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LinkedIn, and other things Mastodon is not

and if you’re REALLY serious about community organizing: start an instance!

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this isn't anti-hashtag but if you're working on a zine / collective / conference / etc consider making a group for it and following that instead

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i think we have better tools for more intentional and more specialized communities here than Twitter can offer, even if they might be a little harder to find

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one thing i would love to see from folks is a more active embracing of tools like a.gup.pe/ to build intentional networks of support, instead of relying on hashtags and similar networking patterns carried over from Twitter

follow me if you are a communist and read Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

anyway i hope it does well because i want her to keep making music

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(i say “the EP” but this LP is a compilation of her two; the first isn’t anything special but the second was magic and i’m upset they broke it up the way they did)

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the general flow and cohesion of the EP is so much better; the album just feels disorganized to me and i blame some Polydor/Darkroom/Interscope exec

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holly humberstone released an LP but it really just feels like the EP plus some B‐sides for people who are too good to listen to an EP

the new macOS looks like the old macOS with worse settings

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hey twitter folks, if you maintain critical infrastructure, i encourage you to simply let the site go down and let elon try to replace you

we could share some code with mastodon without all the simple design flaws i mean

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sometimes i get the urge to just make another fediverse rails app

russia now trying to raise up a skeleton army to bolster their forces it sounds like

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« To reach Potemkin’s remains, they would have opened a trapdoor in the floor and climbed down a narrow passageway, according to people who have visited the crypt. There they would have found a simple wooden coffin on a raised dais, marked with a single cross.

Under the lid of the coffin, a small black bag held Potemkin’s skull and bones, carefully numbered. »

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« KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces pillage occupied Kherson and Moscow rushes in reinforcements ahead of a looming battle for the strategic southern port, the city’s Kremlin-appointed proxy rulers dispatched a team to a majestic 18th-century stone cathedral on a special mission.

They were sent to steal the bones of Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin. »

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.