Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

Also white people: stop whitesplaining Mastodon safety to people experiencing harassment. Just stop. The only time it is appropriate to give advice/instructions in this context is if the person asks you for advice.

(Maybe just normalize the no unsolicited advice strategy everywhere, it’s a good strategy for not being an asshole)

#FediTips Use "shitpost/pooptoop" liberally, especially in content warnings.

Humor can translate poorly between friends, never mind between total strangers on different continents. Satire has to contend with Poe's Law. Sarcasm doesn't stand a chance.

We can help each other detox from irony poisoning. Sincerity is sexy, after all.

Whether you're here on Mastodon, or over on Cohost or Pillowfort, I implore you:

Be patient.

These websites are still relatively new and a lot of things need to be ironed out. Despite its obvious flaws, Twitter's overall design is actually pretty refined, and that's because it's had tons of time and money put into it. These new platforms are working with a fraction of that budget. Yes, there's jank and weird crap but I'm *begging* y'all to look past that.

If we want to have something *truly* better than Twitter then we *need* to give these platforms a chance.

Which is to say that insofar as we're concerned with changing society we inhabit to one that is more concerned with protecting one another than with doing as one damn well pleases, that has to be something that starts with us.

#CW are our opportunity to model #care & #consent as we would have it offline.

The thing is, #ethics aren't one way.

You should do X to protect me but don't expect me to do Y to protect others ain't how any of this works.

We're in this together.

#CWUpMaskUp

I'm in the process of getting a gender dysphoria diagnosis. It's needed for HRT, and while hormones are cheap in Poland, diagnosis itself is actually costly.

I make enough to get by, but not to save up, so money was tight... and THEN my dog's liver problems came back. So, expensive vet bills.

Hate to ask for money again, but between the two doctors (pet and human one), prospective costs pile up.

If you've a little spare change:
paypal.me/oddtail . Otherwise, please boost?

My take on CWs is that it's very funny when I'm attempting to read a post about what someone had for lunch but then the timeline suddenly jumps ahead right before I click and now I'm staring at a drawing of a werewolf's dick and balls

Please, fellow white folks interacting with BIPOC folks. Listen; don't debate, don't give advice or make recommendations to unless it's explicitly asked for.

Our goal should be to learn how we can make things better. Here, on fedi, as well as the real world. That starts with listening.

Do you want to blog directly on
@itchio without having to post a devlog to a specific project?

We have a feature for that here: https://itch.io/dashboard/posts

This is a partial feature we silently launched a while back. Given the circumstances of Twitter, if we see people showing interest in using @itchio as a blogging platform we'll invest some more time improving this functionality.

#fediblock tastingtraffic.net

repsonded to my post about how bigots can't be punk with some queerphobic bullshit about how "we are against sexual immorality being passed onto our children"

whole instance appears to be this nonsense as well as other garbage

Me to me and to others :

Your internalized 'isms' won't save you

for some reason I found out about a romhack called Sonic Delta that is... just Sonic 1, 2, and 3&K, as one game, in the Sonic 3 engine. And the most interesting thing about it is, they had to expand it to a 40 MB cartridge; which did exist on the Genesis, but were rare. And they were rare because, in order for the Genesis to read them, they had to use bank switching. Now they could have just made a larger romhack and emulators would read it fine; but to make sure actual hardware could run it, they implemented bank switching.

the Sonic hacking community is wild