Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

Was listening to a tech news podcast. One of the guests said they forgot on what Mastodon server they’d signed up and had to ask some folks out of band to dig up some old toots for a reminder. The other guests were like "hmm yes this is complicated"

And I'm like... Maybe you should give a shit and remember. Especially you, expert guest on a tech podcast. Like you know where your house or apartment is, you know where you parked your car (usually). You give a shit about those, give a shit about on whose server-couch you're crashing.

Maybe not giving a shit about where your eyeballs are harvested is a big reason we're in so many messes?

And then they talked about how fraught it is that these Mastodon servers are run by unpaid volunteers - and I'm like yeah so the fuckin least you can do is honor that work by remembering where you signed up and maybe toss a coin to your hosts sometime.

I know it’s a good thing to smooth over the rough edges of Mastodon and Fediverse UX, but these are basic things. And if remembering where you signed up is too steep a hill to climb, maybe the network shouldn’t work so hard to acquire or retain that particular participant

Gonna start by posting some recent "Riveting Tales" comics.

I started these as a creative playground without many rules, where I can draw anything.

#comics #rivetingtales

As another xennial who was burned by the demise of LJ and later twitter, this is a wonderful rant... https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

both were the only social media I ever had multiple accounts on... they were in a sense a home for multiple facets of myself.

(thanks to @beccadax for the link)

Giving a new developer the grand tour of the legacy code i’m supporting.

How to have a "beach body":

1) You're already 70% water, which is a good start

2) Replace the other 30% with sand

[Postal Service]
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay

i'm sorry I am like completely dead on the floor this is too much even for elon

I'll stop now and go take a bath and binge bocchi the rock or whatever

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♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

I love this response to anything.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BIPoc #black #blacklivesmatter #blackisbeautiful #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #mena #history #native #PursueBlackJoy #Hispanic
#a11y #accessibility #inclusive #belonging

“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
bell hooks

@norootcause I need it there so it doesn't mix with my other complexity.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’ve reduced complexity just because you moved it somewhere else.

It hit me this morning that often what I find frustrating in discussions around "intellectual property", piracy, large datasets for training things like CLIP, &c. is that IP is a really really poor substitute for actually useful conversations around consent and respect

Like Elsevier asking me to "pwease no steal uwu" about journal articles is very different than, like, an individual selling self-published books on the side saying "hey I need this money to pay rent, so please purchase it legit"

An artist saying "hey I don't like for-profit companies building generators from my work that I posted to deviant art" is very different than Disney cracking down on people making shit with characters they "own".

Someone saying "hey this is really personal work, I don't really want it passed around and edited without my consent" is not the same as pebbleyeet getting mad at anti-fash edits of his comics.

IP is bullshit but that doesn't mean we have to take unnuanced all-or-nothing approaches to things.

That would be like saying if you want to support squatters taking over an airbnb then you can't have a lock on your bathroom door: it's conflating such wildly different things that it's a little silly.

a debugging manifesto