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urgent, fedi meta, admin trust  

David is harassing someone with their email obtained from the user database used to sign up for the instance. This is a fucking IMMENSE breach of user trust.

As a Fedi admin myself, this is a HUGE red flag, fucking run as far as you can away. Do not trust people like this, this is abuser shit.

My suggestion, is if you are on tech.lgbt, to migrate immediately.
If you are not on tech.lgbt, I urge you to spread this message.

https://tech.lgbt/@Raeve/113523530557928842
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the NATO Phonetic Alphabet & the LAPD Phonetic Alphabet are military & cop coded. that is why I am releasing a competing radiotelephony spelling system, the CUTIE Phonetic Alphabet

AVOCADO
BOBA
CATBOY
DOGGO
EGGNOG
FANGIRL
GOBLIN
HOTSAUCE
INTERNET
JAM
KISSES
LEMONADE
MAGPIE
NAPTIME
OMELETTE
PODCAST
QUINOA
ROBOT
STEAMPUNK
TUMMYACHE
UNDERWEAR
VOLE
WITCHY
XYLOPHONE
YARROW
ZIPPER

ZERO
ONESIE
BI
THROUPLE
QUAD SHOT
FIVER
SEXY
SEVENESCENCE
EIGHTOBER
NINETAILS

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Jungle life
I'm far away from nowhere
On my own like MIDI boy
Hide and seek
I play alone while rushing cross the forest
Monkey business on a sunny afternoon

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Have more or less begun in earnest, the process of converting my solitaire blog to HTML. And that involves - yes - smashing together another stylesheet for it. There are things that I can't do in pure CSS, but I can still at least achieve the feel that I'm looking for, here.

Just a lot of busywork left, really.

netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfe - Just an update to the Golfer's Gallery over at Golfshrine today, with a few golfers I hadn't gotten around to adding, plus subsections on costume editors and course designers.

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trackers are like "what if Microsoft Excel made a cool noises"

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You may be familiar with an oft-repeated factoid about the word bear, referring to mammals of the family Ursidae. It typically goes something like this:

Did you know that “bear” doesn’t derive from the creature’s original name? It was feared that speaking its true name would summon one, and over time the original name fell out of favor as people adopted “the brown one” or similar as a euphemism, which eventually evolved into the “bear” that we know today.

The historical truth of the matter is, of course, far more nuanced and the subject of much debate, which I won’t attempt to unravel here. But regardless of its accuracy, it’s a fun story, and it makes me kinda sad that this sort of thing doesn’t really happen any more.

After all, in these enlightened 21st century times, we know there aren’t any creatures that sit patiently watching, listening, waiting to be summoned by one who would speak their true name.

. . .

“Hey Alexa—”

(also on my blog: moonbase.lgbt/blog/the-unspoke)

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shitting on people for saying picking a server is hard is a real bad look. Its not even that theres no directory, its that there is no immediately apparent criteria by which to evaluate instances. And once you figure out your own criteria, moderation policies are often not listed, lots of instance rules amount to 'dont be a dickhole here' which is great but gives me no information about how or if thats enforced. Its not even straightforward how to, as an active account with hundreds of connections, find an instance to migrate to that preserves my connections.

Pick an instance based on your interests is actually some of the worst advice, but better advice isnt easy to give because sometimes the only information about an instance you have access to is an 'about' blurb that says something like 'for musicians' and might or might not have info on the country the server is located in and what laws need to be adhered to.

Its not a matter of federated social media itself or users being dumb shits. Its again, a lack of focus on anyone but an elite user core that could give a fuck about anyone else and if its useable to them, and centralization of power over decisionmaking.

Its bonkers to me how much incredible work moderators do around here and not only is it not well celebrated, theres no way to simply highlight good moderation as a staple in about pages for instances.

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Anyway the thing I didn't mention yesterday is at the Enoshima train stop the no-car-entry pylon poles have little decorative metalworked birds on them, and somebody thought the metal birds looked cold so they crocheted them little sweaters

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sorry haiku. but if you're going to name your text editor Pe, then i'm going to do this

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