purplerabbit

New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes ( arstechnica.com )

purplerabbit , 3 hours ago

Hope Valve loses and something changes. Valve has been getting away with this bullshit for way too long because people like them and therefore give them a pass on all of their shitty behaviour.

purplerabbit , 1 hour ago

Yeah, I didn't think about that. That is kind of a nightmare scenario. I still stand by what I said. Now the question is, do I trust legislation to make a good decision that doesn't fuck over everyone in the end? And if so, do I trust a multi-billion dollar company to not do some horrendous malicious compliance?

... and I'm not going to answer these questions. :|

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purplerabbit , 12 hours ago

uhuh...? that's a post, i guess.

Classics

Give your mum jokes!

purplerabbit , 11 hours ago

Meh, can't say I'm really nostalgic for fatphobic jokes.

Do you agree?

purplerabbit , 1 day ago

YES.
Please, just stay quiet and do better. Call out other men for their bullshit. I made a whole post about this, but, yeah, I don't want to see you under women's posts, talking about their bad experiences with men, saying that you are one of the good ones, that you are sorry on behalf of other men or whatever... It's not the time, it's not the place w, you are just making her experience about yourself. Stop it.

Would ya maties still rule me

ALT

purplerabbit , 1 day ago

I have severe food limitation / eating disorder because of my autism. I've lost all of my teeth when I was 18, and I developed scurvy at 16. Yes, I would still like you if you had scurvy, but I can tell you this... You won't like scurvy. Just trust me on that one.

Transgender inmate seeks transfer to women's prison | Amanda Joy Cooper, born a man, has been deemed a dangerous offender since 2001 for sex offences against several women ( torontosun.com )

purplerabbit , 6 days ago

born a man, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to say she's a woman. We get it.

Listen, it's simple. She is a woman. End of story. Oh, but she sexually assaulted women before. Yeah, okay. So what? In women's prisons, you will find some women that are there because they sexually assaulted other women. We don't lock them up in a man's prison. Same, if a man sexually assaults another man, he is not going to be locked up in a woman's prison.

The only reason why we are having these kinds of conversation is because she is trans. It's just transphobia. And yeah, this person did some fucked up things, but guess what? Trans people can do fucked up things as well, whoopty-doo. Shocker. Trans people, despite this common denomination, are people first, trans second.

We know what happens to trans women in men's prisons. She is a woman. She has nothing to do there. She should be in a woman's prison, end of story.

Russia May Start New War Within a Year – Swedish Intelligence ( militarnyi.com )

The pertinent question to me is how many modern tanks and actually trained tank crews does russia have? Certainly they have been holding back some production in a stockpiling process but is it enough? Has russia even solved the critical vulnerabilities exposed about its main battle tanks? ...

purplerabbit , 8 days ago

Don't you want to finish losing your first one?

lesbians rule

ALT

She got distracted

ALT

A friend made a really unflattering comparison and I'm feeling really hurt.

TW: Dysphoria ...

purplerabbit , 10 days ago

"Don't tell your transfem friend she reminds you of a dude" sounds like a pretty basic and easy rule to follow but I guess not. So sorry that happened to you.

This person should apologize to you. :(

‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront ( www.theguardian.com )

purplerabbit , 10 days ago

Reminder that The Guardian is a dogshit paper that pretty much systematically misgender trans people and keeps tripling down on backing up TERFs. You don't get to talk shit about the bigots when you're among them.

If you had to describe this week in three words what would they be?

purplerabbit , 11 days ago

"Glass half something."

Lots of big news for me. It's not supposed to be positive, but because of the caveats, I'm not really sure how to feel about them.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night | After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move. ( www.theatlantic.com )

purplerabbit , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

CW: Joke about suicide

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BREAKING: Mass suicide reported at NASA.

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purplerabbit , 13 days ago

This is generated through machine learning, not made by an actual artist. Please don't use these tools, they're built off of the back of real artist's work, all stollen. :(

Paris police fire on a man who attacked them with a knife near Arc de Triomphe ( www.reuters.com )

purplerabbit , 13 days ago

This is of course, according to the cops. Also:

The police officer was not harmed and no one else was wounded.

Hm. Gonna wait for the "non official" version of the story. Video evidence and testimonials. Maybe it all happened as they said, it's possible. But still.

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet ( www.nbcnews.com )

purplerabbit , 14 days ago

the lower class:

Picture of an old skeleton sitting on a chair underwater

rule 🫣 ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )

purplerabbit , 14 days ago

aa 🫣😳🐇

Republican Rep claims 'cisgender' is 'made-up word' Left use to 'destroy civil order" ( www.thepinknews.com )

purplerabbit , 19 days ago

Made up word. So after biological names, conservatives are casually inventing biological words, I guess.

