Professor Cooldad @dconley@witches.town
Social Justice Bard. They pronouns, Mx. if you must use an honorific. Not as gay as the rest of y’all but I do my best.
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I name my devices after feelings, or emotions, or vague interpersonal concepts. Currently:
Rapture
Elation
mania
naivete
intrigue
Whimsy
(I hadn’t noticed my trend of capitals for devices, lowercase for computers)
Past ones have included gratitude, regret, initiative...
Re LB: Everyone share your names of your electronic devices
Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: Hold these sticky vines in your hands and wrap them around your legs. Then we sit here quietly and listen for the #scuttling of the #ropewalker and her #hundredchildren to scoop us up and #drainourjuices
Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
@SelfsameSynonym @Laurelai I will allow any user to add a check mark to their display name, which they could do on their own anyway, if they send @Alda $200.
@Laurelai who the hell wants to be verified?
A while back people put ✅ in their display name and people kept asking how they got it
As I saw in my TLs, please newcomers, don't hesitate to report toots/accounts which don't respect others. Admins here are humans! 💜
Yes please make use of the report feature here, it actually does something and real human beings look at the reports and respond to them. At least on my instance anyways.
@punsandpotions I was gonna fave this but BE NICE TO YOURSELF
your puns are terrible, meaning they're amazing
@punsandpotions I have a pun safe word and have never needed to use it
@punsandpotions WAIT I demand puns
EN:
Instance-level blocks are used when an instance's moderation team shows a
clear disinterest in moderating abusive behavior, or when the instance
explicitly tolerates such abuse.
toot.love definitely meets the second criteria, so earlier this afternoon it
was suspended. You will no longer be able to contact or be contacted by users
from that instance.
--@dconley
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Welcome new folx! There's plenty of FAQ's out there with info but I noticed a lot of people are joining up at mastodon.social -- this is great! Nothing wrong with that!
But be sure to check out all the other instances too! Some are smaller, some are for different social groups (there are some specifically for artists, programmers, LGBT+ folx, furries, we got a lot of everything!)
Just remember you don't have to stick with one instance and feel free to look around and find one that you like!
#Mastodon vetrans, it is your responsibility to take these newcomers and teach them the sacred ways of the herd.
They must know of the 🅱️ , and the oats, and the yams, and how to spell gameing. The awoos and the toots and the rotating coyotes, eternally spinning. Someone must teach them of Gargamel 
and what we do in this house. They must be introduced to the witches and the commies and the furries and the trans folks.
Let the people share our rich heritage!
@Ymelia_ @benhamill I still reeeeeeally need to read those
nazi on mastodon Afficher plus
i'm so glad that masto is getting a new influx of folks but also i'm gonna laugh every time i see a "maybe this site has a chance" take from a new person
this place is already succeeding and has been for over a year now
we welcome you with open arms and are glad that you're here. just remember those that came before you, yeah?