Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

“about by double” is about right too; that was my subjective experience of the increased rate of activity on our very small federated timeline

a significant number of that increase comes from admins boosting introductions posts and answering questions, causing them to federate to our server

thanks for your hard work, admins!

if you’re wondering what Sidekiq looks like on a very small server…

« Angelo Carusone, the chief executive of the progressive nonprofit Media Matters for America, said on the call that he had worked on several efforts to use advertiser boycotts to pressure social media companies to clean up their platforms. Usually, he said, some of the advertisers he solicits will turn down his requests, saying that reaching potential customers is a higher priority than making a point to Silicon Valley.

But after the activist coalition reached out this week to Twitter’s top 20 advertisers, including Anheuser-Busch, Disney and Procter & Gamble, Mr. Carusone said all the companies he had been in contact with had said they were either considering a spending pause or were implementing one.

The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.

“I’ve never experienced that before,” Mr. Carusone said. “And I think that’s the thing that’s most revealing, and demonstrates real consensus about the current state of the crisis that Twitter is in.” »

« Many of the cuts were deep. The human rights and disability experience teams were cut back, said three people familiar with the decision. The internet technology team — which is partly responsible for keeping the site functioning — became “a skeleton crew,” two people said. »

« Sandra Sucher, a professor of management at Harvard University who has studied layoffs for more than a decade, said Twitter’s cuts were among the most poorly handled that she had seen. While the scale was not unprecedented, it was unusual to see layoffs done so quickly without a detailed explanation provided to workers about who was being laid off and why, she said.

“This is a master class in how not to do it,” Ms. Sucher said. »

« Twitter’s communications team, which was almost entirely laid off, did not respond to a request for comment. »

(finally got my updated shot)

hit the boost, kid

kind of guy who, every month, replaces their pinned post with a new post that just contains a link to the old one

however i am definitely not imagining anything like snapchat and instead a literal pictochat application

this is an exceptionally good reference because not only is pictochat amazing but in the Legend of Zelda universe they call photos “pictos”, so this is a very viable name for a snapchat service

« “Do you have a Pictochat?” » GIRL REDEEMED

« “You’d be surprised at what I’d drink!” Link quipped » CUM

« “Embarrassing myself in front of someone super, um, cool isn’t the BEST thing that could’ve happened to me today.”

“You think I’m cool?” Zelda’s eyes went wide. She thought HE was cool. Was she cool? Really? » oh my god if kids talk like this in 2022 i want a refund

« There’s like two hundred pumpkins per person, or something. Unevenly distributed of course. »

« We’re both first years, so we have that in common—”

“You’re a first year?”

What a thing to comment on, out of everything she had said. “Yes?”

The boy scratched at the back of his head again, and she realized it was probably a nervous habit. “I thought you were an upperclassman. You just seemed to know what you were talking about.”

“I…do know what I’m talking about. »

« The tale of the Wand of Gamelon was certainly…an acquired taste »

i want to get all five parts written before i do revisions

i feel like it doesn't have the strong vibes i would like it to have, it's pretty rough, and there’s at least one spot where i thought it might need a poem

but i’m confident that it’s good material to work with