Ashdroid ☄️🤖 @Ashdroid@octodon.social

I think the Tusky client helps a LOT with bringing up the “early blogging” feel that I'm feeling with Mastodon right now. Like, I don't even have to wait until the end of day. I'll just open the client, verbal diarrhea in it, and SOMEONE will find it mildly interesting.

IIRC with blogging tho, that shit didn't last. We'll start seeing more commercial, “brand”-conscious people moving in, and if this place survives it, that early feel will disappear.

Q: Can I block all robots easily?

A: If they're well-behaved, add #nobot to your profile bio. See: https://mastodon.social/media/cjbb9KGh16WFRvuAyis

Nice door.

Really instead of relying on users to put gifs behind a CW for people who are sensitive to them, gifs should just display as tap-to-play across the board. It's an easy way to head off the issue.

happy #caturday flippies 😂
https://octodon.social/media/qaQrmf7o77o5dfO_4M8

#caturday #mastocats
https://toot.cat/media/WvHfxxjJBibRg84ORKQ

now I'll get some sleep but meanwhile you can watch these very simple munin plugins I just wrote:
https://munin.octodon.social/octodon.social/main.octodon.social/index.html#other

"In 10 or 15 years, we will look back fondly on the days when there were only a few thousand Middle Easterners dedicated to destroying the U.S. and willing to die for the fundamentalist cause."

I mean, that was sort of obvious even then but holy shit "serious" news was afraid to criticize the war at all much less CORRECTLY PREDICT ISIS

http://www.theonion.com/multiblogpost/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-regio-11534

"Unpaywall, a web browser extension that links users directly to free full-text versions of research articles." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/04/04/announcing-unpaywall-unlocking-openaccess-versions-of-paywalled-research-articles-as-you-browse/
http://unpaywall.org/

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2017/0405/The-mystery-of-knitting-remains-a-mystery

Knitting is awesome. And although I won't have a sweater when we are done with our cookies and tea (I have literally never made a sweater. Not even a baby one), I can whip up a mean pair of socks.

What do you call an optometrist that lives on an island in the Bering Sea?

An optical aleutian.

I like to make things with my laser cutter. Here is an example of my work
https://mastodon.network/media/AtmoF6X614CrIqEaER4

If this turns out to be real this would truly be the beginning of the end:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/uber-said-to-use-sophisticated-software-to-defraud-drivers-passengers/

https://octodon.social/media/WZhFZgbAFb3MDwc7XiY

CWs aren't "censorship" or putting your toots behind some kinda wall, they're basically equivalent to lowering your voice so only the intended people can hear you in this crowded bar, as you talk about stuff that's potentially upsetting, TMI, or whatever.

People don't want CWs on "politics" (which really means "the news") because they're oversensitive and afraid of seeing the news, they read they news, they just don't want it to be a 24-hour punditry vortex in here.

there's room for many of us in this town pardner