outside of running your own instance, asking your instance's owner to block them, or joining one that already has the offender on the blocklist, no. It's requested a lot though so it's probably on the todo list

It's definitely all of the above.

Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they're less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

the only restaurant chili with cinnamon is skyline, which is specifically why i dont like it

i mean it's spiced differently and usually has beans but the main ingredient is still tomatoes. not that different from having a meat sauce

chili spaghetti is extremely normal tho ?

i mean skyline sux and all but like

finish reading the comment, theyre not the same

you've got to consider that to a lot of these people racism "isn't real" because their bar for what qualifies as racist is set incredibly high. "how could that be racist if it's true?"

you can see a similar anti-trans sentiment in the people who defend jk rowling. "she's just saying gender can't mismatch assigned sex, how could the truth be transphobic?" nothing could ever be transphobic or racist or whatever to these people when they think very concept of being bigoted isn't legitimate

Maybe I've just spent too long arguing with aholes on the internet but to me calling someone "friend" comes across as very sarcastic and condescending

Edit, it's like calling someone you don't know "buddy" or "pal"