I also think I want to make a list of these accounts, I wonder if there are tools to scrape pfps and look for similar ones or any lists of them that already exist

a lot of their harm is built around dependence on them

we can do stuff about many forms of it without direct interaction, and we do not need their permission for it

well i write out the script and related information in a big document, I could probably share that from a burner account for my videos

1. yes, they were specifically asked for, and closed captions are also available
2. I will try increasing the size for my next video and see how that works
3. the point was to summarize it for people with difficulties with short term memory (a lot of the people I work with), and putting it before may add confusion on that end
4. I was trying less pauses with this one, but yeah might not be as good.

and for information overload, the point is that it is as condensed and short as possible, i deal with a lot of people who need that level of information to stay engaged. This exists as an alternative to those slow 2+hour essays. Ultimately that will likely always be an issue for a good portion of people

well ultimately it is looking at 2 things at once, do you have any suggestions?

i mean, democracy is a hierarchical idea in the first place so its not like it makes much of a difference to me. I mean in the general sense here though specifically, so I think the tense is fine

I’m autistic, I’ve been called “detached and academic” my whole life, if you are inclusive how about you try including how I like to communicate instead of treating my existence like a problem to be fixed

what makes you think attacking me how I interact makes me want to interact more closely?

i mean i did mention replying to comments though, so idk how they could assume that i was planning on ignoring them?

idk it feels like bad faith assumptions

like people keep saying im not going to use peoples pronouns when i didnt say anything about that?

deeper context involves like, reading the last 10 posts someone made to get an idea of who they are before responding, is that expected here? I am not understanding what you want from me

I never said anything about not seeing people as complex humans? I’m confused

I never said anything about pronouns

I do not read usernames and take messages as they are without looking for additional context. This space is not a chat room and there is no reason to treat it as such. It is a forum.

I mean pronouns dedicated to gender, so gender has pronouns dedicated to it, not that it is some universal list. Also, you aren’t “forcing an ideology” on someone, if you describe something in terms of an ideology people must use an understanding of that ideology to process your words, for example. If I write something in binary you have to use a binary decoder to read it, you will get nothing useful if you use something else, so forcing you to decode binary is forcing you to use binary. There is nothing scary about that.

people who are parts of a system can do pronouns either way, so this isn’t much more relevant to them in the first place. Trans people in the closet are included in this.

Some of the same people will see you in different spaces, so it will have a different impact.

pronouns do have some overlap with those, yeah

practical use for a lot of things comes after building the systems where it is available in the first place. I have seen it used to designate what kind of furry someone is, I am not in those communities much so I don’t know the specifics but I imagine that can save time and confusion. One set of pronouns for those furry spaces, one for outside.

I use it/its in spaces where I do not plan on engaging with people as individuals, like on youtube where I get hundreds of comments and I’m not going to bother reading usernames. Designating the kind of interaction I will carry out and what to expect there is a good use case.

It is hard to find more examples as it is such a personal thing and not many people do it yet

mb, I forgot to say video on it in the title, it is answered there

yeah, and sadly that happens nonstop

organizing in a way where disabled people are inherently accommodated instead of shoved into some “extra” system makes a big difference

it is entitled to think that it isn’t ableist to force people into systems instead of building systems around the people

oh let me guess, politics is whether you check red or blue on a small piece of paper every 4 years?

honestly with project 2025 stuff, everything is going to get worse before it gets better. I’m not even sure if planning beyond that is worth it, so twitch going downhill slowly doesn’t bother me as much, especially since my main group of people is elsewhere.

and I have met a lot of disabled people who are ableist sadly, internalized and otherwise. But yeah, I guess my goal is to make a community for oppressed people, not the oppressors, so I guess they have some reason to allow it in their cases. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush though, if they think keeping the people they have there is less important than pandering to new ones I doubt they will get far.

yeah people tend to get extremely angry over ableist language being called out. At the end of the day they told you to stop because they are ableist, and so just hate disabled people. I am one of those that cares a lot myself, and so that is reflected in my spaces.

also I think the phone number thing is a requirement that some channels can set themselves. I think the only thing it blocks without one inherently is like dms on new accounts? I don’t know the specifics though. I have people making unverified accounts for the first time just to talk with me, i can ask them more about the process