Darth Nerdinger🍸🇪🇺 @forschungstorte@mastodon.xyz
European. Forcing the future. Pun-Isher. Located in Germany.
Nonbinary Femmeperor. Pronouns: she/they
People, keep an eye out for mentioning people in conversations if they don't respond or interact. Piling toots on them may be very overwhelming!
Menschen, passt auf, wenn ihr in Konversationen Leute mentiont, wenn sie nicht antworten oder interagieren. Sie mit Toots zuschütten kann sehr überwältigend sein!
Criticism is easy. Constructive criticism is hard.
Yes! Being against "Virtue Signaling" is being against communication. Cultural values are established and spread through communication about what is valuable.
Use of the phrase "Virtue Signaling" is virtual signaling to assholes. 🙄
"virtue signaling" is the phrase racists invented when someone tried to explain to them what shame was and that they should feel it
"virtue signalling" was a phrase invented to stigmatize the act of publicly giving a shit about something other than yourself
Twitter has users. Mainstream (Silicon Valley) tech and drug dealers are the only two groups to use that term to describe people. And they're both obsessed with manufacturing addiction and exploiting those people. Calling people users is a form of othering.
Let's do better.
Mastodon doesn't have users. Mastodon has people. Call them members if you must. But not users.
Twitter, Facebook, and Google have users. We have people.
CC @Gargron
we should stop saying you have to be good at math to program. yeah you use math but i say "good at" to talk about skills where ive achieved greater than average mastery or its a hobby, like im good at drawing or something. i avoided programming as a kid because i was a B student in math and considered "good at math" to mean gifted. how many potentially talented women programmers do we lose when they are ten years old because of this?
they talk about porn, mention yours jovially. make it visible in talk and the cishet boy's club becomes less exclusive. pleasure must be universal.
trolling shitty gender cliches in nonchalant conversations for greater justice and awsomeness. just never let them stand. subvert, lauch, distrupt.
I am amused.
Meeting the Parents, Belgien Beer, Star Wars and Tech Talk. Never encountered parents of a partner that were *that* cool.
If you like #mastodon you would have loved the internet in the late 90s.
Here's your one and only chance to take that back. No, not only on twitter.
Don't centralize your life. Don't rely on a single corporation helping them accumulate too much power. Like Facebook or GMail.
Diversify and try to control your own data.
how many mastodonians? mastodons? mastodinos? are at #eh17 #easterhegg
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) now supports the use of "themself": https://consciousstyleguide.com/themself-perfectly-cromulent-word/ #nonbinary #pronouns #singularthey
have a week off Work. Out of town. visiting my partner
Somewhere in Kreuzberg
Was steckt hinter der Impfangst? https://pocket.co/sMXvwI
For anyone interested in #MastoDev, I posted another semi-detailed issue about a potential performance improvement: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1168
