Hector Martin

Really I think there was just a significant impedance mismatch between intent (pushing back for a joke in poor taste) and how it came across (assumption of malice). This is yet another example where the terseness of Twitter really doesn't help.

I think to some extent vague jabs are OK? Obviously ignoring that he was hurting people unintentionally. If that weren't the case, it just boils down to "I use a big comical knife to open my packages and [carefully, though] cut towards myself as a jab towards knife safety".

Probably best to drop this particular issue; I think we've both expended more than enough cycles on it. Do you have some examples of the latter?