StarlightDust
@StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Google accidentally reveals details about its new Android design language, Material 3 Expressive 3 weeks ago:
I use a custom Material 3 theme for accessibility reasons as I am dyslexic. It was a really positive accidental side effect of the design choices. I just wish they would make it official and have it possible to use more colours that may appear to clash to their designers.
- Comment on John Lithgow Says He Was Surprised by Backlash Over Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series 4 weeks ago:
Have you been under a rock? JK Rowling is putting huge sums of money towards anti-trans lawsuits and having a real meaningful effect on trans people’s lives
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 5 weeks ago:
Originally they came about as a means of keeping women out of public life and in the home. Buildings would often designate toilets as “Men’s” as an excuse to make them inaccessible. Its really that daft and sexist.
- Comment on Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if the improved Linux support will mean fixing it on the Steam deck, where it is still very broken.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 1 month ago:
Oh look, a demographic with 40% who have admitted to being domestically abusive trying to further restrict children’s ability to find support and avoid isolation.
- Comment on Appers 1 month ago:
“Yer mum’s yer dad, Yer dad’s yer mum, Yer interbred, You Millwall scum”
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
Now tell me, how is it women’s fault that men sexually harass them on the street?
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
That’s just womanhood
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 1 month ago:
Nope. I just don’t like ableists. Go and make some friends.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 1 month ago:
Alright you fucking weirdo. Its a meme about an average friendship group. Go and make some; which you can do by not being a bigot on the internet.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 1 month ago:
Not to say shit like that. Its weird and ableist.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
Read some Judith Butler or Angela Davis
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
The claim that there is such a thing as misandry places them on equal footing and minimises the scale of cultural misogyny.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
No it doesn’t. You just don’t want to admit that you benefit from misogyny.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
Every woman I know has experienced at least sexual harrasment. Most have experienced SA or rape. Even if a man hasn’t done it, he will probably stick by his shitty mates who do or will still stay friends with them because awkwardness and bravery is harder for them than silent compliance.
If its “not all men” then it is certainly all women.
I’m picking that bear over you.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 1 month ago:
What the fuck? This is such an awful and stigmatising thing to say that oversimplifies what personality disorders are.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 1 month ago:
Leaves on the line are actually a surprisingly nasty issue since they screw up adhesion. There was a nasty crash last year because of it that cut off a good chunk of Wales from the rest of the network.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 1 month ago:
I actually imagine that there would be a lot of similarities to the structure of already existing anarchist organizing, particularly street antifascism.
Usually people will meet ahead of an action and discuss likely events and how to respond. If things happen that weren’t predicted, it relies on the initiative of people on the ground.
Usually people with experience will end up making snap decisions, though people will occasionally veto them. If there is an opportunity, the people who disagree will huddle and decide on a new course of action. If not, someone might just call it out a new course of action, which people will also sometimes veto.
I’m personally quite a fan of simple instructions that you can chant because it also boosts morale and demonstrates unity to the opposition.
At a recent example that I think was particularly effective, a group of spotters* were following a fascist march, one person shouted, “Come on guys. We can’t let them go unopposed.”
A second person indicated that they agreed by proposing a strategy, gesturing to link arms, saying, “Link up.”
A third person adapted that into a chant of, “Link your arms! Stand your ground!”
Spotters are a scout-like role who usually have the responsibility of keeping an eye on the opposition and relaying that information back to the action itself. In this case, the spotters realized that remaining as spotters was less useful and adapted accordingly, since the main counter was trapped elsewhere.
Interestingly, as the police decision makers were with the main counter, the police who were with the spotters were unable to act because their structure depends on a hierarchy whereas the adaptability of anarchist organizing doesn’t.
- Comment on WH Smith name to disappear from High Street after sale 1 month ago:
Not sure I trust Lemmy to not be shitty with this comment but the new name really gives 2010 trans chaser magazine.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 months ago:
Wow. Making an account just to be a misogynist. Piss off back to Reddit. Misogynistic prick.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 months ago:
That would be great if there was such a thing as misandry but there isn’t - at least on a wider societal scale where it has a constant day to day effect. Men’s liberation is absolutely a thing but this article functions more as whataboutism than anything else.
As an already clearly set boundary, I’m not going to explain to you why this is the case but I can point you in the right direction. I’m personally a fan of the work of Lee Shevek but if you are looking to learn through community osmosis, the aforementioned community is a good place to learn.
- Comment on UK couple fined £1,500 after reporting Channel stowaway found in motorhome 2 months ago:
If you see someone trying to do this - you didn’t.
You will never be rewarded for selling out other humans but they will almost certainly be punished.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 2 months ago:
Only commenting because I can’t down vote on my instance. This is repulsive MRA fluff from a consistently misogynistic writer. Nothing to add because its not worth platforming.
- Comment on Carole Cadwalladr dropped by Tortoise ahead of Observer takeover 2 months ago:
Ngl I don’t feel sorry for the Guardian UK or its staff losing their jobs after their shift to the right. They have been posting Daily Telegraph-lite stories for years. Sonia Sodha comes to mind. In the last year alone she has written stories for the Guardian that are anti-trans (countless examples), pro-oil and gas, anti-Palestinian, and spreading the fascist myth of Asian grooming gangs.
- Comment on Ban misogynistic online pornography, review to propose 2 months ago:
I really dislike how conservatives have attempted to redefine the meaning of misogyny to literally mean the opposite of what it is. Attempting to take autonomy from women is anti-feminist. This is also clearly intended to target wlw porn.
- Comment on Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania, sources tell BBC - live updates 2 months ago:
Wild to see the GC self-proclaimed feminists like Rowling championing Trump when he is literally bringing the face of misogynist influencer culture into his inner circle. Actual feminists have been warning about this for years.
- Comment on Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals 2 months ago:
This article is pretty much useless on the subject. The group’s initials are not even DA though they have changed their name recently. It just states what you could find from tapping a couple of links on Telegram. ID some of these pricks - get them sacked.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 3 months ago:
This is already a real thing
- Comment on Erasure 3 months ago:
You can’t really assume people aren’t organizing themselves just from a post like that. Its also bad for opsec to just post what you are up to online. Plenty of people are, there just aren’t enough people as people are stuck in the mindset that the systems haven’t collapsed yet so there is no need to build up a safety net.
- Comment on Magnets 3 months ago:
I love it when you get millionaire (who would likely be billionaire) bootlickers in comments like this because you can almost always go back and check their replies. Low and behold, within the first few posts you immediatey get MRA shite.