Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

This is also one of the reasons I'm bullish on Mastodon. Is Mastodon immune to the problems of other social media? No. But at least it belongs to the users, so it can be shaped to promote their interests as opposed to the interests of advertisers and shareholders.

"The tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia" – this captures a lot of my own worries about how social media is reshaping society https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

#mastomemory joining witches town and doing my best french shitposts

Edgy internet culture is the worst thing that ever happened to the internet

If you are a trans person who has had to do a gofundme to make rent/food in the United States, shoot me a private note plz.

Looking to put together a data set for transunited so we can work on our next goals.

plz boost.

If mastodon.social being down has you on your alt accounts consider moving permanently to lower the strain on the mothership and find a closer community for yourself

It's quite nice out here

"When you go into a public library... the librarian does not ask what services you have rendered to society before giving you the book, or the fifty books which you require, and he comes to your assistance if you do not know how to manage the catalogue." -- Peter "Santa" Kropotkin, my dude, my homie, on libraries and service for all society

@sydneyfalk
obama: *punches me* how do i quit vim
me: fuck you ass hole
obama: *throws a chair at wall* what key do i press to quit
me: got o hell

other people: I develop in this Ubuntu VM that has a Slackware VM running and a Windows box emulated b/c the 'managers' need it

me: still inside vim, back in 2011, beating my fists on the INSIDE of the screen and weeping

the reason most people don't bother with foss is that all the stuff that foss people say "doesn't matter" and "you get used to it" about is actually the only reason people use anything

alright i switched back to chrome from firefox, those scrollbars were just too much

the pumpkin spice meme crashes into the shrimp-everything meme and you get pumpkin spice shrimp

and that's it

we're done

food has been perfected

lol i should have made this more clear instead of a vague shoutpost

i'm sharing the code that's running @ImDad and @InspiroBot to help people learn that about bots, and also to help improve them 😄 (because they need it)

https://github.com/tcql/mastobots

So... I started a collective! 😺

WAMPUS is a queer/and/or transgender collective that works to meet the basic needs of our community in Portland, OR. We supply weekly food servings, housing support, self defense classes, and education. We have grants in the pipeline, but we have a few minor costs to cover in the meantime.

If you are able to help us out you can donate here: https://www.paypal.me/WAMPUS