Over at https://www.twitch.tv/gregoryaveryweir right now, @gregoryaveryweir is talking about the history of Flash games and the Flash game industry. It's good stuff.
toxicity and community
Learned an interesting thing today. An important task in managing a community is to watch for toxic voices dominating the space. Repeatedly, if you remove toxic elements, even if they're your most active community members, you will see other people start being more active.
It's about psychological safety. Giving people the experience of feeling safe is vital to creating a space where everyone feels safe to communicate.
So apparently there are a bunch of Spanish-speaking TERFs showing up on mastodon.social.
Perhaps... perhaps it is time to consider silencing mastodon.social?
I'm not gonna do it yet but I'm certainly gonna try to keep an eye on #mastoadmin to see how this shakes out.
(edit: Garg has not said anything official on this yet but there is this: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103438689644745140)
Did you know that Brendan McCarthy, an artist and designer known for Judge Dredd, TMNT & Mad Max: Fury Road was the art director for ReBoot?
And did you know that Bad Bob - episode S02E04 of ReBoot - is cited as an early inspiration for Fury Road?
Well, I sure didn't!
Also, as much as I love the old show I would have been so much happier if it looked more like these sketches because woah just look at this stuff
Nobody knows where the word, "skank," in either sense, comes from.
little women: liberal
knives out: socdem
uncut gems: marxist
parasite: anarchist
return of skywalker: fash
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.