Allene @arlowrey@octodon.social
Writer of heroic sf/f, Objectivist, gamer, and lover of life. Blog https://allenelowrey.com/
Please recommend to me more people to follow who talk about music and old technology and vintage scifi and maybe text adventure games?
It's hard to find new people on a small instance, so boosts and replies are welcome and encouraged.
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
If this were a story, this guy would be just the latest victim, and a victim of a frame-up. But because this is the real world, probably not. We can all hope.
NPR: Austin Bombing Suspect Kills Himself In Explosion As Police Move In For Arrest. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwr7yn0TY
hot take: Masto should not focus on acquiring new users
it should focus on providing its users a safe, stable, reliable place to form a community, and allow users to join organically
trying to emulate other systems by incorporating their flaws is a terrible idea and guess against the whole ethos behind most people who came here
My dad was diagnosed with ALS when I was young & just like Hawking was told he only had a few years. At the time Stephen had lived decades longer than anyone expected. You have no idea the amount of hope he gave a little scared boy just by living.
Illustration by Mari Andrew http://bymariandrew.com/
I want to say I'm super grateful for everyone here on Mastodon.
It's such a positive experience compared to most other places I've interacted with on the internet.
Thank you for your voices and being yourselves.
This meme perfectly reused
It's now officially available in both paperbaxk and ebook! Which means now I can stop pimping at you all for a little. 😉
Seriously, though, if you've got $3 and a hankering for an old-fashioned adventure, I hope you'll take a gander.
:sigh: I had a feeling they were going to screw it up. Looks like I was right. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-wrinkle-in-time-review-a-condescending-nonsensic/1100-6457226/?utm_source=gamefaqs&utm_medium=partner&utm_content=news_module&utm_campaign=homepage
Oh no, Carmen Sandiego has stolen the concept of ownership!
If there's one thing I preferred about my Samsung S5, it was the size of the keyboard. Something about the LG keyboard leads to typos.....
It's now officially available in both paperbaxk and ebook! Which means now I can stop pimping at you all for a little. 😉
Seriously, though, if you've got $3 and a hankering for an old-fashioned adventure, I hope you'll take a gander.
Fun fact from the Wikipedia rabbit hole: Troll dolls were invented in 1959. My grade-school self is stunned.
With only six more bucks I will be have to start mailing zines out to $5 and up patrons. I have one ready to roll composed of a bunch of RPG Talk contest winners and some all new strangeness. Art and text for games.
Waiting on Amazon to figure out how I need to fix my MS for the paperback version, but the digital version goes live on Thursday!
Preorder links here: https://allenelowrey.com/books/
Today I realized that I cannot expect people on the Internet to have heard of the Geek Social Fallacies any more.
The Geek Social Fallacies are five things that geeks often believe about How Socializing Should Work, that cause a lot of conflict. I've found them to be pretty useful as a way to put a handle on certain concepts, and maybe even avoid going into bad situations.
http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
(Looking at them in 2017, I find myself wondering how many of the GSFs the design of most social networks is running straight into...)
