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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

Why doesn’t @tekin.co.uk just ignore DHH’s blog posts? Calling his ideas “harmful and toxic” is a pretty glib and harmful response to them. Don’t like his posts? Ignore them. If people really cared about harmful toxic ideas they’d be criticizing alcohol ads. Let people live their lives.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

It’s certainly not nice but it’s the truth from DHH’s perspective. In the same way, @tekin.co.uk’s article about DHH is true and not nice, but I’m not about to call for his banishment from the things he created because of his harmful and toxic ideas.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

A lipstick ad, then. DHH’s point is that this particular ad clearly wasn’t meant to sell to Danes in Copenhagen: its purpose seemed to be representation of different body types over “oppressive” beauty ideals, but beauty ideals are net good. And my point is that that idea isn’t harmful or toxic.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

Wow that’s a lot of questions. I think it’s better to tell the truth instead of lying, even if the truth hurts people.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

I’m trying to understand what you’re talking about lol

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. I don’t think anybody is arguing against the concept of forking an open source project?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 27/09/2025

I’d consider “he holds racist and transphobic views [we find abhorrent], as well as a number of other traits undesirable” threatening days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated for the same thing. Also they intentionally named it after an extremely violent and deadly French military operation.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

His condescending language feels warranted to me in this case because of the severity of the threat and tone of accusations being used against him by this group. If someone was breaking into your home I wouldn’t fault you for shooting them, even though that would usually be very rude.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

I could make a grotesque ad of a person with rotten teeth literally using the toothpaste I’m selling. Maybe I’m not understanding the counter argument you’re making here?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

This particular ad was cited by DHH because it was on a prominent billboard in Copenhagen, so the target audience would be the average Copenhagen consumer’s dream and ideal, but it’s obviously not.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

Oh for sure: it could hurt the feelings of someone who is obese. But pretending they have a beautiful ideal body is objectively more harmful if they believe me. Being obese is an insane health risk. There’s a reason fit bodies seem more attractive.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

Oh wow that’s a great deal. I don’t think I could even watch that many movies. How often do you actually end up going?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

People with rotten teeth probably also use toothpaste. Rotten teeth are worse than non-rotten teeth and an obese body is worse than a fit body. Ads sell the ideal dream of what we might become. There are certainly harms I can think of from pretending an obese body is healthy.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

Yeah it was rough growing up here.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

If you don’t like the tone and direction then do something else? That’s why I jumped ship from the Next/serverleess ecosystem back to Rails a year ago.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

A condescending tone is a prerequisite for working in any sort of engineering field 😅

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

On Omarchy I no longer feel like I need a mouse.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

Wait what part of that would make Konnor an asshole? Denmark does make obesity drugs consumed primarily by fat Americans. Are fat woke people a forbidden topic to write about?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

You’re faulting DHH for excluding the people intentionally excluding themselves? Like, if you had a book club and I was coming to it and you were cool with that, but then I was like “this Konnor guy has undesirable traits let’s make a new book club without him” what would your unifying response be?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

After digging into the sources you link to, DHH’s “harmful and toxic ideas” seem pretty reasonable to me. Like, yeah, an obese underwear model does seem grotesque to me in the same way someone with rotten teeth in a toothpaste ad would seem grotesque. What’s harmful or toxic about that idea?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

The faction trying to kick out the group’s founder is the divisive exclusionary side, no? Who’s DHH saying he wants to exclude?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

If you’re doing the Omarchy thing I’ve found the whole thing is hyper optimized to not need a mouse at all. It’s wild.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 26/09/2025

I disagree. I think they’re both extensions of the same argument: offensive speech isn’t violent so it’s not justified to retaliate with actual violence. If we play chess, you capturing my king isn’t violence. If I call you a kingslayer and then punch you in the nose then I’m the asshole.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 25/09/2025

These two articles actually say the same thing: don't escalate verbal disagreements over ideas to physical violence.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 09/12/2024

Also sometimes "the fascists" might be right.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 09/12/2024

I'm predicting Bluesky to stumble hard when trying to make money. If they charge for premium features, because it's an open network any premium feature they might add should be available for free with another client (it not, it's not actually open). If they add ads, then it's just 𝕏.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 08/12/2024

Couldn’t I get higher video upload limits and quality if I use another client that allows that? 🤔

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 08/12/2024

People seem to have a fervor about it that I’ve found difficult to understand.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 05/12/2024

I think protecting free speech is serious, important, and (far from being abstract) happening in this very conversation. Radical left and right wing ideologies have readily used censorship to quiet dissenting voices and I agree that's led to staggering horrors.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 05/12/2024

I like the line drawn by Brandenburg v. Ohio at "imminent lawless action." Otherwise I think diversity of ideas is extremely important to a healthy culture. I wanna know what the fascists are up to and I'd like to understand their arguments better than they do.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 05/12/2024

Fascists oppose free speech. If Jack Dorsey's only fascist crime is allowing fascists to express their ideas he doesn't seem very fascist to me. Additionally, I'm not convinced Alex Jones is a fascist. The argument here seems to be "people I don't like should be silenced" and that's bad.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 05/12/2024

My understanding of the argument there is "it's important to suppress intolerant people because they're violent and irrational." And yeah, don't let terrorists plot on social media. But is Jack Dorsey a fascist for not deplatforming Alex Jones? Am I a fascist apologist for asking the question?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

...do you think I'm a fascist now too? 🤔 If so then I suppose I understand your perspective: anyone that doesn't unilaterally condemn and censor other fascists is themselves a fascist?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

Like, I get that there are loads of people that believe Jack Dorsey is a fascist, I just don't understand why they think that. TechCrunch's argument there seems to be that he's "reluctant to ban Nazis," but to me that's not sufficient evidence of someone being a fascist: just free speech.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

Ms. Rachel >> Cocomelon. Our daughter has learned words, signs, and songs we haven't taught her from that show. Every Cocomelon video I've seen just feels like garbage.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

I have and haven't seen anything I'd define as fascist. I'm curious about your perspective.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

Keyboard shortcut to disable/re-enable your keyboard. Toddler Mode™ (via. www.hammerspoon.org)

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

What do you believe he's done that makes him a fascist? I'd take book recommendations too—I don't know much about the guy.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 04/12/2024

What don’t you like about him?

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 29/11/2024

Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut. Hej, I’m Näitsirhc, a modular office shelving system.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 29/11/2024

this is America you legally have to keep eating until you're in pain

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 29/11/2024

My grandparents did this in upstate New York! I grew up knowing all of my second cousins.

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Christian Genco @gen.co · 28/11/2024

For engagement maxing I’d think Instagram is the place for pie pictures. 𝕏 is the place for news, public debates, and hot takes. Bluesky is for… talking about how great the vibes on Bluesky are?

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