Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

yesterday someone claiming to be anti-racist followed me on here. i checked out their twitter and found that they block anyone who says Free Palestine. 🙃

#FreePalestine babes

Mastodon sweep, first social media to reach one mastillion downloads

Got to draw some lovely witchy ladies for a recent commission! I'm very happy with how these turned out 💖

#art #mastoArt #traditionalArt #creativeToots

she lomg
#snake #furry #fursona #scalie #copic #art

why do we call it “dad joke” and not “corny on main” publish toot

It's kind of a running joke that I never draw my #OC Danu the same way twice, so I leaned into it.

#Style Challenge featuring my attempts at #ghibli , #disgaea , #Persona , #MyHeroAcademia and #Jojo

#art #mastoart #artistsonmastodon

In the replies of new Black folks on here discussing the harassment they’ve faced, and slurs they’ve had thrown at them, I’ve seen white users respond with suggestions that they should move to better moderated instances – I even saw one guy say ‘you should just move to a black instance’. The usual line they take is to (patronizingly) talk about how the protocol lets you move instances, and so you can just find an instance with policies that suit you.

IMO, this behavior is (and should be more widely seen as) anti-Black; users should be reporting it, and instance admins should be banning for it.

Firstly, it shifts the blame for the abuse solely to the recipients – ‘it’s your fault for not picking an appropriate instance!’ It also makes the commenters themselves feel all smart for knowing the ins and outs of the protocol (even when they often have no idea what they’re talking about), which is honestly just annoying as fuck.

Secondly, it sweeps the fedi’s historical + continuing anti-Blackness under the rug by making racist abuse into a technical discussion rather than a cultural one. It serves to assuage the consciences of those making such comments, because they can just point to the safeguards that are *technically* there, allowing them to forego self-reflection.

Cumulatively, the effect of these kinds of comments is to push Black users off the fedi, or onto instances that can be blocked/marginalized/attacked by white users. This is segregation, plain and simple, and it’s absolutely shameful.

SO! Fellow admins, I’m gonna be reporting such behavior + suspending accounts that do it from instances I moderate. I’m gonna encourage users to report this shit too so that I can take action. How about you?

"Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Figure Out"
https://www.wired.com/story/listening-to-black-women-the-innovation-tech-cant-figure-out/amp

sat down and worked on xenia meditating in the void today. still drawing in the legs and arms. doot doot

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Their body, their choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

P.S. If you started following me due to this post, PLEASE look at my profile and decide if it's for you.

Make sure general nerdiness, tabletop roleplay, and other related pursuits are the kind of content you want to see in your timeline.

Our values obviously align, but our interests/hobbies might not. No hard feelings if you unfollow. 😉

Gently give you dragons

#MastoArt #DigitalArt #Dragon #CuteArt

this is such a stim video and I think everyone should see it

My favorite type of tech story are the ones where something I always thought was pretty stupid, turns out to not only be stupid, but a massive money loser for the bloated plutocrats who assured us this was the next big thing.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/

A messenger RNA #vaccine designed to simultaneously target four common antigens found in influenza viruses protects mice against a range of #influenza strains, which suggests that quadrivalent vaccines may be more effective than monovalent vaccines. In PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206333119

And just as a final note about @magicalmilly@elekk.xyz and the history of elekk and why I'm defederating from them.

There is an ugly history between my former instance, Play Vicious Social, and Elekk, which includes some of the worst moments of racism, anti-blackness, and colorism I've seen on the web.

Users from that instance have a history of ruthlessly disparaging my team because I dare to call out their constant stream of vitriol and anti-blackness.

Time does not heal all wounds, especially when they still disparage and insult me and don't even have the courage to tag me so I can respond.

And yes, I'm keeping an eye on monads and nightcrew too, because I know they house former myasstodon/elekk members.

Milly has been one of the premiere accounts on the web that has specifically targeted Black spaces and made the fedi unsafer for them.

They have no interest in making the fedi safer and should not be allowed near any effort to create equitable spaces in the fedi.