Amanda Unvarnished

Good lord. If you had told me this in conversation, I would have thought you were joking. FWIW, good Executive Assistants are worth their weight in gold and, at early-stage companies, are frequently far more competent than the executives they support.
Thank you @anildash for the link. #Shopify #Techcrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/how-shopify-bungled-its-latest-layoffs-and-made-employees-feel-like-npcs/

—@webuiltthiscity

Mona Tip, If you add a photo or video to your post, please add a description so everybody can enjoy it the same! Make it accessible to all! 😄 To do this: 1, Tap add photo or video. 2, Find the photo or video you want to share and select it, then hit add. 3, You will be put back on the composing screen. Tap on the attached Media, and right on that screen you will find add description, so tap it and add your description. And that is it! So easy and simple that anyone can do it! Look forward to enjoying everybodys photos with the help of the descriptions you add! #Mona #Tip #Photo #Video #Description #Help #Blind

—@ChrisChaffin

This is where we are: Families of trans youth are fleeing political persecution in the US with no sign that anything will stop the GOP’s reign of terror.

This is how we got here: A drip, drip, drip of confusing and misleading news stories showed us how little it takes to destabalize the situation for an already vulnerable minority group.

Calling a spade a spade feels like all I can do some days. #transgender #journalism

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/its-happening-here-its-happening-now

—@e_urq

I hope EVERYONE is enjoying Lag Ba’Omer today, a good All-#American holiday.

And to those of you who aren’t, happy Yom Easter or something.

#chag #holiday #greeting

#LagBaOmer

#MedinatAmerica

—@jewwhohasitall

@koko

Free Software Guy: For too long have we suffered the Torment Nexus, so I am creating OpenTormentNexus to finally give users and developers the freedom to create their own personalized Torment Nexuses.

—@bytex64

People keep bringing up the very tired “Linux on the desktop” meme to dismiss the Fediverse.

But a meme is just a meme.

In the real world, Linux dominates.

Your phone? Probably Linux. Your car’s infotainment system? Linux. Your router? Linux.

Chromebook? Linux.

Windows has a Linux Subsystem too.

Linux has won.

The “Linux on the desktop” naysayers don’t even realize it.

The Fediverse should be so lucky.

—@atomicpoet

Republicans: We will literally criminalize elements of sexuality and forbid them from public life. Also: no contraception, abortions or social safety net.

Also Republicans: Why don’t young folks want to have sex?? https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/parents-to-blame-for-carless-sexless-teenagers/

—@Davechen

I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don’t want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. “Normal users just want the default”, he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn’t make it true because of that.

Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use “crowding out” techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.

I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #fediverse

—@louis

Introducing ‘Total Crap’, the First Magazine Written Entirely by AI. “We are proud to bring the written word into the future with revolutionary technology that delivers the one thing readers are most passionate about: efficiency.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai

—@kottke