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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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i wish people who block me a very please let me know so i can block you back

"year of the linux desktop" and it's ever-increasingly convoluted incantations to run windows-native software

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. reuters.com/business/chat-plat

closing the computer fairies tab to open another computer fairies tab

one big scoop sugar. one big scoop instant. fill with milk. have a terrible time 👍

I have not updated my Starlink numbers in a while, and great flying fuckballs, is it ever bad. We are now up to 9,422 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 14,046 total active satellites.

1,446 Starlinks have reentered and added their 500-1500kg of computers, batteries, solar panels, and aluminum frame to the upper atmosphere (and at least one has hit the ground).

Proud to confirm that I am bringing back the Diamond Viper VESA Local Bus graphics card. The 2D acceleration is out of the world! The color depth will blow your mind! Doom has never looked or felt better!

RE: mastodon.social/@alienmelon/11

it’s been a few days of trying (not counting the waiting when i flagged the bigoted reviews but the mod cleared it) and they are still up…
how would i actually escalate this?
do i open a ticket, or contacting people at Steam / Valve unrelated to moderation?
what do you do when reporting doesnt work?

these are obvious violations of community guidelines and i’d like to know why these guidelines exist if they are not enforced.

wildweasel.itch.io/set-the-con - a couple of days ago I had the opportunity to join a 2-hour MegaZeux game jam, which I haven't done in a very long time. In those 2 hours I produced this short narrative game.

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!