Lady @Lady@cat.family

i strongly contemplated following A·o·3 wrangling guidelines for this fic but no they’re still trash and untenable

2018 wasn’t THAT long ago but it’s still like… a while

man them country stars still don't know how the pyramids got built huh

i'm listening to some violin music and idk it sounds pretty good but this guy might be TOO pretentious

whew this First Monday issue
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/728

@SportsGoblin not sure this guy will be for long either

@SportsGoblin in fairness i would probably also miss four in a row

@gaditb (to be clear i don't see many younger people with blogs)

@gaditb wiktionary lists both but unfortunately does not have a dated citation for the latter; the sense i've gotten is that it's used mainly by older people though

“read my blog about the subject” while linking to a single post on a blog about many things

this is as a noun to be clear, like, “just posted a new blog”

some people on this fediverse use the word “blog” to mean “blogpost” and it throws me every time

the fact that sprigatito ends in -o but meowscarada ends in -a means it is canon trans

how long before cat leans fully into the bit and just starts identifying as a meowscarada

@gaditb @essentialrandom i actually wanted to add a pictochat feature originally where pictos could be cloned and doodled on top of (if you remember pictochat you know what i'm talking about) but that never happened and this is as close as we got

@gaditb @essentialrandom the paint thing was contributed by MightyPork who was pretty active in development at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/168

bea and i both scaled our fediverse presence way back in 2018 because we had a mutual ex with a very large following who was not handling the breakdown of those relationships well. in my case, i stayed on and just stopped trying to be Popular; bea left entirely because the fediverse had stopped bringing her joy

part of that was people being Weird in her mentions, like, annoyingly lewd or horny, which used to be more of a problem on the fediverse than it is today

« Another manifestation of magical thinking is believing that the best hope for progress on our greatest challenges — climate change, racial injustice and economic inequality — are corporations and individual investment and consumption choices, rather than political mobilization and our communities. » tfw the finance professor has a good take

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