We are all witnessing a master class in fucking with the trans community, that’s what’s going on

The short version is the a user, initially “dragon fucker”, who then changed their name to “dragon rider” to make the bit less obvious, was the embodiment of the “Apache attack helicopter gender identity” meme.

The premise of their identity is that they fuck dragons, and their pronouns are “drag”. This is, on its face, hilariously delusional at absolute best and a troll at worst.

My list of issues with drag is long, but some of their greatest hits:

Reporting everyone who didn’t play along with them as transphobic. This caused issues over at Bahaj who, bless their heart, gave drag the benefit of the doubt.

Harassing users in DMs, up to and including pictures of themselves saying “bet you would like some of my girlcock” or something to that affect

Things get a little conspiratorial past this line

I’ve been around Lemmy for a while now, and after seeing drag talk, I am 100% convinced they’re another iteration of an equally terrible user called DroneRights.

It was the same MO, their “gender” was that they were a “drone” in a “hive mind”. Again, patently absurd and should never have been taken seriously, except they would regularly try to get users banned for being “transphobic”.

I think all of this is just a bit to subtract from actual trans issues, which is exactly what it did. It reframed the discussion around gender identity and pronouns on Lemmy to “oh but what about “xenogenders”, and “neo-pronouns”, which is like…. Just the epitome of what the left gets made fun of for at this point.

It all ended with drag getting banned from blahaj for sharing DMs with the admin, though I’m sure it was a straw that broke the camels back kind of situation

I hypothesize we see another, similarly deranged account within a few weeks and the cycle will continue.

It’ll move in the direction of local rendering, with cloud “AI” powered elements

It confuses me how a company can basically invent an entire category of hardware, then proceed to do absolutely everything as terribly as possible after that.

New Cisco firewalls? Fucking suck.

Cisco switches? Good hardware, but they haven’t evolved configuration wise since like the mid 2000s, and licensing costs as much as the switch, for foreign based support that doesn’t even understand the question.

The ENTIRE FTD platform is an absolute insult to engineering and should single handedly be responsible for bankrupting Cisco, imo.

Bazzite was a 15 minute experience for me, from first boot to playing X4 foundations and sea of thieves.

Take the leap.

Honestly I migrated to bazzite about a month ago and my entire library has just… worked. It was shockingly easy. I haven’t changed anything from defaults at all.

Literally ignore it.

Nah you’ll just have a big tax bill you have to save for

Yes it would. That’s why they’re having people fill out strike cards and waiting until they actually have that organization before they set a date

This will be too short notice and too expensive for many to attend. Generalstrikeus.com has the right idea

I think this one is too short noticed for most people

That’s a pretty big leap to take for one of the largest instances

You have got to condense this down, use some periods. Run it through chat gpt maybe. But it’s nearly incomprehensible.

One of my wife’s weirdest features if she won’t eat pineapple on pizza, but loves the after taste when you take the pineapple off and leave some of the pineapple juice.

It’s a texture thing I think

Jesus fucking Christ can mods just not get into arguments? You’re a mod. Shut the fuck up and don’t cause more drama.

You’re gonna have to remind me

It’s the reason they got banned that’s important, both .ml and hexbear are pretty lgbtq inclusive, and they love a good troll. But they wouldn’t tolerate drag.

Anyone who uses the term “shitlib” tend to trend towards trump supporter level of dumbass I’ve noticed

My beef with neo pronouns is they are used in such a way to weaponize the “political correctness” attitude of some liberal communities

Drag is a good example because they’re a blatant troll, and pretty blatantly try to get anyone who disagrees with them about anything banned for being “transphobic”

Like it’s an obvious bit, it makes the mods and admins look like fools. Drag got banned from hexbear AND .ml for this behavior.

This 100000%

Check back in in a month

Edit: it’s been 10 days now, but things ain’t goin so hot are they?