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

if you get bitten by a radioactive computer you turn into a web master

To federate with my instance, you must certify that you are not Anish Kapoor and that you will not federate with Anish Kapoor

I've heard people say that billionaires should be taken down, but I didn't realise they meant that far down.

real victim blamey vibes coming from the people getting mad at us for trying to defend our communities from the inevitable harassment shitstorm that is meta/facebook/instagram/barcelona/project92/threads

it's not OUR fault they're trying to pull some shit

like holy hell, have you BEEN on facebook? it's a total wasteland of every sort of vile bigotry imaginable, and nobody who runs it gives any semblance of a fuck

oh, right, it never affected you at all so it's nonexistent. right

#FediPact

being okay with meta joining the fediverse

is being okay with cosigning every goddamn trans person who chooses to remain on here

to a future of constant harassment

me: *wonders why there are no clean dishes*

me: *doesn't do the dishes*

people talk about the “dangers of defederation”

but never the actual dangers of shitty admins having so many instances

i have yet to see an argument in favor of not blocking meta

that's anything besides some variation of "number go up" with extra steps

I AM TIRED AND TOO WARM, I WAS PROMISED THUNDER STORMS, WHERE IS MY RAIN?????

This post is a continuation of the investigation into U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW: https://ionathan.ch/2023/06/06/angzarr.html

This is an allegedly-mathematical character that got into Unicode from unknown sources; a delightful typo-archaeological detective story.

If anyone reading this is a student or faculty member at Cambridge U with library access, they could help advance the investigation.

ah yes John McWhiteprivilege i am totally interested in your hot take of the day about how Facebook is important because "regular instance admins don't have the resources to run instances" and "we need a single common federated space"

*calls a number on the phone* hey Zaqir, can you believe this? they reinvented centralized social media again...

everytime i see someone advocating for Facebook it's always a white cis american/european guy every goddamn fucking time

it's almost a joke at this point

if wanting poor people to have food and shelter and medication is "extreme"

if wanting people to get more out of life than just endless monotonous drudgery at some shitty job is "extreme"

if taking a look at the state of the world and saying, "i want this to be better" is "extreme"

then, god damn it, yes i'm a fucking "radical." and proud of it

i'd rather fight back and try to better things than just lay down and die, or sell my soul

i hate this annoying tendency to conflate right-wing and left-wing extremism

right-wing radicals wanna do genocide, okay

left-wing radicals... wanna make sure everyone is properly fed, and housed, and cared for, and given a chance to truly pursue happiness

they're not even remotely the same thing

just because all the propaganda you've ingested over the years -- and the centrist way it's often spoken about and commonly framed -- makes it seem that way at a glance doesn't mean that's true

Some day I will learn that that extra hour of sleep is worth saving that hour of reading for tomorrow. Some day.

posting low quality shitposts, profanity and pornography on mastodon so that facebook investors get shook is the equivalent of shooting multiple rounds in the air to lower neighborhood rent costs

@vantablack there would be nothing more peak fediverse than taking down a 750-billion-dollar corporation's plans using a website that looks like a 90s geocities page