NYC/SF front-end web dev who loves fun, efficient UX. Cocktail and sci-fi fan, feminist, accessibility advocate, 🥓 and 🍣 lover, progressive SJW.
Brooklyn and San Francisco
Joined November 2008
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Writing question: I have a female character who likes motorcycles. She's 29, grew up in the US.
What are some movie/TV/etc. characters that might have been formative "girls can ride motorcycles? Cool, I wanna do that when I grow up!" influences? #motorcycle #ActionGirls
.@Iconfactory has 16.1k followers on Twitter and about 4.1k on Mastodon. Their last tweet received a mere 9 likes/3 retweets, and an amazing 287 favorites/163 boosts on Mastodon.
Even "followers" don’t SEE what you’re saying here anymore. Why stay?
mastodon.social/@gedeonm/109…
Tired: I'm not joining #Mastodon because I'm scared of picking the wrong instance.
Wired: It doesn't matter; I can move instances later, and *nobody will even notice* if I don't tell them!
mindly.social/@PixelJones/10…
Make the switch. It's really nice over there!
In case you were following Taylor Lorenz, the WaPo tech reporter who was suspended *on Saturday* (i.e., *after* Musk "reinstated" at least some, but by no means all, of the previous round of censored journalists), she's on That Other Site: @taylorlorenz@(not-elephant).social.
[A major] social media network... has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (possibly and possibly user) information for partisan/ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections. sciences.social/@Chanders/10…
Elon's given behind-the-scenes data access to anti-LGBTQ bigots and promised them protection.
Twitter is not safe for LGBTQ people to be on at all and this problem won't be rectified - it can only get worse because it is the desire of the new owner.
mstdn.social/@ashleylynch/10…
Twitter's Trust and Safety Council is losing members after Elon fired its head and has stonewalled the council.
Do not trust Twitter; you are not safe here. (Unless you're a right-winger. Elon likes those.) slate.com/technology/2022/12…
Thought I'd stay on Twitter to keep a bigger platform for things I want to say. But in the past 2 weeks on #Mastodon, I've had a post hit 130 boosts, and another hit 305. Others have gone over 10 more routinely than my tweets have.
So I've got a bigger audience there. Already!
Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID misinformation policy.
People can now lie about COVID here with impunity.
axios.com/2022/11/29/twitter…
My apologies to anyone still using Gothpunk/Freak Nation/etc. email. I just noticed it's been down. I have restarted it and your email should now be arriving; if not, please restart your mail program. I'm sorry about that.
The head of the NAACP has called on advertisers to leave Twitter: msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidou…
Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him) retweeted
i was confused by the servers at first. but i googled which one was popular and cool with lgbtqia+ and just picked the first one.
So, let's take stock. In the past 2-3 weeks, Elon Musk has (in no particular order): 🧵
1️⃣ Fired practically all the content moderators
2️⃣ Reinstated all the kinds of people who had already demonstrated just why content moderation is necessary
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The best course now is to let Twitter become worthless, a place nobody pays attention to anymore. Like Parler and Truth Social. That's where it's headed; it's inexorably going to be overrun with shitposters, disinformers, and Nazis. We can't possibly stop that. 6/