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purplerabbit , 21 days ago

aaa, content warnings pleaaaase, this bunny can't be exposed to scarification stuff ;____;

I can excuse transphobia and covid denial but I draw the line at anti-communism, and criticism of Xi is racist

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/tankiejerk/p/635809/i-can-excuse-transphobia-and-covid-denial-but-i-draw-the-line-at-anti-communism-and-criticis ...

purplerabbit , 21 days ago

The fact that you see me, a transfeminine person, as well as my rights, as "a cultural war issue" is honestly fucking disgusting. You have the same mindset of the US Democrats who threw trans people under the bus after they lost their last election, even though they didn't say anything about trans people, and were already seeing them as just a simple variable that they can throw under the bus just like you are doing right now, and they did.

This worldview you have, it is protecting the status quo. In the end, it's not the people who are winning an election. No, it is cisgender heterosexual white men. It's their worldview that is being put forward. Everyone else is just something that "we will talk later" and so, never will.

Calling yourself a leftist doesn't make you one.

purplerabbit , 21 days ago

Pride Month is super important for the community. It's both a moment of joy and a moment of open resistance for us. As for the corporate side of it, I take it as an indicator. Like, for example, no matter what, I will never tolerate brands or even fucking sponsorships at my local pride march. That is absolutely out of the question. But companies pandering to specific communities is nothing new. And it's not limited to the queer community.

Corporate pandering, to me, is like a canary in a coal mine.

When it's singing, the air is breathable. So when we have the rainbow logos or the Black Lives Matter corporate post or Black History Month colored logo or whatever, it is a sign that as a whole it would be perceived as, not only unacceptable in the current society to be openly against these things and communities, but is even perceived as marketable and profitable to be openly for these things.

When the canary stops singing, something is wrong with the air, and it's time to get out. So when companies stop doing these things, and instead don't mention them, it's a sign that the wind is turning. That posting open support is deemed risky. That at least a certain part of society is questioning the validity and value of these things

And finally, when the canary is dead, the miners are next. When companies start openly posting against these things, when it becomes marketable and profitable to be openly racist, to be openly transphobic, to be openly homophobic, it's a sign that society as a whole and not just the ruling class, is hostile to these ideals and people.

I hate that it is, and I want to change it, but we live in a capitalist society. Right now, it's the rules of the game. So I'm using capitalism as an indicator of society's acceptance of progressive ideals and hostility towards marginalized groups. Because at the end of the day, I would rather fight against capitalism in a capitalist hellhole where corporate people display their pronouns and say "black lives matter" rather than a capitalist hellhole where corporate people don't do these things.

The canary stopped singing.

purplerabbit , 21 days ago

We can't build our lives and our politics around the worries of reactionaries, because doing this is what allows right wingers to shift the narrative constantly. You will always have reactionary responses to these things. Instead we win by the strengths of our proposition, by winning them over despite these grievances.

This is where the Left has failed so many times, because they keep pandering to corporate society. At the end of the day, I strongly believe that — and I'm going to take the United States of America, as an example, because it is quite relevant right now, even though I'm not part of it — the average Joe cares much more about the fact that rent is taking 60% (pulling this number out of my ass) of their income, and that they have to work three jobs, to even pay that rent, rather than the fact that one trans person got one beer can sent to them by a company once.

The failure of the Democrats in the United States of America needs to be studied. Because they failed to appeal to people. Most people voted for them because the opposition was much scarier. But that's pretty much it. No one really believed in them because the Democrats never really believed in actually changing people's lives. They were too busy trying to not piss off their corporate interests too much and not appearing too socialist to the right.

They have once again put the interest of the nebulous economy — which, let me remind you, doesn't actually exist, the economy isn't a thing, we made it up — rather than the real actual needs of people who definitely are real and are definitely struggling right now. And because of that, you also end up with people who stop believing in politics because every time they voice actual grievances, like the fact that health care is too expensive or whatever, they are being told that their problem would be too expensive to fix. So no one is going to do anything about it.

People voted for Donald Trump not only out of hatred for marginalized groups and so on, even though that played a big part in it, but it's also because the dude run his mouth constantly. He is always saying some bullshit or whatever, but at least he made it seem like he was going to do something, going to change something, while the Democrats were just too busy sitting on their ass, worrying about what the average reactionary Joe is going to think about if they dare to make any proposition that would be somewhat radical. And they failed because of it.

