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Sometimes I wear a piece of meteoric iron I wrapped and strung onto a necklace, and that makes me really happy.

It's not the most eye-catching thing but I think it's just so cool.

overthinking Seeming lyrics 

I can't tell whether this is obvious or a massive stretch, but in Worldburners Unite, I think the line "see the tower through the trees" is referring to The Tower tarot card, given the context.

And I don't just mean the "terf is a slur" nonsense; it's something I'm seeing in my own spaces.

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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.

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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".

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.

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](dragon.style/@anthracite/10056):

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.

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.

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)

You have been visited by the Old Wizard Cat of good fortune. Boost this Toot to bless a stranger.

Drugs, Witch Kelp 

The Pacific North West feels like this with the witches here ;p “hey, wana buy some witch kelp” ;p

🎉 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?

medium.com/@melodicmx/housing-

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"

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.

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