Brian Hawthorne

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New English naturalist living on lands of the Pocumtuck and Nipmuck.
#GooglePlusRefugee
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Spoonshttps://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/
@chanda To this white guy here, the treatment you received is absolutely unacceptable, and figuring out how to fix Mastodon to prevent it happening should be all of our top priority, especially those of us privileged enough not to have to deal with that sort of shit on a daily basis. Oppressed people shouldn’t have to change servers, but
I’m getting ready to move to a new server myself because my current one isn’t even keeping up with block lists.

Just briefly logged into mastodon and my mentions are mostly people debating my experiences here and whether I was entitled to tweet about them, and I just want to say, I was called slurs for days by people on *other instances* and received a death threat saying that they would do to me what was done to Emmett Till.

Anyone discussing any of this like *I* did something wrong, including by talking about it, is a fucking dipshit.

Have a fabulous fucking day.

After successfully ending one relationship with commercial social media, I am preparing to end the rest. I am reminded how many other means we have for staying in touch that we collectively seem to have forgotten about. Also feels good to now favor tools without commercial interest and more support for our agency.
@WiteWulf @TheAdmin @Sujitech_official @Sujiyan @Sujiyan thank you very much for providing the server!
Does this mean we can expect to see the software updated to Mastodon 4.0 and block lists kept up to date? I’ve been thinking of switching servers as there hasn’t seemed to be any update in the posted block list in years and the About page shows it still running 3.4.6. Well funded and stable is great, but not enough. What can we do to help?
@WiteWulf @TheAdmin @Sujitech_official @Sujiyan Mastodon.cloud & Mstdn.jp is maintained by Sujitech, LLC. Which is sufficiently funded. :)

"What then are we to take from the distinct and quite public fascination of the two richest men in the world—Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, together worth more than $375 billion—with the sci-fi works of Iain M. Banks, an avowedly socialist author who set his far-future fiction in what might best be described as a post-scarcity, anarcho-communist utopia; a world where your Bezoses and your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out and disempowered by a society comprised of property-less workers and all-caring, mostly-benevolent A.I.s?"

https://bloodknife.com/culture-war-iain-m-banks-jeff-bezos/

The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife

The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?

Blood Knife
Happy #DoctorWho Day to all who celebrate!
@vickyveritas @drummmerandy This is the one thing I use the Toot! App for on iOS: posting threads. Items you create as many posts as you want and then send them all at once as a thread. I’m hoping that Metatext adds that, as Toot! is too hard for my old eyes to read and you can’t change the type size.
@anildash Metatext does a decent job of showing image and video previews. I’m not as thrilled with Toot! as it does not seem to show video previews and does not use the iOS Dynamic Text.
As a woman, I have never once in my life felt threatened by a trans or gay person.
But I feel threatened every day by straight male Republicans.