starless @starless@pixie.town
- 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.
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Joined Jul 2020
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#sewing friends, do you know any good bralette/bra patterns for big boobs (I'm talking F-H cup sizes)?
This busty femme is frustrated with what's out there ready-to-wear and would like to learn how to make their own.
I'd like to start with something unwired, since I like to wear unwired bras as casual comfy everyday underthings.
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I’m in the mood to read non-stallman free software centric philosophy. does anyone have any recommendations? I just read through http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing_update_2021.html but it left me sort of wanting more.
I think there’s a coherent philosophy that spans leftism, federation, free software, “smolcomputing” and morality just waiting to be born.
Minneapolis Cyberia barbecue details
Access-wise, the barbecue space is outside in uptown Minneapolis in a yard near an apartment building. Although the yard is a little small, it's right next to a parking lot, so if you'd be comfy with a little more space, we should be able to work something out. The hosting household has a small pug (who is very well behaved and can stay inside) and there may be some beer or similar. Mobility-wise, there is a flight of stairs up to the main door and the railing isn't weight-bearing, so if stairs are a challenge, you might not be able to access the bathroom/sink. If you need an accommodation, please let me know, and we can see what we can do. :)
We're hosting this so we can meet new folks before showing y'all around the new space, because we're a little shy and wanna verify that strangers from the internet are real people, and sharing food is a pretty good way to do that.
Also, Forest is a really really good cook, and I really hope you'll come. Like, we're all very cool and work on very good stuff so you want to meet Cyberians anyways, but uh, I am always really impressed by what this man cooks up. Delicious, beautiful stuff, and he really likes to cook for others.
Anyways, if you've got any questions, let me know. No assholes, no nazis, but this is Cyberia, so you already knew that. If you didn't, check out https://cyberia.club to learn more.
Minneapolis hacker space meet and greet / open barbecue
Hi! Cyberia is gearing up to work on our new hackerspace and we'd love to include our new fedi friends!
This whole thing is totally free. Bring just yourself, or possibly just yourself and a snack or something to toss on the grill if ya want.
Here are some days within the next week or so, we'll schedule for when folks can make it. Please vote, we'd really love to have ya! https://framadate.org/ApSCeoP7O3Qi4MgZ
(more details in next toot)
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MPLS folks:
I'm going to host a cyberia "Soupchat IRL" BBQ event to act as a sort of meet and greet / staging area for new folks which we haven't met in person yet, but who are interested in helping out with the physical space
If you wish to chow down with us, and especially if you want to help with the cleanup/renovation, please let me know when you would be available!!
https://framadate.org/ApSCeoP7O3Qi4MgZ
The event will be held in my back yard.
You are not required to bring food, however you are welcome to bring prepared food, or food that can be grilled.
After you have specified the days you would be available, send me a DM on matrix (@forestjohnson:cyberia.club) or an email (forest.n.johnson@gmail.com) to get the address / parking information / etc.
@starless please ReToot this I know you have a much larger local fedi following than I do 👉👈🥺
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I appreciate that the admin of hackers.town, scholar.social, and mastodon.art are out there doing the right thing with maintaining the communities on their instances.
I'm not on any of those so I've only an outsider's perspective, but what I see from the outside is uplifting.
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RT @ShitUserStory
As a…
– Google Image Search user
I want to…
– be redirected to Pinterest
so that…
– I can use the modal overlay to create an account, to access the link to the Reddit post which has the Imgur link to the image I was looking for
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anyway here's a survey for 
folks about what to do with 50m in funding https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/budget/american-rescue-plan/arpa-spending-survey/
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wordpress was a mistake. I'm adding a hmong translations landing page and the SEO optimization plugin is like "try making your sentences shorter, but other than that, this is very readable!"
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Celebrate the magic of making it through half the week by hanging out with your friendly (virtual) neighborhood clowns in the #CircusInPlace video chat!
The shenanigans start at 8pm UTC-5, and tend to run very late.
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A coda to the Guardian's shameful bigotry - the UK editors didn't /just/ cut that segment of the interview, but also spiked an entire series of trans articles - again from the US staff - "Gender Now":
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/guardian-pulls-judith-butlers-comments
Say it with me: communities over technologies. (a soapbox)
If you're using a social technology, you're using it because of the contributions and humanity of your fellow humans. At their cores, every social platform derives its value from its users.
A technologically perfect platform is of no use without users you actually like.
Likewise, people on a technologically bad platform will only go elsewhere if the community at large is there.
Are technologically exciting platforms good and interesting? Yes.
But you should evaluate a social platform the way you would evaluate a friend, and not the way you would evaluate an operating system. Because you don't want a social platform that thinks for you, you want a social platform that helps you belong, shows you cool stuff, and helps you talk to humans you like.
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Oh holy shit, these authors just drew a line between the moment-by-moment awareness/impermanence of mindfulness and its appeal to corporations who want us to internalize it so we don’t question their restructuring of workplaces with ever-increasing worker precarity. 😳
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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert
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- 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
