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

"Wait, you're a shapechanger?"
"Yes?"
"You can take any shape?"
"Preserving mass, yes."
"And you chose to look like that?"
"You're a phrasebuilder?"
"What?"
"You can say anything you want?"
"I mean..."
"And you chose to say that?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

And another thing! Sometimes people will put their work frustrations on you when you're disabled and not employed. They'll be like "well *I* suffer through work from 16 to 66, how is it you don't have to, you have no excuse". That's not your fault, they're putting their frustrations with the way the world is and putting it unfairly on you, someone who is struggling through life in a different way.

Meta Ireland fined €1.2 billion for violating GDPR by transferring EU/EEA users’ data to the US without adequate protection. DPC orders Meta Ireland to suspend future transfers and cease unlawful processing within 6 months. Decision follows EDPB dispute resolution. #GDPR #Meta #DPC

Link:
https://dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/Data-Protection-Commission-announces-conclusion-of-inquiry-into-Meta-Ireland

Further reporting:
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0522/1384948-meta-fined-12-billion/

Which reply seems most genuinely enthusiastic: (please boost)

Wheeee!

Lang zal die leven! Over neutrale voornaamwoorden in het Nederlands.

https://langzaldieleven.nl/

#genderneutraal

Why doesn't mastodon highlight edited text in post edit notifications?

My first job was at a fast food joint. It made so much food daily, and I would give out a lot of it to people I knew because I knew it didn't matter.

Some homeless people would come by occasionally close to closing, and I would take their order because we would throw it out anyway.
The manager of the place saw me doing it one night and got really upset because he said it was against company policy and someone might sue. Every single employee laughed because this *does not happen.* He got pissy and wrote me up and said I wouldn't be put on the schedule anymore.

Ha, before you ask, yes, he was.

The moral is there is more than enough food in this fucking country. It is absolutely absurd anyone is going hungry, and people are going hungry because there is a policy that makes those conditions.

That was one of first the moments I realized how fucked up this country was. Letting people go hungry is completely nonsensical and purely about cruelty.

This pumping station is straight out of Myst.

Every now and then, I think about the most casually accidentally racist line I've read in a book. It was wholly unintentional, the sort of line that reveals the author spends Zero Time whatsoever around anybody darker than what you'd expect from southeast Asia.

The line was something like "and she had blue eyes, like all babies." It was the most bizarre thing I'd ever seen, because, well, Black babies' eyes are not blue at birth. Most mixed babies don't have blue eyes either. #BlackMastodon

when the adhdmancer adept is able to precisely balance two equidisinteresting tasks, they may set up a standing wave of procrastinative oscillation between them which successfully consumes both while generating mana for future spells

Here's my plan. Confiscate the assets of everyone with a net worth over a billion dollars to bring them down to a billion dollars. If they complain, bring them down to a million dollars. If they complain again ...

Well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the #Fediverse. 👀

I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of *checks notes* 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps?

Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!

The size of mastodon.social is breaking the moderation story of the #Fediverse.

Moderation on fedi relies on:

1. instance admins and moderators being able to manage bad actors on their own instance;

2. instance admins being able to silence or defederate from insufficiently moderated instances.

Mastodon.social's size and the speed new accounts are set up there means that 1. is very difficult. The size of m.s. and the clout of some of its users means 2. is a hard decision.