Jules the fairy @Jules@computerfairi.es

Binder/STP/Packers/Pouches giveaway by Uppercase chase
From the 1rst to the 8th of November to apply ( https://goo.gl/forms/pgAu0bUhIiiNiKzp2 )
ONLY for people who can't afford them at all and have dysphoria but absolutely not for cosplayers.
One entry only, and only one product per person (don't do several entries just to try have more than one product)

More details in the video :
https://youtu.be/v4mDm_zleBI

Discount codes in the description for people who have a bit of money.

Never got payed for coding, though.

Currently, I work in a #copyshop. A #CopyJob, if you will.

I think I got the job in parts because I mentioned enjoying #bookbinding, like, as a hobby. For some reason, nobody there believed that. 🤷

So now I spend a considerably amount of worktime ... BINDING THINGS! 💜

(Mostly coil/wire binding, but they have this #gluebinding machine... 😍 )

Anyway, so that's most of me, I guess.

Hi.

#introduction

(Briefly thought about following some of my friends into studying #art professionally, but decided I lacked both consistent #style and #bullshitting ability necessary for that.

So instead I got into #programming, mostly in #python. I love coding weird stuff, like #procgen #zines or #bots that tell people how #queer a thing is and my hard disk is littered with projects that went nowhere.

(Like I still have a couple gigs of GG tweets I wanted to analyze using #SocialNetworkAnalysis.)

#introduction

I don't know if I ever did an #introduction post on here, so here's one:

Hi, I'm Minx and I'm a #queer #bisexual #dad. I have #depression and #anxiety-issues, which tends to make me less-than-social and low #spoons. (But I started working on those, so yay!)

People describe me as #reallychill but I'm actually #screaminginside. 😆

I love #notebooks, #fountainpens, #dippens and pretty much anything to do with #paper. (#BOOKS!!! )

There are still traces of #art schooling in me, I guess.

Want to knit together? Want to be part of a growing community of fellow knitters?

The Fediverse brings to to you the first ever KAL of Mastodon, the soon-to-be-famous #MastoKAL2017!

All the info you need: https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/MastoKAL2017

So, shake your stash, smooth your needles and let's knit the community together (aka kcotog).

#knitting #MastoKAL2017

i feel like i cant and wont use masto today, because theres so much neglect for cws regarding a super heavy topic, that its not comfortable for me. im not the only one. we use this platform because these tools are available. i know for me, having the option to only open these posts if i can handle it is something that would make me able to use masto right now...

what if everybody used content warnings for the super heavy shit? please.

I want to do a bit of research on opinions on federation for my #decentwebeu project. I'm digging for arguments in favor of decentralising. Please boost and/or answer any of these questions:

1) How aware are you of the federated nature of this network in your day-to-day use?

2) Which, if any, concepts of federated networks do you find challenging, confusing or foreign?

3) Why are federated networks "better" than centralised social networks (silos)?

(The last question is biased, roll with it)

its fucking heavy that the lunchtime conversation at work, after working on software development, is about the war in syria and in palestine, the situations in north africa, how egypt and other countries are hired by europe to police the border... but for me i think its important to hear and important to hear from the people who lived it.

so many of these people are here because they were pro-democracy demonstrators against military dictatorships. they are young people who have such high concern for human rights and for fair government, and i'ts so good to hear their perspectives, as a person from the USA and europe.

So many of my students come from ISIS controlled villages in Syria, or who were policail activists who protestsed Assad and who lost half of their entire families in the war, who were forced to fight for the Assad regime, who went to prison for demonstrating for democracy...

The first thing they all tell me about the war is that the USA created ISIS, created al Queda, and coopted the Arab Spring and the result of their intervention has been utter chaos with no smooth transition of power away from these dictators.

Just wanted to remind y'all that the USA created ISIS and "fighting ISIS" is bullshit empty rhetoric so everything you heard is a lie.

Does anyone want to start an orginisation that just brings people together online to make small specialised apps? Like desklet things for Ubuntu/Mint and stuff like that.

The purpose would be to give an easy opening into open source projects and to put people in contact with each other. We have lots of developers and lots of artists and writers and stuff.

Also I am annoyed with the world and want to do something.

starting #nanogenmo off by making a corpus of every sentence in every novel in project gutenberg. (someone has probably already done this, right?) https://mastodon.social/media/w_rxQ5MwOxlWbVgyEdc