ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I’m getting an unreasonable amount of enjoyment out of this early holiday present I got for myself. (From traintrackr.io, which I believe is having a sale.)

#nerd

I hadn't intended her companions, but I *like* them.
#midjourneyai
#midjourney

today is the day

we're going to try to get in the habit of doom-scrolling Mastodon instead of doom-scrolling Twitter

because really, FUCK Twitter. they're profiting off hatred and violence which the platform is, more and more, intentionally and openly structured to incite. the time we spend on Twitter being stressed about that is REWARDING them for it, helping them make money.

If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US #tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsenually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts.

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instead of telling black people to move instances i'm just going to keep building tools making it easier for admins to create safe and inclusive spaces to begin with https://github.com/selfagency/mastodont/

#introductions

Hi, I'm Ro. I'm a lot of things but some of my faves (in no particular order) are coding, writing, watching a copious amount of tv, writing, playing probably too many video games, and lifting heavy things.

I used to be team captain of the mighty PlayVicious Social masto instance. It was pretty popular... or infamous lol.

I'm generally pretty friendly but I have no patience for isms of any kind. You have been warned.

Since you got me on here reminiscing and whatnot, I'll make a deal with you all.

I keep a small Patreon that funds my main project, Fipamo, which I've been working on for the last couple of years. I have big plans for it.

If we can get my funding to the first milestone (5k/month), I'll personally set up and run a new public instance because this will allow me to pay the team I want to help me run it.

So let's see what you got, fedi.

https://www.patreon.com/Are0h/

This account is verified through my website and Fedified.

I also currently have control over chanimal on this same instance as well as chanimal at kolektiva social, eldritch cafe, tech lgbt, fediscience org, mstdn science, mastodon world, and mas.to.

It’s easy to impersonate here. If you see anyone using the chanimal handle elsewhere, or any other handle claiming to be me, it’s not me.

Any account I am actively using will be verified through a link on my website.

#galactica excuse bingo. @abebab nails it.

I do really like it here, but it's super clear that Black folk and POC are absolutely not having the same nice peaceful experience as I am, and until that changes I'm not gonna be all-in on this place.

I learned exponentially more from listening to the experiences of these folk on the birdsite than I did from any "equality and diversity initiative", and if they're not coming here then that's a huge problem.

@jemostrom If you paste a Flickr URL into your Toot, it should "just work" (note that Mastodon can be "slow" at showing it, because it does this based on an async queue).

#introduction I work PT for County Council so that I can run my hedgehog rescue.
I started back in '94 as a rehabilitator for a local vet & now with so much more knowledge about #hedgehogs, I equipped my little 'hogspital' in 2014.
I also have 26 years experience with caring for special needs rabbits.
I'm a violinist in the #HertfordSymphonyOrchestra, so love my music, but also a keen artist ( watercolours & pastils) 😊
I'm anti #hunt of any animal species.
I love all things in the natural world

alright, so what was the contingency plan for like, 7 of the world's 10 richest men all going fucking goblin-mode at the same time.

at this point, between musk and putin, all it takes is jeff bezos running his next trenbolone cycle a little too hot and shit starts to break down for real

Do you need to move to a new Mastodon server?

I have written a step-by-step guide on moving your account while keeping your followers and follows.
https://patricia.no/2022/11/18/mastodon_migration.html

I tested out #Hive but the lack of two-factor authentication, the app only access, wanting access to all images on a device, allowing duplicate user names… and a privacy policy stating they WILL sell your data to unnamed third parties.

Yikes.

The more I saw, the shadier it looked.