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calling for a moratorium on rhetorical rounding. redlining is bad, but it is not genocide. data centers are annoying, but they are not rumbling csam farms. nimbys are counterproductive, but they're not pro-homelessness monsters. no your pet cause isn't a special case. yes "jokes" count.

23/10/26, 2:53 am9 reposts99 likes

Daniel Lenski

@moxfyre.bsky.social

I feel macroagressed.

jae (hallowed)

@fubarchitect.com

gonna need you to tone that down to merely aggressed before i can take it seriously

Daniel Lenski

@moxfyre.bsky.social

Oh great, what's next? You gonna tell me that tone policing is not the same as militarized policing? To my face?

jae (hallowed)

@fubarchitect.com

to your phone, even; heat seeking tone-it-downs are in your area

trevaeddy99.bsky.social

@trevaeddy99.bsky.social

Not every bad outcome is a public health emergency. Words mean things. If everything is dangerous, traumatic, or toxic, we lose the ability to distinguish genuine crises from ordinary problems. Precision isn’t minimizing suffering; it’s how we communicate honestly and respond proportionately.

jae (hallowed)

@fubarchitect.com

i almost wrote 'humor is illegal again' but humor never was illegal and that would be a little early to go full hypocrite