Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

you ever just read a really racist take in the opinion section of the New York Times

feels a bit like leaving Louis ⅩⅤⅠ for Napoleon but whatever

i am being informed that their issue was not, in fact, with structural dynamics vis‐à‐vis private companies and their lack of oversight; they just really didn’t like Elon Musk in particular

disappointing that some people who left mastodon for twitter have now decided that a privately‐run company with no oversight cannot possibly be reasonably expected to ethically manage social media, and so have responded by jumping on another platform run by a private company with no oversight (cohost)

(but also that old logo)

no, not *that* old logo

when you click on an instance to check it out and it still has the old logo

look, it was the most interesting option, i'm not going to not take it

i set out to write an easy and accessible pulp story which riffs on current trends in the fanfiction and it already has a complex and unconventional structure and is narrated in a voice unlike anything i have read

LinkedIn, and other things Mastodon is not

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

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

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

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

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

but also: just listen to the EPs lol

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

(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)

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

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