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Once upon a time, there was a community called Little Details on LiveJournal. It was a place where fiction writers of all kinds could ask for help with their fact-checking and research. It was anb amazing resource before the collapse of LiveJournal took it down.

I recently decided to try resurrecting it on Dreamwidth. It’s now open and ready for questions. Come check it out, and boost if you’re so inclined!

https://little-details.dreamwidth.org/

#writing #fanfiction #fandom #dreamwidth

—@pompelon

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Jax stared at the alien on his doorstep — a short being in a silver suit, with grey skin, a big head, and dark eyes.

“Your music,” the alien said, “is too loud. We can hear it from the dimension next door….”

“Whoa!” said Jax. “From another dimension?”

Behind the alien stood a beautiful elf with pointed ears. “Yes. We hail from the world bordering yours on the other side. It’s quite loud.”

Jax glanced back at his friend. “Dude, I TOLD you this new sound system rocks!”

#microfiction

—@vanellopemint

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One of the easiest ways to be courteous when arranging a call with another person in a different timezone is to specify times in their timezone, or at least be really clear which you are referring to.

This is a subtweet of all Americans who have ever asked me if we could do a call “in the morning”. I’m only mildly sadistic but generally this does make me suggest 11am… CET.

—@solar_chase

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“Lately I’ve been really annoyed with the things I’m seeing in my feed, you’re all being so—“

Of all the things that annoy me the most, someone tone policing the Fediverse because they don’t know how to unfollow, filter, or Mute is at the top.

It’s controlled by who you follow.

So change who you follow.

—@oliphant

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⚡ Heard of @gotosocial ?

GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the #fediverse, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles.

Consider #GoToSocial instead of Pixelfed if you’d like a safety-focused alternative with text-only post support that is maintained by a stellar developer community!

We ❤️ GtS, check them out!

🌍 https://gotosocial.org/

🔍 https://fedidb.org/software/gotosocial

—@pixelfed

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We need to move past only talking about accessibility to recognising that understanding and coming to terms with how ableism works is necessary to even do accessibility well.

Accessibility is the work to remove barriers constructed for disabled people produced by ableist systems.

If you fix the barriers without addressing the systemic issues that produced the barriers they’ll just come back again.

—@nickcolley

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my friend andy and I had flag duty in 7th grade for a week, which meant we were responsible for bringing the us flag from the school office, putting it on the flagpole, raising it, saluting it, and going back inside

we got in trouble one day because no one told us we were supposed to fly it at half-mast and neither of us had this knowledge innately, and that was how I started to figure out maybe worshipping a length of colorful fabric might be kinda problematic

—@biscuit_tornado

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This is not targeted at any one person, just running commentary that people’s posts are less frequent, more angry, more off-topic… it’s not an excuse to be a jerk but keep in mind that maybe around a rough quarter of US private sector cybersecurity people are dealing with impactful budget cuts, have been laid off, or had colleagues laid off and had to take over all their work, or had to actually lay off employees (or worse), and it’s definitely impacting mental health, burnout, and morale. Just my two cents. And we are privileged – it’s way worse in other IT niches and professions. Look out for one another. Be kind.

—@hacks4pancakes

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We get hundreds of stories about the Titan crew, all the way to absurd non-ironic pieces on how one of them is a distant relative of some historical figures.

Can we have some personal profiles of people who drowned on the Med trying to find refuge in Europe instead please?

Their stories are much more important to be told.

More of this please, but better:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/disbelief-and-anger-among-greek-shipwreck-victims-relatives-as-millions-spent-on-titan-rescue-effort

—@rysiek

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As two billionaire oligarchs fight for control of #Russia and two billionaire oligarchs are getting ready for a cage fight for control of America, I have a modest proposal.

Why not have all four go into the cage together? Winner gets to control the entire planet. Of Mars.

As soon as the winner leaves the cage he’s immediately put on a rocket to his new kingdom.

—@philip_cardella