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Keep ‘em coming!!👏🏻

Via Kyle Griffin:

Democrats won a #Minnesota state House special election Tuesday night — restoring a tie in the chamber and ending a monthslong power struggle in the Legislature.



but what if we want to criticize Go for its philosophical shortcomings?
in reply to Irenes (many)

the company has openly stated that that's the goal, it's just they've said it in language that business majors understand and most programmers do not

we need to fucking learn. before it's too late.

in reply to Irenes (many)

(that was also the pitch behind Java, that's why all the business types got so excited about it, but Java didn't really fulfill that promise in the way Go does)



This week, the Trump administration cancelled all grant programs under the Violence Against Women Act. These grants fund most court protective order programs.

At the same time, Trump declares you are a domestic terrorist if you deface a Tesla.

Literally, a swasticar has more legal protection than a woman now.

fortune.com/2025/03/12/preside…

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What's with mastodon search? For example, I can't search for hashtags to find people with similar interests. Frustrating

@FediTips do you have a thought on this? Anyone else know if I'm missing something?

in reply to ts 🚉

Finding people works a bit differently on here as there deliberately isn't a central search engine (because someone nasty might take it over).

I've tried to do a guide for all the methods for discovering people to follow on here:

fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accoun…

If your server's search isn't giving you interesting results, you might want to try methods such as Fediverse directories or Fediverse groups as these methods are both server-neutral.

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in reply to Fedi.Tips

thanks, but I'm still confused. One thing this page says is, "You can find a lot of interesting accounts nowadays just by typing keywords into the search box on Mastodon." But search does NOT (in my experience) search the text of a profile. Said text must be in the handle or display name - super limited.
in reply to ts 🚉

I had a look at your server's website, and it seems they don't have advanced search features installed. The advanced search requires the admin to install an add-on (called "elasticsearch"), but this costs extra so some admins don't install it.

You might want to ask your admin about this to make sure?

Because this place doesn't spy on users or run adverts, every server admin has to cover their server's costs and usually relies on donations from users to keep going.

in reply to ts 🚉

not trying to complain - I might just be too old or not tech-y enough for the Fediverse. Appreciate your help
in reply to ts 🚉

I don't think you have to be any particular age or skill level to use this place.

It can take a bit of time to get used to though as it is such a different structure. I hope I can help as the aim of my account is specifically to assist non-technical people 🙂




making brownies cause the open brownie mix was mocking me

well this time i had butter


in reply to そらいろ



i wanna rub my hands against kikkuris flat chest. the greatest pillow ever conceived


Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-co…

#space #science #scicomm


in reply to Maj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦

> Entirely focused on adoption be a general / non-technical user. Ideally, with scannable bullet points

Maybe something like this, maintained by @FediTips?

fedi.tips/

@mastodonmigration might also have suggestions for the sort of fediverse elevator pitch you're looking for.

in reply to Strypey

"Entirely focused on adoption be a general / non-technical user. Ideally, with scannable bullet points"

This is 100% exactly what I am trying to do with the website at fedi.tips



Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific _daylight_ time (UTC-7)!

This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more. I know there are some questions that have already been submitted since last week, and I will be adding them before Friday's BikeNite.

(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.)

#BikeTooter cc @bikenite



in reply to Damon

the answer to that question is A LOT. On Epsteins plane there were plenty. On the island there were plenty. And he surrounds himself with them.

And he absolutely LOVES Andrew Tate.

Boo, hiss

in reply to Deep Mud

@deepmud I just read that the White House has ordered the FBI to halt all background checks of aides and WH personnel, so we can assume there are pedophiles, predators, and probably spies too, inside the White House. 😱

in reply to Fire Alarm Puller

AI is taking the jobs of our hard working lovebombing e-daters


It is a REALLY good idea to write an introductory post about yourself and pin it to your profile. Pinned posts appear at the top of your profile page, and they also have a special ability to federate much more widely than ordinary posts.

It's very quick and easy to do:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…

Here's why it matters: there's a quirk on Mastodon where some profiles may appear blank to people on some servers, but profiles with pinned posts never look blank to anyone!

#FediTips #Mastodon

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in reply to Fedi.Tips

I wonder if instead of trying to fetch all posts and storing them on the local database, there could just be a more robust solution to interacting with posts on other instances and then when you click on a profile, it can just go to their instance or it embeds the post view from their instances like news articles embed social media posts.

Similarly when you click on a post it just embeds what the replies in the author's instance look like. Though at least the not seeing all replies issue is getting fixed by other means

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We are on the brink of world war lll and today I got in trouble for putting too many pencils in the pencil holder at work ✏️ 🙃

#Canada #Ontario #CdnPoli #OnPoli



My wife said, "The problem with making Meatloaf is it goes too fast."
I told her, "It goes like a Bat Out of Hell".

