Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

As you might have read today, #Adobe is doing really bad stuff (https://toot.cafe/@baldur/109630505660962387).

Fortunately there are many projects you can follow on here which are providing free open source alternatives:

➡️ @darktable - Photo software which lets you organise, view and develop raw image files

➡️ @Krita - Professional digital painting & 2D animation app

➡️ @kdenlive - NLE video editing software

➡️ @inkscape - Vector illustration software

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social & @blender@video.blender.org - 3D animation and special effects

You’re all invited

A close friend who does a ton of mutual aid has a rare, singular chance to purchase the land that they've been farming/ community gardening in the city (previously abandoned lot) for the past couple years right next to their house, before gentrifiers take it and put another overpriced house there.

They are a little under $5k short! They're so close!!! They need to raise this ASAP!!

Venmo: @/pearlboatspaceship and put note "Land Back Gardens"
Cashapp: $pearlboatspaceship

#MutualAidRequest #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #LandBack #Bvlbancha
@noladon

I'm more or less part of the fediverse since 2017, but I still can't get over the fact that you people are describing images, very often making me almost content with not being able to see them at all. I've never seen so many people taking time to write meaningful descriptions on this level anywhere else.

It really, really means a lot! Thank you for making it awesome for everyone! Keep 'em coming! ☺️

Assorted list of Fediverse scrapers you might want to block on the network level (some more malicious than others)

https://git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/branch/main/nodes/aura/configuration.nix#L100

#FediBlock

If you haven't noticed, I'm big on common courtesy.

The little things like introducing yourself to people you don't know before assailing them with questions, asking about and respecting people's boundaries, respecting pronouns, apologizing when you're wrong, etc.

We often forget we really don't know each in this space, so we take courtesy for granted. But those small things build trust that eventually blooms into a community.

We're all people looking for some kind of connection, and finding those connections is so much easier when we have a baseline respect for our shared humanity.

Don't take the small things for granted. They are the bricks that build bridges between our wildly different experiences and backgrounds.

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev: TIL Mastodon has a public development roadmap… with issue numbers referring to what i can only assume is a private bug tracker, and there's nothing on it for spam controls, greylist federation, federated blocking, or almost any other safety or moderation-related feature that we've been asking for.

the Exploring section at the tail end has exactly one thing that might be useful for self-service harassment controls:

MAS-37: Restrict who can reply to a post

if you've ever wondered whether user safety is a thing Website Boy cares about, the very definite answer is: lol nope

I = good person
racist = bad person
Therefore, I =/= racist

People fear being labeled a bad person. The problem is getting people to understand that having prejudicial thoughts is not what makes you bad—on the contrary, wrestling with those prejudices is what makes you good.

Are people ACTUALLY still going to #Hawaii for vacations?

That's....YUCK.

I am judging you hard.

🌆 Native Hawaiians priced out of their homes due to overdevelopment,

🌋 climate change + ignorant haole wreaking havoc on the environment & gobbling up natural resources -- from the actual people who live there --, and

🤬 a general lack of respect for the the OCCUPIED ancestral land of more than half a million people.

Go to Minnesota or something.😒 They've got lakes.