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I felt pretty cruddy yesterday, but doing much better today. Lazing around with some books because frankly it's cold outside and I don't want to go out in it. I have both Twitter archives in hand so it's time to take Twitter off my phone I think. I'm leaving the accounts up for now but locking them. And I'm loving the image descriptions.

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To all mastodon admins:

Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!

Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!

(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)

—@evanphx

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Hi, I’m Ryan. I helped start wordpress.org, wordpress.com, wordcamp.org, and automattic.com. #introduction

My current thing is @stimpunks.

Stimpunks.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We serve fellow neurodivergent & disabled people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.

#CripTheVote #Neurodiversity #Disability #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityRights #A11y #ADHD #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Dyspraxia #Dyslexia #Dysgraphia #Apraxia #NonSpeaking

—@ryanboren

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I’m feeling concerned that many of us have recently joined #Mastodon and that the long term visually impaired community are now inundated with beautiful photos with no #alttext to describe the photo. Only about 1 in 5 Toots describe photos on my timeline. We all need to curb our enthusiasm to share undescribed photos and embrace our descriptive writing. I’m not on my high horse just concerned that we’ve arrived en masse and need to do our very best to embrace #MastodonCulture.

—@miripiri

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Catnip. Kitten.

Shenanigans are happening, mostly down to high as a kite Pixie trying to figure out why a wall won’t open instead of a door. It is hilarious to listen to her getting more and more annoyed, and then storm off and go through the open door. I swear she just gave a surprised mrow?! at the fact the door was in fact, open all along.

I’m half tempted to keep the catnip given how many cats use the yard as a way through the area. Best one was this cat that shot up a tree to chase a bird, while high (spoiler alert it was a squirrel), critter went from tree 1 to tree 2

Cat forgot how to jump, and landed on the roof of a car.

I overheard the call with the insurance, the pause then laughter from the other end when the insurance agent heard ‘a stoned cat fell out of a tree and landed on my car’ is amazing.

The better part was that the agent followed that up with by protocol ma’am, we have to interview all involved parties. Yes. They have to, as policy is written, interview the cat.

Good luck on that one, insurance agents. I’m not telling the people three or four doors down their cat is neded for an insurance claim. I’m just not!

—@celtichawk

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Gentle reminder: when mentioning users on Mastodon, make sure to include the whole address. Doing this makes it easier to find people regardess of instance. Even if you are local to the person or even if the person is on your instance, getting into the practice or writing the whole address may help to understand Mastodon better, and help otehrs find the person you are mentioning should they need to interact with them.

—@ner