Good morning to everyone this morning, and especially to everyone who is minoritized!

You are magical, your voice is so necessary, you are courageous, you are not alone, and you are loved for all the facets of the wonderful human being you are.

We change the world together.🥰💖🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🔥🦄

#GoodMorning #gay #LGBTQ #minoritized #magic #community #solidarity #humanity #healing #Black #BlackLivesMatter

Thanks to all the people who helped me. Two things I needed to do that I hadn't done to make verification work using a WordPress menu (there are other ways):

1. In your WordPress menu, put 'me' (without quotes) in the "Link Relationship' box, as shown below.

2. Make sure that, if your site has 'https' in the address, you include 'https' in the box in your Mastodon profile settings. ie not just 'http'.

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

These mini articulated skeletons were party favors, given out to guests at Roman feasts as a reminder to enjoy the pleasures of the day, for death would soon come.

The bronze figures, which ‘danced’ when shaken, were called larva convivialis, (banquet ghosts), and were made 25 B.C.– 100 A.D.
📷: from the Getty Villa