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Get ready! The party is starting at 7PM GMT over on twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

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Greg H 🏳️‍🌈

@PeggyJoan I’ve already seen some of “them” deriding Mastodon as a leftist echo chamber. But, if by echo chamber, they mean that fascists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, et al running amok isn’t tolerated, then so be it.

I already do view Twitter as a home for the alt-right. That’s why I deactivated my account earlier this year.

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@GregHester @PeggyJoan It really does speak for the state of Conservatism if basic rules against hate speech, harassment, and abuse are equal to a ban on Conservatism.

I'm not going to argue that it isn't true, but it certainly doesn't make this place an echo chamber. I see regular disagreements here, it's just that people aren't threatening violence and using slurs and insults to express that. And the disagreements aren't generally about who deserves personhood.

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Wife has work today, and I don't. I think I might take an extremely long walk today. is such a great place to explore on foot.

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Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater 🏳️‍⚧️

My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.

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Pepsilora

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

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@neil @liw Next year is my 19th year as a Linux Desktop user.

The only thing that ever kept me using Windows on the side was PC Gaming, but that's not a problem anymore. My Gaming desktop runs Linux, and I have a Steam Deck, and both run everything I need them to.

I swear, the only people still badmouthing the Linux Desktop are people who are afraid of learning a little bit of bash, which quite frankly isn't difficult, and you don't need to use it often if you don't want to.

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Theory: At any given point in time, there is at least one smartphone screen breaking.

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@Estebiu I loved my Thinkpad T440p. It was old, but it worked great. There were a few Linux hiccups, but nothing I couldn't glue back together with scripts.

This new laptop feels like a toy it's so light, but I'm blown away by the performance, and the Linux QA work that S76 does really makes it feel like a finished product, as far as the Linux Desktop experience goes.

Might look into one of their Thelio towers in the future once I've broken this new laptop in.

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I feel pretty upgraded today!

Got my new Lemur Pro laptop, a 9 year jump in hardware over my last laptop.

Figured out that I can switch my Pixel 7 Pro into high-DPI mode, which my eyes are still capable of enjoying.

Feels like the future!

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a.Albi

😄 finds a Cool Thing you've been following in the fediverse

😒 but it uses pleroma

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@skyfaller @albinanigans @davidgerard Yeah, that guy regularly boosts posts from accounts with custom swastika emojis in their display names, follows accounts from explicitly Neo-Nazi oriented instances, and then cries on his blog that people call him a Nazi, while in the same breath admitting that he was an early Gab user...

Like, sure, not all TERFs are Nazis, but he's not being subtle about it.

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NLAWScametovisit

🙏 Hi god its me NLAWS. I know we dont talk much but I never ask for anything and I reaaaalllyyyy need this.
#elonmusk #twitter #taliban #OFAC

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BrianKrebs

Current mood:

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I was going to visit my parents for Christmas, but decided that I'd just go visit them the first weekend into the new year because "I have a bad feeling about holiday travel this year".

I love being right.

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Janel Comeau

if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over

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Now, I know, I admin my own private instance, I have the unilateral power to defederate, and I definitely wield it

But anyone can block an instance from the account level, and more people should take the liberty of doing so.

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I see the discourse about QTs is roiling right now, and just some food for thought:

QTs already exist on the Fediverse. Pleroma implemented it a while ago. Getting QT'd has lead to me having to play whack-a-mole with malicious instances telling me to unalive myself, because they weren't happy with my antifacist takes.

The most powerful tool I have here is the block function. This alone has halted dogpiles, and I never had to involve my followers in it.

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Rod Hilton

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

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