In your internal chat, have you come to a consensus that JK Rowling is or isn’t transphobic? What is .zip’s position on her statements?

That document is extremely vague and boilerplate for the task that you’re taking on, don’t you think?

I’m relieved Stephen Fry has seen the light.

What are your qualifications for “properly moderated” ?

Do the admins of Lemmy.zip know that you’re planning to host a community on their instance where people who are critical of JK Rowling will be censored? @gazby@lemmy.zip @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip @v4ld1z@lemmy.zip @Sami@lemmy.zip

I don’t see how creating a community on that basis and then naming it !harrypotter will not produce a safe space for transphobes. I’ve suggested a compromise in naming a Harry Potter focused community !jkisabigot, where harry potter memes and non-JK content can be redirected from !harrypotter. There are several examples of communities on Reddit like Trees, MarijuanaEnthusiasts, and Anime_titties becoming successful not just despite their name, but partially because the story their name tells.

News and criticism about JK Rowling is part of the HP fan discourse. I’ve been told to “fuck off” like I’m an outsider, like I don’t belong in the fandom because I think discussion of JK Rowling’s bigotry is more important than her stories. Places where you can enjoy HP content while avoiding Rowling criticism exist on Reddit. They don’t belong on the Fediverse.

And a !jkrowling community on lemmy.blahaj.zone is a terrible idea. Who is going to moderate it, you? Why do you think you’re qualified?

A majority trans instance doesn’t need reminders that JK Rowling exists in their local feed. If people there wanted it, they would have created the community already. I’m sure @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone has good intentions, but the existence of that community will only be used as an excuse to push Rowling criticism away from where it needs to be seen; by people actively consuming HP content.

Fucking DOGE.

Think off-brand Michael Meyers mask.

No worries. Why did you think this was spam?

Happy Pride!

The mesh increases the ‘hit box’ of the interceptor. It’s conductive, so it is more likely to trigger the kamikaze than a normal in-air collision.

I don’t think the interceptor is expected to survive a successful interception. In the case of a miss, it will be reusable tho, unlike other defense munitions. If any parts of either drone survive, they’ll fall in defender controlled territory, and be available to be fed back into the drone manufacture supply chain.

It’s a trucking company that the CEO lied was going bankrupt, as an excuse not to pay a cancer-stricken trucker.

There are no records of ATG Truckload formally filing for bankruptcy.

The victim of wage-theft was battling cancer.

CEO was engaging in wage theft, suspect is battling cancer.

Cheap kamikaze drones have loose wires on the front. When the wires touch, like when they collide with an object in front of them, it completes a circuit that detonates the payload.

A wide conductive screen mesh on the back of an interceptor drone seems like a cheap, simple countermeasure.

Your uncle is correct in that work isn’t given to inmates for their benefit or edification. It’s to line the pockets of those in charge. If the state wanted prisoners to more easily ‘re-integrate’ into society, they would let them form unions and pay them a decent wage for their labor. Instead, they’ll either abuse their authority to get the inmates to work for peanuts and pocket the difference, or they’ll pass the work to one of their cronies.

One of the roles of prison labor is to undermine organized labor outside of the prison. Prisoners are often employed outside of the prison in addition to doing work to maintain the prison. By forcing them to compete for jobs with slaves, it undermines non-incarcerated laborers’ bargaining power and pressures them to accept conditions closer to incarceration.

I don’t blame your uncle for his position; life in prison is extremely tedious, and the quality of what you’re given makes commissary essential. People outside need to organize with people inside to create a situation that benefits both.

Buka ba mbila!

Article title with the whitewash removed: “IN VIOLATION OF A COURT ORDER AND THE CONSTITUTION, TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES SAY THEY DEPORTED A DOZEN PEOPLE TO AN AFRICAN NATION, ONE OF WHICH IS IN A CIVIL WAR…”

Did anyone else catch the detail of the French-coded resistance in Andor using their metal-tipped canes to break up the pavement in the square before the Ghorman Massacre?