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Which keyboard are you using?

Thank you for pointing this out, at least it clarifies the issues

I have True Detective and Blue Eyes Samurai on my radar, no time to watch them yet though.

Done!

we should open it in a different instance

I really like lemm.ee, the admin is a nice person. It's also the second biggest instance behind LW, so more visibility.

Edit : aldready getting downvoated sweet.

I'm really surprised about what is happening here

@THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml @maegul@lemmy.ml as you seemed to be interested

Very interesting, thank you!

Hello,

As you banned my other account, I am now commenting with this one. I'm not going to comment on this that much, the modlog is public, people interested can have a look at make their own opinions.

For history, the two removed posts:

I guess we can just conclude that we disagree on how to manage this kind of communities, which is mostly fine, that's what Lemmy is about after all: freedom.

I'll probably contact the people interested in review threads (and there seems to be a few, based on the removed threads and the 200 upvotes on the other post) and see it we can offer an alternative for people looking for a more structured community.

Good luck

I make just as much as I did in IT, which is a real indictment of IT,

That's surprising indeed! May I ask you where you are located? (you can just give continent if you don't to give countries)

The new TV show?

Sounds great, good for you!

That's an interesting theory. He literally comes out of a closet, after all.

Might be, I didn't know before that Germany had such a large FOSS community

Seems hard to manage indeed

I have studied in Belgium where university is very cheap (800 euros per year), so most of the people would go into either a bachelor or a master degree.

When we were about to finish, the university tried to get some of us to stay as PhD students. Nobody did, just because the industry seemed more up-to-date and less reluctant to change.

Is it the case in your countries too?

Hello,

Thank you for your comment. That's one of our main threads, "On the sensitive topic of being a Harry Potter fan while acknowledging JKR's transphobia" https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/9633657, quoting https://www.popsugar.co.uk/entertainment/harry-potter-fans-jk-rowling-transphobia-essay-49214964

Still, there may be a way to enjoy Harry Potter as a trans person or ally. Over the years, many fans have found creative ways to engage with the series's magic while also acknowledging its creator's bigotry. In her paper "Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling," Jennifer Duggan, an associate professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway — says that it's possible to interpret the text of Harry Potter itself in ways that would certainly horrify its writer. "My central thesis—one which has also been argued by other academics like Thomas Pugh and David Wallace — is that the Harry Potter novels are deeply queer," she tells POPSUGAR. "I mean this in both senses of the term: they champion nonnormativity through the contrast of the 'perfectly normal' Dursleys and Harry, and they are, at their heart, a story about a boy with an 'abnormality' (as the Dursleys call his magic) who comes out of his cupboard under the stairs and discovers and finds and affinity for a hidden, colourful, queer world. I take this argument further to argue that the novels are easily read through a trans lens, since there is a focus in many of the books on shapeshifting, including several cross-gendered transformations."

Fandom, she adds, can provide spaces where Harry Potter fans can explore the series's queer undercurrents while celebrating their own sexualities. "From what I have observed, I have concluded that for the most part, the Harry Potter fandom continues to offer queer and trans fans a positive space," she tells POPSUGAR. "The two main trends I have seen in fan works are an 'answer hate with love' reaction, in which fans focus on trans positivity, and so-called 'spitefic,' which are works that are framed as revenge on Rowling for the hurt she has caused. These works are usually trans-positive, too. That said, I fully understand why some fans feel they can no longer engage with the texts in any way."

Link to the research paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-021-09446-9

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Very well done