Why do people in the SF Bay Area seem to universally get the hardest, roughest; scratchiest goddamn toilet paper in the world? Is this how people express a masochistic need to pretend to be More Environmentally Conscious than Thou?
Y'know the AM broadcast band, the noisy scratchy muffled side of your car stereo which is only suitable for talk radio and traffic advisories?
Here's a signal received across ~500 miles.
That chunk, of course, is the 10,000-years of the pre-Roman, pre-Christian era, including the rise and fall of ancient Egypt, the Bantu migration, the drying of the Sahara and crucial agricultural domestications.
Personal experiment:
I'm writing an African history timeline but with #HoloceneCalendar dates. The idea is to place most of the "civilizational" events in Africa into a "modern" era rather than how the Gregorian calendar segregates a chunk of it into the BC/BCE era.
Gives one a sense of how the last 500 years are a drop in the bucket.
The robot girl mascot from Neon Drive is my spirit animal.
hey y'all, please put captions / image descriptions on your images. it doesn't count toward the character limit for toots and it makes the fediverse more accessible for blind people and people with vision impairments
for those unfamiliar with solarpunk, it's basically a look into an ideal future where climate change is under control, plants have been allowed to reclaim structures and grow overtop new ones, and solar panels are stuck to everything much in the way gears are slapped on everything steampunk
It's 2018.
Gatekeeping and elitism in fandom is OUT.
Welcoming newcomers and sharing the things that bring you joy with others is IN.
Apparently Instagram is adding a data export feature for GDPR-compliance... So if you're building an Instagram-esque ActivityPub platform, there might be some value in adding an import function 
"I like your content" is the best compliment you can give a millennial
Such a very productive day! Doors might be opening...
#tootdon lets you follow whole instances. It also lets you add your follows to lists much quicker than at present in vanilla Mastodon. Best Mastodon client I've seen.
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it is not satire, it is bullying." - Terry Pratchett
So I just learned what #CoolCat is. I hope the furries poach him from his creator. They don't deserve each other. #furry #furryfandom
Listening to #LilPeep - "Awful Things"
And yeah, part of this goes back to #deletefacebook
Facebook is user hostile.
But it's larger than that.
Modern Windows, MacOS, and even Ubuntu have some user hostile behaviors baked in.
And in the FOSS world the only real successful business model has been "give away the software, sell the support" which means that their is an incentive in FOSS to keep the documentation technical and complicated.
RTFM culture is user hostile behavior.
if you look into a gsoma instance you're certain to see people complaining about mastodon or just outright nazism
if you look into a mastodon instance the first thing you find is usually a queer furry girl
i think i made my point clear
gender identity, furry, convention running (+/~) Show more
Furry antifa be like