honestly, when there was all the talk about the ways in which men gaslight their wives without even understanding what they're doing 7-8 years ago, this same strategy came up:
Basically, each time someone does something that you've asked them to stop doing, you have to treat it as a completely new, fresh instance with no pattern behind it, because if you don't, then you're dwelling in the past and can't move on and are unforgiving
so they get to keep doing it forever, because as long as they apologize, you have to forget

and if you don't forget, if you point out that what they're doing is a pattern, you become at fault for holding grudges, being unforgiving, never letting things go
And Christians engage in this on a macro scale (so do white people, of course, in regards to racism):

*I* didn't personally do it, and it happened in the past, so if you bring up the history of Christian genocide, forced conversion, colonialism, etc. you are treating me unfairly

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18 Nov
every so often a friend links me to something on the Paizo forums, and I go read it, and discover that there are still people who have been espousing open white supremacist rhetoric for years there

and I just sigh and wish Paizo would, like, EVER hire an actual community manager
like, community management is a lot more than moderation

and one of the things a professional community manager *does* is think about how to actually *architect* the community instead of just maintain it
That is, how to set standards for behavior that encourage the community to grow toward a desired state, as opposed to just having binary yes/no rules--like do this thing, get your post deleted, do it three times, get a suspension
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Max fucking around and finding out
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Itโ€™s really sad that Twitter makes videos square because itโ€™s cutting off all his hilarious facial expressions
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17 Nov
Realizing that my love of Catholic horror was probably started by discovering John Bellairs books tucked away in the back of my elementary school library.

They are *very* Catholic, but in a way that doesn't feel exclusionary. Image
I've started rereading my way through the Johnny Dixon series, because it's been literally decades and I was feeling nostalgic, and I'm sort of surprised anew by the books' erudition.
The writing isn't beautiful in the way that, say, Susan Cooper's (my other favorite childhood author) is--it's definitely making an effort to write in a way kids can understand and often feels a little clunky because of it--but it sure provides a lot of rabbitholes for geeky kids
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14 Nov
My coffee shop curse continues, and now I have witnesses.

So anyway a friend and I spent yesterday up in Monroe and Snohomish, which, incidentally, has a very cute old-West downtown. Image
While we were in Monroe, we noticed a coffee shop that looked cute and were like, "okay, let's hit that place on our way back so we have some caffeine for the drive home."
So we have a nice time in Snohomish and are heading back and go to that coffee shop.

It is closed. We are sad.

Until we realized we dodged a fucking bullet because it is a coffee shop AND CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE.

Ugh. So now we have to find a different coffee shop.
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12 Nov
The Paizo forums are a cesspit because of leadership's policy of refusing to ban people who engage in open transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, ableism antisemitism, etc.

It's allowed white supremacists to colonize the forums.

Not the fault of current moderators.
That said, Paizo staff have been telling leadership it's a problem for over a decade. Leadership has refused to listen.

(Hell, when I was there, I offered to have pro friends come in gratis to help re-architect the community.)

You can add that to the accountability demands.
To be clear, leadership's eventual solution to "your refusal to ban bad actors, + your refusal to add block functions for staff, + your insistence that staff be active on the forums equates to tying your staff to the railroad tracks and signaling the train to come this way"...
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10 Nov
I feel like a lot of social media has forgotten about how during the Bush era, evangelical Christians (including Bush) were pretty open about refusing to try to stop global warming and other environmental destruction because they wanted Jesus to come back in their lifetime.
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I think the difference is that Bush was an enthusiastic Christian and represented the height of openly evangelical power.

Trump was the age of Qanon, of marketing evangelical norms to people who wouldnโ€™t self-identify as evangelical (or even as Christian).
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