katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Location
- Seattle
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
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Joined Apr 2017
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Follow-up: George Paget Thomson, one of the physicists who experimentally confirmed wave behavior of the electron, was the son of J. J. Thomson, the physicist credited with verifying that the electron is a distinct particle.
Dad showed that the electron is a particle, and his son, in an act of filial physics rebellion, showed that it’s a wave.
Okay though because I'm starting to see a whole lot of usage creep: I feel like "slur" shouldn't just become a synonym for "word that people use in mean ways".
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Remember everyone, never make.your players make a skill check unless you're prepared for both a critical success and a critical failure. Possibly even both at once.
@amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net rubbing to sterilize skin before injections or whatever.
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WHAT IF: automatically silence boosts of people with > 10,000 followers"?
Following on from my earlier idea of [silencing anyone with enough Twitter followers to be a Twitter Influencer](https://dragon.style/@anthracite/100569315077397568):
WHAT IF we could say "automatically silence anyone I don't already follow who shows up in my timeline with > 10,000 followers"? Or >1mil, or >1000, this is an obvious slider to choose. And of course ideally I could make this choice for my entire instance, and users could make this choice for themselves as well.
("hide boosts of people with a squijillion followers" might also work, and be a less ...draconian ...solution. But I play a dragon on the internet anyway.)
I mean, me, I just keep boosts the hell off 24/7. I'm never gonna see anyone I'm not directly following in my timeline unless one of those people posts a screenshot of This Thing That Famous Person Is Probably Gonna Delete When They Sober Up. But I feel like there are important things and people I'm missing by not ever seeing *any* boosts.
Would this be an "echo chamber"? Sure! I *want* to have a place where I can hear the small voices I've chosen to, without some rich bastard with fifty zillion followers bursting in now and then. I want a nice quiet cave where I can hear myself and my friends think, instead of the echos of people with giant megaphones.
I should probably post this on github as a feature suggestion if I still think it's important after I've had my breakfast. Your constructive criticism of this idea, and riffs on it, are quite welcome.
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mastodon meta, on recommending mastodon to people
if you recommend anyone to mastodon, give them personal recommendations with notes of experience with the admins ("hey i'm on [instace] and the admin has treated me really well and shares marginalizations with me and knows my struggle") instead of or as well as big lists.
when you give someone a list, all the options sound kinda the same. when you say "check out mastodon" people go to mastodon.social. people don't understand instances a lot.
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Mastodon is an anagram for "not so mad"
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Doe anyone know any artists who:
1. Take commissions
2. Are good at realizing textual descriptions
3. Can convincingly depict characters in microgravity environments
4. Can draw good non-furry humans, but
5. Can handle some pretty weird parahuman modifications?
I have a character from a setting where space travel and genetic modification are common, and she's got some weird stuff going on, like glowing hair and a second pair of hands instead of feet (way more useful in microgravity)
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You have been visited by the Old Wizard Cat of good fortune. Boost this Toot to bless a stranger.
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Drugs, Witch Kelp
The Pacific North West feels like this with the witches here ;p “hey, wana buy some witch kelp” ;p
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🎉 announcement -- please boost if you found this useful! 🎉
Well, I did a thing. I finished up that article I was writing about housing negotiation. I'm really proud of this. Please give it a read, and let me know what you think?
https://medium.com/@melodicmx/housing-negotiations-as-queer-folk-362b12e84ab1
idk why but something about shorthanding the measure of capacitance picoFarad (pF) to "puff" makes me smile a little.
e.g. "yeah it's good practice to throw a 1-puff decoupling cap on the Vcc"
old Bird Site UX
@Felthry That when away when the pulled the user tags out of the body of the tweet and into metadata.
old Bird Site UX
@Felthry So it used to be, if a tweet started with a username it would only be visible to that user and people who follow both of you. If you wanted to reply AND show your reply to all your followers, the common practice was to sneak a . in front of the username.
people are dismissively joking that Mastodon is some ultra-complex shit, as if dot-replies or a lot of other old twitter UX were in any way obvious.
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Location
- Seattle
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
🕯️
Joined Apr 2017
