Mads Winther @madswinther

@cc That's borderline condescending. Not every part of the internet has to (or can) represent every aspect of life. Hell, LIFE doesn't contain every aspect all the time. Life at work isn't life at home isn't life at parties. Nor does every inch of the web need to present you with all challenges of "real" life. There's a greater freedom to choose your experience on the web than in RL, and people can treat it however they want, 1:1 w/meatspace or otherwise, hurting others notwithstanding.

@cc Sure - everyone's going to, and should, encounter resistance. But there's a fair distance from that and to bullying, and I take that shit very seriously (clearly).

But coming back to the original discussion: Again, yeah, life & resistance, but Mastodon isn't "life". It's a tiny corner of it, and I don't feel the need for (at least certain types of) conflict or negativity here. So I'm fine with safe-spacing it up.

@cc I'm arguing against having asterisks at all here.

@cc Yeah. I'm just saying, no, no asterisks. From my point of view. Never, ever, ever acceptable, in any situation, regardless of the result.

@cc I vehemently disagree with the bullying part. I was bullied a fair amount, too, and definitely developed a healthy disregard for the opinions of people I don't like. But "crediting" bullying for thick skin is like crediting an abusive parent for a higher pain tolerance. Deriving something positive from a shitty thing doesn't make the thing any less shitty, or right. So yeah. Always bad, no exceptions, no caveats, as far as I'm concerned.

@cc (Replies generally don't seem to show up on the public feeds, so it's not an issue here, but: I always have a reflexive urge to add a preemptive "No, that's not what free speech means" to forestall that certain category of responses when I mention banning and Nazis in the same sentence)

@cc Of course. But in a place like this, you can tailor your experience to a pretty far degree, by (as you said) picking an instance that suits you, and then not being afraid of the mute- and block buttons from there.

Hell, that's what the alt-right/Nazi fuckers are doing, too, which, combined with instance banning, is a great thing for the rest of us.

@cc (And really, abusers shouldn't be muted, they should be reported and blocked)

@cc Alternatively, use the Fed feed while swinging the muting axe in broad strokes. It's still a nice place to discover new people, you might just have to trim it a bit. Not just abusers, but, like, I mute people who I feel excessively badmouth stuff I like. They're completely entitled to do it, but I'm not required to have that negativity in my feed, y'know?

@fruchtblase Kinda TASTE*. Damnit.

@fruchtblase WITH ketchup, doesn't everything kinda just that like ketchup?

@muzikero Nuance can be applied, though. I think there are stretches in most of his pieces where certain dynamics come fairly intuitively. And anyway, I think the contrapunctal, clockwork beauty of his pieces far outweigh the absence of dynamics in the original text.

@muzikero Ack, except that "Clavier" was a generic keyboard term at the time. Correction noted. But I still stand firm on the transcriptions 😬

@muzikero Not as long as you allow me to point back to my original toot, mentioning Well-Tempered Clavier and transcriptions, which, y'know, are for piano. Well, obviously pieces can be transcribed into any other instrument, but the "for piano" part was implicit there, I think) 😛

But yes, other than that, correct.

2001 Simpsons jokes 2017 actually no this doesn't need any updating at all https://mastodon.club/media/POcT6TFu7Dwug6ngLhE

1995 Simpsons jokes, 2017 edition https://mastodon.club/media/C4CagmgOPCXtCoN4Hqg

@andyAstruc Goddamnit you just made me think about them

1993 Simpsons jokes, 2017 edition https://mastodon.club/media/Y9zkkt-3YzkkyMAIzeQ

Kids, this might be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, NASA launched enough space flights - and they were actually put on TV - for this to be a joke.
https://mastodon.club/media/3R4yqhVVtszuOBrxzSA