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Caliban and the Witch is a solid read

I mentioned this when all this drama originally started but this site falls into the same pitfalls as small leftist organisations IRL that develop cliques around vocal members and inevitably split over personal issues (Or become a Maoist polycule which I don't think will be an issue for Hexbear)

I do think if you're a moderator the most important skill is identifying the difference between wreckers/problematic users and someone who just makes bad posts once in a while. Good moderation outside of the janitor work is essentially just having the social skills to read the vibe and mediate disputes which many asocial/neurodivergent people lack. Nothing wrong with that but you should be able to look at yourself and see that if you lack those skills you are probably not suited for being a spokesperson for a community.

The reddit mobile web page actually handles it pretty well by making the pinned posts take up one side-scrolling iframe

I'll always remember how the movie First Man failed at the box office because it wasn't blatantly propagandising about the Americans winning the Space Race but instead just a movie about a deeply lonely and traumatised Neil Armstrong. Americans just want to see Neil Armstrong and his pal Buzz Aldrin sticking an American flag on the moon while the riff from Free Bird plays

We do not support class traitor Vi and Ku Klux Kiramman

The Baloch Liberation Army and ISIS-K somehow grew significantly since 2022 when they started targeting Chinese workers in Afghanistan and Pakistan

It has begun

Enzo Fernandez has 7 (SEVEN) black French teammates at Chelsea and is on contract until at least 2030 alongside most of them, genuinely the dumbest footballer of all time.

Surviving an assassination and forcing a public Biden appearance? He really can't lose.

It's wild how the UK still has FPTP despite having multiple third parties with double digit percentages. It's not even like America where 95% vote D or R, Labour and the Tories are on 55% combined.

They also banned Kobayashi for not signing an exclusive contract lmao