Karin Dalziel @nirak@octodon.social
Designer/Developer @cdrh_unl. Digital Humanities. Puppies and Kittens. nirak.net. @nirak on twitter. Lincoln, NE
Trying again, this time I am posting a dog from chrome on iOS instead of amaroq.
Some can see dog some cannot. :(
Did this picture of a dog come through? (Last time trying to post pics with amaroq before I conclude it does not work)
Do I know how to party or what?
Yaaaaaaay weekend! Gonna read and walk and read and walk
Given that mastodon nodes *aren't* usually run by a corp with a lot of money, are they more susceptible to shake down by large entities (e.g. the US government) than Twitter?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH
One thing I do really miss from twitter is quote retweets.
Replacing Nokogiri with Ox for XML rendering has definitely shaved off a lot of ms from PubSubHubbub distribution jobs. But most importantly Atom feeds now render 2x faster on average (that due to additional query optimizations, though, not just Ox)
Blah. Thanks for listening to me whine. I would post another dog pic for balance but I don't think they are coming through. :(
Don't be ashamed or afraid if you're not able to process what's happening tonight. We're all fighting for ourselves, and others. Everyone has their limit, and every day hurts or helps people differently.
Just because someone is hurting worse, doesn't mean you aren't hurting. That's the great thing about communities like those that are growing on Mastodon. When you can't handle anymore there is someone who can and will. #selfcare
Now that I have switched my post to unlisted for real this time: I really do find it disturbing that I've only been checking masto for hours and then I finally check in on other social networks and learn about bombings. I understand not wanting to be stressed all the time and finding a balance, it's something I struggle with but there's also a time to discuss serious shit. I dunno. Life is hard.
I guess in the end I'm fine with people blocking me. I really don't think this very huge thing that affects millions and millions of people deserves to be hidden from view. (Also, though, I didn't mean to add this to the public timeline, thought I turned that off)
One of the things I find least attractive about masto at this point is the treatment of all things political as a verboten subject. We just bombed another country. I have friends who are scared about getting deported. I also have friends who will lose their jobs due to funding cuts. I guess I'm supposed to ignore all that? Yes, it's depressing, but I worry if communities try to pretend this stuff doesn't exist they'll just let it happen.
Last time I tried to post from Amaroq the picture didn't come through so I am trying again
I gave a short talk on accessibility for a local group earlier, sharing my slides: go.unl.edu/bootaccess
My goal is to turn this into an actual blog post for our development blog
I just got hit by one of those "prove you're a human" things and... I can't get past it
He's very proud of himself.
I sort of wish we could choose to use mastodon more like Instagram- mainly, a setting to show inline images as square rather than landscape oriented. Anyway, here is a dog sitting on another dog.
Everyone's on that other site (mastodon.social) but I guess it doesn't even matter right??? :D :D
