list!!! This is awesome!
Also, if it were inclusive to games in 2010, I'd have to mention Star Trek Online, too (same deal).
Depends on how vague you want "involved in some way" to get, but given Sophie Wilson was basically responsible for the original ARM chips, I could argue nearly every mobile game, at least, wouldn't exist but for her.. ๐
Oh, would you look at that? It almost lifts the spirit, but not quite.
You know, looking at fresh water like this reminds me that AI will use over 6 billion cubic meters of water between now and 2027 just to cool down the data centers.
While the average human being only drinks 60 cubic meters of water in his life.
Yes, it's a scarce resource, but a small price to pay for a technology that would show us what Ratatouille would look like if it was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The โLife Month Resolutionโ was introduced to celebrate the third anniversary of the Supreme Courtโs overturning of Roe v Wade, Cruzโs office says
China's foreign trade increased by 5.6% year-on-year to 3.84 trillion yuan in April 2025, with exports growing 9.3% and imports edging up 0.8%. Despite US tariffs, China's total goods imports and exports reached 14.14 trillion yuan in the first four months, with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations remaining China's biggest trading partner.
Despite the hefty tariffs that Washington slapped against Beijing, China's total goods imports and exports climbed 2.4 percent year-on-year to 14.14 trillion yuan ($1.95 trillion) in the first four months of the year, customs data showed on Friday.
An accidental discovery: astronomers find a spiral structure in the Oort cloud by chance after data from a simulation were visualized in preparation of a new space show at the Hayden Planetarium
#US vetoes resolution for unconditional #Gaza ceasefire at #UN security council.
Russia, China, France and the UK all voted in favour of โimmediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefireโ.
โThe world is watching, day after day, horrifying scenes of Palestinians being shot, wounded or killed in Gaza while simply trying to eat" (Tom Fletchet, UN relief chief)
on twitter if you don't give your government ID to "au10tx" the israeli ID verification service, your replies are going to be buried under all the verified accounts and you will be de-boosted in every way possible.
especially insidious in light of all the recent swatting victims in the right wing influencer sphere. every one of them was verified on twitter, to my knowledge.
this is a trap for social media to keep people on a pro-israel plantation
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This was an interview earlier this week between Channel 4 and Israeli government spokesman. The Spokesman is a former heald of the UK Labour Friends of Israel.
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thing is, I'm not even opposed to dismantling IP as a concept, and I'm not wild about wielding it to oppose AI, because the same argument is used to shut down the internet archive
*however* what we are currently seeing is IP being dismantled asymmetrically in favour of the wealthy. we cannot have a situation where big tech is allowed to ignore IP while people are serving prison sentences at nintendo's behest
if you take a job at a tech company they will want ownership of everything you make. if you "steal" from a big company or institution they will crush you, they have literally pushed people to their deaths over this
people spent years unsuccessfully lobbying to make it legal to rip a CD and put it on an iPod, and pushing back against the effect of ebook DRM on accessibilityโฆ but suddenly the government wants to change copyright to benefit Google et al. Very rational to find the difference sus.
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to ...
[ The Daily Beast: DHS Appoints 22-Year-Old to Lead Terrorism Prevention ] thedailybeast.com/22-year-old-โฆ This moron's fucking portrait is a hoot. I wonder if the photographer told him, "you know you don't get immunity for anything you do here, right?"
This is the form you need to submit to them authorities when your pets that happen to be included in CITES appendix II/B made more of themselves in Italy and you hope to legally transfer them to someone else, even if you're not charging money. Of course they charge you for submitting the paper and you can only put 6 "pups" on one paper. Now, imagine if you have tortoises that decided to lay eggs. Or better yet, a pet tarantula that's included. And that's supposed to stop illegal pet trade....
Seriously. Imagine a spider that produces something like 800 spiderlings and then you're required to register all of them, 6 at a time. Who the fuck will do that, or pay someone for doing that instead of just grabbing whatever they want on ebay or something? How does that make sense?! Fuckin' Europe....
ils voudraient faire haรฏr l'รฉcologie qu'ils ne feraient pas autrement. Attends une minute...
