Today I Learned: sabertooth salmon.
Really.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncorhynchus_rastrosus
@astolpho ofc they think it's /always/ performative which is pretty dang gross.
@astolpho Yeah "virtue signaling" and "performative social justice" are really two different words for the same thing.
Update to working on the roof: later it started getting kinda hot, and even with sunglasses my eyes feel a bit pickled after hours on a white roof in bright sunlight. Still a good day overall.
@Nire That makes a lot of sense :/
I've found nudity in general is often a trust-building thing.
people following you who dont interest you and dont have reasons to follow you for insightful things you tweet, are consuming you and should be gone
@Nire basically you're saying you trust my follower curation enough for RTs to be okay generally?
@Nire boosting maintains the privacy setting of the OP i thought?
@Nire can I boost some of the things in this thread?
IT'S BEEN
claimed Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story that could make people cry for a bet. The wager was ten dollars, which Hemingway won with the following:
https://mastodon.social/media/K8hoRdA1d51fw-JA1jk
Scifi/fantasy FTL idea
@StarshipAmelia that's secretly super dystopian!
@vahnj Update: looks like Witches is definitely having problems of its own according to @starryblush@witches.town so it's possible that's where the problem is.
https://witches.town/users/starryblush/updates/99596
@Nire Yeah it being loaded /weaponized is a big part of what I'm responding to here. I see now that in this context that's not what you're talking about though :)
@Nire Oh, yeah, in that context it's shitty :/
Though also the culture that makes it feel inevitable isn't always great?
@Nire I don't have context if this is a subtoot but another possibility is an OP is pushing back against an orthodox but incomplete or sometimes-dangerous community norm in a way that might be criticized.
@vahnj also hey your avatar is super cute.
Moving to @starkatt
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