lmaonade's avatarlmaonade

going on pinterest and commenting “hmm… i find this really.. pinteresting…!” on every single post i see

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lmaonade

захожу на пинтерест и пишу “хмм… мне это очень.. пинтересно…!” в комментариях под каждым постом

untranslatingposts's avataruntranslatingposts

I go on pinterest and write "hmm... I find this very... pinteresting...!" in the comments under every post

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you think you're above me. you imagine that you and I are fighting on opposing sides. and yet when you turn my effort right back around into what it was born from you do not realize that you do nothing but fight fire with fire. like a baffled beast you lunge at the mirror not recognizing your own reflection. in repeating after me and those like me you become the one you crave so badly to destroy. we are the same.

writhe's avatarwrithe

i seriously think abetting the surveillance state is a moral failing. this is about ring cameras and other such devices

writhe's avatarwrithe

look i understand you may feel like you have benign reasons for having a camera at your door (& in some extreme cases i really do understand why it may be necessary) but i still think normalizing & participating in this constant surveillance not only makes us easier to police, but also cows us & makes us mistrust our neighbors. the camera is often barely a preventive measure, it is a tool of enforcement. i don’t feel safer being watched. there is no way to know exactly who is watching me. there is no distinguishable difference in the door camera of someone who uses it to check for a package & someone who uses it to police who they believe is allowed in my neighborhood. i did not consent to be recorded & there is no corner i can turn these days & escape the constant and all-seeing eye

hawkpartys's avatarhawkpartys

help people on the last post being like "who is possibly having drama on iNaturalist" buddy you have no idea. every single corner of that website is mired in drama that you cant even imagine. every identifier leaderboard is regularly having hatfield and mccoy level schisms. there are published experts getting into heated arguements dozens of comments long under a bad cellphone photo of a snake. every power user has a list of at least 3 other users who they would physically fight in an instant given the opportunity.

you took a bunch of people who are all insanely intense about extremely niche topics and put them in the same website, what did you expect? its a miracle we stop long enough to identify anything

and we're still not as bad as bugguide

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Peer reviewed folks! Come get it!

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Also as someone who has dipped a mere toe into wikipedia editing (this plant had only a mere stub of a page! I needed to fix it!), this is very true.

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