Jules the fairy @Jules@computerfairi.es

Masto #introduction time 💃🏻
I’m B Cordelia Yu, I’m Taiwanese-American transfemme enby, and a content & editorial strategist mostly working around issues of science/environmental/social justice, civictech, and academic coms.
My research is on deliberative democracy and political cognition. I seem to be giving a lot of talks about inclusion in tech and participatory organizing for social justice.

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of Death Valley's "sailing stones"! https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mysterious-moving-rocks-in-the-desert-stumped-scientists-for-70-years
https://mastodon.xyz/media/sBqdOipfFgR6JfystYQ

mastodon admins communicate over a MUD, any instance disputes must be settled via using the in-game attack system, winner is declared superior administrator

hellllooo friends! time for another announcement!

https://admins.town/

is a real thing now. it's an instance (not mine) where admins are gonna talk about admin shit.

if you're an admin join up!

if you're interested in what admins are up to i guess you can also join up or follow us or use a tool to read off the public feed or gosh i dunno, probably lots of options

this is a direct response to calls for greater insight/transparency into admin discussions. work is ongoing!

feel free to boost

Btw, there is a wiki about nonbinary stuff in German as well: http://de.nichtbinaer.wikia.com/

(yes, it's on wikia, maybe that's going to change one day, but right now it's just really cool that such a resource exists in German)

Did you know that the reason artificial banana flavour doesn't taste like real bananas is because its flavour profile is modelled after a banana cultivar that became extinct due to Panama disease?

When you eat foam bananas, you are tasting a ghost.

In regards to uh, a Recent Boost, by Trev, about people not "looking the part"

it's so important to stand up against that. "Looking the part" is often an expensive process. "It costs a lot to look this poor" etc. Who "looks the part"? People in my local community have complained about being pushed out of white lgbt spaces for appearing to be "just another working-class puerto rican" which somehow precludes being a Real Queer. What fashions are tied to what cultures? Who gets to "appear gay"?

This is not a statement on all the #meta talk. I'm just being pragmatic because this project hardly works, when we can't connect.

Ok, my #pcode related tooting will move to this account.