#IGotJokes #puns #meatloaf

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i spent like 10 minutes on this you can now buy drugs on iriscraft
in reply to iris

the plugin i have has like 15 drugs and i would do one for all of them but realistically im too lazy to do all that i have to do a entire setup for each drug im so tired
in reply to iris

maybe ill do like drug of the day where one day its cocaine one day its ketamine one day its heroin


Trump Is Digging Himself Into A Very Deep Hole Economically. politizoom.com/trump-is-diggin…


Fox’s Laura Ingraham Advises Viewers to ‘Ignore’ Tumbling Stock Market Because Trump ‘Is Good for Business’ mediaite.com/tv/foxs-laura-ing…


Make No Mistake, Trump Is Turning the US Into a Police State

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil is a blatant attack on the civil liberties without which there can be no meaningful democracy for anyone. Our dark days are getting darker by the moment.

The arrest of Khalil Mahmoud is an offense to every citizen of the United States, and it sets a precedent that endangers us all.

Our dark time is getting darker by the day.

commondreams.org/opinion/trump…




Astounding!! Finally you can see the cover of the anthology I've been working on for the past couple of years with co-editors @older and Karen Lord! "We Will Rise Again" is full of essays, interviews, and speculative stories about protest, social movements, and hopeful resistance -- all informed by the experiences of real-life movement leaders and community organizers.
in reply to Annalee Newitz 🍜

I am so proud and grateful to be part of the amazing group of folks who contributed to the anthology.
in reply to Annalee Newitz 🍜

And you can pre-order it here! It's out in early December! simonandschuster.com/books/We-…


come on. i am good with kubernetes, docker, terraform, linux, js/ts, bash. i can be productive in php, python, and rust, and probably anything else in a few weeks. i have some cool open source work and contributions related to qubes os, onlykey security keys, stagex, and two pretty sweet homelab gitops repos

interview me!

#getFediHired #fediJobs #fediHire #boost

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Hi, I’m Ellie.

I’ve jumped to Mastodon after realising (again) how toxic big tech is. Trump and Musk’s obsession with controlling social media sealed it—I miss when it was about connecting, not just a tool for the rich to twist public opinion.

I’ll post a little bit about politics (Carol Cadwalladr fan!) but also pretty pictures, my pet, and travel snaps. Looking forward to actual conversations—not just whatever the algorithm wants me to see.

#Introduction #Mastodon #BigTech

in reply to Su_G

absolutely! Hardly ever heard from real people on the huge platforms- Only pushed sales and click bait. Thankyou I've popped them a follow.
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in reply to Ellie Wondering

Feel free to ask if you want help with using this place! There is also lots of help on the website at fedi.tips (especially "quick start" at the top).



Went for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health today and

it actually helped.

So that’s nice.



@FediTips

Questions -
If I start a second Mastodon account, do I have the option that the muted word list transfers to the new account, or does it have to rebuilt from scratch?
- Same question, but regarding muted and blocked individual users?

in reply to Anonomouse13

You can't copy filters to other accounts.

However, you can copy mutes and blocks.

You can copy your follows, bookmarks, lists, mutes, blocks and domain blocks to any other account whenever you want using the CSV files that are usually used for transferring accounts.

If you look at the transfer guide and do steps 2 and 3, you can use these steps even if you're running two accounts at once instead of transferring accounts:

fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…





I am playing around with #Obsidian to see if I can use it in my workflow for blog writing on my website. I tried #Tangent really quickly but it just stays on a loading screen when creating a workspace?
in reply to Samuel Lison

That's no good! If you have the time, I'd love to try and dig into that issue. What platform are you on? What version of Tangent?
in reply to Taylor Hadden

@taylorhadden I'm in POP_OS. I grabbed the latest version from #Flathub.

When I go to do the first thing (create workspace) it brings up a loading screen and sits there.

If I click on documentation though, it opens up the documentation workspace just fine.



The sky always looks so monumental during a storm. We are so small.



An evening of reading can help you unwind and prepare for the next day. What's on your reading list tonight?
in reply to stu

'cascade failure' by l.m. sagas.

pretty good book so far!



I’m still not ready to do livestreaming. I’m far too tired, and need another night to rest. So I’m cancelling my livestream tonight that was scheduled from 7-9:00pm.

BUT--I’ll be trying something new tomorrow. A daytime livestream from 1-3:00pm. More info coming!

My sincerest apologies to all. I just need one more night to recharge my batteries. I’ll be refreshed tomorrow.

#livestream #MakerTube #Twitch #artistlife #moving #selfcare



After careful scientific research it's been determined that Canadian “Electricity” is just like American electricity, except If you’re electrocuted in Canada you get free healthcare.
thesunion.com/news/canadianele…


JFC the basic core of human society is that we look after each other, tens of thousands of years ago those of us out berry picking and hunting shared everything with the old, the injured and the young, not everyone can work to survive, so we share with them. it's like basic human 101. fucks sake. aargh

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in reply to saraaaaargh

isn't there some million year old human skeleton with a healed broken leg, so they must have been cared for and loved and looked after even though they were no longer able to hunt or whatever
in reply to saraaaaargh

I seriously doubt our distant ancestors allowed one of their own to horde all the berries, take everyone elses berries, and then they all stood around going "wow what a genius" while starving to death
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"Bring your whole self to work!"

Given that I exist in several universes, a goodly number of star systems, numerous continents, and at least two Waffle Houses, I'm not sure there's enough space at work for all of me. Or I should say, for all versions of me.

Maybe we could try time sharing this body.

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