Kind: Reposts

I was just notified of the @AppleVis hall of fame vote having reopened for another round. I was disappointed to find that @MonaApp was not included with the nominees. However, there is a selection “Other” in the list that then allows you to enter an app name of your choosing. So if you think Mona for Mastodon should be inducted into the hall of fame for outstanding VoiceOver accessibility, and you are a #VoiceOver user on #iOS, I encourage you to cast your vote accordingly. The page is here: https://www.applevis.com/blog/cast-your-vote-now-2023-applevis-ios-app-hall-fame-inductees

—@Marco

Those who boast of their “brutal honesty” are often more invested in the pain inflicted than the truths conveyed. Such people will seldom hesitate to inflict harm via falsehoods, either. A true warrior knows how to be honest in ways that build up rather than tear down.

—@coachgowron

I’m a grown-ass man who’s been doing what I do for 33 years, but when someone takes the time to send an email and give me positive feedback about my work, it’s still meaningful and is a welcome boost to my spirits.

Thank someone and let them know they did a good job. You’ll like the results.

—@adhdeanasl

Y’all, I am preparing to read a complete avalanche–nay, a collapsing star–of bullshit.

—@oliphant

I don’t care if outsiders do full-text indexing on my toots. I am a public figure, and this is my public face.

I do VERY MUCH care if outsiders do full-text indexing on fedi nodes that have their “do not index/data mine” flags set. That’s a violation of consent.

The universodon folks say that fedi folks are creating cool content and should be discoverable. I absolutely agree that fedi folks are creating cool content!

Some folks DO NOT WANT TO BE DISCOVERED. Period. Their reasons are their own and best discussed over a drink. The fedi’s poor discoverability is a feature, not a bug.

The intent behind full text search might be good, but intent is irrelevant. Only impact matters.¹

And I’m saying that as a creator who depends on social media to survive.

Consent, and understanding consent, is important. I’ll be defederating from universodon.com this week, unless they stop this.

¹ No, I’m not quoting my orc stories. My stories are quoting me, who is in turn quoting any number of smart people.

—@mwl

Boss: Why is your work only 80% complete?

Me: Oh, yes! There’s a very good explanation for that.

In my last performance review, you noted that I was exceeding all expectations, but that you were only giving me a 4 out of 5 because you “never give 5s” because “there’s always room for improvement.”

As a result, I’ve taken the initiative to deliver at 4/5 capacity to ensure I’m performing according to your expectations.

As we’ve already established, I’m easily capable of performing at and above 100%, so please let me know once you’ve adjusted my performance rating to a 5 and I will adjust my performance accordingly.

—@Alice

People were getting justifiably pissed off about what felt like a complete “whim” decision to defederate mastodon.social.

Not realizing that no one was announcing defederation, but a Silence. (Also known as a “Limit”)

Silence is infinitely less destructive, and doesn’t break follow relationships, and still allows you to follow people on the other server, it just puts the server in a more ‘restricted’ mode so that randos from that server don’t have the same privileges (to your eyeballs) that non-silenced servers do.

Suspend is what you do when you’re done with that server. When you’ve given up, and when you’ve informed users on your server that you’re defederating a server that has existing follow relationships you’re about to break.

Most of the time that is not a decision that is made lightly especially when there are already existing follow relationships between the two servers.

(This is another reason mastodon.social has little to fear from defederation, but I digress.)

—@oliphant

For those #mastoadmin who have to clean up the mess, this query helped a bunch – obviously replace Infosec.exchange with your domain. You can select all accounts and suspend at once, then jump to the end and you’ll see two accounts that are inadvertently swept up – just manually unsuspend those.

https://infosec.exchange/admin/accounts?origin=remote&status=&role_ids=&order=recent&username=&by_domain=mastodon.social&display_name=doge&email=&ip=

—@jerry

The size of mastodon.social is breaking the moderation story of the #Fediverse.

Moderation on fedi relies on:

1. instance admins and moderators being able to manage bad actors on their own instance;

2. instance admins being able to defederate from insufficiently moderated instances.

Mastodon.social’s size and the speed new accounts are set up there means that 1. is unworkable. The size of m.s. and the clout of some of its users means 2. is a hard decision.

—@rysiek

I like to think of brunch as the purest form of anarchy. Want a burger between 2 waffles? Go for it. Scrambled eggs on a brownie? Heck yeah! Toss some onion rings in those Froot Loops, you are ungovernable. For 90 glorious minutes, all rules of polite society have been suspended.

—@UncleDuke1969

This Mother’s Day, get her what she’s always wanted; a cloak of protection from dark fairies, a little cabin that roams through the wildlands on giant chicken legs, and an enchanted dagger to call her own.

—@Edmonds_Scanner

ah yes, well it is that i remember the Good Samaritan story. after the Levite and the Pharisee left the injured man on the road, the Samaritan came and put him in a chokehold for nine minutes and killed him.

Jesus the Nazarene tells this story in the book of Money, as a parable to illustrate the virtues of strength and supremacy.

—@dgold

you know how you can hear the ocean when you put a shell to your ear? Well, I learned that if you make a list of chores to complete and put it next to a full bottle of tequila, you can make the tequila chuckle.

—@michellepostoncombs

I know I’m always on about this when cops or other folks kill some agitated person, but for real y’all — we in the ER see people who are angry, threatening, violent, and scary EVERY shift, and we kill zero of them. We don’t shoot them. We don’t choke them to death. Most of the time we talk them down and that’s it. Sometimes we restrain them, but we do it safely.

I have very scary people blow up at me. Often I literally pull up a chair and we talk it out. Please, we can be better.

—@mcnado

Happy Mother’s Day to the only rich country in the world that offers no paid leave, no parental leave, little-to-no child care while forcing birth and leaving tens of millions with no health insurance all because one of of major parties exists to put women in their place.

—@lolgop

interesting that after a decade or so of mainstream consensus that anonymity is bad and antisocial and everyone should use real names on platforms that rewarded both outrageousness and outrage, we hit a point in about 2014(??) at which people started just continuously saying previously unspeakable things under their official headshots

—@kissane

I’m gonna come out and say it again — if you feel the need to refuse standard of care medical treatment for religious or moral reasons, you don’t belong in medicine. Just fuck off and find a career where vulnerable people relying on you don’t suffer because of your selfishness. I treat nazis. I treat pedophiles. I treat people of all stripes. I’ve treated drunk drivers after I took the radio call to pronounce time of death for their victims.

We. Don’t. Refuse. Care.

—@mcnado

Social Security is not insurance. It’s not a savings account you paid into and now can withdraw from. Social Security doesn’t work like that. The Republicans would desperately like you to believe it does because then you won’t realize that Social Security is socialism for old people. They want you to believe that you have to have worked hard to “deserve” Social Security, or that you might be able to get more money from it if you invested instead of giving your money to the government.

Social Security distributes money to people who are eligible for it. They could easily make us all eligible for it. That’s what they don’t want you to know. It’s funded by the government, not by people paying into it. It’s not going to “run out” unless the government cuts funding for it. It’s a line item in the budget. That line item could be increased easily by increasing revenue through higher taxes on the rich, or through cutting spending for the military. Social Security is a basic income, which could be made universal if there was the political will to do so.

Thus endeth the sermon.

—@intransitivelie

I know tomorrow is rough for some people. For those who endured or still endure #abuse and for those who’s #mother has passed on, for those of us who have wanted #children but never gotten to parent them, so much care to each of you.

—@Faylen