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Cake day: May 11th, 2024

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  • Yeah, the last thing I remember about pillowfort is their security issues, and I hang out on Tumblr (a space it was designed as an alternative for). People weren’t recommending it anymore after that, like they used to.

    I tried it out before then, but it didn’t hit for me. I’ve tried a million alternate ljs and tumblrs, so that says nothing about its quality. If you go on social media and no one wants to talk with you about what you want to talk about, it seems like a waste of time and effort.

    It’s a shame when independent projects like this close down, but if not enough people stepped up to help when help was needed, burnout was inevitable, and burnout can only be ignored for so long. Better to close it down like this than in a more dramatic way.

    The type of people who went on pillowfort might actually be interested in fediverse alternatives. They’ll reconnect on dreamwidth, probably, and post where they can be found. If Wafrn has what pillowfort users want and, more importantly, if their friends from there want to try it out with them, it could be a healthy boost of furries, lady fandom nerds, and lgbt+ people to the fediverse.











  • No of course not! Then I’d be using the language of the left (treating empathy as a virtue) to try and communicate with her. She needs to figure out how those DEI labeled things would personally help her and her loved ones. I’m already on thin ice suggesting she should learn about things before cementing an opinion.

    But…if this one thing she learned about would have protected her from being sad, maybe there are other things? Maybe she or her loved ones won’t eat glass in the future if there are third parties making sure there is no glass in popsicles? Wouldn’t eating glass make her unhappy? Don’t companies keep accidentally getting glass in our food now that there is less money for the government to go around and check? Sure, a liberal might also eat glass and that would be cool and fun, but - oh no! I fucked up! Now Chrissy is entirely antiregulation until someone she knows is actually poisoned.






  • Was she always like this, and getting that pissed stressed her heart, or was she irrational from some health problem that then finished her off? I had a relative with heart problems who had a widowmaker while out in a field getting mad at a stuck tractor. He had been told “you gotta stop taking that tractor out there. it always gets stuck and then you get really mad and you’re going to have a heart attack.” At least it happened fast, I guess.

    So, did she die like she lived (angry, violent), like he did, or is it sadder?