Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town
Fake Witch Boy, #MeFite
The TSA is worse than useless: not only do its agents fail to catch most threats, but it provides a false sense of security anyway. http://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188
Everyone who hates episode 7 continues to be wrong.
Stranger Things 2 was pretty good. Not as good overall as season 1, but still a solid follow-up. The majority of the problems I had were structural, but kind of unavoidable in building a bridge from the relatively self-contained single season into a four-season epic.
I worry about the Duffers getting too high on their own shit, though.
Hi everyone, since the same issues come up again and again and are keeping people from using this site, I started a wiki page on Mastodon #accessibility stuff!
Please go and improve it, and share it with anyone who might need it!
https://en.mstdn.wiki/Accessibility
It is supposed to help use Mastodon right now, by explaining useful features that Mastodon already has and showing workarounds for features it lacks. It's not meant to imply that improvements to Mastodon itself can't or shouldn't be made 
@HTHR All of Mastodon is Weird Mastodon.
PopFront released this, which is basically about how nazis think Swift is a white supremacist icon and she is and it's uncanny how her music videos are catering to their bullshit
"These women were there, they existed. Everybody knew that, up until somehow they didn’t. We know there were LGBT and non-binary pulp writers, too, but their identities are hidden by time and the protective anonymity of pseudonyms."
-- Martha Wells @ The World #fantasy Awards
RT @/chunk_widebody on Twitter: Excuse me I need everyone to see this picture of Danica Roem immediately https://mastodon.social/media/XCsM3S1VG68VjtwfcfM
'#Generalstrike: Protesters are blocking most of entrances and exits to #Barcelona now. 90% of trains are also blocked
https://twitter.com/josepgoded/status/928160513112133632?s=17
#Catalonia
“I'm sorry my protest is collapsing your roads, but your indifference is collapsing my country.”
How to get people to join Mastodon
A guide by... er, me
- Show them a screenshot of your favourite open instance.
- Tell them it works well in browser on mobile.
- Tell them the admins are good people who ban nazis.
- Invite them to join your favourite open instance.
- DO NOT use the words federated, instance, or free and open source.
After they've joined, send them here:
- Cross-poster: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br
- Find your Twitter friends: https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/
MA Pol (+) !!! Afficher plus
First transgender state legislator elected today in Virginia; Danica Roem for district 13.
Something I notice quite a bit when people are trying to convince others to try Mastodon is that they put most of their focus into the infrastructure.
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This is all well and good, but doesn't quite answer why someone should give their time and attention to it.
"Is it easy to use?"
"Who uses it?" "Are my friends there?"
"How do I find people to talk to?"
"Can I use it on my phone?"
"Which instance do I choose?"
The old, abandoned Navy barracks building in my neighbourhood just burned down. Hell of a fire. The fire department contained it pretty well, though, and the wind took the smoke away from my house. Pretty dramatic day nonetheless.
"How the web died"
I believe we call this irony?
I bet the article even says good stuff, but 😅 🤣 
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@aparrish So I think you're right about their being a performative aspect to this whole "I don't get this weird term, I'm out" phenomenon, but there's also a fundamental issue with how Mastodon is explained and pitched to people.
You join a small community but you can still talk to people in other communities. That's a 100% accurate (if shallow) description, but it doesn't offer any new terminology for anybody to get hung up on.
@aparrish TBH, a big part of the problem is that, well, federation *doesn't matter*. Not as something an end-user needs to care about during their first introduction to how Mastodon works, anyway.
I mean, when you teach someone how to use e-mail, do you do a deep dive on SMTP first? Do we expect people to know what DNS is and how BGP works before they type "google.com" into a web browser? Of course not.
Everyone who dislikes the seventh episode of Stranger Things 2 is wrong and a bad person.
Stranger Things 2: Dad Things