Man, just ascend already.

Willow ,'Chosen'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Mar 22, 2018 5:45:43 pm PDT #23601 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Do you ever wonder how French vanilla differs from vanilla?

Tiny berets?

My fajitas came in a big cauldron carved out of volcanic rock!

You win at fajitas. That sounds AWESOME.


Dana - Mar 22, 2018 5:48:19 pm PDT #23602 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Ha, FB thinks I'm black too. And I was gonna say, it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.


JZ - Mar 22, 2018 6:05:15 pm PDT #23603 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I, too, am black. Because there couldn't possibly be any other reason to be interested in the things I'm interested in.


Pix - Mar 22, 2018 6:07:42 pm PDT #23604 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.

I'm not being good about articulating my thoughts, but short version: fb algorithms deciding you are black because you give a fuck is an indictment of the whiteness of fb inside. Systemic racism at work in weird but unsurprising ways.

Yes, this. I, too, am apparently black according to FB.


aurelia - Mar 22, 2018 6:37:03 pm PDT #23605 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.

Yep. I blocked the worst of the right-wing pages posting anti-BLM memes a couple of years ago. I have noticed the occasional ad for Essence magazine since then.


Beverly - Mar 22, 2018 6:42:44 pm PDT #23606 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I stopped posting to facebook some time ago. I follow relatives and folks I don't see elsewhere, and comment on pictures and posts, or like links, etc. But I don't post original content and don't have much of a presence on FB, or pretty much anywhere.

I adopted the same policy with LJ, and am doing any original content posting xposted from Dreamwidth, though I comment on my flistie's LJ posts. I have a twitter account, but it's mostly for confirming fandom-related rumors, again, I make no original content posts, nor retweet content on my own account.

And I'm on a laptop. My phone, while minimally intelligent, is deliberately not internet-enabled. I realize this wouldn't work for everybody, and I have no illusions that my privacy is any more secure than if I were posting nudes all over twitter and facebook and getting in slapfights with people whose opinions I disagree with. But I'm okay with that.


aurelia - Mar 22, 2018 6:49:04 pm PDT #23607 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

You just reminded me... I was attempting to clean out email and came across a notification from LJ that said my account had been deleted. I thought, "Huh? I deleted that ages ago." Now that I've read the email, it looks like they're purging old deleted accounts now but if I had responded within 3 days of the email I could've un-deleted the account. Delete seems to be a fuzzy term.


shrift - Mar 22, 2018 7:56:35 pm PDT #23608 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Facebook does NOT think I'm black, and now I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.


Zenkitty - Mar 22, 2018 7:58:04 pm PDT #23609 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I should check on my abandoned LJ accounts to see if they're still alive.

I feel like I should delete FB but I won't. If I did, I'd lose touch with a few people I don't want to lose. I know they don't want to lose touch with me either, and I know that none of us are really interested in trying to find another way to stay in touch. Because life is complicated, and what we're already doing is easy. I guess basically I feel like -t said. This mess isn't my fault and I don't think that I should have to lose something that's valuable to me to fix it. FB needs to fix it. I will of course be locking down my privacy settings and not taking any more quizzes though. I wonder if they think I'm black? Probably


flea - Mar 23, 2018 1:17:34 am PDT #23610 of 30002
information libertarian

It's sort of extra funny that Facebook thinks I'm black, because maybe 40% of my posts are about Korean pop music. But Facebook doesn't think I'm Asian. (Youtube sort of does - I get MacDonald's ads in Korean now.)