If you want to know how it's going in Portland, Oregon: we have a minor feud between two competing naked bike ride groups.
https://bikeportland.org/2025/02/25/get-ready-for-two-major-naked-rides-this-summer-392947
Oh yeah stumbled across this banger forum thread about retro homebrew feeling very commercialized now (by someone I recognize from Fedi) while I was looking at emulator drama yesterday: https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=24744
apparently the local utility bills are normally white, and if you're late on your payments, as i see in some other mailboxes, they have a huge pink rectangle in the header, and i can only imagine that the even-more-delinquent bills have it in red because whoever designed them played a lot of the sims
The window cleaning guy is in the street. A bunch of houses in the street pay for his service. He arrives in a little van and pulls out a hosepipe that is the length of the ENTIRE STREET and walks back and forth with it cleaning the windows, yellow hosepipe strewn over the road haphazardly. Never has a person wielded as lengthy a hosepipe as this.
ropol, probably good, genocide mention
Oh ok turns out they are charging him with building a fascist group, promoting the cult of personality of perpetrators of genocide, and building or participating in antisemitic groups
Hundreds of #pixelart #fonts preserved by @patrick_h_lauke
Seriously, if Mastodon would rename 'CW' to 'Subject' or 'Subject/CW', it would alleviate so many hassles and conflicts while helping folks adjust to Mastodon norms.
As an Admin of a Topic Based community instance, in the years since the Twitter takeover, the biggest challenge our moderation team has faced has been to get dudes (yes, it's almost always dudes), to add CWs to certain topics.
Simply calling it 'Subject' would have helped in maybe 50% of conflicts over our asking for CWs.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.