Ada

Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: January 2nd, 2023
  • AdaAtoTrans Memes•Non-Conditional
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    23 hours ago

    I’ve removed a bunch of comments from this thread.

    The “but” in this meme means “But there are instances where I don’t support a trans person’s identity/equal rights”. It means that there is never a scenario where you think it’s ok to suggest that trans people should have less rights than cis people, and that there is never a scenario where you think it’s ok to invalidate a trans persons identity.

    If your reply is something along the signs of supporting the “but…” because you think “actually, there are some shitty trans people”, then cool, we know, but this isn’t the thread for it, and you’re pulling trans people down in a trans space, to defend a position no one was making. This isn’t that thread. This is a thread for support. So I’ve removed those “gotcha” replies.

    If your reply is “actually, there are times when trans people don’t deserve equal rights or to have their identity respected”, then your comment has been removed, and you’ve been permanently banned from all blahaj spaces.

  • AdaAtoTrans Memes•What's Your Story
    30·
    5 days ago

    I spent my life thinking I should have been a girl/woman. One day I realised I was.

    Of course, it was a bit more of a journey than that makes it sound, but that’s the gist of it

  • AdaAtoTrans Memes•She wants us dead 🙃
    9·
    8 days ago

    I’d argue that a company is more like someone not caring if it runs anyone over or not than someone who accidentally ran someone over. Wilful disregard rather than carelessness. But international harm is still worse than either

  • AdaAtoTrans Memes•She wants us dead 🙃
    112·
    8 days ago

    I dropped literally everything in your list for the reasons you outlined (except WoW, which I dropped before I knew anything about Blizzard).

    But Rowling is worse than them.

    Corporations are amoral, and entirely self serving. They will fuck over anyone if it earns the corporation a profit.

    Rowling is not amoral. Rowling is driven by hate, and her goal is not self interest, and her harm is not indiscriminate. Her harm is targeted and deliberate, and she explicitly uses her visibility to normalise and encourage harm to the people she is targeting.

    And deliberate targeted hate that tries to create more hate is worse than amoral self interest.

  • AdaMAtoBlahaj Lemmy Meta•Should we join the pledge to boycott lemmy.world?
    41·
    14 days ago

    We’re aware of it, but at this point, we’re not planning on it.

    The lens through which I view decisions like this is the health of the trans and gender diverse community on the threadiverse. Each time, basically, the process is answering the question “Would banning this user or defederating this instances strengthen the gender diverse community on the threadiverse or weaken it?” In the case of instances full of transphobes that take no action on transphobia, that’s an easy question.

    But in the case of lemmy.world? There are a LOT of gender diverse users on lemmy.world, and the admins are responsive whenever I reach out to them about transphobes on their instance. Defederating them would notably splinter and diminish the community, and I’m not sure the gains are worth that.

    If there is a strong community desire that it happen, then we’re open to it, but otherwise, I feel it would just leave us with islands of isolated trans folk that can’t interact with each other, more than we already have…

    Edit - I will add, we have a good relationship with the FAF admins, and we share a matrix space independent of lemmy.world and the other mega instances to aid with moderating against bigotry.

  • AdaAtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is Framework an ethical company?
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    18 days ago

    Nope. I’m not telling anyone to avoid Framework or anyone else.

    But they’re not the “ethical” choice. They’re another shitty company doing shitty things that hurt people. That should be a factor in your purchasing decision, but it shouldn’t be the whole of it, because it’s pretty much impossible to exist without supporting companies like that in some way or another.

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