Cait🍰 @caitofthenorth@octodon.social

4yo’s recent ink pad portrait of me. Don’t want to brag but, even after two kids, my lower abdomen tentacles still really do look that good.

"Millennials" as distinct from "Gen-X" is bullshit, we're all actually "post-Boomers." The transition from "take care of everybody" to "fuck everybody" began in the 70s and has just gotten worse. Every way Millenials are screwed is just a worsening/extension/development of ways Gen Xers were (and many still are) screwed.

Ginny mentioned the idea of a sort of Mastodon UN a while ago—a collection of instances where one can count on civility being enforced. I like this idea.

There has to be a place on the internet where harassment is not. There have to be places policed by conscientious admins who do not allow this behavior to happen. There has to be a point where abuse is not considered a point of debate.

This is the power of Mastodon over Twitter: we don't have to wait for a company to decide people matter.

Something bad happened here. I'm not clear on the details, but I'm gonna bet that:

(1) One or more people who should never have been let near a keyboard abused one or more people who didn't deserve it

(2) Assholes cried victim/repression after being called on their horrible behavior

(3) and we are back to square one in the great battle of civilized society vs free-speecher anarchists.

Lack of brands/VC won't kill Mastodon. Trolls will.

Ban them, silence them, remove them. Do not look back.

Whenever a lie is told, a person's breath grows foul. The more lies told, the nastier the breath. You are hailed by society as the only honest, pleasant-smelling human. One day, after years of fooling the masses, you run out of breath mints.
#writingprompts #writing

I sometimes picture mastodon as those Haven cities in zombie films.

"I heard it's safe! They got food, clean water, and the brands ain't got up there yet!"

https://mastodon.social/users/creatrixtiara/updates/1863951

Read. Assimilate. These are serious points to consider. All in all, the community here seems to mostly view people suggesting changes as probably silly, probably trying to make it "too twitter", but this is legit. This is stuff that stops Mastodon from welcoming people who could benefit from it's systems.

Fuck 4chan, let's dance.

Y'all they just whipped Jesus right in front of my dang house

I've been thinking a lot about my "feral economy" principle, where the global economy doesn't really need humans.

I first articulated it a couple of years back in a short called, simply, Feral. You can read it here: https://glyphpress.com/talk/2014/feral

Artificial intelligence is being developed under the evolutionary constrataints of Capitalism.

(More coming, under the Feral Economy content warning, which should make a way to thread? Let's find out!)

Glad our office is closing early today because I'm deeply religious and need to start watching the new MST3K as an act of devotion.

.....wouldn't it be hilarious if we had, say, a 16th-century person brought forward to today, and you sat them down in a room...and the HVAC came on?

Imagine the reaction they'd have to that. It'd be hilarious.

Any time someone muses about the practicality of a rain jacket at my shop i think their mind exploding thanks to beautiful shit like this

"but is it water RESISTANT or water PROOF??" :thinking:
https://mastodon.xyz/media/X6FHydK_zYVKjIxRk50

The problem with having somewhat smart cats is that they also use their smarts to learn the things you don't want them to.

reminder that arguing in bad faith is worse than outright insulting people.