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

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

Hi my jorts.horse friends. Your admin is being a complete and absolute shithead about other people on jorts abusing the fediblock hashtag. Please consider moving to another instance, as the admin and other people have a continued stance of not giving a shit about an actually useful and helpful aspect of Mastodon. Thanks.

Let's be very clear.

What jorts[dot]horse is doing is straight-up white supremacy. They are attacking a tool, specifically, created to help make the fedi safer for Black and POC users because they feel it's bad and is laughing about it. That's unvarnished anti-blackness, and they are proud of it.

At this point, nothing separates them from any other racist instance like kiwi farms or gab.

They are actively working to make the fedi a less safe place and enjoying that effort.

#fediblock

@DanaBlankenhorn @rosalux @HandgunYoga @aral

Achieving a higher seat at the table of a deliberately unjust system, is not progress, it is a bribe.

Do other Mastodon admins see weird behaviour regarding instance suspensions?

Take "example.org", and subdomains "social" and "social2".

If you first block the root domain and then the subdomain, the block for the root domain disappears here. Is that the case for you too?

#MastoAdmin

I admit it. I hate Britain. I hate America too. I hate every country. I hate the arbitrary geopolitical borders that violently carve up our planet into the worthy and unworthy. I hate the way they’re secured. I hate the way our cultures have been infested with nationalism.

I hate the way people can be forced to move from one arbitrarily defined piece of land to another because they don’t have the correct piece of paper.

Added some new Mastodon monitoring infrastructure for discuss.systems.

Sure, every good #MastoAdmin has a cool Grafana dashboard, but we're going a bit more old school here...

(begin quote)

"Let's get something straight. Growing old doesn't make people #conservative. In fact the more marginalized identity statuses a person has, the LESS conservative they grow over time.
The reason we equate "old" with "conservative" is that #marginalization kills people off younger.

Some of the most radical people you know are old.

It's just a lot of others died before they could get there, so there's a diminishing proportion. (2/5)

@KFuentesGeorge It's not just a preference. Text allows me to process information at my own speed. And text is usually way more accessible for someone who is visually impaired, because (almost) all information is available in plain text, which can be processed to suit one's needs (e.g. increase fonts, change colors, use a screen reader, etc.).

Reminder to my neurospicy folks: you are great. Every time I take an ADHD inventory it makes me sad, because it talks about the ways that this type of neurodivergence inconveniences *other people.* Heck em, your purpose is not to be convenient. You are valid and inherently valuable regardless of how psychiatry treats you and regardless of how the workplace etc treats you.

Logan Paul threatens to sue CoffeeZilla for exposing his (alleged) grift

January 4, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=logan-paul-threatens-to-sue-coffeezilla-for-exposing-his-alleged-grift

I am once again asking Americans to remember to tag your political commentary (shitpost or otherwise) with #USpol.

I really miss when people CW'ed their political posts. I used to appreciate seeing that so much, it's a big part of what made Mastodon so much easier to scroll than the other site.

man, this is making me lament the sheer amount of access to other parts of humanity that I lack by being limited to the small subset of languages I know.

I really need to add Arabic to the pile at some point, at _least_, for example. Maybe Hindi (or Punjabi, which I think again is more relevant in my area).

I also don't want to focus so much on "big umbrella" languages, because there's so many other languages that are massively important to smaller communities, many of which have been historically (or even are still actively being) suppressed. I wish there were more learning resources for these. I'd love to learn Amerindian languages, if only "major" ones like Maya.

Imagine you are a Game Designer...

and your boss wants you to design something against your moral, ideologic or personal standpoint and wont argue...

Do you...

#GameDesign #GameDevelopment #GameDeveloper @darkpatterns #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev