Charlag @charlag@birb.site

some jackass: nobody bikes in January
me: (see image)
some jackass: you need a car to go grocery shopping, at least when you do big stock-up trips
me: (see image)

Software is like an onion. If you open up the inner layers you start crying

@maeve at first I read CW as "homotopic church of England" and honestly it's so much better

I'd like to report a murder.

(The opening lines of Greta Thunberg's speech at Davos)

super annoying: people in cars who stop to text on the bike lane although there are empty parking spots just 10 metres ahead.
no the bike lane is not there to serve you if you're to lazy to park your car properly if you want to text.

#mastobikes

We just accidentally sent a test push message with nonsensical content to all of our users and how is your day going

I really wonder which capitalist scumbag decided it was a great idea to take water from an aquifer which a small island nation depends on, put it into disposable plastic bottles, and then send it to countries across the world to sell it to pretentious rich people. I mean, what the fuck.

Yo not to toot my own admin's horn but Monsterpit is so fucking special. It's one of 2 (two!) forks developed by People of Color. The instance itself is very kin and neurodiverent friendly, and just as intolerant to white nonsense as the instances that get All that Noise. The Monsterfork code would make Gargron cry, it's absolutely focused on consent-based interaction. The other fork, Hometown, developed by Darius is equally good in different, and I believe complimentary, ways.
I guess, I want others to know that there's not just 2 or 3 instances administered by PoC, and mastodon is not your only code option. Pay a PoC developer Today!

I just want to reiterate how awesome the Fairphone 3 is. I know some people are not buying it because they heard that FP 1 and 2 were not that good. But I really don't have any complaints whatsoever about the FP 3. Had it since 2 months now.

#Fairphone #Fairphone3

If the mods of your instance actively block bigots, ideally you'd rarely see any bigotry.

For me, that seems to work. I only ever see it second hand stuff about bigots. If I try to find the bigots to see what actually happened, they're usually already blocked. And I like that.

But then I see people (who do see the bigotry) express feeling hurt and abandoned because nobody is calling out the bigotry.. and like... I don't wanna give people that feeling. That seems like a shitty side effect?

The fediverse is a public forum.

Your posts are only as secure as the admins of every instance that your home server federates with, in terms of private and followers-only messages.

If you're going to talk about sensitive information, keep it to Signal or other secure 1-on-1 channels.

Assume that everything you post to the fediverse, is being scooped up by multiple gov agencies around the world.

The Milan scrape was only notable because they made their findings public.

If a university scraping feeds did it, it's safe to assume other, bigger organizations have been doing it for much longer.

@Deiru
Russia: It's American climate weapons.

America: It's Chinese climate weapons.

China: It's Russian climate weapons.