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

"some people on mastodon are really preachy how is anyone expected to enjoy this social network"

idk man i spent literal hours of my life every week having to preemptively block literal fascists on twitter and people seemed to be able to enjoy that just fine before coming here so i feel like they should already possess the coping mechanisms required to deal with people they find too preachy

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

One of the most interesting things Star Trek ever did was giving the person in charge of the ship's mental health one of the top 3 symbolically-powerful positions on the ship, and every subsequent Trek has completely ignored this.

I really think one of the hardest things about being polyamorous is the complete dearth of representation for what a healthy poly relationship looks like.

Monogamous people grow up surrounded by media rep of both healthy and toxic relationships and know what both look like. Poly people on the other hand often stumble through some pretty toxic shit because the only representation of us in media is some crummy documentary where everyone looks unhappy and the presenter clearly hates you.

they've ruled that housing rights for couples goes to all people in the relationship.

example given: three people are in a relationship. two are married, but one of the spouses lives outside the city bc new york. The other two share the NYC apartment. The spouse who lives fulltime in NYC died. Landlord tried to kick nonspouse out, calling them a roommate, as the deceased was married to someone else.

Court ruled in favor of the nonspouse taking over the lease after checking with the spouse that there was, in fact, a consensual triad going down.

this is huge.

De periode dat alle partijen over elkaar heen buitelen om zieltjes te winnen. Lees je in. Welke partijen hielden niet aan hun belofte. Hadden geen actieve herinnering etc. Maak dan een keuze. Je hoeft niet lid te worden van een partij. #nieuweverkiezingen

Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)

@deadsuperhero @sikkdays "brands.town but unironic" is probably the most accurate description of Meta Threads I have seen yet. I wonder if The Meta Algorithms would even be able to tell them apart once they federate with each other

Mastodon's biggest problem is all the people confidently declaring Mastodon's biggest problem to be some weird behaviour or other that I've almost never seen on here.

move instance and follow other people, stop voluntarily hanging out with people who annoy you and then whining about it like a heterosexual couple, """mastodon""" is five thousand social networks in a trenchcoat, sorry you joined the wrong one, it happens, it's unfortunate, but there's no need to be weird about it

torch every mansion, penthouse, and yacht. make wealthy humans feel and be unsafe

https://www.reuters.com/legal/court-reinstates-tennessee-ban-care-transgender-youth-2023-07-08/

"A Tennessee law prohibiting doctors from providing medical care such as puberty-blockers and gender affirming surgery for transgender minors can go into effect immediately, a U.S. appeals court ruled Saturday."

Fuck all y'all

the antithesis of "im cringe and i'm free" is "i aggressively regulate my self-expression for fear of being judged as too vulnerable by society, and as a result my very existence is limited"

be cringe. do things people will judge you for. let yourself be vulnerable even if it means giving people a chance to make fun of you.

you'll find people who will be cringe with you and the community you form will liberate you to create transcendental art

Comparing any singular social media service to "Mastodon" is like comparing apples to an orange grove.

They say "Mastodon" but they're talking about the entire fediverse with all of its very different instances, software (including Mastodon), and communities and then compare it to a singular service driven by a singular vision.

It's a very broken analogy.

AI that's been programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics and due to how they define harm they decide to fully dismantle capitalism.

#PixelArt #Magpie #bird #mastoart #fediart #aseprite #furry #digitalart #art #corruptedfox