Zauberin Stardreamer [4" tall] @Zauberin@awoo.space

We help trans and other folks escape danger. We got three intersex children out, and they're in the care of a trans relative. She's appealing for funds to help with their school costs - suddenly she's a single mom with 3 kids.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/gz5tz8

You can rotate Micky Mouse in your head. It's free, and the cybernetically-reanimated head of Walt Disney can't stop you!

#introductions

Hey all, I'm a transgender geek with a wide range of interests, including writing, art, programming, and world-building. My big goal is to become an indie game developer, which I am slowly working towards.

She/Her pronouns, and my gender is dragoness :3

hey, gentle reminder: please put your pronouns in your bio.

I think about this image a lot

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

Dear #gamedev

If you're interested in writing, narrative design and all things story, I would love to connect with you! ❤

I'm sad about the loss of our former community on Twitter, but I'm focused on growth and wanna deal with change in a constructive way :)

Let's be uplifting and focused on making each other's lifes a bit better than yesterday :)

So, if you're interested in connection, growth and honing the craft, let me know!

Friends, I IMPLORE you, please stop blaming users for flocking to the larger Mastodon instances. There are UX challenges with onboarding to Mastodon, and the benefits of signing up for smaller instances are neither straightforward nor clear. Blaming new users excludes them from the community and promotes toxic discourse.

Oh dear....... RIP servers. #Twitter is starting to crash, and Mastodon's signups are spiking. I repeat, when #Mastodon crashes wait until tomorrow, we will be here.

If you're considering allowing corporate accounts on your instance, please recall the Parable Of The Crustpunk Bar and remind yourself that corporations can stand up their own instances if they want.

I know you're probably in FOSS and don't mind just giving away your labor for nothing, but this isn't just that. You're giving away a platform and giving away your credibility.

https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/1280891537451343873

aethy.com is rife with porn drawings of kids (lolicon, shotacon, whatever the furry equivalent is), rape fantasies, incest,... and I stopped looking there.

https://aethy.com/public/local

Example account, with content warning for all the stuff already mentioned:

https://aethy.com/@HexGrimoire

Place sucks.

#fediBlock

Lab-grown meat cleared for human consumption by U.S. regulator - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/lab-grown-meat-cleared-human-consumption-by-us-regulator-2022-11-16/?taid=637559e6dddb9b00014b6185