Looking for #Mastodon server suggestions - safe for Queer, Trans, BIPOC folks. TIA.

That's done.

I think I've sadly concluded that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is kinda like the Linux desktop. It keeps getting better, but it still is only used by a relatively few people, and never makes it into the mainstream. I don't really know what might change that, but Xitter's demise certainly won't.

LLM's don't understand shit. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/llms-cant-perform-genuine-logical-reasoning-apple-researchers-suggest/

OMG, Cards against Humanity is going to pay people who didn't vote in 2020 to vote!! https://www.apologize.lol/

I've been a novel/a-length SF writer and have a solid diet of novel/a-length SF books. I want to write a lot more creative nonfiction and SF short stories, and I realize that means I need a steady diet of that kind of work. What are your favorite journals? #sciencefiction #creativenonfiction

just got a royalty statement for Your Linux Toolbox and apparently since it was published in 2019 I've made $14,707.16 in royalties, on 6,314 sales. So I guess around $2/sale on average. Not mad about it at all (my goal was to learn about how traditional […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

"The creator of an open source project that scraped the internet to determine the ever-changing popularity of different words in human language usage says that they are sunsetting the project because generative AI spam has poisoned the internet to a level where the project no longer has any […]

I have to admit to some level of frustration regarding social media right now. In the "bad" old days, the difference between Twitter. Facebook, IG, and Linked-in we're super clear, and it was clear what kind of effort and content (whether personal or professional) you put in to them would lead […]

Providing "transgender operations for illegal aliens in prison" is a perfectly reasonable policy position.

He said that about Springfield????!!!

@KamalaHarrisWin She's in a groove now. Love her facial expressions while listening. She sounds so much more coherent, relaxed and natural than he does.

OMG, she is getting under his skin...

OK, here we go.

OK, #SonomaCounty folks: I've been reading a bit about Measure J, and so far, I think I'm a no. Thoughts?

Whew. Almost 2k words today on my #wip. #iamwriting

This is interesting, and clarifying. Worth a read. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/05/black-us-voting-bloc-survey I'm definitely a "legacy civil rights voter".

Got a really nice rejection for a short story I submitted to a journal. A detailed editorial note in two days, too! Rejections like that are really painless.

Really, #nanowrimo?! Saying that it is ableist and classist be against using a tool that STEALS OTHER WRITERS' WORK to make your own? It's ableist and classist to suggest that those marginalized groups need AI to write their novels! Until they disavow their new sponsor, I'm never doing […]

Spent a nice afternoon researching MFA programs in creative writing...

Made my writing goal for the day: 691 words on my #wip. #writing

We don't like to post xitter here, but this justifies making an exception. https://x.com/jamesfallows/status/1828798114704351348?t=_QHCbiDu7c2G8O0EkRmCZg #press #journalism #democracy

Based on my experience over the past few weeks, #threads seems to have won the alternative to #xitter contest. Am I wrong?

From now on, if someone is being holier than thou about people supporting Harris because they think either "she's a cop" or "she's responsible for genocide" (or both), I want to see their receipts of actively working for those issues. If so, I'll respect your choice, and I hope you'll respect […]

Any #queer, #genderdiverse, or #bipoc #hamradio fans out there I can talk with? I've sort of been on the edge of diving in, but the prospect of spending all of my time talking with white cis dudes is making me sad.

I'm a little behind (I was on retreat last weekend), but the bullying of #guswalz by the right is 1) extremely on brand, and 2) reminds me again of how fucking inhumane they are. Part of me can't even grok how anyone can be that cruel.

Michelle Obama is making the case for our Mastodon for Harris fundraiser. #harriswalz2024 will need every dollar we can raise to rebut the efforts to defeat them. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

Former President Barack Obama struggles to describe mushroom

Another metric that we are had a good first day of the convention. #dnc2024 cc: @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

Love the Tan suit!

Anyone know any good progressive #Discord servers?

I've been thinking a lot about the Harris/Ealz (and other Dems) "politics of joy." On one hand, given all that is facing us, it seems, I don't know, polyannish or something. But then I realized that joy is the only real antidote to fear, which is what the GOP peddles, and the Dems had been […]

#caturday is here again. Here's Ash, enjoying a game box while we play.

Although I love and value all of the interesting conversations about cultural appropriation around #raygun and #olympic #breakdancing, what intrigues me most is what is the difference between #sport and #art ? You can, theoretically, make almost anything a sport, but the minute you do that […]

Anyone have #peertube instance recommendations? BIPOC & Queer friendly? Not too tech focused?

I'm old enough to remember Nixon resigning from office in 1974. I even remember watching the hearings with my parents. But reading Heather Cox Richardson's account this morning reminds me how far the supreme court has gone (in a bad way). The supreme court UNANIMOUSLY ruled that Nixon had to […]

Why are all orthopedic surgeons old white men?

A little disappointed Harris didn't choose Pete, but #timwalz looks like a super interesting person, and looks like a good choice.

OK, this is hilarious. From this: https://mastodon.schub.social/@denschub/112900830124231426

I've been thinking some about the VP pick in light of what I know about Harris, and I've come to the conclusion that there is a significant chance she'll choose Pete Buttigieg for VP? Why? First, he's been the most articulate surrogate for her bar none. Second, she cares A LOT about […]

People do realize that the inability of the right to understand/handle Harris' identity & heritage is a legacy of the "one drop rule" right?

There were months after my temporary #quadriplegia where I had to use two hands to raise a water bottle, glass, or cup. Mocking or attacking #Trump for doing so is only #ableism, and nothing else. Mocking or attacking #Biden for walking slowly and using handrails is only ableism, and nothing else.

So happy! Just got a flash fiction piece published! #writing #publishing https://365tomorrows.com/2024/07/31/a-stitch-in-time-the-kettle-black/

I'm halfway through the #20books20days and it's been really interesting to try to reduce the books that have influenced me down to 20. I don't even know that this is the best 20, it's just the 20 that come to mind right now in my life. I think 10 or 20 years ago, I would have possibly had a […]

Some great thoughts about the new strategy to call MAGA "weird": https://juliaserano.medium.com/some-queer-thoughts-about-the-weird-discourse-86aa6eb55894

Any help boosting this and growing followers to @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews is incredibly helpful!

Please, white people on the #fedi: if a BIPOC person says that they have been mistreated and bullied here, don't say shit like "must be your instance, pick another one." That's not the right answer.

These things were not on my 2024 Bingo Card: - Gay Furries Hacking the Heritage Foundation - Trump assassination attempt - Biden stepping out - Couch f*cking GOP VP pick

I'm finding it fascinating that from the left Harris is getting a lot of criticism for having been a prosecutor and having jailed lots of people of color, and from the right, she's being criticized for being soft on crime, in favor of defunding the police, etc. From my perspective, her history […]