Notices by Aaron Williamson ? (copiesofcopies@mastodon.social)

@Cdespinosa @eamaya let he who is without sin boost the first toot

With all due respect to Mastodon’s lead developer, this kind of moderation decision suggests mastodon.social is not the right instance for me. (Which is fine! Moderation is a hard and subjective problem.)

https://mstdn.social/@evelyndouek/109377562574038425

Very few things more satisfying to me than repairing something useful that would be easy to throw away. This guy just needed some cleaning, lubrication, and a $.99 o-ring.

Of course, in the meantime I bought another pump assuming this one couldn’t be repaired, so I’ll probably give it away.

Putting Elizabeth Holmes in prison for 11 years won’t make her a better person, repay the investors she defrauded, or fix any fraudulent test results.

I don't know much about effective altruism, but it seems like an obvious pitfall of the "earn to give" philosophy is that somewhere not far along the "earning" curve, loss aversion turns it into hoarding. And my instinct is that no matter how much you're giving away, you can't outstrip the harm you're causing by the hoarding (and the behaviors that feed it).

Between the elections, the end of daylight savings, and the doomscrolling resulting from being entirely too invested in both the implosion of Twitter and the success of Mastodon, this has been a rough mental health week. To anyone else feeling it, hope you’re being kind to yourself.

@mattl it kills me that the essential accessories double the cost of the tablet.

When someone is upset and telling me about a problem they have, my conditioning is to hear an implicit request to fix it. If I don’t catch myself, I’ll get anxious that I can’t and respond unhelpfully. Usually, of course, they just want someone to hear them out.

#NonviolentCommunication is an excellent practice for this. Sometimes I feel like an android saying something like, “it sounds like you are feeling upset that [thing you just said],” but no one ever seems to take it that way.