Richard Gadsden @po8crg@wandering.shop

Did Mastodon's stance on "No nazis" appeal to you when joining?

In the holy name of Cthulhu, stop doing video tutorials!

They are useless, do not allow you to go in depth on a subject, and, unless your production values are top notch (read professional sound and image crew) will probably be horrible and a pain to watch.

If you care about a technical subject, please take the time to *write* about it and publish it on the Internet.

Firm reminder that about half of the plastic in the ocean is made of fishing nets.

Also, because I'm incensed:
Plastic straw bans aren't just pointless, they serve to divert the blame from the corporations wrecking the environment onto the regular populace.

#environment #ocean #plastic #important #fishing #truth #tea #fuckcapitalism

Listening to real life examples of microaggressions is incredibly uncomfortable. More uncomfortable? "How many people have had to quit a job because they felt unsafe"...looking around the room, almost every woman in the room had their hand up...almost exclusively women.
#SelfConf

The case for replacing confederate monuments with bad triceratops statues (with illustrations).
@OCRbot

Since pride month is coming up lets remember even if a bi person is in a heteronormative relationship doesnt make them less bi. People need to stop dictating that entire concept that bi people arent gay enough or theyre just "straight passing" of course theyre not gay enough theyre not, gay, theyre bi. I'm bi and hearing "oh bi people are greedy" makes me hate that im bi like no im not greedy, stuff like that is total bull.

"You are the last?"
"Yes," the last God said. "Gods exist to give reason to the inexplicable, and die when it is explained."
"So what are you God of? Love? Dark matter?"
"No," the God said with a smile, "I'm the God of creating Gods."
It faded from view.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I would just upload the CIVS software onto webspace I already have, but I'm fairly sure I'd need an actual virtual server for it not just cloud hosting, and I don't have access to that. So I'm looking for people who'd be interested in helping either with tech or with organising/fundraising to keep such a project going in the medium term. I'm happy to commit some funds and can probably do the setup OK, but I can't bankroll the whole thing or shoulder all the maintenance work.

OK, this is a "boosts needed" post, please boost this if you see it. At least one organisation I'm involved in has a major problem in that it runs online and needs to be able to ballot members, and just about all the easy services for doing so aren't GDPR compliant.

Would anyone be interested in clubbing together to try and run a Euro-side, compliant server of CIVS or a similar e-voting system that could be used by community groups, activist orgs, and so on?

#democracy #cooperatives

"Why do you hoard gold and silver anyway?" the princess asked.
"Copper, too," the dragon said.
"I've never heard of copper hoards."
The dragon shrugged. "Those metals are the best heat conductors. When I have enough, I will build cooling fins."
"Are you hot?"
"My egg will be."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Today I would like to write a short, investigative thread which uses my first-hand knowledge of the academic world in order to answer one simple question: Who is Jordan Peterson, and where did he get where he is?

We all know, of course, who Jordan Peterson is. A reactionary transphobe and crypto-evangelical preacher for the internet age. But it seems to me that, even the most critical analyses of him and his work neglects to mention how he got where he is.

The math people at my school have all taken to introducing themselves like “I’m _____ and I use the she series” (or they series or whatever) which I think is cute.

"What is it like to be human?" the visiting alien asked.
"What is it like to be an alien?"
"Bewildering, feeling you don't fit in."
"Same."
"But interesting, and there are times you do fit in."
"Yeah."
"So... It's like being people?"
"It's like being people."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"That's a girly cocktail" oh you mean a female-presenting tipple?