Meanwhile I, as usual, appreciated the tl;dr because while I did in fact read I had fully forgotten what I had read by the time I came back to this tab. More of a tl;adhdr, I guess.

That’s the beauty of it all. If I win, I get to be a king. If I lose, I get to be a legend.

Obviously he’s already taken care of one and it’s fallen out of frame to the lower left.

Either it was the photo taker setting it up or else whoever was responsible left the goddamn straw there so that everyone else would know. That’s some serial killer behavior, make sure to tell everyone where you’re going for lunch.

The only people who are having an easier time getting gender-affirming care.

How would you even go about turning a huge bar of gold into cash anyways?

Not using :wq! because consent is important

I feel like given the usual experience of uninitiated players with that coffin we need to acknowledge the bearer of the curse as canonically trans.

I agree that this is more plausible, but it’s still almost as baffling, since it suggests that the existence of some people who can afford a (hypothetical) bed-making robot implies the nonexistence of people who can’t. Like, at least Ovacado toast in a cafe was a vaguely affordable luxury that someone could conceivably stretch their means to occasionally purchase. This is more like “all you need to do to stop being poor is cut back on having your chauffer paint himself in gold leaf to match your limo”.

Sneeze into a jar

Mark my words, the terminal uncoolness that led the UK to not have a flag worth airbrushing on the side of a van is the same uncoolness that led to the modern condition of TERF island.

Right? Easy to overstate the value of it as we see now, but it sure was nice being a demographic worth pandering to, especially when that meant that the homophobes weren’t worth appeasing.

Hell, the inscrutable words used to be things like “queer” or “lesbian”.

What I’m saying is that in like 20 years we’re going to hear about the actual emperor’s (of where? Who knows. Probably like Michigan) preferred danmei series and we’re going to like it.

If they’re not trans then why is the demon Baalthorok sitting at the booth behind them? Also does anyone have Baalthorok’s number I need to talk to them for reasons.

This is not what we meant by gay communism.

I feel like there’s got to be a decent middle ground between a pinned post that pushes this in front of everyone and requires further mod comments to try and stave off harassment and silently letting anyone who notices find the mod logs and make their own judgements of everyone involved. Like, in the absence of an actual announcement I think people would absolutely come to their own much more inflammatory conclusions if/when they noticed regardless of what the removed mod does, and the removed mod could make things into an absolute shit storm (which they don’t appear to be trying to do as far as I can tell, to their credit). But on the flip side, the way this post is set up is also an escalation in its own right and represents a more aggressive use of power by the remaining mods than was absolutely necessary.

If blahaj.zone has an instance business forum then making the full statement there (where it won’t get pushed out of sight as fast as the 196 churn would do to a non-stickied post) and linking it may have been wiser, since it preserves the immediate statement without shoving it to the top of everyone’s plate, and would still allow a stickied post on 196 itself if the situation escalated and it became more necessary.

I dunno, mod shit is hard and I’m glad I get to armchair quarterback it rather than actually making these decisions in real time. Props to the full mod team for keeping the chaos of 196 from turning toxic and destructive for however long it’s been here.

Secretly?

My town’s pride event was this weekend. Regrettably the heat and social anxiety in my family won out over heading down there but even so please know that I did remember this exchange. You are still seen and recognized and valid, at least in whatever small ways a stranger on Lemmy can offer.

Stay safe out there.

For anyone else who was curious about the religious context, Luke 15 is about how much God loves repentance, featuring most famously the parable of the Prodigal Son.

You know, some cities (at least one because I live here) delay their local pride celebration until July to avoid competing with larger cities in the local metro area. Don’t get too comfortable if you want to avoid being seen and celebrated, is what I’m saying.