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Hand Talk, or Plains Sign Talk, is a trade language that was once the lingua franca across what is now central Canada, the central and western United States and northern Mexico, used among the various Plains Nations.

Some of the signs are similar to ASL (like tree and grow). Although there is no sign for name, so the word "call" is used when asking someone for their name:
"QUESTION - YOU - CALLED."

(Images, William Tokins 1926)

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If you're approached about joining Qoto's UFoI (United Federation of Instances), don't. Qoto started it because they got pissy people were defeding from them because they refuse to themselves defederate from fash instances. Some of the instances ON their UFoI are fash instances. weirder.earth/@human_dude/1094

Qoto are *not* representative of the 'good' spaces on fedi, and if you're invested in curating a safe space for marginalised folk on your instance, you should distance yourselves from Qoto.

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Anybody know of any good transgender historical fiction books? I'm looking to get some trans books as Xmas presents for a newly out trans woman friend, and she loves historical fiction (and alt-history).

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pls boost am testing gotosocial concurrency

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For some context on my current instance setup, it's using nothing but free tiers of various cloud services until I get a good estimate of how much resources I would need to dedicate to running my own instance locally.

So far we're capping out at 30GB of media storage. 3GB of Database storage, and comfortable use of less than 1GB of ram and 1vCPU.

I'm thinking it's feasible to self host this very soon, once I get my newly liberated thin clients set up.

@sammy there are a few other social platforms that also support activitypub. Why does it need to be a fork of mastodon, since Eugen has been so difficult to work with?

@Astroexeter image description: an image of the moon with a little glowing orangey dot hovering nearby (presumably Mars).

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genuine question, where are all the SWers the fediverse supposedly has?

@fack I worry that metal might be too hot when it's hot, or lose its heat too quickly? But it's probably $5 to find out, so it might be worth it.

You may have better luck with nice little rocks you put up there n then take with ya.

@fack oh noooo 💔💔💔

I have been there. You can kinda cheat by bolstering it with baking cocoa, but it's an.. Art.

I'm so sorry for your plight.

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@ljwrites

if there is one thing that has followed me from social media platform to social media platform, it's being followed by white people who follow black folks and treat us like novelty items to collect. specifically novelty items that somehow reaffirm the idea that their online world isn't a wall of value-size mayonnaise jars at Costco.

and what's funny is they think they're being slick. when in actually it's painfully obvious.

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@ljwrites

on twitter it was obvious in its insidiousness. being put on twitter lists with titles like "race" and "PoCs to follow" "anti-racists" and other things i wouldn't ever use to describe myself, ever.

on fedi, its the weird performances in my mentions that really seal it for me.

but regardless of where i am, what remains is that i'm not seen as a person whose personhood isn't meant to exist in relation to lofty anti-racist performances on social media.

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"Ugh! Laughing at someone unable to do this simple act isn't ableist!"

We all struggle in different ways. It's amazing how many people take for granted what they can do, until they can't do it anymore.

Seriously. Many simple tasks are out of reach for disabled people.

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A quick thing — can you please boost?

I'm looking for an an artist to commission a character design piece for noncommercial public use. Since this piece would depict an agender character, I would love if a trans or nonbinary artist could be the one I commission!

If you know of anyone who has commissions open that seems a good fit for this, please let me know!

@kf I wonder if it'd be safer to put a little piece of felt with the lemon oil on it on the chassis of the bot so he left a little fresh trail?

Selfie, no ec, alcohol mention 

@gwenprime aww, yaaay! Yeah, that stuff will stay on until tomorrow. Lol. I use an oil to remove it. Really impressive stuff, IMO. Have fun!

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