jax @jax@octodon.social

@jax that kind of disorientation sucks, but you can get through it. You got this!

Free advice for cis writers who want to do a story about a trans character troubled by their transition.

Print out your outline. Make sure it's nicely formatted and on quality paper. Take care in your presentation.

Then set it on fire.

Then throw your computer into the fire.

what would you do
OooOooOoo
for a Tron-bike-car
🎵 🎶

It says a lot about the culture of games that 'skip cutscene' is standard but 'skip this challenge' is not.

While everybody try to find a way to filter out the languages they don't understand, I try my best to make friends with people I don't share language with.

Goddamn police.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/24/goddamn-police/

Disarm the cops. They're a deadly danger to civil society.

I guess people berating mobile games as "not real games" isn't a thing people do on Mastodon.

Is...is this heaven?

#gameing

Also also: If you claim to care about free speech you should also care about the basic principle of voluntary association, and thus people not wanting to hear or propagate your speech. *For any reason.* Defederation is a *basic requirement* for free speech to exist on Mastodon as anything other than a recapitulation of the worst corners of the internet.

The 500 character limit is an interesting constraint. It feels more like writing the abstract to a scientific paper, whereas 140 characters is closer to writing the title. A title only needs to state what you believe, but an abstract also needs to state why you believe it. Writing a good title is easy; writing a good abstract is much harder. I hope this survives. It's kind of fun.

mastodon users be like
https://social.wxcafe.net/media/WUhZUzoRgQDiyqLD1cY

Awoo !

I very much enjoyed this essay on Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/

I said a bit about it, but you really have to read the whole thing.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/13/captain-kirk-is-not-zapp-brannigan/

You know what would be great. Imagine an MMO with a community as safe as this. :heart_eyes: please let this happen within my lifetime.

boost this toot if you're bi/pan as hell

tfw you want to do a nice on/off CSS toggle switch because you believe it's easy in 2017

oh it went so wrong
abort abort

The fun thing about "sarcastic" mansplaining is that if I don't know you, it is indistinguishable from actual mansplaining.

It doesn't work as a joke. You are actually just doing the exact same thing that idiots do, just with a secret intent that I am not in on.

#comics #comicstrip

= MASTODON =
WHAT THEY EXPECTED: a VC backed startup intending to destroy twitter
WHAT THEY GOT: a bunch of cyberpunk kids hanging out behind the mall