æʃliŋ, purrepurrocessor @aescling@cat.family

The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.

§ Current Events :—

• cybre.space has switched into read‐only mode, as was the plan for the new year.

• The American Dialect Society has announced the 2022 Word of the Year, and it’s -ussy. A·D·L writes “now everything is either a cat or a cavity”, but of course we all know which of those is the affix’s usual referent.

§ From Our Users :—

• @aescling is playing Pokémon Scarlet and enjoying the poképussy so far (Meowscarada).

• @Satsuma is now in a different time zone, so expect favs from them to come a few hours offset from when they were before.

§ Holidays and Observances :—

• ⏳ 11 January is Carmentalia. This is a Roman festival we know very little about, except that it was celebrated on two dates (the other was 15 January), observed primarily by women (Carmenta was a goddess of childbirth and prophecy), and invoked Postvorta and Antevorta, aspects of Carmenta pertaining to looking back (into the past) and forward (into the future). As a date near the new year, it’s a good opportunity for reflection and resolution; I really couldn’t care less otherwise regarding the original Roman meaning.

to start, if you wanna get the quick list of everywhere we are online: https://mindmesh.link

our primary Things online lately are twitch streaming and porn. if you wanna follow us, check out https://twitch.tv/MindmeshLink for the twitch, and https://mindmeshlink.manyvids.com for the ManyVids!

if you want to support our endeavours by providing us more direct monthly income, *and* support our very cool co-op project that's a crowdfunding subscription alternative to Patreon, check out https://comradery.co/mindmeshlink

(but you're fine just using https://www.patreon.com/mindmeshLink if you can't use Comradery for some reason)

You can also do one time payments over at https://cash.app/$MindmeshLink, which are also very appreciated.

I have no other active income sources than these, but I'm supported in housing and food by my polycule. No emergency here, but being able to pay for more things myself would make a lot of things nicer.

#TransCrowdFund #DisabilityCrowdFund #Streaming #Twitch #ManyVids #Comradery

The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.

This update covers the past two weeks, since I didn’t bother with one last Sunday!!

§ Current Events :—

• It is Public Domain Day here in the United States, and there are some very cool things which are now unencumbered with copyright here!

§ From Our Users :—

• @Lady continued work on her shrine-xslt static site generator, giving it rudimentary support for generating Atom feeds.

• @Lady also published a playlist of her favourite songs released in 2022.

• @aescling came out to her family and, semi‐relatedly, is in the process of moving, so be tolerant of any disruptions on the sysadminning side of things here.

§ Holidays and Observances :—

• 🍻 05 January is Twelfnight. In the Catholic tradition, this is the night before Epiphany, but in the English tradition, it is a night of partying to close out Yule. Great time to use up any partying leftovers from the holiday season!

• 👼 06 January is Twelfday, if you need a day for eating your king cake 🍰.

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finally following up on this…

Here is the list of problems that our instance has identified with the Mastodon 4.0 upgrade, and how much work I think it will take to address these issues. I think we will probably want to fix all the things which aren’t labelled “Hard” before we merge in the latest changes here.

https://gitlab.com/kibicat/mastodon/-/snippets/2476610

Comments welcome!

cc: @darius who I know has been looking into this stuff for Hometown.

poll that i'm intentionally doing here and not @MindmeshLink

do you identify yourself as "disabled" primarily *to other people* in any context

like, not just saying *what disability* you have, ie "depressed", but do you tell other people "i'm disabled" or put "disabled" or "cripple" or any variant of it in your bios online

i am not asking "are you disabled and do you identify at all with the concept of disability" to be clear, this is a social phenomenon wondering, and nondisabled people are included and should say "never"

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