one of my favorite things is when someone uses an emoji representing their special interest as a general "love" emoji.
i have one baker friend that uses 🍞 for everything, and i work with a guy who is a volunteer steam locomotive engineer on the weekends - he uses 🚂 as his general positive reaction.
i love it!
re: Mastodon CSS question.
Okay, so I found a few key background elements that I can change together to get enough of a color change that I'm unlikely to post on the wrong account again. That's the hope, anyhow!
"MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds"
@xinjinmeng Oh, I see what you're playing at. *grin*
@xinjinmeng Really? I think of myself as a small sandwich eater. Then again, that's measured against the positively brobdingnagian sandwiches I usually get from sandwich places. You know the ones – if it's not a softball-sized knot of pastrami in the middle, it's way too much bread. By comparison, four ounces of tuna fish on generic pre-sliced bread seems kinda tame.
whatever you do, don't reply to this post keeping the CW intact
@mawr oh no I accidentally did you a star
whatever you do, don't reply to this post keeping the CW intact
@mawr Oh nooooo oops
I need a consolidator chat client again but they've gone extinct
Want to have a realtime chat? Which service shall we use?
Basecamp
CoHost
Discord
Jira
Jitsi
Keybase
Mastodon
Microsoft Teams
Nextdoor
Origin
PlayStation Network
Signal
Skype
Slack
SnapChat
Steam
SMS Messaging
Telegram
Tumblr
Twitter
Webex Teams
Wire
Zoom
Oh wait I have to pay attention to notifications from all those?!
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Friendly PT callout post
@mawr Yeah, yeah, okay. :)
Hello, if you want to make a post about a bad person known to public discourse, you should just spell out their actual name.
Why?
If its not a hashtag, its not searchable, so you are not protecting yourself from dogpiling.
If I don't want to see posts about Lord Voldemort, I'll have his name in my mute list. I don't want to have to make a million variations to deal with your *s or weird phrases and (implicitly) asking that i do this is too much. The more the person is inflammatory, the more your respelling is aggressively mute-dodging. (I'm not talking about accidental misspellings. People shouldn't feel like they need perfect spelling to discuss difficult subjects.)
If you are so concerned about naming somebody, put it under a descriptive CW: "the 45th president of the US", " Historical Nazis" etc, but use their actual name in the post.
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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