La cour des comptes confirme tout ce que nous avions รฉcrit. Dans un rapport publiรฉ ce 3 juin, les magistrats รฉtrillent le dispositif qui โ cela devient une constante au niveau national comme europรฉen โ nโa fait lโobjet dโaucune รฉtude dโimpact. ยซDโun simple objet rรฉglementaire technique ร vocation informative, le DPE sโest dรจs lors, dans les faits, transformรฉ en outil stratรฉgique et politique aux consรฉquences majeures pour les particuliers et pour le rรฉgime de la propriรฉtรฉ sans que les consรฉquences de cette transformation et de son calendrier de rรฉalisation nโaient รฉtรฉ clairement mesurรฉes, notamment en termes de risque dโรฉviction, mรชme temporaire, de logements du parc locatifยป, souligne le rapport, ร lire ici.
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We really need a way to communicate to the wider public that Zionism and Israel are *not the same thing as Judaism.*
That being against these is not anti-Semitic (or in fact even based on the fact that they are connected with Judaism!) and not wanting thousands of people to be murdered is not the same as supporting terrorism.
The media and politicians need to challenge the propaganda and tear down the automatic lies that keep coming out. The fallacious argument that if you are against murdering women and children that you are therefore pro-terrorist?!
The basic logic of this just needs a second to think about - is there no-one left in the media or politics with a voice powerful enough and articulate enough to defend reality?
Zionism and the state of Israel are commercial, colonialist, genocidal operations. They represent money and power and the quest for more of both of those.
Most of the backing and support comes from outside Israel - the UK and USA mainly. Two colonialist powers scrabbling to continue their proxy wars and power struggles in a part of the world that they have destroyed and ravaged and have no right to be involved in.
That is it. They do not give a shit about Jewish people beyond using them for their ends to justify violence and oppression. This is based on the terrible fact that Jewish people suffered the same things as Israel (and their supporters) are committing on other groups now. The uniforms are different - the hatred and lies are just the same.
Sorry to hear youโre having trouble feeding the people visiting your sites to the surveillance capitalism adtech machine. mastodon.africa/@roblaing/1146โฆ
Noting my Google Ad revenue from my various hobby listings websites was drifting even closer to zero, I decided to check what's "good practice" this week.
Jโaimerais que tu partages avec moi ce que tu ressens Jโaimerais que tu partages avec moi ce que tu aimes Jโaimerais que tu partages ce que tu as appris... Jโ aimerais que tu partages avec moi autre choses que ce que tu crois que jโaime, Autre chose que ce que tu crois que je suis. Simplement parce que cโest de ta grandeur que je grandis.
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I'd like you to share with me what you feel I'd like you to share with me what you love I'd like you to share with me what you've learned I'd like you to share with me other things than what you think I like Other than what you think I am. Simply because it's from your greatness that I grow.
Sans effort, pierre par pierre, je dรฉmonterais mes cathรฉdrales inutiles. Emplies de rien, elles deviendront vides de toutโฆ ...Et dans le silence retrouvรฉ, mon unique priรจre deviendra : MERCI !
L.V
Photo : Charles Brooks
Effortlessly, stone by stone, I will dismantle my useless cathedrals. Filled with nothing, they will become empty of everything... ...And in the new-found silence, my only prayer will become THANK YOU!
Il ne s'agรฎt pas d'รชtre anti-nuclรฉaires, juste rรฉalistes pour deux raisons :
1 - le nouveau nuclรฉaire est trop lent ร รชtre dรฉployรฉ dans des dรฉlais compatibles avec l'urgence climatique, รฉcologique et politique.
2 - Le nuclรฉaire maintient la France dans une abondance d'รฉnergie qui nous empรชche de nous adapter au nouveau paradigme advenu : l'anthropocรจne...
Conclusion : je dรฉfends la thรจse inverse de #JeanMarcJancovici pour qui le nuclรฉaire est un amortisseur ( #NuclรฉaireAmortisseur ). Le nuclรฉaire est une excuse pour l'inaction d'autant plus que nous sommes confrontรฉs ร toutes les autres limites planรฉtaires... ( #NuclรฉaireEmpรชcheur )
De plus il est bien plus dangereux que ce qu'il affirme et il est de toute faรงon non durable.
