WHAT IS IN YOUR LOOT TABLE?

#WeirdMastodon

Hello #FediAsk, what the heck is this and how is it used?

This #thing turned up on my desk and... what?

It's like a big mechanical keyboard key (twice the surface area of a regular key), but with a little handle on top, two springs, and the bottom has a little, very sharp knife point in it. You can press down on the thingy's orange cap and the knifepointybit will start pricking down below the thingy's bottom.

There's two of 'em stuck on a little pad of foam.

#weirdmastodon #weirdmachines

I count today as my official #Mastodoniversarry!

I started on Mastodon.social, then went to infosec.exchange before the c̶u̶l̶t̶ welcoming community at beige.party sucked me in with their p̶r̶o̶m̶i̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶e̶t̶e̶r̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶m̶i̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶n̶e̶m̶i̶e̶s̶ love and kindness.

I didn't officially log out of #Twitter until the 19th (when he reinstated the Orange Fascist), but I was basically done there a year ago today and began working on the #Mastodon experience for myself.

I kept the bots running there for another week or so (the 25th, I believe) until Apartheid Daddy's stupid mods killed my #API keys for "spamming another user's mentions"... even though the other user was another one of my bots... morons.

a year later and I get all I want online from here. there's news if you look, lots of humor and even #weirdmastodon exists and is as fucked up as you want it. my blocklist is fewer than 10 people somehow as well.

I may bring a bot to Sky just because I'm a #programmer at heart and an API whore, so it'd more for tech testing than anything else.

So let's keep it going for years to come on this sore aging parent website, folks!

https://mastodon.social/users/quasirealsmiths/statuses/109362545872802896