Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

My son is transgender, loud and proud about it.

He's absolutely one of my top two favorite people; not just because he's my child, but because he's funny, intelligent, warm, helpful, understanding, creative, and so many other positive things. That guy makes me proud to be his dad on the regular.

Losing the person he is because he didn't feel he could be open with me or with his mom would've gutted us, no chance of recovery.

Fight to be the sort of person a friend or a child can turn to when they want, need to share who they are. #TransgenderAwarenessWeek

Mastodon is the most "web3" platform that I know of and there is ::looksaround:: no sign of blockchain or crypto anywhere.

#admin #meme

Okay, third time's the charm! [Fixed]

Meme of the day!

CWs aren't some sort of Badge of Shame among the Mastodon instances. They're a part of the local culture. We use them to be good neighbors, to make godawful puns, to give each other little surprises.

That's in large part because Mastodon was built up by a pile of tired, disabled, traumatized, queer folk, and we built a space where we could engage with the world around us more easily. And then we used the same tools to be goofballs. Because that is how a human do.
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This week, MastodonART defederating c.im pushed them to expand their mod team, clarify hate speech policies, & unsuspend the account of a Black user who had taken issue with CWs for lived experience.

Now toot.community has suspended a transphobic journalist after pressure from several instances.

I wish those instances had made better proactive choices but I’m impressed to see how powerful this type of direct action from instances (& individuals) can be here.

what's The Light Side Of The Fediverse?

broadly speaking, instances that have active moderation against bigotry

it's the opposite of The Dark Side Of The Fediverse

where nazis and TERF's and cryptobros and such are banished to

The Dark Side is the instances none of the good ones federate with

It’s not boxed wine, it’s cardboardeaux.

#wine

how do i get back to the federation timeline

How I'm beginning to feel about Twitter and Meta:

“You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.” — Doris Lessing

Mastodon is now at 1 million users … same as Twitter was in 2008 when I joined (as @james_slezak@twitter.com )

Just a reminder that "self-hosted" doesn't *necessarily* have to mean literally hosting on a computer in your house. It just means you're in control over it.

what kind of mint is linux mint

#LinuxMint #Linux #FOSS

The kids on reddit are memeing us

Some of you are likely already aware of this, but I organize a group called PhilTel aiming to install free-to-use payphones in Philadelphia. We are having an install party at @iffybooks on December 17th where we will install our first phone (more info here, https://iffybooks.net/event/philtel-free-payphone/)!

We will also be distributing a zine that explains the project and some of the interesting things you can do with the phone.

Hope to see you there! https://philtel.org