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I'm mentally preparing myself now:
SO: You don't look like you slept much - when did you go to bed?
ME: Oh, sometime around 2:30ish?
SO: Why were you up so late?
ME: Mastodon.
SO: ...?
ME: I'm too tired, I'll explain it later

Facebook: Everyone knows me. I am me

Twitter: Some people know me. I am a persona based on me

Mastodon: Nobody knows me. I am a transient, sentient beam of ultraviolet light

the best thing about being a marxist is you can blame capitalism for pretty much anything bad in your life and you're never wrong

I saw a toddler dressed as a Minion and thought of the normalization of indentured servitude under capitalism so I'm really sad now

Just believe in it.

Like, if something works for you, then it works.

But it'll only work if you believe it's gonna.

Rituals only help reinforce and Hack belief.

Extraordinary feats require extraordinary belief.

But you can do anything.

You're a goddamn witch. Just believe in yourself.

And the witches are practicing realmagicks
as the furries all fav the awoos
Yes, they're boosting a toot they call Mastodon
and it's better than boosting bird doo

Housing

Just read a take about how "the culture wars don't really represent America" and uh

Did you forget about the part where my parents' generation of White folk in the South lynched black and LGBTQ people and beat draft dodgers? Some of the "old" people you talk to today participated in, defended, or averted their eyes from that. That wasn't Ancient history, elsewhere. That was mid-late 20th century America.

Culture war is, unfortunately, born and raised here.

When you design a CoC for your #Mastodon or #GNUSocial instance, remember that you want enough strictness to:

- Kick ESR off if he shows up
- Aggressively ban botters & 4chan
- Shut up the nazi-brigade when they come
- Protect your users from abusive third parties.

in an age where we are told we are only worth what we can buy there is no greater act of rebellion than kindness to ourselves and others

Reminder: sexual content is OK on here but it's one of the few things Eugen required you use content warnings for. It's pretty rude to just post that shit without warning yo

Alex Payne, (engineer who helped scale Twitter), way back in 2010: "Decentralization isn’t just a better architecture, it’s an architecture that resists censorship and the corrupting influences of capital and marketing.

"At the very least, decentralization would make tweeting as fundamental and irrevocable a part of the Internet as email. Now that would be a triumph of humanity."

https://al3x.net/2010/09/15/last-thing-about-twitter.html

How I see witches.town

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For all you witches and neighboors who may feeling low, I stumbled on this while searching for zine inspiration. Maybe it'll resonate with you too.

"This may be a sad chapter but you are not a sad story"

-a follower told me this, thank you.