Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Absolutely astounding bravery.
A woman held a speech in the packed metro/subway of Tehran for March 8, Intl Women's Day, on the rights that women are being deprived of and demanding that women should not be ignored.

Weird train. Also weird track construction on KRM today 🤔 ...

#OH: This burning police car does not reflect the opinions of my employer

The boss has been pestering me to attend a leadership conference so I, completely jokingly, said, "A true leader would never sit in an audience being told what to do" and now half this office is in existential crisis

Make sure to properly Spaget your PLA before feeding it to the printer

#nsfw #author #selfpub #queer #kink #kinky

I wrote up a detailedish retelling of the first 4 hours of my currently ongoing first longer term #chastity experience 10000 characters. I hope that i will get an extra ~10 followers on Mastodon. I am looking for places to put them online.
Restrictions:
-fast turn around time (r/gonewildstories requires being signed up for a day)
-It should be possible to tag myself as other/nb
...

"Behind every great man is a woman that actually did all the work and got none of the recognition."

Know the difference.

How do you find new #music?

I've seen some people compare the algorithm for different streaming services, since that is the main way they find music. But I'm curious to know other ways people find music. I tend to use the Staff Picks on Tidal and Pitchfork to find new stuff. I rarely let an algorithm find me new stuff.

PSA about the Steam client performance:

Turns out that in your Steam library, rare achievements are marked with an animated light effect. This animation somehow takes up an astounding amount of system resources especially on older PCs/laptops.

If you notice that your PC slows to a crawl whenever your steam library is open, you can go to Steam > Settings > Library and then turn on Low Performance Mode. It simply disables a few insignificant animations but the performance gains can be massive. On my old Dell Latitude, the CPU usage goes from >50% to <10% just from changing this one setting!

I have no idea why they put this under "Library" and not "Interface" cause I've been looking for a setting like this for months but I finally found out about this and now you have too!

Tangentially, I suspect that this focus on the individual also provides an indirect advantage to whiteness (and privilege more broadly) and the structures that keep it in power.

Individualist systems always disproportionately benefit those who wield power, after all - those who are preferentially listened to, have the most to gain from a system that centers around clout and mythical personalities.

It's also in this context that I do not really see fedi as a long-term solution to social interaction online.

Sure, it is clearly better than centralized corporate platforms in terms of its ability to support community. But at its foundation, it is *still* about the individual, not about providing the tools for building deliberate community. And the entire federation setup is designed around that, too, it's not just Mastodon.

We can do better than that.

It's actually kind of uncanny to see the similarity between the disappearance of third places in the US, and the development of social media on the internet.

We used to have online third places - community-run spaces with some common interest in a topic, be it a TV show, a game, a hobby. Every space was its own thing, and the identifying characteristic was the community that built it. Forums are the most well-known example. You came there for the people, first and foremost, the topic was just the gateway.

Now we have social media that are entirely focused around the individual and their opinions and clout. And the community spaces that do still exist, are usually more like shopping malls - singular canonical subreddits that are sanctioned by the IP holder, controlled by them directly or indirectly, and expected to hold every single fan of the 'property'. No true mutual community, just a bunch of people in a room with a shared interest.