Notices by Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)

@mattblaze historically, the penalty for anyone caught in the act of perfidy is summary execution

- You remind me of the babe.

- What babe?

- The babe with the power.

- What power?

- The power to be surrounded by terrifying puppets without freaking out because he was (accidentally) bred for that specific purpose.

https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2014/06/toby-the-baby-from-labyrinth-grows-up-to-be-a-goblin-king-june-2014

At some point today I'm gonna do a thread on when American Football (a sport that is more than 150 years old) instituted some of the same safety rules that exist in modern roller derby (a sport that is only 25 years old).

Partly because I find it fascinating, and partly because holy shit what is wrong with dudes

@eniko @0xabad1dea @governa least we forget, there was a whole era where state of the art presentation crafting involved the same color scheme.

You know - putting your important bullet points against a color the eye can't focus well, for something designed to be viewed in a dark room 🙃

@kims you have them backwards though - it's "red right returning" 😛

I'm rapidly approaching the point where I can read people's posts in basically any Western European language (except Dutch, sorry guys) without actually being able to speak any of those languages 🙃

(these are all actually the same advice)

Some helpful advice for all you software devs:

- You cannot solve social problems with code

- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does

- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they are trying to accomplish

@raven667 @skinnylatte yeah that's the very techie "everyone who isn't me is an NPC" attitude I loathe. Fair. Dude's a piece of crap.

I wish I could post pictures of the snow since it's very pretty but I'm a woman on the internet so posting public pics of where I live is right the fuck out.

Fun tip:
Carving goes much faster with power tools.

From the other site:

Genuinely proud of my home country for the first time in a while. Good job, USA 🇺🇸

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to our USian neighbors!

A fun thing you can do today is find out whose land you are on and give them money.

I've found it so hard to find books I wanna read written in French that I've started buying translations of stuff I would have bought in English instead.

Fedi: does anyone here have recommendations for books in French by francophone authors (from anywhere) that fall into some subset of queer, cozy, and/or F/SF?

Not looking for serious horror, lit fic, or straight romance.

Thanks and please boost!

#askfedi #bookrecommendations

I'd intended to read a few pages of this before I tucked myself in for the night, and when I looked up I'd torn through 130 pages.

It's good, y'all.

(English title: Deep Dark, by Lee Knox Ostertag)

@vkc these things aren't even so much "jank" as they are the necessary and probably near-minimal amount of friction required to create multiple overlapping communities in the same[-ish] virtual space without total context collapse.

Things could be streamlined somewhat, but they can't be streamlined much more without losing the intimacy and ability to create real spaces for real people that these features afford.

Mastodon - even m.s - is cozy in a way other spaces aren't and can't be.

I hate that we no longer live in that brief window where we could share pictures of our lives online without having to worry that some freak will figure out exactly where we are *at that exact moment* and fuck with us.

@grimalkina they really wanna find any other explanation than "hard work and years of experience" huh

One of the great things about Mastodon is if you need a computer to do something:
- Seventeen people will just tell you to use Linux
- Eleven people will recommend an app that won't run on your hardware
- Six people will recommend something you have to build and/or host yourself
- Three will recommend a service that costs $20/mo and does none of what you want
- ... and one will have built EXACTLY the thing you need, ten years ago, because they had the same problem

Gods bless this site.