I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase “Men who have Sex with Men” in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

It’s in the past tense though; we don’t have to assume it was now-ish.

(I want to believe!)

Oh I get you now, I’ve met email addresses like that too. Some people though you google them and a blank page with one or two sentences appears, those are the ones that frustrate me.

It would be cool to have a zombo like entity but might attract the attackers?

constant CCTV monitored by AI, posting clips of the ridiculous escapades to social media

Thanks I hate it. Mainly because you’re probably right - it will be like those “border control” and “disaster” reality shows only automated. Something to look forward to!😅

seeing all the hits to wordpress URIs from bots trying to exploit known vulnerabilities

Yeah it’s really yucky, it feels like an arms race with endless bots, updates, stuff breaking, but when I decided to use a CMS it just seemed way easier than Joomla or Drupal which were the other main options back then. That said, I used to see malicious visits back when it was just an html website.

Do you get many bad actors hosting in the fediverse?

I understand your point of view but fwiw, this isn’t an excuse and I do care about disabled people.

I myself am disabled with mobility challenges. My wheelchair is very rickety and fragile because I can’t afford a decent one or a power assist (most people don’t know this but in New Zealand, people disabled by serious illness are generally not eligible for disability funding - so if you are not mobile, you don’t get mobility aids, you are just… left to rot, which is what I was talking about in the last comment).

I also have to lie down a lot if I do go anywhere, and I can suddenly collapse or need medication or warm clothing, so my wish list for public spaces is going to be a bit different to the needs of a healthy disabled person with independent propulsion, which is who most people think of when they list the kind of things you listed.

I don’t expect society to cater to my kind of disability. But I’m only human, and you possibly have no idea what a huge boost it is to me, being semi house bound, if I get to go to a shop or an event. My town took away most of the disability parking around its main street when it made it pedestrian friendly, which is why I said it matters how it is done.

Before I got sick I was never a “car person”, I didn’t even own one - just used public transport and walked to work every day. From an environmental perspective it’s quite mortifying that I am all “but muh car park” and need a car. My only consolation is that being this disabled, my carbon footprint is pretty small by western standards.😔

That’s so disappointing.

Aaah you have one of those websites! I arrive at them and then spend ages trying to work out if there is anywhere to go. Like a less empowering version of zombo!

Have to say we are fortunate to get our teenage years in pre-phone cameras. My drunk and disorderly fashion crimes live on only in the minds of people who witnessed them.

This conversation is reminding me I should fix my old site. I hate the constant updates involved in wordpress.

Omg, I had no idea. Yikes!

That’s a good point! I actually got mine so I could “win” google. Kind of want to know what your escapades are now!

Just checked with duckduckgo and I seem to have lost SEO to an inactive profile on blogspot of all places, which is super weird!

When I was a child it was a trend to bite the bottom off first. Only works if you can eat the rest really fast!

but Peter [redacted text] so could have some insights that might be of interest to David

What is the redacted text?? “owns a spy network” “has assassinated several people”… “is a connisseur of snapchat”???