Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space

Hey @Gargron can we pretty please have limited Markdown formatting?.. I mean bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, monospace. That's all I'm asking for.

assume everyone is trying their best.

Reading online news, 2008:
- go to website
- read news

Reading online news, 2018:
- go to website
- no, don’t share location
- hell no, don’t send me notifications
- consent to cookie warning
- consent to policies
- no, don’t open in app
- no, don’t want the newsletter
- skip inspirational quote
- close full page ad
- read news

Hot take: nostalgia is a disease that robs us of our present and our future

The notion that you have to have a certain level of profession at a certain age is extremely toxic and just fosters a culture that never goes developing beyond a puberty stage.

If you learn new things, you are of course bad at them.
If you pick up painting with 30, you're not picasso at 30

You need to learn and train to become better, but if you're expected to be a pixasso at 30, there is no room for that.

Stop saying RSS is dead people. I'm literally using it to read your shitty article about how it's dead

It sure is tough to update your dating profile when the only extant photographs of you from the past decade are security camera footage.

Also, I neglected to credit @kensanata whose mastodon-blocker CLI script (https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-blocker) inspired me to write Mastodon De-Mob.

My tool does *basically* the same thing but from a web app instead of a python CLI (even though I'm personally partial to CLI apps, I thought the web app might be a bit more accessible, especially for those who don't currently have python installed).

I've just released Mastodon De-Mob, an anti-harassment tool that lets users to block everyone who favorited or boosted a toot calling for harassment. https://mastodon-de-mob.codesections.com/

Please feel free to test it out with the example URL I provided; that will only block a test account I set up for this purpose. Hopefully, you won't ever need it for real.

It also reports the harassing toot, which I hope will prevent the tool's abuse for non-harassing toots.

source: https://github.com/codesections/mastodon-de-mob

Perhaps the single most revolutionary idea in social media right now is discarding the assumption that people will communicate in good faith and plan for people with negative intentions.

Being able to assume good intent is not a generalized view point but one that comes from a very specific place of privilege and access.

Shifting away from this perspective would be a significant step forward in improving the quality and safety of online interactions.

Please boost this pair of great tits, thanks

Why yes I am suggesting my local library buy the chapo trap house book and the dril book what of it