WeeMadHamish 🐷 @WeeMadHamish@octodon.social

if the (discourse|pol) is ever too much for you, you can use this regex to remove posts mentioning them from your timeline: "discourse|pol"

you can add more terms to exclude by using another |, like "discourse|pol|jort"

it's ok to prioritize your health and safety when things are Too Much.

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It's my game R-COIL, currently on sale on Steam and Itch.io

http://vectorhat.com/r-coil

It's really very good.

"What ever happened to civility?"
"You labeled it 'political correctness' and decided it was something bad."

#deafcon is soliciting donations to bring #ASL interpreters to #defcon this year. Can you help?

https://www.deafconinc.org/the-interpreter-fund-1

tired: the white race is disappearing!

wired: whiteness is a political myth derived from crusader-era notions of christendom and adapted during the enlightenment to justify the slave trade within a framework of scientific racism, used thereafter for generations to weaponize colonizers and misdirect class conflict.

well shit. another of my editors (that's FOUR now) have had to step down.

i love them all, i really do, but now instead of gaining the FIVE we need from the applications we've received, we're actually only up ONE.

if any women-identified folks would like experience being an editor for a fucking awesome lit mag, fill out the application!

https://goo.gl/forms/zd3WiUuY5X9hxRkw1

#writing #editing #volunteering #ineedslushreaders

CWs are super great to encourage political action because:

- you can mention where it's happening, so you don't have to read it if you can't do anything about it, (or forward it on in case others might be able to act on it)

- you can say 'hey, here's something that you can do about it' and people can think 'oh wow, that's great, I'll take a look at this when I'm up for it'

(ie. giving context and action statements prevents apathy and makes political action messages focused instead of chaotic)

take whatever money you're giving to gargron and put it towards your favorite instances' patreon/support funds (after all, these are the folks keeping m.s's load down, AND the whole reason joinmastodon.org exists, AND the whole reason mastodon as a whole is so successful), or give those dollars directly to your marginalized fediverse frens who are struggling right now.

"The Senate is going to vote on the Music Modernization Act. Copyright is already too complicated and works already stay out of the public domain too long. Tell your Senator to vote no on S. 2823. "

Via the EFF:

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-another-expansion-of-copyright-tell-the-senate-to-vote-no-on-s-2823

Sometimes I feel like not enough people appreciate what it means if I'm willing to put on pants for them

The keyboard is HELPING.

« Your quarterly reminder that unless you are a Ferengi from Star Trek, the word "female(s)" is an adjective, not a noun.

"Women" is the noun you're looking to use not "females". An adjective is used next to a noun. Ex: I am a female designer. I am a woman. We are not "females". https://t.co/Vrdk5QpoLA »

— Retweet https://twitter.com/ebeinke/status/997304235824992256

needs:

- good gas mileage

- electric? ok, but what about long-distance travel. also, no charging station in this apartment building, not sure about the neighborhood

- at least the possibility of sleeping in it

- holding off on conversion vans and class B RVs, due to cost. my dream would be to have a Roadtrek or equivalent

- open to newer models and older ones alike

*more*