Hell, the inscrutable words used to be things like "queer" or "lesbian".
What I'm saying is that in like 20 years we're going to hear about the actual emperor's (of where? Who knows. Probably like Michigan) preferred danmei series and we're going to like it.
If they're not trans then why is the demon Baalthorok sitting at the booth behind them? Also does anyone have Baalthorok's number I need to talk to them for reasons.
This is not what we meant by gay communism.
I feel like there's got to be a decent middle ground between a pinned post that pushes this in front of everyone and requires further mod comments to try and stave off harassment and silently letting anyone who notices find the mod logs and make their own judgements of everyone involved. Like, in the absence of an actual announcement I think people would absolutely come to their own much more inflammatory conclusions if/when they noticed regardless of what the removed mod does, and the removed mod could make things into an absolute shit storm (which they don't appear to be trying to do as far as I can tell, to their credit). But on the flip side, the way this post is set up is also an escalation in its own right and represents a more aggressive use of power by the remaining mods than was absolutely necessary.
If blahaj.zone has an instance business forum then making the full statement there (where it won't get pushed out of sight as fast as the 196 churn would do to a non-stickied post) and linking it may have been wiser, since it preserves the immediate statement without shoving it to the top of everyone's plate, and would still allow a stickied post on 196 itself if the situation escalated and it became more necessary.
I dunno, mod shit is hard and I'm glad I get to armchair quarterback it rather than actually making these decisions in real time. Props to the full mod team for keeping the chaos of 196 from turning toxic and destructive for however long it's been here.
Secretly?
My town's pride event was this weekend. Regrettably the heat and social anxiety in my family won out over heading down there but even so please know that I did remember this exchange. You are still seen and recognized and valid, at least in whatever small ways a stranger on Lemmy can offer.
Stay safe out there.
For anyone else who was curious about the religious context, Luke 15 is about how much God loves repentance, featuring most famously the parable of the Prodigal Son.
You know, some cities (at least one because I live here) delay their local pride celebration until July to avoid competing with larger cities in the local metro area. Don't get too comfortable if you want to avoid being seen and celebrated, is what I'm saying.
Also, I showed this to my wife since we're all going through it, and she points out that that burger looks like it knows what an Atari is.
This may be true in the general case, but if you consider that my depression and anxiety make me vaguely megalomaniacal you would understand that I am different and uniquely terrible for having literally any problems ever.
My wife keeps lamenting that we haven't found ways to help pet rats live as long as cats but I don't think this is what she had in mind.
Right? Easy to overstate the value of it as we see now, but it sure was nice being a demographic worth pandering to, especially when that meant that the homophobes weren't worth appeasing.