Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org
Grinnin' Ferret
Joined Nov 2022
@brynntannehill @anothercohen Parody, for those who missed it. Still thanked by emusk.
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I hope Twitter survives. But the stories today are not encouraging. In case it disappears, let me shout out to all the many people I've made internet-friendships with (and in some cases IRL friendships). I've learnt so much from you, and I appreciate your interest in my work.
RT @Astro_Wright@twitter.com
Wow…
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/1593437968609550336
@freemo "Right toxic", "Left toxic", "toxic" is freakin' toxic. Sweet baby Jesus! Sometimes it's good to just let the trash freakin' take itself out.
I'm glad for your kind response when I reached out to you in email asking if QOTO.ORG would be a good fit, and I'm very glad to report it is. I never really encouraged her to be involved in the Bird place. It's just too... whatever Aurynn Shaw is. I'm happy we have a home here.
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So I reached out to admins of the few instances that block us with a polite email explaining some of the misinformation spread about us in the pastt and describing the situation in some detail in the hopes it will be resolved.
Luckily nearly all the instances are very small and its not a big deal since our federation footprint remains one of the largest int he fediverse, but I felt it was an effort worth making.
Anyway, seems the drama is already begining and even more flat out lies are getting thrown around be a few:
https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361052656757061
https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361011483467968
Luckily despite a few bad actors most of the people I contacted reached out to me in good faith and several seem to be willing to reverse the ban. Lets hope the people who actually bother to fact-check win out on this one.
@freemo Bookmarked. I came across someone on the Bird place saying she didn't know how to love herself, only other people. I wish I had this at that time. I'm not sure I ever read "Wonderland," and I don't recall seeing the Disney movie. I'll have to fix that.
I told the person asking, "Before you can say, 'I love you' you must first say 'I'."
I'm <i>glad</i> to see you have it worked out!
@ewdocparris @georgetakei I'm opposed to *me* personally proselytizing, but I'd be happy to see this come to pass!
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Demand election officials disqualify Trump now: http://bit.ly/3OfXYcL
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/108352419081380277
I'm kinda "meh" either way. i18n has more priority in my mind than "grade-school humor", and to me that is what a "toot" is. Now, grade-school humor has a place, and I'm quite happy to be in that place, but it *is* that particular place. If I were going to pick a hill to die on, I'd have a chat with the i28n community at large along with professionals who both do and refuse to use this platform on what factor "tooting" has to do with it.
But I'm not in any such position to have such conversations, and I have no meaningful say in code commits. I don't know if @Gargron has more to add or developments past the post I reference, but if I'm to be on Mastodon for the haul, I want the platform to be in there for the haul for *me*.
#TFG is Seditionist #1. How is it he's *not* disqualified?
Demand election officials disqualify Trump now: http://bit.ly/3OfXYcL
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I’m boldly going where I haven’t gone before, which is right here at this site. Apparently this is a “toot.” I would appreciate a follow!
@freemo Guilty as charged
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The fat orange monster in Florida continues to fume.
Launch stil scheduled for 0604 UTC but there could be a delay due to the leak. No word yet if the leak has stopped.
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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.
@Pat Truth be told, I saw a calculation of time dilation from the constant speed of the ISS relative to the surface of earth's equator vs. the time dilation from gravity at sea level. I can't do the math, however the calculations would show the effects nearly (but of course not completely) cancel one another out.
The upshot is that I would not want to pin too much of importance on the difference unless I had someone like @/planet4589@mastodon.social account for all relevance effects and handle the math.
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"Try reading the following out loud:
Hashtag screenreaders for the hashtag blind and hashtag VisuallyImpaired read every hashtag HashTags out loud and so it's hard for people with hashtag VisualImpairment to get the sense of the post because it's being constantly interrupted by well-meaning hashtag accessibility hashtag allies.
Easier to read with a block of hashtags at the bottom:
#screenreaders #VisuallyImpaired #blind #allies #Hashtags #accessibility"
--original author unknown
Can't possibly allow early voting in GA for the run-off... it's Robert E. Lee's birthday, donchano?
@leahmcelrath https://www.wendycarlos.com/ is a wonderful resource, but she stopped updating and I would not be surprised if she has become too frail to continue Eclipse Chasing as she had done in the past. My mom had Switched-on Bach, I've no idea where it vanished to. I then encountered her music again with Tron. It was the very first time I had known of someone not cross-dressing, but transitioning from cis-male to trans-female. I loved the music, but even then as a Christian, I understood it was her life, not mine.
I've dropped the Christian faith, but found my inner core value, "its not my life to decide for another" was still my value, and even more because "no god, no sin." So I think of Carlos and her work from time-to-time, and smile. I am a quiet fan who hopes she is living her best. Wendy Carlos is worthy.
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To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.
(Please boost for reach)
Grinnin' Ferret
Joined Nov 2022
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