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

The people in the neighborhood wanted a bridge over the creek. The city had no funding for #PedestrianInfrastructure for something like that. But they did get an #art grant, so they hired an artist to create an art installation that would span the creek that people could walk on. I frequently walk my dogs along this creek and yes, over the bridge sometimes.
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/08/06/drift-pedestrian-bridge-fort-worth-texas-volkan-alkanoglu/

Acid test for any social network or fedi instance:

If you say "fuck you" to a Nazi, who gets banned?

@starfall additional two cents from someone that used to hang out with fascists: you might Think you're Immune To Propaganda. you'll sit in two spaces, and know that you say slurs to fit in with one crowd and know to never say them around the other crowd. you'll know How It Works and think nothing they say is actually slipping into what you think and do

and then you'll spend a disproportionate amount of time later after the fact, untangling a lot of shit you were told that you didn't attribute to a group you knew not to trust, that you didn't know was a dogwhistle, that you thought was Just A Meme but was actually a weird channer way of doing a stereotype joke

(and to a hypothetical reader, if you're one of these ex-channer/ex-cryptofash/ex-all-my-friends-were-nazis-at-one-point-and-i-haven't-examined-that types, this is a starting point for a lot of work ahead of you.)

@SleepyCatten Some people are "worried" because it looks like more and more kids are becoming trans and/or non-binary nowadays. But the simple answer is: it used to be much more repressed. The same thing happened when schools stopped forcing kids to write with their right hand. "Suddenly" more and more kids were lefthanded. But eventually it hit a plateau at 9-10%. It's not that there weren't any lefthanded kids before - they were forced into invisibility.

I want to make a test on the % reach a post can have in terms of people in other servers. Are you seeing this post on mastodon.gamedev.place or another server? (Appreciate if you can boost this).

I’m looking to leave my country (Italy, i live approximately in the middle), my current target is germany, currently the main issue for me is figuring out how I’m supposed to move my stuff from here to there, as moving companies from anywhere i know are extremely shady and usually mishandle things, the amount of stuff i need to move isn’t too large (it’s mostly a subset of the contents of 1 room), probably would fit in a regular car. Does anyone know what sort of service I could use as an alternate

With new advances in "AI" and "Machine Learning", we can incorrectly assume that correlation equals causation _millions_ of times faster than before!

As you get older all of the years blur into one: The Year of the Linux Desktop

Zijn jullie al helemaal klaar voor #Whamageddon?

Dit zijn de spelregels:

1) WHAM's Christmas klassieker; "Last Christmas" niét horen!

2) we beginnen 01/12 en spelen door tot 24/12 🎄

3) Enkel de originele versie telt mee. Geniet van alle mogelijke covers en remixen

4) zodra je de originele 'Last Christmas' hoort ben je VERLOREN en post je je #whamageddon 💣

Extracted the butterflies, so now they're separate too. CC0 license, emojify them or whatnot :P #BrynnDraws #Art

#FediBlock disqordia.space for all of the above too

https://rage.love/@puf/108829477530153878
https://akko.disqordia.space/objects/860e8741-3c75-4465-8706-28807c6f9745 (related to above post)
and many more too, just hunt around and find it

Spinster markets itself as a feminist instance, but it's a TERF instance; One of the older ones, co-started by Alex Gleason, defederated by so many of us so long ago that I rarely see it brought up any more.

If you're an admin of a new instance, and you value keeping the trans people on your platform safe, #FediBlock spinster.xyz.

Receipt: This is one of their mods. Check the pinned toot. https://spinster.xyz/@Vaishax

I designed and sewed this axolotl pencil case! 🦎

Anti-World Cup poster spotted in Amsterdam

Twitter was not invented by hotshot entrepreneurs. It was modeled on TXTmob, a tool activists designed for the protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Real innovation comes from participatory experimentation, not profiteering.

Billionaires ruin everything they touch.

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBought

people really need to research who makes the software they are using when deploying it for something like fediverse integration. and if you weren't aware before, you are now

fact: Alex Gleason, the developer of Soapbox, is a massive transphobe who wrote an article titled "Why I don't support transgender ideology" where he says in so many words that he is against transgender people and spends an awful lot of time minimizing all of the suffering trans people are subjected to. it's not hard to find this if you look, right on his blog. i do not care if he claims its about "ideology, not people" - you cannot separate these two

is it any wonder that spinster.xyz, a notable transphobic gender critical instance, uses Soapbox?

do not use soapbox and do not support or give alex gleason the time of day if you care about trans people