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The RP event will be classes of various kinds - art/color theory, abstract thinking, pico 8 programming, creative writing, and 3d modeling - all for beginners and all with the aim to have fun and learn together, and will take place over the course of 6 weeks or so from Sept 26 on
You don't need to have read the other updates in order to read this one! This is a standalone update, but does fit within the overall scope of the story
to the person who dmed me last night - i was okay with talking, i was just asleep when you did so, because i'd been up almost a day working on something
i do feel sad because i tried to reply and send a friend request but couldn't, but i understand if you changed your mind
Sometimes I feel like my most extreme belief is that if a website is too big to moderate, then it shouldn't be that big. If your website is SO BIG that you can't control it, then stop growing the website until you can. You don't have a right to a profit at the expense of society
i just had a flash of a memory of this website from like 20 years ago... where people made fake pokemon cards, but i was so into the art and the printing and stuff they did
it was called like pokemon zeo or something
does anyone remember that???
I guess this is a good as time as any to share my experience with KiwiFarms. I never had a thread of my own, I merely got some attention in a thread of a dear friend of mine. And that was bad enough.
boy, i should... i should really try selling things. i just like making free stuff it feels better
other than patreon (with sporadic fox flux builds), all i've got is this smut game that grew out of a game jam
I understand the urge, "good, they hurt so many people, they deserve it", but a constructive transformation would be... "I wish they hadn't hurt so many people, and I hope going forward they learn how to care and understand how to avoid this"
it helps a lot, to reframe like this
it's really, REALLY important to focus your mindset on "support those who have been beaten down by fear", rather than "laugh at the downfall of others"
people can feel it when your focus is on laughing at "bad" people, no matter how "good" you feel you and others are
please during this time of the KF site being taken down... do not celebrate KF suffering, but rather give support and compassion to those who need it
encourage people to talk about their experiences of the impact of KF, but without condemning people, just actions
KF itself served to act as a "permanent" monument to harm me with, with tens of thousands of posts playing with my life and trying to ruin it, bc I "deserved" it
but "deserving" suffering I cannot agree with, no matter whose suffering it is
it's simply unacceptable
a clarification: I do not remotely condone any of the racism, transphobia, the caused suicides, at all
but I will not stop sending hope for people who have acted in cruelty to be able to recognize what they've done and improve and change and care, I will never stop this
okay since kf is going out, I gotta say some stuff
we gotta stop eternalising folks fuck ups and their hurtful actions. if someone is sorry, if someone is trying to do better, you don't have to forgive them for what they've done but you don't need to sabotage their life.
this kind of language, "subhuman", doesn't just hit your target of "bad KFers" - it hits a lot of people who try hard and who struggle with self-esteem issues, and pushes them into extremes
why add to that? why do that? why contribute to the divide? it is hurtful and hateful
i just need to be clear, this kind of "subhuman" rhetoric is the kind of thing that causes people to feel like they should die
you directly had that impact on someone i know because of this, and i really hope that in the future you will be more careful and caring with your words
Wretched image in mirror
Is only as hateful
As the observer wills.
Shades and ghosts travel
In words and phrases
Felt but not understood.
Endless screams of spores
They beckon to others:
"Share this or die."
To see the mechanism
Is to be untouched
Unless it is desired.
as someone who has been a huge KF target for several years, i think this language is extremely hurtful; this is the same uncaring, uncompassionate language as i would get from KF people actively harassing me
i'm not for what KF has done, not remotely so, but this is not helping
This was some impressive judo by Keffals. She knew that even though Cloudflare was inclined to keep Kiwifarms, it would pull the plug if they got overtly violent and threatening enough. And she knew Kiwifarms was full of emotionally disregulated sociopaths and subhumans. /1 twitter.com/Cloudflare/sta…
i've known a lot of people who are ex-KF crowd, who have talked about what a huge difference it makes on their emotional health to get away from checking KF
it's hard to build care/love in your life when you're seeking out ways people hurt and hate each other, it is saddening
it would be great if victims get chances to recover and return to normalcy for a bit, and it would be great if those harassing can reevaluate their connections and try to understand if being involved with hate-drama (even as an onlooker) actually makes them feel happiness or not
it is my sincere hope that KF being blocked will give people a chance to recuperate themselves and recover a bit, including those who used KF
being obsessed with checking hate-drama is painful and isolating and i would like if the victims and harassers alike can heal