They dug their head into the sand and screamed "la la la la" every time people questioned them on their bullshit. Their relentless support for Israel was a big one, notably. Just like this person above us, they allowed themselves to be controlled by the right wing which itself was controlling the narrative. They allowed them to do that instead of trying to take control of the narrative themselves. They tried to play a game rigged against them from the start and were surprised when they lost. And when they lost, instead of learning from their lessons because they're the Democrats, we wouldn't want that after all, they fucking tripled down and they blamed trans people, even though they never talked about them.

They're looking at the right wing, and they think we should do that, but our version of it. And they come up with shit like "We need a left-wing Joe Rogan." And you get Gavin Newsom doubling down on shitting on trans people, and so on.

Meanwhile, people are suffering. And the very people who are suffering from the current administrations are once again being left out of these people's plans.

Let's stop catering to the right wing fears. Let's stop catering to the reactionaries. Let's stop catering to the corporate interests. We don't need billionaires to live, not only we can do without them, everyone would benefit from them being gone. The economy is fake, I refuse to give a shit about how the stock market is doing, I don't care about inflation rising or whatever. All I'm hearing is that my life keeps getting worse and that there are more and more people making sure that it gets worse.

Capitalism is not the natural way of the world. It is young, and it is crumbling all around us, i'm not even 30 years old and I've been living my entire life going through what are supposed to be once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis to once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis on and on and to the next. Water is coming through the cracks everywhere. The ship is breaking apart and we're still pretending that everything is fine because the musicians are still playing, so we can still fix it and move on and reach our destination, wherever the fuck that is.

The entire foundations of our societies are rotten, the economic system on which everything relies on is not only fake, but self imploding. It's way past time to abandon ship. But instead of doing that we are blaming the "clandestine" passengers who got on board in hope of a better life after their place of origin was completely destroyed and ravaged in the construction of this wonderful ship that we are all on. And while we're at it, this person is annoying us because they want us to respect their pronouns so everything else that is happening around us it's actually their fault. Don't worry, everything is fine.

Nothing else should ever matter than the well-being of this planet and all those who are living on it. People need to hear that the rules aren't there, that the game is rigged. Because it is. But instead, we keep telling them that, actually no. And it's just that some people are cheating and making it worse for everyone else. And these people are always those that are struggling the most, of course.

Anyway, did I tell you that I fucking hate capitalism and all of these self-proclaimed left-wing parties that keep catering to its every ask?

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To answer your question, by the way, I don't really write about theory. I'm not a scholar. I'm just a random bunnygirl on the internet. 🐇

Elon Musk is digging a car tunnel under Nashville, Tennessee to reduce traffic jams. Local officials are worried. ( www.bloomberg.com )

purplerabbit , 21 days ago

Because it worked so well the first time around....

PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more ( codeberg.org )

A big thank you to those who contributed to making this release, translating, writing documentation, providing emotional support and promoting PieFed! None of this would happen without you all. ...

purplerabbit , 25 days ago

I'm super happy about the pronouns addition. It's super convenient. Thanks a lot. 💖

purplerabbit , 25 days ago

It might be an inter-instance thing, so it's gonna get updated soon, but I changed my displayed name right after seeing this announcement to remove the pronouns from it. :3

Rad fems say hi!

purplerabbit , 26 days ago

Honestly, as a transfeminine bunny?... y-yeah.

I could see it before, I was surrounded by women and so on, but when I started being seen as a woman by society, it was so hard to ignore how ever present it was, in a way that, while still being perceived as male, I don't think I would have ever been able to possibly understand, because hearing and even seeing is one thing, but living through it, it's a whole other thing. And it's also because, well, being surrounded by cisgender women, they themselves kind of get numbed to it because they grew up in this. They have been shaped by it. And so a lot of the things that they go through, they don't even realize they are going through. Sometimes, it took a trans woman, me in this case, to make them realize that, "oh fuck, it's not normal."

This experience has opened me to a lot of stuff. And as I started doing some associative work, I've been able to meet people in anti-racist associations and groups, even work with some of them. And talking with racialized activists with this newfound experience of mine, while of course as a white person I couldn't relate to everything they were saying, I started understanding that for marginalized groups: forms of oppressions are so constant and ever-present that they become kind of like integrated as just a fact of life, almost as if it was something as natural as the wind.

It was interesting to hear them tell me and admit that despite their own experience, they themselves were racist. They themselves had these biases. It may be basic to some, but racialized people are not exempt from racism. The same way that trans people are not exempt from transphobia, women are not exempt from misogyny. And, yeah, I'm racist, I'm misogynistic, I'm transphobic, I'm all of these things and I keep trying to work against it, to do better, but I know that this is not something I can just rid myself of, it's not possible. Because no matter how much it can sometimes feel like society is pushing you away from itself, you're still very much in it, your worldview struggling not to drown in the imposed status quo.

