oliphant

@oliphant@oliphant.social

Running oliphant.social out of my closet.

I do a lot of #MastoAdmin stuff. I publish a long server blocklist and don't like nazis.

A techie, trying not to be a techbro. I have been building the web for 25 years.

I have a #dog and feed #squirrels. #Vegan for the animals and environment.

I set my post default to Unlisted instead of Public and you probably should, too.

He/Him

"You seem to have mastered the art of being controversial without being wilfully offensive."
-- Probably Paul

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anajonessy, to vegan

Please stop conflating veganism with a whole foods plant-based diet. Veganism is not a diet; it's about animal liberation. #vegan

oliphant,

@anajonessy I sometimes refer to it as both a diet and a boycott when I need to quickly explain it to people.

oliphant, to random

An important letter arrived. You can see to whom it's addressed.

oliphant,

Thanks @welshpixie :)

oliphant,

(It's a joke, there's no leader. No one is in charge. It's the same army of cats you know and love elsewhere.)

oliphant, to random

"don't pre-block Meta. Think of the narrative this creates!"

Once again, I am telling you that this is the internet, we're all cats, and if you think there aren't gonna be some cats out there doing some shit you don't agree with, then buddy, you don't know cats.

Like you might as well just accept pre-blocking of Meta is happening and figure out what your public relations story is on that.

I mean, if you care about such things.

oliphant,

I'm not interested in 'crafting a narrative' or whatever here.

oliphant,

@Shrigglepuss It's not, but the concern-trolling over it is happening again.

oliphant, to random
oliphant, to random

"I'm really impressed by all the people that are suddenly experts in--"

Dude, this is the fucking internet. Some people know lots of shit.

There are people who are pretending to know lots of shit, too. They tend to put those people on camera.

Figuring out which is which is the ongoing battle of our time, but I tell you we've been training for this our entire post-Internet lives.

In some ways, our disagreements are just between people on whom the propaganda works, and those on whom it doesn't.

HuShuo, to Russia
@HuShuo@mastodon.social avatar

@AriDrennen proving there is still deep on point analysis on Twitter

https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1672615526823260160

#Russia #Wagner #Ukraine #Civilization

oliphant,

@HuShuo lol

tyrannosaurusgirl, to random

Not having properly opened my instance for sign-ups yet, I've been taking it easy with adding blocklists, because it's quite tedious (I don't want to just import a spreadsheet, I want the reasons so I can defend the need for each if asked, so I have to cross-reference them with somewhere that has reasons).

Trying to get serious with this, I go check @oliphant 's site to fetch the tier 0 list to get started.

oliphant,

@tyrannosaurusgirl You were absolutely supposed to read that wit the melody of that song from Frozen, that's why I apologize at the end for ruining it.

It was one of the first blog posts I made on that blog, and I'll admit it's pretty silly.

oliphant,

@tyrannosaurusgirl Ahh, no big deal. :ablobcatattention:​

Glad you enjoyed :)

oliphant, to random

It's going to be one of those days where my notifications and Home feed spiral up endlessly, I see.

oliphant,

Step away for 5 minutes, come back to 40+ unread messages.

Wait for an hour, come back to hundreds.

oliphant, to random

We really have turned a corner. I used to wonder how I'd hear about breaking news once I moved to Mastodon.

That turned out to be an empty concern.

oliphant,

If Elon doesn't even have the ability to break news on his platform, I'm not sure what he has left--

Other than you people who refuse to fucking leave no matter how much he turns it into Parler.

nev, to random

I realize it's not exactly kosher but I'm thinking about extending invites to a few worthwhile accounts on the large server I will be suspending soon. Poaching or fair play?

oliphant,

@nev Fair play.

oliphant, (edited ) to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVRM5nZUxyE

oliphant, to random

People always tell you that evil turns upon itself.

That always seemed like some Disney movie shit.

Ever since my father went to war in Iraq in 1991 and I didn't know if I'd ever see him again for nine months--where my Mom physically wasted away in stress and grief--let's just say I take war very personally.

To me, the children of soldiers aren't invisible. The crying spouses as they leave aren't just good theater.

They are me.

They were my family.

So anyone that would voluntarily start a war of aggression, earns my greatest contempt.

(And yes, that includes my own country, and why George W. Bush gets to live out his live making paintings instead of apologizing for the rest of his miserable life to all the war orphans--but I digress)

oliphant,

Deleting what was going to be the reply to this post, which was pretty personal.

I guess the point I wanted to make is that it feels like some of this evil is turning on itself.

And I'm daring to be a little hopeful about that.

oliphant,

@mycotropic That motherfucker basically authored so much of our current misery.

He inflamed the fascistic, chest-thumping nationalism that has become the poison now eating us alive.

After 9/11, we could have been a model for the world and responded with compassion, looking inward, oh shit, maybe our foreign policy is inflaming issues and--

But no. Our leader decided the best thing to do was to attack a completely different country on false evidence.

I hate Trump, but I despise GWB with every fiber of my being.

And, tbh, I still have trouble trusting or forgiving my countrymen after that disgusting war fever so many were under.

Man, I could go on and on about this particular topic. That well runs deep.

oliphant,

Let's be clear, there might not be anything left of us when the dust settles, this isn't any kind of resolution, this is part of the process.

Sometimes, people's own greed and corruption fucks up the world around them so much that it turns upon them, too, and they can't escape the monster they created.

Take hope in small victories (or more like--the monsters are fighting each other right now, so kill the lights and let's hustle out the back while they're distracted).

They sleep on us, don't wake 'em up. We sneaking out.

I assume Ukraine will probably be using this opportunity for some sneaky shit, too. I mean, that's what I'd do if I was fighting for my life.

oliphant, to random

Now we’re in the fog of war. Take reports with a pillar of salt until the smoke clears.

oliphant,

@notroot I figured someone would pick up that reference eventually. :)

joemcken, to random
@joemcken@mastodon.social avatar

Canada: We’re gonna tax Facebook for letting news outlets post links on it

Facebook: Ok, but if you charge us for allowing news links in Canada, we’ll stop allowing news links in Canada

Canada: Nuh-uh

Facebook: Done

Canada: Wait no how could you

From @mmasnick @ Techdirt:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/23/as-canada-passes-corrupt-link-tax-meta-says-no-more-news-links-in-canada/

oliphant,

@joemcken @mmasnick Damn you, Canada, for making me support Meta on anything.

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