Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town
Fake Witch Boy, #MeFite
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 
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/
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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Everyone who dislikes the seventh episode of Stranger Things 2 is wrong and a bad person.
Stranger Things 2: Dad Things
Happy belated to Eugene V. Debs, union leader, founder of the IWW, & 5-time candidate for US president from the Socialist Party of America (the final time, from prison).
“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
"It's so deeply embedded in contemporary capitalism that they regard this as acceptable behavior. What they then do is they try to distance themselves from this by saying "we use this place because it's tax neutral"—which means nothing at all. "We assume the wealthy people are paying taxes where they're due." That's an assumption that they're not in any position to know. They have no idea whether their clients are paying taxes."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4ebe/the-paradise-papers-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg
"Of course, tax avoidance is a full-on attack on democracy": https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4ebe/the-paradise-papers-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg
just got introduced to bitmoji 😊🌈💕 #WeGotThis https://t.co/wsk80Oo9BR
General request: if you post pictures, please please include alt text describing the image so that everyone, regardless of visual ability, can enjoy your toot.
Please consider asking others to do this. Optionally, reconsider boosting toots if they don't have alt text.
We all have an opportunity to help shape the culture of this place and I'd love, love, love if it were "oh, everyone posts alt text with their images because that's just what you do."
#fourwordhorrorstories no plums in icebox
gun violence, domestic abuse Afficher plus