Avram Grumer 🎲

@avram
11 Followers
348 Following
693 Posts
Early blogger, general-purpose nerd, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo award finalist, occasional crank. Also @avram & @avram.
Pronounshe/him
LocationBrooklyn, NY, USA
Websitehttps://grumer.org
Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 4, 2023
Jef PoskanzerFeb 4, 2023
Video of the spy balloon being shot down
Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 4, 2023
Rod HiltonFeb 2, 2023

Followgraph for Mastodon is so good I got rate limited by my mastodon instance while following people

https://followgraph.vercel.app/

Followgraph for Mastodon

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 4, 2023
Steve LieberFeb 4, 2023
Some of my all-time favorite comics art happened when #AlWiseman, an uncredited artist on the #DennisTheMenace comic books, would just shove the characters aside and flex with a truly impressive establishing shot. #comicBookArt
Show threadAvram Grumer 🎲Feb 3, 2023

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2. The first time you submit a reply to someone’s post, it pops up a box that asks for your cell number, so they can confirm you’re a person. But then it drops the text of your reply, so you have to type it in again.

3. All hashtags are coerced to lower-case. Tough luck, blind users using text-to-speech!

Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 3, 2023

Just made a #Spoutible account (https://spoutible.com/avram), and I’m already hating it.

1. When you join, it presents you with two buttons: Join and Find Followers, or just Join. (Might not be the exact wording.) I assumed the Find Followers one would give me an interface to look for people and follow ’em. Nope! It assigns you 20 random users and subscribes you to them!

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Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 1, 2023

Hm. Just looked at my profile, and both my Following and Followers counts have dropped *dramatically* — about 15–20% lower than yesterday.

Is this some defederation thing, or fallout from the recent DDoS attacks?

I expect that compiling those numbers involves polling a whole lotta servers, and there’s probably some latency involved, and sensitivity to outages.

Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 1, 2023
AlinaJan 30, 2023
The Kiss, by Inna Ruda
Avram Grumer 🎲Feb 1, 2023
Nick FleisherFeb 1, 2023
Something is deeply wrong with the New York Times
Avram Grumer 🎲Jan 31, 2023
Mastodon MigrationJan 31, 2023

It seems that currently Mastodon GmbH instances mastodon.social and mastodon.online are under a DDoS attack.

This is confirmed by @[email protected].

Other non-Mastodon GmbH instances do not seem to be affected.

#twittermigration #DDoS

Avram Grumer 🎲Jan 31, 2023
Stephen GranadeJan 31, 2023
Tom Scocca’s article digging into the NYT’s obsession with trans kids does such a good job of laying bare the newspaper’s awfulness on this subject. https://popula.com/2023/01/29/the-worst-thing-we-read-this-week-why-is-the-new-york-times-so-obsessed-with-trans-kids/
THE WORST THING WE READ THIS WEEK: Why Is the New York Times So Obsessed With Trans Kids?

A question to ask. At length.

Popula