Par contre le fait que le nuclรฉaire soit un amortisseur pour la France et l'Europe, c'est une รฉvidence absolue. Le nuclรฉaire n'est une excuse pour rien du tout, le problรจme c'est les fossiles carbonรฉs en premier lieu. Les gens sรฉrieux y compris dans le dรฉveloppement des ENR comme Karim Megherbi sont d'ailleurs d'accord.
Bien sรปr que les fossiles sont la prioritรฉ ! Je vous mets ce que j'ai indexรฉ sur ce que j'appelle "JANCO DรMONTร" : tools.immae.eu/Shaarli/ind1ju?โฆ
@julien_delalande@diaspora-fr.org รงa n'est pas accessible. Quoi qu'il en soit il faut qu'on se dรฉbarrasse de 80% de nos sources d'รฉnergie, il est complรจtement รฉvident qu'on ne va pas se dรฉbarrasser du nuclรฉaire en mรชme temps. ร moins que le projet ne soit de retourner au Moyen-รge en commettant un gรฉnocide au passage ?
@julien_delalande@diaspora-fr.org oui j'ai vu. OK Janco n'est pas Dieu, il se trompe, parfois il dit des conneries. Mais il รฉvolue. Il n'est plus le chantre du nuclรฉaire, il ne dit plus du mal de l'รฉolien comme il le faisait en 2012. Il faut รฉvoluer aussi ๐
Sur "Par contre le fait que le nuclรฉaire soit un amortisseur pour la France et lโEurope, cโest une รฉvidence absolue." :
En plus de ce que j'ai dรฉjร รฉvoquรฉ, il faudrait dissocier un cลur d'activitรฉs stratรฉgiques soumis ร dรฉcisions dรฉmocratiques avec dรฉbat citoyen comme le militaire ou la production d'acier, du reste de l'activitรฉ pour lequel le maรฎtre mot serait "sobriรฉtรฉ", "justice sociale", etc.
C'est un des sujet que je maรฎtrise le moins si tant est que j'en maรฎtrise un; je crois que nous ne faisons pas assez travailler d'ingรฉnieurs qui adorent รงa! Nous รงa nous rendrait dingues mais eux ils ont des outils, des mรฉthodes, des techniques etc. Il n'y a pas encore de lobbie de l'autosuffisance! Pourquoi? Parce que comme son nom l'indique elle n'a plus besoin de source ou juste pour dรฉmarrer... Imaginez que nos appareils en fonctionnant se mettent รฉgalement ร produire de l'รฉnergie comme le mouvement de l'eau ou des vagues connu et exploitรฉ, tout mouvement, tout fonctionnement est une รฉnergie... Quand nous parlons nous pourrions stocker l'รฉnergie de notre mรขchoire... C'est comme รงa pour tout. Nous sommes des producteurs d'รฉnergie sans nous en rendre compte... Il y a eu une rรฉalisation je ne sais plus oรน d'un asphalte qui rรฉcupรจre l'รฉnergie des bagnoles qui passent... Donc tout est possible. Y a plus qu'ร .
Je connais trรจs mal le sujet et je suis nul en maths et en physique; je fais confiance en la science, la technologie, le progrรจs... Nous optimisons la rapiditรฉ d'internet par le laser maintenant (c'est en projet) donc l'รฉnergie est encore optimisable...
Nous rechargeons des appareils par simple rapprochement entre la base et l'appareil; je ne sais pas bien mais il doit y avoir des conducteurs plus performants ร mettre en ลuvre... Sans dรฉperdition. Je ne sais pas ร quelle vitesse va le courant? Mais c'est ร รฉtudier pour se dรฉplacer dans l'univers....
J'ai ma rรฉponse sur la vitesse du courant: dans le vide c'est la vitesse de la lumiรจre; il faudrait trouver le moyen de faire avancer un courant sans rรฉcepteur connu...
