Public Service Announcement: I will imminently be moving to @nev@status.nevillepark.ca!
No need to do anything on anyone's part, migration should do most things automatically, but if you get a follow request from the new account, it is me.
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@nev@bananachips.club
hometown 4.6.8+hometown-1.3.0gene wolfe in the streets, clive barker in the sheets
@nev@flipping.rocks / bugs
@nv@oulipo.social / no e
trans liberation now ⚧
#nobot
[profile pic: drawing of big-nosed olive-skinned chinese-jewish androgyne in big glasses, buffalo plaid, and red lipstick]
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Joined February 15, 2020
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@matthew should've vacuum sealed that sucker (source: https://mothership.sg/2022/01/ikeas-blahaj-vacuum-bags/)
@aphyr@woof.group i'm touched by your optimism but it's more likely that the women have been driven away by misogyny and abuse
god i really need to go outside and touch gr—*glances out window* okay maybe not
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just a quick reminder to anyone seeing this that it's been less than a month since the lead dev used the official account to boost his long, cringily appropriated-Black-American-English, now deleted trying-to-be-a-"they-can't-keep-us-down"-rap-song rant (he is neither American nor Black) apparently relating to a dispute about potential in-app ads with a sometime contributor (https://social.besties.house/@h/113730903264902154) who is like, 18? also did not react well to being (gently) called out (by another fedi dev, not some random) about said language use. and probably less than a month before he was Not Making Friends by being all like "i'm progressive BUT fuck the postal strike" (you haven't heard about it because it was in canada sorry)
so personally i would hold off on any significant public or financial support for pixelfed until the project gets some actual governance where it's not just one emotionally immature guy having the keys???
also just in case this is relevant everyone involved is extremely queer and gay. him, the devs, me.
#FediMeta
Given the recency of sound recording at the time this was published, Jack's phonograph diary is almost certainly the first example of the classic "sad British man records himself Going Through It" horror podcast genre. In this essay I will
☝️ 19/20 and 16/16, bitches 🎊
(and yes I said I was "very confident" I could tell real from fake headlines)
(am i smug about this? YES)
#TOcouncil thread: BUDGET DAY! 🧵
Today City Council does The Budget. The cost of COVID has left the City with huge holes in the budget that will be a challenge to fill. But the austerity budget is overshadowed by the revelation of the mayor's inappropriate relationship with a staffer and his promised (and, by some councillors, protested) resignation. This…complicates…the new "strong mayor" powers bequeathed by the Province that give the rest of Council limited ability to change the budget. Today will be a spicy one.
Inori Roy for The Local: https://thelocal.to/toronto-budget-2023/
Dave Rider, Ben Spurr, Alyshah Hasham for the Star: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/02/10/a-serious-error-of-judgement-mayor-john-tory-had-relationship-with-staffer.html
Livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT2AfoqMw7A
@mayintoronto@beige.party Ehh, I think it's useful to make a distinction between advertorials, crap articles by rushed reporters who don't have time to do proper research, crap opinion columns, biased but more or less accurate reporting, guest op-eds by people with potentially undisclosed agendas, statements from the editorial board, etc.
@mayintoronto@beige.party Not new—they're called "advertorials".
Personally I dislike them because I find the format deceptive. On the other hand, there are plenty of lazy news articles that are basically just regurgitated press releases.
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@dojoe @rixx oh bummer. this should work: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2149340/raw/main/the%20post.md
And then xe never moved xir arm again, the end.
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@mart_e@mamot.fr @rosamundi@mastodon.world "the illustration used for Deconica montana is a direct copy of one of Paul Stamet's photos of Psilocybe baeocystis, which is a VERY different species (the former is non-hallucinogenic, the latter is strongly hallucinogenic)"
What could go wrong
@sidd_harth0_5h4h@tenforward.social bless your little heart. yes, it's a real place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen,_Manhattan
fun fact: among the moss and lichen on the trees in Trinity-Bellwoods there are tiny umbrella-like mushrooms that only appear after rain
🔄 @WhySharksMatter@twitter.com
> Ever since it was brought to my attention that you can say “Covid-19” to the tune of “Come on, Eileen,” I’ve been unable to read it any other way
https://twitter.com/WhySharksMatter/status/1235323054986792963
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quick jumping spider doodle
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@jeffhorton@mstdn.ca @thedansimonson@lingo.lol @mcc@mastodon.social cursed "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
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@erkhyan@yiff.life pitch: a story where it looks like a fantasy folktale about humans and the fey and the reader gradually realizes it's a far-future world and the "fey" are, like, ancient/autonomously evolving artificial constructs
haven't done #SpiderSunday in a while, here's a long-jawed orbweaver (Tetragnatha). #DailySpiderPic 🐘
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@maya tired: full colour printing
wired: printing with no yellow to remove tracking
inspired: printing in black & white on your enemy's discarded printouts
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@darius@friend.camp @dajb@social.coop i hate loomio with the burning passion of a thousand suns but maybe it's gotten better since i last used it?
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@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org Remember, when you find the actual source of a screenshot:
- you verify it is real and not doctored
- you can select & right-click the text, making alt text a breeze if you are screenshotting
- you can create an archive version in case it gets taken down
- you're doing your part to make a better, more media-literate, less misinformation-riddled Internet
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@molly0xfff @web3isgreat does web3isgreat have RSS? there's gotta be some kind of RSS-to-Mastodon thing
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@noah@wetdry.world if the earthquake isn't stronger than my phone vibrating is it really worth warning me about
/flippant comment from someone who doesn't live in earthquake country
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it occurred to me that while i think news organizations should absolutely run their own federated social media servers…
given how columnists, specifically, have reacted to being put on the same level as the plebs on twitter (i. e. completely melting down and losing their shit), columnists should NEVER join fedi. they would instantly die
@cks@mastodon.social The information is publicly available online (I'm looking at it now).
Consider it an unofficial test of your Internet research skills…
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@janellecshane@wandering.shop wow, they found a way to make the left-pad problem *worse*
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @aral@mastodon.ar.al this is immediately joining my vocabulary
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@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org Friends Don't Let Friends Share Facebook Screenshots With No Alt Text or Source!™
[Image description: A Facebook post from Mark Zuckerberg with a photo of him smiling Zuckishly across a dinner table with roasted beef parts (look, I'm not a cowologist) on it. Text: "Started raising cattle at Ko'olau Ranch on Kauai, and my goal is to create some of the highest quality beef in the world. The cattle are wagyu and angus, and they'll grow up eating macadamia meal and drinking beer that we grow and produce here on the ranch. We want the whole process to be local and vertically integrated. Each cow eats 5,000-10,000 pounds of food each year, so that's a lot of acres of macadamia trees. My daughters help plant the mac trees and take care of our different animals. We're still early in the journey and it's fun improving on it every season. Of all my projects, this is the most delicious."]
Source: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/pfbid02HACVFddz8apdTUsiC1NNXTTeUJjJdufkv8X7BGbLcJY7ig2B4sqfd6u2Wpwe16Hyl
Archive: https://archive.ph/4mzmP [processing, check back later if not available]
#Alt4You #Source4You
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@darius@friend.camp @dajb@social.coop just the UI really. too many modals, stuff you have to click to expand, etc.
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@c_9@mstdn.ca @zl2tod@mastodon.online did someone with the bio *checks notes* "everything I say will upset somebody" get offended? Lmao
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@ZenithAstralis@yiff.life @erkhyan@yiff.life I love the Children of Time series (can't remember the proper name for it) but haven't read any of his other work, will have to check that one out!