@DuckForTheDuck Ik zou eerst even een backup van je account downloaden :p
@DuckForTheDuck Ah ja, dat was voor mij wel anders. Daar kom ik nu al een paar maanden eigenlijk nauwelijks meer, en dat heeft m'n gezondheid veel goed gedaan. Nu kom ik er eigenlijk alleen nog als ramptoerist voor de klikobrand van Musk...
@joenepraat Misschien is https://distro.f-91w.club/fedizine/fedizine_read.pdf wel nuttig voor de wandelclub, met dank aan @fedizine@kolektiva.social
@DuckForTheDuck Gaat voor mij ook in golven, hoor. Soms is de sociale energie ook gewoon even op.
@DuckForTheDuck Ik ben er in ieder geval nog, hoor :p
migration meta ➖️
I think I managed to understand more about why so many arguments against Mastodon as being too complex bother me, why they get under my skin. It really feels like people aren't arguing against Mastodon in particular, but rather are positively arguing that walled gardens are inherently good. At some point, it seems like the fully corporatized model captured peoples' imaginations such that the internet of the late 90s may no Ionger be possible.
Re-boosting your own posts for 'the morning crew' or 'the night crew' is an acceptable and encouraged practice here. We are largely a community of supportive people who enjoy being given the opportunity to help each other and boost content we may have previously missed.
You should never feel ashamed of promoting yourself, especially as an artist, when it's so difficult to reach people. If anyone doesn't want to see your boosts, they can just scroll past.
how to tell whether a watermelon is ripe 🍉
It’s really easy to tell if a watermelon is ripe! First off: thumping doesn’t help, and weight isn’t really a good indicator. But that’s okay because the easiest way to tell is by color. Look for a spot on the melon that’s lighter in color than the rest of the rind: this is the spot that was touching the ground while the melon was growing! If that spot is white, the melon isn’t good yet. When that spot turns yellow, the watermelon is ripe!
If you are into #pinball, this weekend the Dutch Pinball Open is happening in the Dutch Pinball Museum in #rotterdam, and it seems there's still some tickets left. #dpo is fun for recreational players as well as competitive players. Expect lots of different games, all on free play, and a lot of fun! #dpo #dpm
I'll be volunteering, so come say hi if you're coming over!
https://www.nfvpinball.nl/activiteiten/82/dpo-expo-2022-weekend
vaguely political rant
@lawremipsum@mspsocial.net Unfortunately, I'd say it's not *just* the "extremely online" mentality.
All news outlets essentially run on this same principle - they just feed you a perpetual stream of completely non-actionable information that mostly just makes you feel bad, and that *really* is only useful to journalists whose literal job it is to distill long-term meaning from it.
This is not meant to disagree with your toot in any way, of course, just to emphasize that this problem also exists outside of "internet folks", with much the same harmful consequences, and that it's pretty much an (arguably deliberate) cultural cornerstone in many places.
Wrote a bit about woof.group as a social space, how I'm planning to handle the flood of new members this month, and what you can do to help: https://woof.group/about/more#growth
Grand Plan Fund - £1,000 grants to creative people of colour based in the UK
"...who want to make a new cultural project happen. It can be anything from: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs to workshops or events — whatever you want.
We award ten grants every two months, and our current round closes on 30th November 2022."
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.