Bladeflow @Bladeflow@qoto.org

How’s it going, you adorable extinct elephant folks? 🦣

Having a good day? Not-so good?

I am relaxing after driving for 7 hours yesterday, but I am grateful to have the week off. I’m currently reading a lush dark YA fantasy called Belladonna by Adalyn Grace and hope to finish today.

Say hi! 👋🏼

#Tuesday #toots #bookstodon #books

Morning walk on the water

This is a big problem for Mastodon.

Canadian journalist Erica Ifill just had her mastodon.online account suspended without explanation. She's been sharing stuff critical of Mastodon re: intersectional issues.

I get the decentralized structure and idea that each server has its own rules. But this Reddit-style moderation, where moderators with god-complexes make mysterious and arbitrary decisions, is going to cause people migrating to Mastodon to flee in droves.

https://www.presscheck.org/journalists/erica-ifill

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Another Black person played Mastodon "instance roulette" and lost.

We need a Mastodon instance Green Book pronto or this ain't gonna work.

This is starting to feel like the WW2 Dunkirk evacuation where the Black and Indian Commonwealth soldiers were abandoned on the beach...

https://twitter.com/wickdchiq/status/1594711597359980547

New platform = excuse to post favorite old projects. I hope to find more time to return to this LED cuff bracelet build.

Let’s fuckin goooooooo #usmnt #worldcup #mastodonfc

#Coloradosprings

This is where your book bans lead.

This is where your "Don't say gay" policies lead.

This is where 300 anti-lgbt bills introduced nation wide this year lead.

This is were your criminalizing trans lives and care leads.

This is where your unchecked gun culture leads.

This is your where overturning of Supreme Court cases ends.

This is where staying quiet so as not to start a fight over Thanksgiving dinner leads.

Our blood in the streets once again.

Fuck all of it

A new Session release (iOS 2.2.3) is now live.

Changes include:

✅ Fixed global search crash
✅ Fixed open group URL copying bug
✅ Improve UI for quoted messages
✅ Added basic UI support for iPad landscape mode

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What did the scientist say when he found two helium atoms?

HeHe 🕺

#puns

This US #Thanksgiving, many of us will find ourselves explaining #Mastodon to family and friends. Gods, help us all.

Shadow Diplomats: The Global Threat of Rogue Diplomacy

A first-of-its-kind investigation by ProPublica and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

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Corrupt, violent & dangerous appointees, including those accused of aiding terrorist regimes, have turned a system meant to leverage the generosity of honorable citizens into a perilous form of rogue diplomacy that threatens the rule of law around the world.

https://www.propublica.org/article/honorary-consuls-shadow-diplomatic-immunity-investigation

It's great to see so many publications exploring the Fediverse. We should give a tip of the hat to @restofworld who also have set up their own instance for Mastodon! (In fact we're pretty sure they beat us here :)

Pues así va el domingo! No pensaba verlo pero heme aquí!

via @Royaards

The World Cup in Qatar starts today.

#Qatar #WorldCup2022 #FIFA #QatarWorldCup

Lo voy a repetir porque es extraordinario. Un toot en francés, se dice "pouet". Y es la onomatopeya que usamos para el ruido de una bocina o cuando apretas un patito de ule! 🤭
Hay hasta una canción de Bourvil sobre esto (super misogina en todos casos)! 😂
https://youtu.be/oB_aTZBD9-A

I get in trouble when I criticize VAR on my big Twitter account so I can shout into the fediverse about it instead 😇

#worldcup #mastodonfc

Colorado Springs. Club Q. Heartbreaking. 💔🏳️‍🌈

Someone go get Mark Hamill. We can’t leave him on the dark side.

#NoOneLeftBehind #RIPTwitter

Mastodon is perfect for GenX because we’re all just roaming from house to house totally unsupervised and unless something goes really wrong nobody cares #GenX