Encore que รงa n'est pas assez rapide (la vitesse de la lumiรจre) pour aller d'un point ร un autre dans l'univers... Mais pour rejoindre un trou de verre... Et puis il faudrait que le courant soit capable de projeter une capsule ร sa vitesse de diffusion... รa parait compliquรฉ. Enfin il faudrait un anti-g impressionnant! Dรฉjร que les cosmonaute sont scotchรฉs avec leur petite navette pourries...
Pour revenir au sujet il faudrait recycler l'รฉnergie non utilisรฉe, utilisรฉe, stockรฉe, transportรฉe, sur tout mouvement existant et sur l'รฉlectricitรฉ et tout appareil qui en nรฉcessite... Au boulot!
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There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What Iโm doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
> b) the default Mastodon instance is pro-genocide
The 2) link you posted has no such content or hint of it (only vague accusations that some moderators might have done something without any details) Instead you block people for asking honest question, and refuse to give a straight answer.
mastodon.social might have problems, but labeling a whole group in this manner is the same thing that Netanyahu is doing; do better.
if the firefox devs were serious about literally anything the corp says, one killer feature that would absolutely differentiate them materially from other browsers is to take all the differential privacy tech you made for 'private' advertising and use it to remove LLM slop domains from search engine results pages with distributed downranking and automated removal.
That is the one of the main things you can do at a browser level with the kind of statistical privacy tooling they developed for the advancement of the advertising industry -- yet would still by fully in line with their stilted defense of the ad industry as 'need to invite the ad industry to unilaterally disarm' by allowing 'good ads' -- but would never appear in a browser funded primarily by google.
@aral such a self own. like yeah even in twisted silicon valley logic, go ahead and say that, but the entire survival of your brand depends on people not believing that, so if that's what you're saying you're a really shitty silicon valley company whose business model will always be losing out to companies who are a billion times your size in exactly the same niche entirely unhampered by public perception because they ate your lunch 20 years ago.
edit: excuse me did i say 100x your size on the first go?
Well, itโs not what they say publicly. Only in the *wink* *wink* drinks and nibbles bits between sessions among friends. Folks like that donโt like folks like me when they discover Iโm not playing their *wink* *wink* games.
@aral It sounds like they are in a mental bubble. Donโt they understand that they really have only product that anyone cares about - Firefox. And the only reason people care about their objectively less performant product is because of their underdog years when they were perceived as being more credibly pro-user than big tech. Itโs not a high standard. Itโs the *only* standard that is keeping you in the market right now.
@vartak Well, the legitimisation/whitewashing is also quite valuable and the additional data from being the default search engine doesnโt hurt either.
@aral @vartak ya ya that's what i'm saying - they pay for the reputation and the legal defense of saying they are not the sole browser, just enough so that it exists in principle though not in fact. it's not big enough to materially affect their advertising revenue, at 2% competitor share, you've won. but the way mozilla has played this has really fucked up even that defense, because by arguing so vehemently that they need google to survive, they have fucked up the reason for funding them as a passive antitrust defense and the alternative they would have had by direct funding by their actual users
@aral @vartak even their own differential privacy "good ad company" ambitions depend on that dynamic. to have any competitive footing, the product you are selling to advertisers that is quite literally -worse data as a service- is access to the most privacy conscious user that you have exclusive access to. so this entire diversification strategy of doubling down on "maybe google funding will survive but if not we'll be the good AI company" is like a recursive funhouse mirror of bad strategy.
"we need to have fuzzy signal that doesn't give any single contributor undue influence or identifiability over the result" hmm sounds a lot like a system that would be capable of determining if "everyone who went to this domain determined that it was AI slop" or not. that a browser would be uniquely positioned to do.
@aral @dubiousblur If there has to be a taxpayer funded browser, I would insist they fork Chromium instead. This will give it instant feature and performance parity and kind of stick it to Google. They would no longer be able to beat their this new browser on performance, and their contributions to Chromium could be pulled into the new browser. This essentially recruits Google for the public good.
@dubiousblur @vartak Much easier to form a separate independent organisation, e.g., funded by a yearly grant of EU taxpayer money, to hard fork a new browser from Firefox and develop it here.
