Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

American Christians can be the most unchristian people. This is a Baptist church in my neighborhood.

Jesus didn't hate the poor, and neither should you.

@lissalissa 🎯

Same with folks who have "we don't call 911" signs in front of their homes. Might as well stay "rob this house when we're gone, there are guns to steal".

There is way too large an overlap between people who say "I refuse to live my life in fear" and people who carry a gun everywhere they go because they're convinced people want to kill them.

My site is powered by data offered up by https://www.pouet.net

An excellent resource if you're interested in this flavor of retro computing.

I've gained 400+ followers in a day because I went viral on the birdsite, and if anything, I hope I encouraged people to Google "demoscene" after reading my bio.

For a crash course, I'll shamelessly plug my own Demoscene website: https://prods.page

People have asked why I don't just join an existing instance instead of running my own.

C'mon. Look at my domainhack. I pretty much had to.

@srdesantis I run my own single-user instance, and it's not a problem.

There are definitely benefits to joining a niche instance, but the only thing that would keep you from enjoying the rest of the fediverse is defederation from larger instances.

Folks on the birdsite are going wild after I shared this absolutely legendary response to a Nazi by @Gargron

I'll take this guy over Musk any day!

I have something terrible to admit. On my work computer, I have officially switched to Microsoft Edge...

I know, I know... I tried out the Vertical Tabs, and now I can't go back. Once Chrome does this though, I'll probably go back.

Getting a PoS cash drawer delivered monthly via Amazon subscription.

Brands can totally come to the Fediverse, they just need to understand how it works.

Think of it less like joining a Social Media network, and more like starting an IRC channel.

If you come in trying to monetize your existence here, expect to get dragged.

So I took a look at this "Tribel" social network that liberals keep talking about as an alternative to Twitter, and it is a complete hellscape. Similar baseless hysteria to Parler, just on the other side of the aisle.

And we descend further into the post-truth era.

Alternative social networks shouldn't be factioned around political parties like this. It's dumb.

Fediverse FTW.

My favorite part about using a Mac is that it refuses to understand what the scroll wheel on my mouse is for. Am I scrolling up, am I scrolling down? My computer certainly can never decide...

I keep my old phone and old headphones around in case I need to doomscroll and listen to music while my primary devices charge.

I swear, if I ever encounter a truly boring situation, I might actually die from the shock.

Telling my conservative acquaintances that I own a social media company (run a one user Mastodon server) to gain their respect.

Using shodan.io for content discovery. I found so many Icecast servers!

@halcy @zalasur@mastodon.technology I was actually a pretty avid user of Stadia, but they're refunding every single purchase I ever made, so I'm just going to end up going on a Steam shopping spree now.