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.
@electrotamitha Congratulations(! and/or ?)
@andyAstruc Do you want to hang out?
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/
@CobaltVelvet @Nezchan
Cool, good to know. Thanks!
@Nezchan @CobaltVelvet any thoughts on this boosting modal thing?
boost this toot if you're bi/pan as hell
@GinnyMcQueen I worry sarcasm won't work in analog. It can't work in digital.
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
