Gracious Anthracite

hi

welcome back to mastodon

we have:

:purple_fire: weirdos quietly talking to each other
:purple_fire: content warnings so you can let people decide if they want to engage in smut, ragebait, or anything else, and give them a moment to prepare themselves for it
:purple_fire: admins who are queer weirdos
:purple_fire: a switch that turns off everyone's reposts if you want to just see what the folks you actually follow have to say for themselves
:purple_fire: all the custom emojones you want (if your admin is cool with it, or if you are the admin)
:purple_fire: you can put your money where your mouth is and burn a little spare cash every month to run a mastodon if you want to

we don't have:

:burning_cop_car: techbro admins raving about how fast they can "improve" the site with their AI slop machines
:burning_cop_car: any centralized administration
:burning_cop_car: a system designed to replicate all the addictive behavior of pre-Elon twitter

a video game about bicycling through a city wherein you receive combo multiplier for

* going through an intersection without hitting the brake
* with more points for every car that stops for you
* and for every other cyclist who follows you through the gap you pried open in the car traffic
* and various other things that give you a chance of occasionally getting a combo going through multiple intersections

also you can acquire clothing that improves the likelyhood that cars will stop for you, even before you get to the intersection: helmets, fabulous hats, reflective vests, talismans of road-opening deities, wheel/frame lights, etc, etc

I am sitting outside a coffee shop in the middle of the Quarter and watching the tourist groups pass by. Every time I see one I feel like I am dressed much more like the guides than the tourists. The guides are all halfway in costume, really. Or fully in the case of the sexy nun with a yardstick and a rubber habit.

Sticker on the mirror in the cafe bathroom: A TRANS PERSON PEED HERE AND YOUR LIFE DIDN'T CHANGE [smiley face]

I didn't put it there so at least two trans people have successfully peed in there!