Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

For-profit advertising based social media sites have really given #hashtags a bad wrap- I notice a lot of people are leery of using them in their posts and that tends to read like culture after a while.

Hashtags on the #fediverse frequently work more like chatrooms than soapboxes. If you're looking for friends, tag your shit like a bare concrete wall!

Love it when people don't like mastodon cause they were on the normie instances and found it boring there

#FediTips (or perhaps #FediWarnings?):

Something I discovered the other day on accident is in Mastodon and derivative software, if you are sending someone a DM, and you spontaneously tag someone in the middle of the message, *that person now has read access to the DM in which they're mentioned*. This is a neat feature if you're using it on purpose but could be awkward if you're just trying to link an account and suddenly that account can see you talking about them…!

Today, I wore a T-shirt that says "End Trans genocide"

Story one:

I wore it into a bike shop that, frankly, reeks of testosterone. It's very masculine, the kind of place that stopped wearing masks before the law allowed, that only employs manly men.

The owner, a burly, bald man about sixty years old turned to me. "You support trans rights?" The workers in the shop nudged each other, grinning, waiting for my answer.

"I do."

"Here, I got something to show you," said the owner. I was very nervous. I just wanted my bike repaired. Not to be.preached at.

The owner of the shop typed some things into his computer, and brought up a web page. It was him, wearing a wig, against a blue and pink background. ( http://www.andyandrogyne.com/music ) "I deejay at the West Hollywood Halloween celebration every year." He then talked with me about his femmesona, his trans* girlfriend, and how he wished that he were younger so that he could transition.

So, if you need your bike repaired in West LA along Venice Boulevard, I recommend The Bike Shop California.

Story two:

Not everyone is pro-trans. I got cussed at on the train. I got away.

For many good people, transgender isn't something they take off like a t-shirt.

Be aware there are a lot of rumors going around about #OpenSSL. Distrust everything until it's verified from a primary source such as openssl.org or the researcher that reported the vulnerability.

Happy OpenSSL day!

i've been asked how to extract the eyemodule databases from handspring visor PDAs to load in eyemodtool, so i wrote up a guide for it: https://maple.pet/blog/extracting-eyemodule-pictures-in-2022

i also made the rss button from http://links.netizen.club by hand in aseprite (yes, even the text!) because i got tired looking for a good one (it used to be so much easier to find tiny web images like that) and i didn't have any other editing software on hand at the moment

i also made this one as a parody of the netscape buttons

the button in question