This is how it is in mbin. Well, over at the instance I'm using at least.

I find it amusing sometimes, because I can see whether posts have been liked from Mastodon or other services. Gives some insight into how interconnected we really are.

I guess over at Lemmy you can't currently tell if your post is boosted by a Mastodon user. Sometimes they are, and in theory they can kind of live a life of their own from there on. It's fun to be able to see when it happens.

A friend of mine keeps doing this. He'll pretend to be an expert of fucking anything, and you can generally tell immediately that he doesn't know shit. When he goes on about things that I actually do know things about it's unbearable, and of course his ego is too fragile to handle being told he's wrong.

We have a lot of impressive common friends with awesome general knowledge, and I frequently wonder how the hell we have the patience to keep him around. My general knowledge is shite, but at least I'm quite open about being ignorant.

He's hyper sensitive about social situations, yet introducing him to new people is almost always embarrassing.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he is a professional psychologist.

When we have female friends in common and suddenly it turns out they want to fuck her and they assume I'm only hanging out with her because I want to as well.

I have never had any men brag to me about their sexual encounters; generally the people I end up hanging out with don't make sexist comments about women in public or anything like that. But this bullshit I've experienced on numerous occasions.

I guess it's not really a "toxic trait" as much as "being toxic as fuck".

Well, men do it better

This is why I think weaponized incompetence is a better term than willful incompetence.

I don't think it's even always intentional, conscious, or willful. It's just, well, "not giving a fuck", and getting away with it because women are always around to deal with their shit.

Ugh.

If you consciously change your behaviour once there's no women around... Yeah, chances are you won't see me again unless I'm absolutely forced to.

It's like some people think they're contractually obliged to make a sexist joke or some shit. Thankfully I don't meet these people often.

Herlig! Vi trenger absolutt mer politisk press for å få Norge til å hoppe etter Sveits på dette området.

Forbrukerrådet drukner i viktige arbeidsoppgaver, men de har noen veldig flinke folk. Minst to av dem, @finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social og @airavn@eupolicy.social, er på Mastodon. Det er mulig det er der det ligger mest håp.

Yeah, I think that's a very valid point that I didn't immediately give enough consideration.

As a complete outsider, being a woman in a country where half the men are Trump supporters sounds fucking terrifying.

Had young Morrissey known how pathetic old Morrissey would end up, he would no doubt have written an incredible soul searching song about it.

I guess it's also natural that subcultures that tend to be banned elsewhere are early adaptors of alternative platforms.

We're lucky we didn't exist when the Trump extremists on Reddit went looking for a new home, or they would probably have been one of the biggest fields in this figure. Hopefully when the right wing extremists arrive instance admins will have the good sense to defederate.

A Russian soldier enters Heaven. St. Peter: 'So you're dead...' Russian: 'Oh no - Soviet spokesmen say I'm bravely advancing on the Finns.'

Finnish joke, WWII.