Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
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Joined Sep 2021
@varve well—i don’t know how much you were following the follout of the campaign—one of the things we recently found out is that the board seems to have little to no control over the legal committee (who were the ones who unilaterally kicked a volunteer out of the org and then accused her of committing felonies over a grudge) so i am not sure how much an election will help, which is part of my issue with the strategy (the other part being the more obvious ‘i am not giving them money when they are causing this much harm’)
@varve yeah thats how i feel as well—I was pretty surprised to home home to discovering that #EndOTWRacism was taking the opposite approach
Just wrote a short post on why I'm not paying membership dues/voting in the upcoming #OTWElections and some projects I plan to support instead: https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/27051.html
@soph_sol my own reading taste does skew v queer but they were all such popular well regarded books that i hadn’t really thought about the connection, it was just some Really Great SFF
Can def remember the time when even just having like, women with complex interiority was a bit much to ask from your average SFF novel so I am reveling in the absolute bounty we’re getting now
@soph_sol my dad and i have similar taste in sff so i often gift him stuff i read and loved or have been meaning to read—the january before last he texted me “so did you intentionally gift me three books with lesbian main characters or is this what sff is like now?” and i was thrilled to report it was the latter
3 body problem by Liu Cixin— 2008/2015
On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden 2016-2017
Technically the entirety of Discworld is within that date range (1983-2015) but if we’re going for essential I’d probably pick out Small Gods or the Death novels (starting with Mort)
Sam Starbuck’s Six Harvests in Lea, Texas just squeaks in with a publication date of March 2020
@twistylittlepassages glad your air is clearing up too
@twistylittlepassages yeah its been a tenth of an inch at a time, but thats good with the soil this dry anyway—lets it sink in
@twistylittlepassages we did get rain!! both Friday and then again today
The forest no longer looks like its going to blow away into dust 🌲
@twistylittlepassages yes we need that too
🤞the half an inch we’re expected to get Friday comes
@twistylittlepassages i hope you get plentiful showers
@twistylittlepassages yayyyy rain!
Queer saint profiles meta
@alpine_thistle a very appropriate patronage
Queer saint profiles meta
@alpine_thistle ah i must’ve missed it!
Queer saint profiles meta
@alpine_thistle semi-relatedly, i’m planning on reading Pauli Murray’s autobio & I saw that she’d been added to the Episcopalian Lesser Feasts & Fasts calendar for July 1. Which feels like an excellent way to close out the pride season
@moonspider @kiesa couple more:
- local only posting (aka posts that dont federate off your server)
- media upload limits (some instances let you post larger videos than others)
- being able to use html &/or markdown to style your posts
- whether tags are inline or a separate field
- how the instance renders different post types (for example vanilla mastodon typically displays blog posts as a subject line+link, but some instances have modified this to show the whole thing in app if available, meanwhile i believe bookwyrm drops any post that doesn’t have a book attached & also isn’t a reply)
- whether the instance shows trending hashtags, posts, or links (secondarily if & how instance admins curate said things but thats social not a code difference)
- if you’re a webuser, what the frontend looks like—some instances have modified theirs heavily, others have just done some CSS color tweaks, and many leave it completely unaltered
@noracodes nice shot! Robins are such adorable birds
@platypus i see you’ve already gotten a few recs for 3M Aura’s as one of the better options for disposable N95’s & they’re what I’ve been using these last two semesters as well to fairly good success
i will note that they’re a bit on the larger size though—its less problematic for accordion fold masks like Auras than for duckbills where having the wrong size will completely ruin the seal but if you generally have issues with masks running large that’ll probably apply here as well
@pomological if you like alarmingly pink applesauce, these are delicious for that
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
User Icon is a variegated purple and yellow highlights — made by flowerdeluce.dreamwidth.org
Joined Sep 2021
