Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

#punk

The size of the gates in Jurassic Park suggests they were always planning on letting the dinosaurs out.

before you donate to patreon/mastodon, consider donating to your instance first, they probably need it more

it's confirmed that qoto.org used a fascist's tool to mass send emails to instances who suspend them for good reason. https://qoto.org/@freemo/109360881187600726

#FediBlock qoto.org if you haven't already

Heads-up for any folks on hachyderm.io: I would recommend picking a different instance, as it seems likely that it'll get defederated from quite a few places at some point.

They seem to not only be happy with corporate accounts[1], but also apparently seek to "introduce trust with corporations" [and draw them to fedi?], which uhhhh yeah no.

This is a space for people, not for corporations. Let's not repeat the errors of the FOSS community (that eventually led to near-total corporate capture of FOSS) by inviting corporations into our spaces, not even "as long as they play nice".

[1] https://github.com/hachyderm/community/blob/main/accounts/corporate-accounts.md

its out of touch thursdays!

#TransAwarenessWeek

I keep thinking about this lizard preserved in amber from ~50 million years ago. I mean—they were just doing lizard stuff, fell into amber, and 50 million years later they show up on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantarogekko (via https://mltshp.com/p/1O7OJ)

just stumbled upon a ton of photographs of the motorola semiconductor plant in austin, texas, taken in 1977. if you wanna see who makes your 6800, well here they are

https://flickr.com/photos/dboo/albums/72157694192306495/page2

One of the most dangerous myths about the digital world is the idea that once something is online it’ll be available forever. Digital preservation is complicated, expensive, and many companies aren’t interested in doing it.

This is a serious problem…(here is a link to a Technology Review article about historical preservation and Twitter)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/