Kind: Notes

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon’s trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

—@roxiqt

Now they you know Elon Musk exists, you are never allowed to have imposter syndrome again.

You are healed. I have healed you

—@MoBlack

/me goes to check a new self-described accessible design system library thing.

/me sees it is a Figma file embedded in a web page.

/me cannot put focus on anything to navigate it or use it in any way.

/me closes tab.

I am not its audience, so ok.

—@aardrian

It’s only an algorithm if it comes from the algorithm region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling conditionals.

—@Brunty

I am just sitting here slack-jawed at the latest news coming out from Elon Musk’s Twitter, where employees are being forced to sign a “pledge” by the end of the day tomorrow, or else they be let go with 3 months’ severance. This is rapidly becoming a cult.

I think we here on Mastodon should start up a betting pool as to the exact date when Elon Musk actually kills Twitter. I honestly can’t see how the company survives 365 days under these circumstances.

—@ryanschultz

There’s a lot of chat on the bird site by disabled people who are scared because it is such an important means of connection and support for them. Can people of #mastodon tell me what it’s like here for disabled people? Is this a good place to find community and support? #disabled #fediverse #mastodaoine

—@ritawild

@thewebmusician Home shows posts from people you follow. Local shows public posts from everyone on your instance. Federated shows all posts from instances your current instance talks to (e.g. if someone on that instance follows someone from another instance, you’ll see their posts in federated).

—@TheQuinbox

A couple years ago, Facebook went HAM on people using their icons/logos etc in plugins on WordPress.org

Looking at Twitter? Yeeeaaaah if you have a plugin that uses Twitter, I would seriously rethink. You can close your own for the most part and honestly I would just shutter anything not super popular. They’re gonna go legally annoying.

—@ipstenu

Does everyone know about the awesome Old-Time Radio collection, which has literal years of audio of classic radio shows? Drama, Mystery, Comedy, and more. One of the crown jewels of the archive.

https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

—@textfiles

This is too good. Elno just posted an update to the Twitter rules, but no one can read them because he fired all the Twitter reliability engineers and the backend is broken.

Starting to understand why Tesla “full self driving” is always crashing.

—@briannawu

A History of Recent Twitter Migration to the Fediverse

1 month ago: Mastodon? No thanks. You have to have a Ph.D in Hackerology to use it.

3 weeks ago: I don’t like this Mastodon… But if I have to… *sigh*

2 weeks ago: Wait. This does really cool things like let me edit posts. So genius. Is this free?

1 week ago: OMG! There’s other apps! Now I know why there’s a Fediverse!

Today: Comrades—let’s fight for our freedom! Cast off the chains of Big Social!

—@atomicpoet

The thing that’s amazing about Elon Musk’s Twitter is he’s handled it worse than my wildest expectations.

Like when he announced he was buying it, I thought I was going to have to quit out of some hard-to-convey sense of moral unease, like the way I quit Facebook.

Instead, it’s like he coated himself in SpaceX jet fuel, crashed his Tesla right into Twitter HQ, then stumbled out of the wreckage to light everything he touches on fire.

All while shouting: “The Holocaust never happened!”

—@drcrypt

Please do not crosspost the text of other people’s posts from here onto Twitter!!! That is a serious breach of consent, and potentially personally dangerous for that person!!! If you have an automated system set up onhere to crosspost the text of all of your toots – including boosts of other users – from here to Twitter, turn it off.

—@alex

Want to export your old threads from Twitter and put them into a blog or Mastodon or something? Here you go! It will go through your Twitter export archive and recreate the threads.

https://gist.github.com/LeeHolmes/4ebeed5df73ac04678d7c954f74701e6

—@Lee_Holmes

#a11y When I start reading a post / article / talk / library / framework / etc that makes claims about its accessibility, I generally dismiss it.

This post discusses what I look for before trusting it, and offers resources for your own efforts:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/11/your-accessibility-claims-are-wrong-unless.html

—@aardrian