RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116200427828260418
Everybody in the comments is liking “5. Don't be so careful in time of death,” but that “⚠️ Come on please” header got my attention.
No way I’m going over 5 muhym.
Degas … like Vegas
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Aging geek and sweary wordsmith. Bookish, bilingüe, bastards better face justice once we’ve won. 2.7% Neanderthal by volume.
YoraWhen I floated the idea, there seems to have been a very big interest in having some kind of online chat community for game development.
Nobody likes Discord and all the chatter is that it's full speed down on enshittification creek.
IRC would work, but it's extremely basic.
Matrix appears to be meant to fill just that space between the two, but opinions about its performance seem to be very divided.
Does anyone have other suggestions to share? (Something federated would be neat.)
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As a result, my little single-user instance has made contact with 11,274 other instances across the Fedi 😲
So no further boosts needed, really appreciate everyone who helped out 😁
ORIGINAL POST: I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.
How come?
I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.
#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp
Lisa Gets PolitikGood morning.
Apologies for the vivid imagery this early in the morning, but I figured we could all use a pick me up.
What a world that this is, indeed, good news.
#ICE
#Immigration
#GargleMyBalls * Hashtag suggested by @Brad_Rosenheim
jonathankoren™Way to go NBC News. #freeLuigi
'Extremely ironic': Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls
Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News.
kaoudisDuolingo is fun, but why on earth is the icon stuck like this, it looks like it has a head cold? I’d almost rather delete the app than look at this
DoyceSo McDonald's is giving away free fries for the rest of the year...
... if you use their mobile app
... and agree to the updated terms and conditions
... which say: if you use this app you waive your right to trial in any class action lawsuits against McDonalds."
We live in the lamest dystopia.
The stuff that got edited out of Snow Crash.
The source, which shows up on Bing if you click the link to learn about Vesuvius Day. https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/on-this-day-in-history-august-24/ar-AA1fHpGH
You can also submit a comment about this article to the newspaper itself at https://www.iol.co.za/feedback.
Anyone wanna encourage MSN and #Microsoft Bing not to highlight articles which push the #Jewish deicide myth on their homepage?! The ADL gives a good overview on this little bit of casual #antisemitism worth sharing with anyone in your world who might be inclined to take it at face value. https://antisemitism.adl.org/deicide/
Chris HallbeckOver many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.