The inevitable - and happening now - TERF invasion is going to be a real test for Mastodon. Some of them are straight up fash, but some have a veneer of respectability.

Admins need to have their antennas up for this (which many seem to) and ban and defederate as needed.

#noxp

MORE THAN ENOUGH

Staccato ribbons and tapes of thought
Unremittingly appear and wrap
Round to choke the beautiful
Peace you crave
Lie in a position where you can
Undress the excess and
Step away; naked, raw and perfect

Poem by Ailsa Snaith, painting mine, available through my website, from a wonderful collaboration in progress. This from my Resilience series. #poem #painting #acrylic #charcoal #landscape #trauma #grief #mentalhealth

https://artachart.com/

Our Radiance Is Unyielding, 2022

I love the idea of queer beauty being powerful and absolutely relentless. We are unapologetic in our beauty. We cannot be contained.

#art #queerartist #skullartwork #watercolorart

Hello Mastodon art people! I’m Julia, an illustrator and naturalist from Germany. I’ve quit all social media a few years ago because addictive algorithms, ads, infinite scrolling and tracking surveillance were killing my creativity.
Mastodon is likely the last social media experiment I’ll try. Here are some birds for you, because although I’ve left Twitter, I love drawing birds.

Edit: Since this post, I've made my home here. :-)

#introduction
#illustration #birds #watercolor #art #birb

Them: "Mastodon is hard to use."
Me: _gets started easily_
#coops

Them: "The #fediverse is fragmented - hard to find anyone."
Me: _easily finds many folks here I know or enjoy_
👋

Them: "It's just white male tech nerds"
Me: _discovers fairly robust presence of non-white, non-male folks_
✊

Them: "It's set up so it's antiviral"
Me: _sees more interest in my thoughts here than ever on the birdsite_
🙃

Them: "Local servers are like isolated islands."
Me: _finds a canoe to explore archipelago_
🛶