ruth[gone to the shop --> ] @ruth@witches.town

Oh I limit follows which means I have to approve you and I probably will but you can toot @ me and that'll make it easier for me to know.

LB (last boost, for the new): We have witches and commies and furries and trans folks and it's GREAT. It's super great here. (it's not perfect but it's great)

OH WAIT I MEANT ALSO TOOTPLANET.SPACE. TOOT PLANET DOT SPACE. Surely this fits some of your aesthetics.

Hey y'all, @PlanetaryKnight is on here if you haven't found them yet! Also maybe we can get @overclicked to come back? And @bastlynn and @davethegame And maybe @InspectorCaracal if you follow him he's on here...

- There are apps! I use Amaroq on my phone. I haven't been on here as much because oh god conference season.

- DMs are basically private posts you can tag a bunch of friends in I'm saying we can do specific locked Twitter on here.

- You can join a couple instances and decide to stick with the one you like best. You have no idea how far I'm federated. But Witches is my hometown.

- 🍍

- CWs! Hey look, sometimes you can do meta posts and NOT put 666 char on the timeline because of CWs. Use them for content warnings, jokes, blather, things you don't want to shove in faces esp when posting full public.

- You can export all your following from your instance, so if you decide that you don't want to be on mastodon.social but on shark.es (surely that would be a masto, but toot.cat?), you can move! Yay!

- It's gonna be a lot like older/slower Twitter at first if you don't look at local & federated toots & that's ok. Slowly build people to follow. Peep at those but like not always.

- WE MEME HARD HERE.

- CYBRE.SPACE HAS A WIN95 THEME

OMG Twitter friends are trying le Mastodon again/for the first time! A note/recommendation... as a rule, the big sites like mastodon.social are OK but you may want to try some smaller places and also follow stuff on your INSTANCE level (vs. the whole Fediverse). I'm on witches.town. I really like the toot.cat space/admin. If you're down with furries, awoo.space is pretty rad. cybre.space for you techier types, I've seen SUCH a better tech culture on there... So those are a few. And remember how we're down w/paying for better Twitter? Tip your admins! <3

There are enough people, someone pay me to become an organizer.

It was really good to do conferencing and I am so glad to be home and also glad that it's almost the weekend. After the conference next week I'm going to have SO much on my plate for work, for service, etc.... but it's good stuff I want to be doing? Though tbh after the forum a part of me just wants my job to be organizing labor concerns in libraries.

anyway, I'm using this time to do some red cross pre-CPR class training through their online system because I HAVE to complete the training before tomorrow morning. As a gamer, I'm immediately adapting to it.

I hate that, being a new employee, even though I have sick time--the fact that I was sick last month makes me unwilling to take off because I'm sick again. It's ridiculous but it's how I'm conditioned.

I want your voice to be represented but i LITERALLY CANNOT HEAR YOU! I CAN'T.

Augh I'm listening to this thing and the person is far from the mic and I'm really interested in what she's saying but she's talking fast and I can't hear I can't hear I can't hear I can't hear ... just whacking my head in frustration and anger