duncan @balrogboogie@rage.love

If you missed my boost, Amazon's got a union busting campaign and well they want you to rat em out. It would be such a shame if everyone sent them junk and spam.

https://doitwithoutdues.com/contact

hmmm, which should i get first actually?

psa please do not censor slurs or common triggers (e.g. sl*r). on fedi. you're doing more harm than good cause people who do not want to see these words at all can filter these words from their timeline entirely, but that will be bypassed if you censor.

Do any instances have a custom emoji of bernie sitting in his mittens yet?

the third law of thembodynamics

The size of a community is really a big issue with a lot of moderation, especially with federation.

A lot of the popular instances on here aren't actually that big, you'll often find that their active users don't reach much higher than 150. Once they do, registrations are usually closed, so moderators can focus on providing a good service for their existing community and ensuring bad actors are dealt with ASAP.

This same service just cannot work as effectively with larger instances. It's why so many people have defederated from mastodon.social, why mastodon.online was completely unable to deal with its recent massive influx.

Kolektiva now has over 2,000 active users, with registrations still open, and its small mod team has proven incapable of dealing with its explosive growth. When you only have a handful of people modding at any one time, bad actors just aren't going to get dealt with at the rate they need to be to ensure a healthy community.

(This is not to say small instances are inherently good, there's a bunch of small instances that are utterly horrendous parts of the network, just that smaller instances are more manageable)

if you search the custom emoji list for “pepe” you can find a bunch of cool instances to block

every single consecutive president issuing executive orders that change the signs from "duck season" to "rabbit season".

first and last name (25 character max.)

some computer programmers who are employed professionally to write code are a freaking trip.

"yes, your honor. why am I filing to legally change my name? my given name is too long to sign for contactless delivery from DHL. thank you for understanding."

in my inbox today - a kid who started studying ballet at the Flint School of Performing Arts, and is now at the Pacific Northwest Ballet - and he's dancing en pointe.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/16/957389036/with-a-leap-across-gender-norms-a-rising-ballet-star-looks-to-rewrite-rules-of-d

Good morning! it is dreary and rainy here but it is also finally Friday!

Bernie mitten pattern, free until January 31 https://www.mnfibergoods.com/product-page/pdf-pattern-bernie-mitts

Fuck Instacart

Me when I post about computers: Boy sure do hope no-one trys to tell me how to fix this problem by giving myself more problems.

Dude who won't shut up about linux: *crashes through my window* have you tried linux? When you get used to the terminal it works great.

Who wants a botanist job! https://www.sfbayjv.org/job-details.php?index_jobs=1675

"but in the end, America chose the boy who stuttered over the bully"

please actually fuck off with this weird hero worship. he's. a fucking. politician. not your grandpa.