Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

Mastodon server admins, important news!

The Mastodon developers are going to stop suggesting mastodon.social as a "default server".

Instead, the "default" server suggestions are going to be ones for a user's language and/or geographical location.

If your server matches these:

- General public server
- Running vanilla Mastodon
- Mastodon Covenant compliant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans

...then see this post for details: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802617165343

#MastoAdmin

Floating an exploratory balloon:
Who in #Ontario is interested in doing a spoonie sit-in protest this year?
Lots of logistics to sort out, we'd need lots of helpers - like rides, pillow nest portage, masking, snacks... But let's start w a quick poll.
(and feel free to brainstorm, discuss in the comments) Brand new idea here.
#spoonieSitIn #ONpoli #disabilityJustice #ODSP #spoonies #longCovid #meCFS #chronicPain #chronicIllness
🔄Boosts appreciated for reach.
[edit: more details below 🧵]

Ok wow, delightful development.
I went over to my MPP's office in Tears on Thus, they called ODSP. Mistake got fixed,
CHEQUE IS IN THE BANK! 🎉
I have enough to pay rent. I am gonna be ok.

For everybody who kicked in to make sure I had a buffer to weather this glitch, reach out if you want a refund. Otherwise I promise to use remaining funds for benevolent shenanigans. 😈

It meant so much having ya'll reach out (boosts/words/cash) and catch me when I was falling. Beautiful fekkin humans. 🥲✨

Hey turns out the fine people at gog dot com are sloppy enough to leave Gemini's image generation's maker mark on images to discourage you from leaving their patron program

Nothing gives you more of that "yeah, trustworthy" vibe than having blatant ai bullshit right

Trans PSA: if you see a study by "AYAGDOS" (at ayagdos(.)org), avoid it like the plague. It's being run by Lisa Littman and J. Michael Bailey, noted transphobes who have a *long* history of transphobic rhetoric and "research."

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mdnta2vvuk2u

So after spending the morning trying to find help and fix stupid ODSP snafu, unsuccessfully, some kind soul on here saw my rant and sent me a bit o $. Which made me cry, and reminded me to ask for help from all you beautiful humans.

So I am looking for help to make sure I have what I need to pay my fekkin rent this weekend. As usual every lil bit helps, and boosts help if you haven't got $. 💖

https://ko-fi.com/valerie7173
Or DM for etrans.

Danka!

#mutualAid

ICEBreaker is now live, raising money for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund! I'm honored to be on Games Committee for this! We're already at over $2500!!

Watch the stream at https://www.twitch.tv/reallyreallylongathon !

Schedule's at: https://oengus.io/marathon/iceout/schedule/main

Hey Steam game developers! Does your game not have controller support? Do you move using WASD and click on stuff? Do you have ten seconds of free time right now?

If you answered "yes" to all three questions:

Go to https://partner.steamgames.com/apps/controller.
Click on the name of your game.
Scroll to "Steam Input Default Controller Configuration".
Select "Keyboard and Mouse Emulation (WASD)" from the dropdown list.
Click the "Save" button.
Next time you feel like it, go to the "Publish" tab and publish your changes.

That's it. That's all you have to do to immensely improve the lives of anyone who tries to play your game on controller.

You've spent ten seconds to avoid maybe five minutes of troubleshooting every Steam Deck player will have to do with your game. That's a ratio not commonly seen in game dev.

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

As we now learn of management’s decisions through the press, Mr Guillemot slips within a long, placatory email on the group’s reorganisation that he intends to turn back on remote work - mere months after agreements on the topic went in effect!

1/3

ICE Breaker: A charity speedrun event on Jan 30 - Feb 1 to support Minnesotans in defending from ICE

schedule: https://oengus.io/marathon/iceout/schedule/main

LIVE NOW on https://twitch.tv/reallyreallylongathon !!!

#mutualAid #mutualAidRequest @mutualaid

so...i need to ask you for help.

my laptop is broken. motherboard issue. i can do nothing about it. i cannot study, cannot game... can't do a lotta things that are essential.

i need money for a new PC. it costs me around $900.

i need as much as i can get, since my college has started recently and i really need to hurry up because i am working on a short film for my degree

please help. thank you
170/900

https://ko-fi.com/tillianthefoxxo
https://www.paypal.me/tillianthefoxxo

🚩 HOUSING EMERGENCY! $910/2500 OVERDUE by 4 days

please help my very #disabled #Indigenous friend cover utilities & rent. she's currently in the ICU with septic shock. she needs to be a safe house for her family escaping domestic violence & US fascism. she has a $100/day late rent fee & will be served an eviction notice tomorrow. you can buy her #jewelry below!

- Cashapp/Venmo/PayPal: kiagbear
- https://ko-fi.com/mahtheyzhawey
- https://linktr.ee/mahtheyzhawey

⭐ you can get handmade #art, a #shortStory collection or an #email with file storage space for donating to her here:
- https://riveraerica.itch.io/pasadena
- https://social.acab.fans/@durian/statuses/01JRC6FX828WNS41BZR86CAWFX
- https://terror.black/@sayyid_qishta/113422065701306276

@mutualaid #MutualAid #native #nativeArt #MutualAidRequest #beads #beading #creativeNatives #onlineShop #SmallBusiness #handmade #MastoArt #creativeToots #FediGiftShop #FediArt #OriginalArt #LGBTQIA #queerMutualAid #fascism #ChronicIllness #beautiful #shop #crowdfund #fundraiser #noAI #asexual #poverty #helpFolksLive2026 #emergency #urgent #design #winter #IndigenousMutualAid #art

UPDATE - NEED MET!!

Last chance for Aurora to get back into assisted living so she can stay safely housed. Her survival & safety are extremely endangered when she's unhoused.

PLEASE BOOST, DONATE, POST. Down to the wire here! Funds due 5 pm EST TODAY, JAN 30.

1589/1814

PayPal.me/melissarainbow
AuroraEloise on Venmo
$AuroraEloise on CashApp

#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #helpfolkslive2026 #disability

oMg.
Me: spills entirety of weed-topped juice/yogurt drink onto my bedding. Have massive meltdown while roommate is super calm and helpful.
Get bed stripped, clean up. Thank roommate.
All good.
Roommate then immediately spills glass of milk all over her keyboard.
#whereIsMySupervisor team edition. 💪

Carney’s government quietly voted in the budget to cut grants for post secondary students - bringing funding back to 2016 levels.

We know that the cost of housing and other living expenses have skyrocketed since then.

If you’re a Canadian University student (like me!) or know one, PLEASE share this petition with them! 💪 There are currently only 689 signatures.
#CanPoli #Canada

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7090