Grail

joined 10 months ago
[–] Grail@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago

The moderation actions weren't federated to aussie.zone, you can read the comments in the thread from this instance. https://aussie.zone/post/11840603

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

They do have different limits.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Even if it was a mistake, maybe Blahaj shouldn't have mods who shoot from the hip and end up banning trans people they accidentally misgendered. Maybe the position of moderator should entail some more responsibility to trans users. If it was a mistake, it was preventable.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When I join a new space, I usually closet about My pronouns and other aspects of My identity on a hard or soft basis until I've made a decision to come out of the closet. Misgendering Myself is a safety measure to prevent harassment and abuse. When I am open about My pronouns, there are certain people who will decide to grill Me about every little perceived inconsistency to try to "gotcha" up an excuse to call Me a fake trans person. I usually only gender Myself correctly once I've decided to accept the risk of running into that kind of person.

Aside from judging a space to see if it's safe, in some spaces it can help to introduce Myself closeted and then come out, rather than start out being honest about My identity. There's a lot of people on sites like Lemmy that will call a new user who uses neopronouns a troll. Only being honest about My identity after I've proven I'm no troll is safer.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] Grail@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Weird, I can't see the embeds in your comment either. Maybe aussie.zone just doesn't support them. It doesn't support a very long display name either, maybe I should change instances.

I've been posting to Liberty Hub every day for around a week, and this mod has been responding to a lot of My posts. They seemed to have a firm grasp of who I was every other time they commented on one of My posts. And the post they commented on here, it was a link to My blog, so if they read it, they should know who I am, right?

Here are some of their other comments on My posts:

https://imgur.com/8cWH9WY.png - https://aussie.zone/post/11567153/10314640

https://imgur.com/s2gYmSM.png - https://aussie.zone/post/11497681/10240630

He's never not known who I was before, he's always used My preferred pronouns. If this is a coincidence, it's a bizarre one, and it's one I can't fix without making this post, because the day he suddenly misgenders Me is the day he bans Me.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The word "capitalised" brings My display name over the character limit, so the best I can do is "They/You". I can't even change it to "They/Them/You"

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

Four years ago, I realised I was goddessgender, and My goddess-mother suggested I try out capitalised pronouns. They felt right, so I kept using them. The inspiration for Me to try out the pronouns came from My divinegender identity, but I don't think of the two as equal. I think the statement "Gods are referred to with They/Them" is about as true as the statement "women are referred to with she/her". I have met women who use he/him, men who use she/her, and enbies who use everything. But if your friend is coming out as transfeminine, it's a good idea to suggest she/her, right? I think it's the same with Me. My pronouns and My gender identity are not the same thing, they just happen to align, as most people's pronouns and gender do. I hope that people can respect My pronouns without having to believe everything I believe about My gender. I think the reason we use someone's preferred pronouns can just be "They like it", and it doesn't have to entail any kind of acceptance of a belief system. Likewise, I would immediately respect the preferred pronouns of any two-spirit or Bissu I met, despite not being a member of either religious system.

I wrote a couple of articles on the subject more broadly: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48, https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/on-spiritual-genders-b4152c4503cb

On My Discord server, The Outside, capitalised pronouns are the default for everyone and everything. We use the change to our language to provoke a change in thinking. It fills the air up with magic, which is very useful because it's an occultist server. And it has the handy benefit of getting everyone used to capitalised pronouns without starting a fight. The rate of transphobia in the server is much lower than other queer spaces I've been.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

If "them" is intended to refer to Me, I use capitalised pronouns.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

They are people who have left-wing views on policy, diversity, and economics, but who see "the left" as flawed and do not wish to be associated with them. Common complaints include that "the left" is too invested in organisation, identity politics, and morality. Max Stirner, the Egoism guy, is a central figure in post-leftism.

Critics of post-leftists say that they're just leftists who want to seem different and hip and cool. The fundamental post-leftist assertion is that "the left" is a monolithic group of old fashioned people who never accomplished much good, and I disagree strongly. To Me, leftism cannot ever describe a single group, but instead describes a relation between a given group and a reference point; the left is a direction, not a place.

 

This was the biggest trans community I could find with the search function, and I am transfem (male to goddess), so hope it fits

 

Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.

 

Been playing around with trying to get Bing AI to make an excrucian strategist. This one turned out pretty good!

Some images of Strategists drawn by an actual people:
https://elenaalbanese.artstation.com/projects/oABLNz
https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/2269221

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