@sen posted this zine from 1990. it's called Queers Read This & it's angry and powerful and amazing.
"Being queer means leading a different sort of life. It's not about the mainstream, profit-margins, patriotism, patriarchy or being assimilated. It's not about executive directors, privilege and elitism. It's about being on the margins, defining ourselves; it's about gender-fuck and secrets, what's below the belt and deep inside the heart; it's about the night."
Hey artists! I'm gathering freelancers to do the interior illustrations for my new RPG, Journey Away, whose Kickstarter is wrapping up. Let me know if you're interested, and also please boost! Women, POC, and members of other marginalized communities encouraged to apply.
Have a look at the game here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537872810/journey-away-a-non-challenge-based-fantasy-rpg
Guess who is trying to convince me nobody gave him dinner?
Hey everyone! As you might know already, a.weirder.earth suffered a catastrophic hardware failure, taking us down for about 2 weeks and forcing us to move to a completely new instance.
A lot of us (myself included) didn't back up our follows either. So we're very much on square one.
How you can help:
- Contribute to #ff (follow friday) tomorrow. Everyone could do with the follow suggestions.
- Check your follows. If anyone is from 'a.weirder.earth', refollow them on 'weirder.earth'.
Thanks!
*wireless suddenly stops being flaky*
*two hours of mostly-missing toots fill in*
ooookay, I thought we were just having a very quiet morning. I can't even blame this on new-server-itis; I'm pretty sure that was client-side. Now perhaps I will go back and read what I missed...
Okay, I think we're federating with awoo.space now! Thanks Awoo!

I was @somethingfeline on a.w.e so if you followed me there, just the same old same old here!
Just to let everyone know, if you're having trouble following mastodon.social users, it's because the instance is actually down atm. 🙃
Thanks to @nightpool for this #mastoadmin tip:
When witches.town goes down in the next few days, you may notice Mastodon running more slowly, as Sidekiq workers try to contact it and have to wait for the request to time out before they can move on to the next job.
To handle this, AFTER w.t goes down, log into your server on the back end, run `redis-cli`, and enter:
sadd unavailable_inboxes https://witches.town/inbox
This tells Mastodon not to bother trying to talk to witches.town.
Please be compassionate to the people who pop up on other instances in the next few weeks asking if anyone knows why witches.town is down.
OMG its happening! weirder.earth is almost back: https://weirder.earth/about
#weirderearth
Okay, so the wait for a replacement instance for a.weirder.earth is almost over.
- We plan to get the new instance up and running this weekend.
- Apart from some smaller edits, the new rules have been finalised. I'll be licensing it CC0 so other instance admins and copy and adapt it if they want.
- We are slowly exploring design changes that will be introduced at a later date.
Today is the day where I post "Yes!" on mastodon.
Gay's into The Abyss.
Just last week she was all about The Void but now she doesn't listen to them at all. Kids, huh?
BORN TO FEDERATE
WORLD IS A FUCK
Do Fucking Backups
410,757,864,530 DEAD INSTANCES
seriously do your backups. things get broken and deleted very easily. and store them on a different server. at home or on s3 or backblaze or even google drive. many good software: duplicity, borg, ... daily is reasonable but even monthly is better than none. and check them once in a while. if you operate something just have backups. it's important.
🔥 FIRST🔥EVER🔥FAST🔥FOOD🔥RESTAURANT🔥
officially.....
🔥🔥🔥UNIONIZED🔥🔥🔥
and with the Industrial Workers of the World!.
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