starless @starless@pixie.town
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- https://cyberia.club
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- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
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@BestGirlGrace honestly, it has been great.
I baby mine a little-- I do tend to keep mine closed when I'm not actively using it (to avoid bending it back the other way and to protect the screen from scratches), and I usually rotate it so that the hinge isn't where I usually sit down when it's in my back pocket.
It feels sturdy enough, and being able to 'close' my phone when I'm done with it (but still see notification blurbs on the mini display) is really brain-nice.
It may get a little stiffer in the cold, but I'm not certain yet. It handled a thirty minute walk around ten Fahrenheit just fine, but I haven't done a lot of testing in very cold conditions. I expect it would be fine, though.
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I like my phone and it fits in girlpockets. I don't have a user replaceable battery, but the firmware does do some battery capacity protection. I use a Samsung Galaxy ZFlip 5G. I've had it for about a year ish and like it reasonably, though it took some work to get it less 'noisy'.
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And let's be honest. Many white 'liberals' and 'progressives' feel like they have some ownership of the fedi and can dictate what the culture is rather than being amenable to it changing as the user base grows and diversifies.
Many white people feel like they can very rudely make demands of people they don't know and expect people to acquiesce. And that's just unearned entitlement.
There are always growing pains when any platform has gains that have just happened over the last couple of weeks. We need patience, care, and understanding to let the culture grow organically.
What we don't need is white people bitterly complaining that their fabricated view of the world is changing because reality is no longer deniable.
Drink some water and shut the fuck up. You're not in any danger. LOL, you're just a bigot. You'll be fine.
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I just wanted to share one of the pieces of work I'm most proud of this year.
In June I gave the University of Oxford annual disability lecture.
This lecture explored my work around unwanted touching as experienced by disabled people.
It is the culmination of work that started on Twitter 4 years ago.
I am very grateful to everyone who has shared their stories & supported #JustAskDontGrab over the years.
You can find the podcast & transcript here ⬇️
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/hands-navigating-unwanted-touch-consent-and-disability
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you know me i’ll go to bat for this platform but that doesn’t mean i don’t acknowledge that its essentially the social media equivalent of ham radio
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Holy shit it was HBOMBERGUY that's responsible for posts being called toots on Mastodon, I'm fucking shaking right now
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Good morning to everyone this morning! Normalize recognizing that your dreams of a better world are vital and beautiful.💖🏳️🌈🦄🦸🏽♂️✊🏽🔥
#GoodMorning #Gay #Nonbinary #Dreams #LGBTQ #BlackLivesMatter #Queer #Hope #Community
Tech suggestion
@MerlinJStar@weirder.earth Heya! You mentioned soliciting suggestions for a Zoom replacement.
There's a project called Jitsi (https://jit.si) that you can use. It's also self-host-able, if you or your friends are into that, but you can also just use their site. It's not perfect, but it also is not Zoom. :)
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@Astroexeter absolutely! Can I read more about what it's an image of/what it was colorized on somewhere? Totally gorgeous stuff.
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At the risk of boring folk, here are a couple of images I took earlier.
@signal9 hi there! How've you been? :)
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@Astroexeter THIS IS NOT BORING
I'll be at the star-wars-themed night at #GroundZeroNightclub tonight! If you see me, come say 'hi'! :)
Why will I be there? A local circus arts group hosts a #kink -friendly community #event with fire stuff, #aerial performances, and music. It's in #Minneapoils. It's a cash-only venue, cover is around $15, and the bar has non alcoholic options. The space is #WheelchairAccessible. Costumes highly recommend. 🖤✨
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switter (the sex worker instance) was closed because of literal actual government interference from numerous nations. please do the reading before painting fedi with a swerf or other reactionary brush. i want sex workers to be SAFE dammit and that means knowing when we can't responsibly be a part of your work. and sex work is work.
please read https://switter.at/ - their own words - before developing a Take.
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are there more linux distros or weed strains?
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The rush to discover whether you're LGBTQIA or neurodivergent first:
Egg and Spoon race.
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Once again, for the new folks in the peanut gallery, if on Android, try Tusky or FediLab. If iOS, pay the $4 for Toot! or get MetaText for free. The official app is, well, ass. The folks who boost this will underscore how true this is.
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For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post!
Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
