Mastodawn

Ampersand Jul 25, 2023

TheOPtimal Jul 25, 2023

youtube shorts really has a problem with constantly recommending misogynistic andrew tate-y content, especially to kids. even if you have your recommendations tuned away from far right content, the pukestream of hateful content doesn't stop. i honestly don't even know why there isn't more backlash about this. its gone to the point where people around me IRL have begun getting slowly more misogystic because of this content. people i used to consider friends.

fucking algorithms, man.

Ampersand Jul 25, 2023

Asking my friends why they are still xing on x

Ampersand Jul 15, 2023

CellyBlue Jul 15, 2023

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/15 “Border agents' tactics included descending on Mexican American neighborhoods, demanding identification from “Mexican-looking” citizens on the street, invading private homes in the middle of the night, and raiding Mexican businesses. Without a hearing or oversight, agents often seized and deported people who were lawfully in the country. By the end of these crusades in California, Arizona, and Texas, as many as 200,000 Mexican immigrants had returned to Mexico—including many who were not undocumented and some who were U.S. citizens.” Same old shit. Different year.

Jul. 15, 1954 | U.S. Government Stages Mass Deportations in the American Southwest

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

Ampersand Jul 12, 2023

I'm thinking about the concept of activitypub interoperability lately. So far, the majority of development in activitypub has been around microblog services, and there hasn't been an issue with how these integrate with each other on a basic level. But as it gets spun out into more diverse services with different modes of interaction, like Kbin and Peertube, how these services might operate with each other becomes less obvious. If I follow a Peertube channel account, or a castopod account on Calckey for example, should the video be embedded in my timeline, maybe a direct link to the native peertube page?

I'm not a developer though, so I've got no idea what is possible in this area, or what is beyond the scope of the project.
#calckey

Ampersand Jul 11, 2023

psychopomp disaster Jul 7, 2023

Don't talk about illegal things (abortion in certain places, DIY HRT, etc) on facebook messenger. Don't do it on whatsapp or via SMS or Instagram DMs or Twitter or Mastodon or Discord or whatever.

Use signal. Use a PIN on signal. Turn on auto-destruction of messages. If your data is not fully end-to-end encrypted, that data can and will be handed over to police and it will be used to prosecute you.

Ampersand Jul 9, 2023

I wish there was an explanation for why the carefully tended citrus tree in my garden that I've been watching over for a couple years now struggles to really develop, but a sunflower a squirrel planted about 3 feet away has become a ten foot tall monster plant blotting out the sun.

Ampersand Jun 29, 2023

Amish Super Model Jun 29, 2023

So, if the United States is in a “post-racial society” that doesn’t need Affirmative Action, why was there an explosion of hate groups when a Black President was elected? And why is right-wing media bashing Critical Race Theory and warning people about Replacement Theory?

Almost seems like the most racist people are the ones who claim there’s no racism anymore.

Ampersand May 12, 2023

Every Friday sneaks up on me lately. Like an entire week blew past me while I get up and go to work every day and I don't even remember what happened.

Ampersand May 12, 2023

My #introduction

I have become increasingly interested in the various applications of the fediverse, and not just microblogging. I want to see what this space and this platform has to offer.