This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
ME: [interviewing for a job at Intel]
INTERVIEWER: so, what are your base expectations for salary?
ME: well, if you were to speculate, what's the highest you could go?
INTERVIEWER: well, if I were to speculateโฆ 1 million. wait, no, you didn't hear that. let's try that again.
INTERVIEWER:
so, what are your base expectations for salary?
ME: 1 million
INTERVIEWER: [looking like they just saw a ghost]
@researchfairy I support market-based solutions to climate change, like placing bounties on oil executives.
As Bedford points out, the opposite is also true:
"A good sustainability and quality of life indicator: the average amount of time spent in a car."
(Elevated time car-commuting time also turns out to be a reliable metric of social isolation and general life dissatisfaction.)
"i bet, since the books got *so* popular, the publisher put pressure on the author to water down the end for a larger audience appeal. unlike art, the real world can't always win against the iron chains of authority. that's my theory anyway" -connie
straight up drawing attention to the phenomenon of studio interference in the creation and ongoing production of serial art, here in episode 51 right after the ruby and sapphire reveal. i just think that's an interesting thing to keep in mind
Love this. Dozens of trans men are entering the Miss Italy pageant.
"Miss Italy has historically allowed only people who were assigned female at birth to enter".
So to protest trans exclusion, dozens of trans men are entering. To quote one entrant: โThey are so focused on biology and bodies, and itโs often forgotten that there are people inhabiting those bodies.โ
@kouhai and I are releasing a pride flag emoji set to the public domain!
https://gitea.treehouse.systems/treehouse/emoji
The source of all flags are SVGs and can be re-themed in your favorite text or graphics editor.
We would love to see your custom palettes and how community use them!
Please boost so that more instances adopt pride flags ๐ฆ ๐
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancรฉe, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess