Samizdata ✔ @Samizdata@octodon.social
A guy that interjects into random
conversations with truly bad jokes.
#MeFite
#ThatSameSamizdataYouHaveSeenEverywhereElseEXCEPTBritishLibertarianism
This discussion yesterday about whether or not toots in French (and other non-English languages) should make their way to the federated timeline reminded me this blog post by Salvatore Sanfilippo aka Antirez (the creator of Redis, which is one of the core components propelling Mastodon).
"English has been my pain for 15 years"
http://antirez.com/news/61
"I Burned Your Tweet" but it burns all takes, not just tweets from the orange guy.
With the rise of multinational corporations and global debt, and the death of the welfare state, national states are becoming little more than mechanisms by which corporations and banks can enforce usury on the working population through taxation and the appropriation of surplus wealth. Stateless capitalism requires stateless Socialism to fight it.
since my federated feed seems so welcoming to non-english languages i wonder if i should try to toot some untranslatable country-side brazilian portuguese well here you go FOI-SE EMBORA O BOI COM A CORDA, AÔ MUNDÃO VÉI SEM PORTEIRA
Question:
If so many men argue that the assholes are the minority, (NOT ALL MEN!!!) why do we never see giant groups of men flooding women's accounts with nice, respectful messages or support?
Why doesn't dogpiling get responded to by a flood of help? Where is the support for women being stalked and threatened? Where are y'all?
I have never in my life been overwhelmed by kindness. But men literally attempt (and often succeed) destroying my life on the daily.
Where are the "good guys"?
@Samizdata Ty for the invite my good man.
Having moderated a large online community for about a decade now, I'm finding the collective arguing about CW protocol and kindness vs. freedom interesting and familiar and tiring and valuable all in a mix.
Community self-identification is a weird process, and I think I am mostly glad that mastodon doesn't by its very structure require the answer to be monolithic and universal.
But I will tip my hand a little and say that erring on the side of kindness is pretty much always defensible.
I've been learning guitar. I have a neurologic disorder which causes tremors in my hands. (among other things)
I just started private lessons. My teacher has already made interesting observations about the nature of my tremors.
Hopefully, this will be therapy and the power of making music will have my brain overriding the damage being wrought by an autoimmune disorder.
Watch out world. I'll be rocking the stage by the time I'm 70!. ;-)
it's weird that we call a driveway a driveway and a parkway a parkway in that the notion of meat creatures assigning meaning to a chaotic temporary existence in an unfeeling universe is just kinda strange as a premise, y'know?
@Shavas Just wanted to publically greet the newly registered source of the admin horror stories I mentioned to you folks earlier.
lb: petition to make "not even william shatner can find me" be the next "I'm behind 7 proxies"
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@CobaltVelvet @lolkat yep, that's how The Block Bot does it, with a community process for deciding who to go on the list, and how to appeal the decision.
wip graphic for a friend's synth project
Comic of the morning : Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Marvel’s Doctor Strange (2017) Show more
Anyone know the origins/meaning of the Mastodon logo? (Not the mammoth, but the round one with three cartouches.)
I ask because the cartouches with dots in them remind me of a tree's seed pods. Which remind me of this amazing article I read a few years back "The Trees That Miss The Mammoths" http://www.americanforests.org/magazine/article/trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/
It's quite a read.
them: send nudes
me: https://mastodon.social/media/oTS7sUccEx9xYS_THAQ
I'm digging this time lapse photo of birds I ran across. Looks like a tape tornado. Others here: http://timewheel.net/amazing-chronophotographs-capture-patterns-birds-flight/
