Mal J Brown 🐿 @mjb@octodon.social

Okay here's a real toot that you can actually boost without people looking at you like you're crazy.

https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616

The past few weeks (okay, ever since the schism) I've felt kind of disenchanted by Mastodon and especially its development environment, and I wrote an essay about why that is. It's long, but if you're interested in Mastodon's history or politics you should give it a read.

"It seems strange to have to assert that increasing access to knowledge is more likely to present benefits to society than not, but that appears to be the state of the debate in 2017. The shock of the Trump vote, and the Brexit vote, has produced an understandable hunger for explanation, accompanied by a crisis of intellectual confidence." http://limn.it/the-logic-of-leaks-reconsidered/

That's a cool display of connected Mastodon instances
https://kumu.io/wakest/fediverse#known-network/octodonsocial

If someone knows which software this was done with, I'd appreciate a pointer.

h/t @bitcoinmom (via @Wintermute)

Really bad science writing in the service Holy St. Elon Musk. Blecch.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/21/neuralink-and-the-delusional-world-of-muskians/

You guys know that you can make direct posts to @translator right. Like you don't have to post to the public timeline every time you want to translate something lol.

I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/04/21/what-are-you-doing-tomorrow/

https://octodon.social/media/kkOcl7OJHwyRkUpCG7Y

Does anyone know an instance that uses black text on white background (or similar)? And a larger font size? Or are there any Stylish things for that? Asking bc of someone who wanted to try mastodon and can't use it with the default theme #accessibility