I donโt think Iโll be holding my breath for the political will to bring about such a project at the moment.
@dubiousblur @vartak We can (just do things) but, as Iโve found as someone just doing something, without funding in this fucked up system itโs as damn difficult road to traverse and I canโt really fault more people for not just doing things under the circumstances.
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Trump does want to deport 30 million undocumented residents in 3.5 years > As Trump raises deportation quotas, advocates fear an expanding โdragnetโ aje.io/4ledxq
Russia has launched a massive retaliatory assault on Ukraine after Kyiv's unprecedented drone attack on Russian airbases. Overnight, Moscow unleashed over 100 drones, striking multiple Ukrainian cities.
Bonnie Blue and a midget. Are you surprised? Yes, you'll say "What the fuck did I just watch?" But wait...there's a part 2 in comments. #midgetporn #bonnieblue #orgy #fetish #diversity
Escalation is what happens when he's defied. > Trump announces travel ban barring nationals of a dozen countries from entering the United States euronews.com/2025/06/05/trump-โฆ
The ban is set to go into effect on Monday, barring nationals of a dozen countries from entering the United States, in a resurrection of his controversial first term โMuslim banโ policy.
I was having sushi in #Split, #Croatia / #Hrvatska (excellent fish, but Croatia's idea of "spicy" needs work) when I was faced with the following doors during a bathroom break. I guess if you have a Prince Albert you need to find a door with a champagne bottle on it.
Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new ...
> b) the default Mastodon instance is pro-genocide
The 2) link you posted has no such content or hint of it (only vague accusations that some moderators might have done something without any details) Instead you block people for asking honest question, and refuse to give a straight answer.
mastodon.social might have problems, but labeling a whole group in this manner is the same thing that Netanyahu is doing; do better.
@rzeta0 oh that sucks. But I am confused about how much this instance related with the Germany. Does government fund it and they remove posts to secure funding etc. or do the mods take this stance because of their beliefs. In any case it's disturbing and makes me want to move out.
I have only seen the opposite. I am directly opposed to genocide and will be out of here if I see pro statements. I'm also disappointed every time I see an x/twitter/threads post here.
okay, I understand you better now. I have seen many anti genocide statements and am grateful for that. I do not dispute your claim, but am sharing what I've seen as well. I'll pay more attention to what I see locally about it.
Please don't move the burden of proof. I don't want to explain that not all users see all posts, blocks, policies, interpretations, know what terms to use, etc.
Also being pro-genocide is usually not labeled as โpro-genocideโ. Bonus hardness points for dog whistles.
If it's a post or instance not being moderated, then show it so our reports may blot out the sun. Things like \#fediblock are there for a reason.
For me moving instances will be a high-effort process, so I need good ยป
Edit 2: the offending post is down, but not the user. Is this the bar of being pro-genocide? Asking quite seriously, especially I don't know if there is anything going on in the moderation background.
And then you stumble upon genocidal assholes like this.
Apparently mastodon.social will censor posts and accounts that oppose genocide but will allow incitement of violence against a peace activist delivering humanitarian aid to a starving people in the middle of a genocide (whatโs a red cross on top of a person if not a call for their murder?)
Some Germans clearly havenโt quenched their thirst for genocide yet.
PS. Equating criticism of genocide with antisemitism is, itself, the greatest antisemitism as it is equivalent to stating that all Jews are pro genocide, which is, of course, false.
@mat I'm hesitant to get involved, but I think asking for the source supporting a statement or the trigger(s) for a reaction is not the same as asking you to do the research for them.
@mat โThe burden of proof is usually on the person who brings a claim in a dispute. It is often associated with the Latin maximsemper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, a translation of which is: "the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges."โ
You said it, you back it up. Otherwise youโre like a conspiracy theorist who tells you to โdo your own researchโ - a lazy cop out.
This account blocks "Mastodon.Social"
Lack of responsibility by the moderator and the prevalence of spam & hostile accounts and the practice of bad actors makes the instance, as a whole, a threat to other servers and their users on the #fediverse .
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