Audrey E. @audrey@toot.cat

Good session about Mastodon + ActivityPub at #OpenSourceBridge (#osb18) -- touching on governance, alternative implementations like #Pleroma, new services like @pixelfed. Thanks to Aaron for notes:

https://pad.riseup.net/p/OSB-Mastodon

Janelle Monáe at the BET awards. Happy Pride, y'all 😍

Update on making RSS better for long-form work like webcomics and serial stories! (See this thread for background.)

Based on nice feedback from a WordPress core contributor, I think I understand how to add RFC5005 support as a WordPress plugin.

Does anybody want to build that plugin with me? It should be mostly straightforward but I haven't programmed in PHP for about two decades and I'm intimidated.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-rfc5005-support-to-wordpress-generated-rss-feeds/

seapunk only instead of being set in california or florida or some hot touristy spot it's on the washington coast in some small town that's part native culture and part souvenirs and knickknacks and part small indie grocery stores run by some japanese family that's been there as long as anyone and the water's cold and sometimes the clouds roll in and you just sit by the heater with sand on your ankles reading about futures never quite realized with vaporwave playing softly in your headphones and

LB: open source projects need functioning governance beyond BDFLs, and projects that are not led by the folks they purport to serve are doomed to failure.

This is eerily reminiscent of the gittip crisis.

This fucking sucks and I am disappointed. https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548

No big deal... just a #pdx ice cream truck helping us block the #ICE detention center while giving out free cones. #TooPerfect

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... abolishing fascistic govt agencies terrorizing families

Almost 1k strong last night. Word from #LA that the effort is spreading. WE'RE NOT LEAVING

JOIN US! (In Portland or wherever you are)

4310 SW Macadam Ave

The unnamed being
#art #mastoart #watercolor

This is a long shot, but I have been having a horrible time at my house, and I'm looking for a room in Portland, OR.

So if you have a room for a 34yo quiet, nerdy, far-left, queer, trans, mushroom witch, girl, and her cat lmk.

I have a very steady income, but it's not huge. And one of my work benefits is 19% off everything at People's food co-op for all housemates.

Github 2008-2017: repeatedly makes international news for having an awful culture. Marginalized people are forced out, founders harass and stalk employees they are mad at, pushes meritocracy as a viable power structure, pretty much the poster child of Silicon Valley decadence.

Response: well, no one's perfect

Github 2018: Microsoft acquires Github

Response: now, this place is ruined

Ducklings!!!!

[reposted as public so you can boost if you'd like]

I can't get over the sign for 'trans' in ASL. It's so smooth and suave and pretty omg

It's turning your wrist/palm from down to up, moving inwards like a transformation or like a lotus over your heart. Chella in this video does it really smoothly: https://www.them.us/story/nyle-dimarco-chella-man-queer-asl