Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

Edited to update: BlackQueerLife instance now has a properly-set-up channel for receiving money contributions. If you wanted the Fediverse to be more welcoming to Black people, it's one practical way to help :-)
https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife

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New instance for Black queer people:

"My intention for BlackQueerLife is that when Black queers are searching for a place in the fediverse to call home, we are accessible to them."
- @tillshadeisgone

https://blackqueer.life/about

#Black #queer #fediverse

RE: Evernote news on HN [firing all staff].

The story only seems to be Hacker News/Y. But just in case:

You can download & export your entire Evernote collection using evernote-backup: https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup

Can't do it in the official app anymore without a $paid$ plan.

Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641

#evernote

🐾 ART RAFFLE! 🐾
I somehow hit 700 followers here which is a good excuse to do an art raffle.

- Prize: Full body image, colored and shaded.
- Must follow me here (@rinidisc). New followers welcome~
- To enter, boost this post and reply with your OC’s reference sheet.
- SFW references only pls.

You have until July 7th at 10pm EST to enter (gives you about 30 or so hours to enter, so don't procrastinate!)

#art #furry #mastoart #raffle

In the body-shifting world of my game "Cyber Purge", your gender and pronouns are whatever you want them to be. For the benefit of a world without body-shifting powers, the hacker hero Takami Bluesky (they/them) shows where they stand on their gender, in multiple outfits ranging from business to summertime!

#ANSIArt #FurryArt #Pride #Art #MastoArt

"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.

Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.

[Edit: In case this wasn't clear, this is about entertainment and digital ownership, not physical goods]

I have some loose Amiga 1200 bits that need a home. All pretty old so not 100% sure how functional. It includes a 68060 expansion, an Ateo bus with vga card. Will let them go super cheap, but I am in South Africa so postage will be murderous.

Also a lone A1200 motherboard. I had all this built into a tower the size of the Burj Khalifa.

Lots of discussion lately about Threads. I find all the talk kind of exhausting, I don't come here to talk about a different platform. And it's a really hard word to mute because that filter would also catch stuff relating to just, regular post threads.

Could people please put it under a CW so that it can at least be easily ignored? Thanks!

When I started on Mastodon, people would advise me to “only Boost posts.” Since there’s no algorithm that places a value on Favorites, “only Boosts have value.”

I disagree completely.

When people Favorite my posts, they unwittingly introduce themselves to me. I have discovered some very interesting people that I may not have if they didn’t Favorite my posts.

Keep ‘em coming. It’s nice to meet you.

#feditips #mastodon #favorite

Re #introduction toot! 🎉

I'm a Canadian hobby artist who produced a daily webcomic back in 1999, but now I'm much older and I just want to draw cute women. I draw all-ages stuff, but also 18+ stuff which goes behind a content warning and is always tagged "# lewd" (if you need to block it).

But my interests are varied (and I'm easily amused) so my account is a real smörgåsbord. Feel free to turn off my boosts, or you can just follow my art hashtags: "# JSSArt" and "# JSSLewd"

#MastoArt #art

Godot 4.0 was so good, we made a sequel!

Thanks to 300+ contributors and four months of improvements and polish, #GodotEngine 4.1 is ready for your projects.

Read more in our announcement: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-1-is-here/

femoral sketch 53 for Dakka__ ! But there is no time to rest! There are still two left to make!

#bear #anthropomorphic #digitalsketch #strangechair #relaxation

BREAKING: Eugen "Gargron" Rochko criticised for "disingenous" article about Meta's Threads, which doesn't mention he's bound by a non-disclosure-agreement to the company, better known for owning Facebook.

This is amazing 🤣

Hi, I'm Vana - your local wolf final boss #vtuber 🐺​

Once an MMO final boss, I got sent to the human world to find people from the guild that befriended me in game!

I stream on Tuesdays and Thursdays on Twitch, and every other Wednesday on VStream!

✦ — 《 SOCIALS 》

⠀⠀➼ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/vanakwen
⠀⠀➼ VStream: https://vstream.com/c/@vanakwen
⠀⠀➼ Youtube: https://youtube.com/@vanakwen
⠀⠀➼ Website: https://beacons.ai/vanakwen

✦ — 《 TAGS 》

fanart: #vanallusion

It's time for a re-introduction! Time's flown, but there's lots of new faces so I should say hi again!

I'm Nina, I'm a pixel artist who does way too many various things, and also stream! If you can tell, I like retro things and how you can apply those limitation in new ways!

My account will contain whatever is in my brain with no restraints, be aware!

Check out my site! 🌟 https://misnina.com

Stream: https://www.youtube.com/@misninastar

#Introduction #Vtuber #PixelArt #Lowpoly #GameDev #Streaming

just learned the story of how the tennessee purple coneflower went from "presumed extinct" to "endangered" to delisted by the ESA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE3uHJ8R5ro (6 minute video)

it's mindblowing how 1 human can have such a profound positive influence on an ecosystem!

also: cedar glades! this continent has such fascinating bioregions!