Elfififififififi... @elfi@pixie.town

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.

Whoever got mad about people using the term ‘mutual aid’ because they think ‘mutual’ means it needs to be an exact 1-1 transaction missed the point entirely. It doesn’t even need to be about semantics, the point of mutual aid is building up a community in which people can ask for help, and if you don’t need help right now, great! But if/when you do, you have this community you can go to for help. That’s where the ‘mutual’ part comes in

(Edit: Goal reached! Thanks so much.)

Hey y'all, with SNAP's emergency allotments possibly ending after January, we're going to be tight on cash for a bit.

I need to be able to pick up our regular prescriptions and supplies, as well as my 6-month teeth cleaning which will run about $350 altogether.

If you want to help out your friendly neighborhood queer streamers, our paypal is below.

Any amount and even a boost helps a ton!

http://paypal.me/squirrellilly

@mutualaid

#MutualAid #TransCrowdFund

thanks everybody for your continued mutual aid. My posts have been reaching people and donations are coming in and I'm forever grateful for every and each mutual aid of all of you.

I'm still halfway through being able to have my monthly bills covered tho. I can pay the next bills.

so once again I'm begging for some of your time so you can mutual aid me into being able to survive for another month >.<

if you can mutual aid me some boosts or any donations it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm really hoping this next month I can actually start actually earning any money through any of my work so I can at least depend less on mutual aid >.<

https://ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g=52

#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest @mutualaid

p.s.: I've updated the ko-fi + spreadsheet for the new USD rate as of now.

Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.

I need to drag my ass to bed but for some reason I'm using old memes as a vehicle for PSAs instead.

Remember your alt text!