And because I had struggled to rebuild my entire identity, where at every turn I could feel the roots of misogyny and transphobia pulling me towards them, and shaping my identity despite myself. These things were really fucking radicalizing.

It didn't make me understand that I should believe members of groups that are oppressed when they talk about their oppression. No, that I already knew and tried myself to heed despite my own internal biases. No, it made me understand that for all of the horrible things that they're saying, there is always a part that they can't say because it is just that deep within them, that they themselves have a hard time seeing it. Because for most marginalized groups, they never really get the chance to know what it's like to not be part of that group. And so whenever somebody is telling me that their group is being fucked over by society, I understand that it's even worse than what they're saying because it's only the part they can see.

Anyone find this?

purplerabbit , 27 days ago

Yes, yes, yes. Oh my god, so many yes. This perfectly describes yesterday for me, for example.

Why do some agree to come play a game but not voice chat?

There are cases where I ask someone to play something like TF2 and don't wanna voice chat and I don't get that, like it makes me feel like we're not even interacting at all.

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

[For public voice chat] Because I'm a transfeminine person and I don't know which one is worse between dealing with people hearing my voice and thinking I'm a dude or dealing with people hearing that I'm a woman.

Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts ( cdn.imgchest.com )

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

haha, the filthy drug addicts are acting silly guys!

... fucking ew.

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

I'm French, dipshit.

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

My healthcare system? First off, the people living under that system are victims of it. Being addicted to drugs is awful and not something that should made fun of. And second... you don't know me, I'm French, fuck off with your shitty assumptions.

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Drug users are not a pawn in your game to own the US. You are making funs of victims of oppression.

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

The poorest and most vulnerable people in the US are not threatening shit! The hell are you on about!

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Making fun of poor people who are struggling is fucking disgusting.

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Poor people suffering from circumstances and ending up addicted to destructive drugs with no way out because they can't afford the help they need, are not the people who want to invade Greenland.

How Trump is making China great again—and what it means for Europe ( ecfr.eu )

Around the world, many people expect China’s—already considerable—global influence to grow over the next decade, and more now view Beijing as an ally or necessary partner. ...

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

AI generated thumbnail. Not reading that.

GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 ( www.gamingonlinux.com )

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

I think what you meant to say is: "Hell yeah!", no?

Let's stop punishing people for turning around and trying to do better, seriously. It's always damned if you don't, damned if you do....

We're here to answer any questions you have about PieFed's code

I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful. ...

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Don't know shit about code, so... how are you doing? :3

GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality" ( www.notebookcheck.net )

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

nice slur you got there.....

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Ah yes, the market will decide. And famously, the market has always been good at deciding.

No, I think that's bullshit. I think Valve should curate more of their games. I don't think they should allow Nazi trash and fucking hate crime simulators on their platform.

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk ( www.theguardian.com )

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Google backpedals after what was obviously going to happen, happened.

Finally figured out why I'm rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Ever heard of the burden of proof? Or did you shoot that too?

Conservative pastor says feminism is a "form of transgenderism" in hateful rant - LGBTQ Nation ( www.lgbtqnation.com )

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

That is quite the backhanded way to say that trans women are women.

"No One Is Safe" INTERVIEWING The Victims of Elon Musk's Harassment Machine | Dead Domain ( www.youtube.com )

should i shave my legs?

i used to be forced to shave my legs a lot by my family and they still constantly comment on my hairy legs, but having hairy legs makes me feel more masculine. the guy i like, however, doesn't wanna pressure me, but also wants me to shave my legs. should i do it?

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

No. Don't shave them. Enough is enough. It's time for you to do what feels good for you. Having hair on your legs makes you feel gender euphoric? Hell yeah, my dude!

They're you're legs, your choice. People need to shut up and keep their opinions for themselves, sometimes, they shouldn't have a say in these things.

Jews Are NOT Oppressed: The Myth of Systemic Antisemitism ( tariqacknickulous.substack.com )

Prominent media and institutional voices often cite explicitly pro-Zionist sources without critical examination. Organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and American Jewish Committee (AJC) in the U.S., the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and Board of Deputies of British Jews in the UK, and the World Jewish ...

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

alright, i'm officially done with this community.

YouTube's AI upscaling tries to turn videos into goonerbait. [Reddit Repost] ( lemmy.world )

Source: Asmongold Subreddit ...

purplerabbit , 1 month ago

Yeah, you're an Asmongold fan. That explains everything.