Mona Clark ⚧ @mona@computerfairi.es
Seattle transwoman, horse, Pearl, scientist, classicist, Stoic, scholiast: @alyx@icosahedron.website's future and holder of @kel's leash. One of the members of @kara_dreamer's plurality; I function as her librarian, amanuensis, and disciplinarian (as much as I can, with such a troublesome gang to work with.)
Joined Jun 2017
French politics
I normally expect this kind of catastrophically bad judgement from _American_ politicians:
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/875394454110294016
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Just a heads-up from having lived through many many waves of new users: Nazis etc. will probably try to join the platform over the next couple of days when they see how much fun we're having. Don't let them drive you away. In about a week or so their instances will all get blocked and they'll be banned from any reputable servers and things will go back to normal, it just takes admins a few days to sort things out and figure out what's what.
CW: politics (Virginia shooting)
I admit that I've only peripherally followed the news about the man who opened fire on a group of Republican Congressman. GOP lawmakers are increasingly shy of doing any of their business in the public eye, with good reason, and I fear that they will use this incident as an excuse for even more secrecy and deception.
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A reminder: mastodon is still a relatively new space, and there is room to build new ways to be, both as a person and with each other
Choose wisely
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Kitty.Town is open for new registration a short while this morning. 😸
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oh fuck yeah this is way better (from https://twitter.com/saychieeef/status/875220029477863425) https://mastodon.social/media/UHtWMI9mTTGAg1uNCEY
Oh, dear! It rather looks as if witches.town is having trouble...
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Kitty.Town will open for new registrations in the morning (PST)! 😽
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Blocking & restricting Nazis is not "censoring a viewpoint you don't agree with".
Nazis advocate for the death and/or forced relocation (which often results in death) of peoples they deem inferior. That is not a viewpoint to disagree with, it is an incitement to violence and must be fought wherever it is found.
Well, @kara@imaginair.es, what shall we discuss first? I feel that as your amanuensis it is my responsibility to try to direct and help forward your creative efforts. It has been some time since we have written any fiction. What would you like to work on?
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Since there are apparently a lot of new Mastodon users today, it's a good time to mention I've put together a list of resources for Mastodon newbies: https://github.com/nolanlawson/resources-for-mastodon-newbies/blob/master/README.md
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Please remember that Mastodon's current status as a relatively Nazi-free environment isn't a rule for the service as a whole and could change if instances allowing Nazis were to be formed and grow.
We have to remain vigilant to keep these communities safe.
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the newcomers have a lot to learn about the universality of discord and strife...
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Hm, I think I'll write up a new #introduction / #introductions thing myself...my name's Kara Dreamer, and yes, I named myself after Chara Dreemurr from Undertale. It was by trying to inhabit the persona of Chara when writing and envisioning Undertale fanfic that I found a channel to express my _own_ uncertainties about identity and gender. Through Chara Dreemurr I was finally able to grasp that I was #trans, and I'll always honor them. Thank you, @chara.
Anyway, I'm _also_ a massive science geek, a novice at what I've been loosely calling "chaos magic" with my dragonkin self @kel as my familiar. Oh, yes, I'm a fearful plurality :)
Oh, yes, let me not forget @Alyx, who is in a sense my childhood self, only walking around as a separate entity with distinct interests. A curious experiment of Kara's that would take rather too long to explain even in 500 characters.
Oh, I should write up a short #introduction (#introductions?) piece. My name is Mona Clark, and I'm an anthro horse who once functioned as @kara_dreamer's furry identity, under a number of other names and forms. Now I have a new career of sorts, as an auxiliary personality for Kara. I have a fairly broad education (B.S. CompSci, B.A. Classics, both 1999; M.S. Chemistry, 2012) and a passion for academic and scholarly pursuits of all kinds. I act as Kara's secretary, of sorts.
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undertale on ps4 now btw
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more ethics in science: this time, the dairy industry
researchers at the university of toronto published a study saying that dairy-alternatives stunt children's growth... and the lead author is a pediatrician with some cozy financial ties to the dairy industry.
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My sheepie measured my neck for a collar and leash in the future. As she's pushing me to write and do as she says.
I'm becoming domesticated.
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@mona @oceangrunge it's too late for me, tell my cats I love them
Seattle transwoman, horse, Pearl, scientist, classicist, Stoic, scholiast: @alyx@icosahedron.website's future and holder of @kel's leash. One of the members of @kara_dreamer's plurality; I function as her librarian, amanuensis, and disciplinarian (as much as I can, with such a troublesome gang to work with.)
Joined Jun 2017
