Part of the shitty mess we’re in comes from the failure of #DIY culture and the rise of #stupidindividualism as the common sense path. #stupidindividualism is completely unscalable in social terms. It fragments, isolates, and exhausts. That isn’t accidental, it’s a classic divide-and-control strategy of the #deathcult. And ...
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Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people.
Time for a re-introduction, because it's Monday and I'm totally not procrastinating. :ohno:
My name is Stephen, or Steve. I prefer they/them pronouns, but he/him is fine as well. I am a queer, white masc dude living in the Pittsburgh area. I'm a nerdy furry plural entity with some kind of undiagnosed neurodivergence and living with complex PTSD. I'm a recovering academic with graduate degrees in both computer science and theology, over 20 years experience as an educator. I'm interested in interfaith dialogue and I practice multiple belonging, and I sometimes talk about that on my alt account
@rantingsteve
I've recently started a transformational life coaching and consulting business, and I'm available for speaking engagements, workshops, webinars, one-on-one and group coaching. It's been off to a slow start, which I guess is to be expected, so I also post (and boost) mutual aid posts. DM me for information on how to transform your life.
I am happily married to three corgis in a trench coat.
To be entirely fair, we love them all. :blob_blowing_kiss:
All I could think about was how that turns into spamming them all, or making a whole new feed that is "just chronically online young ladies/etc. with unnatural hair colors." Maybe have the feed prioritize how high the content is shown based on shared interests with me. :blobcatthinkingsmirk:
Why don't we have this? On here all they need to do is all tag themselves so I can search one #Hashtag. :blobcatsmirk:
The #algorithm on #YouTube has flipped hard right wing for me, a few other people have said the same, please add if you have seen this as well? If this is widespread, it shows how important it is to get normal people back to the #openweb reboot we are all involved in here. ...
It can be hard explane this, as people make the needed change complex, it is not, yes, it’s messy and the are no simple answers. So a first step is composting the #techshit: ...
>They are posting from Mastodon, and seen to be asking if a specific hashtag is a bad substitute for some other tags.
context is : I ask NOT if one hashtag is poor susbtitute for another.
I ask people & community opinion, whether {browsing, using, following, posting} #hashtag on fediverse is a peculiar and obsure substitute for a chatroom.
That's a question about PROs & CONs comparing hashtags to chat channels.
A screenshot of an X post by Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski
) at 2:52 PM EDT on 8/14/25, with 2.6K replies, 1.3K retweets, 5.8K likes, 21 quotes, and 112K views. The post reads: "Trump just said he was 'tremendously honored' to have been named 'Man of the Decade' by the Taliban. I’m not making this up." The image shows a still from a news broadcast with Trump speaking at a podium, with a blurred White House background.
something inside me... perhaps shameful memory... says no male between 15 and 22 should have access to a gun.
maybe any killing implement.
nature designed us to reproduce in those years. it's not just maximum testosterone.
every possible hormone or trick evolution has bred into males tells us to fuck, fight, or die trying. for nearly a decade of our lives.
bad time for dangerous yhoughts.
like,"where does Daddy keep his guns?"
At 15 I was 48 years away from knowing I was autistic. Bad time for me to be packing. Probably for me. I'd like to believe others would have been safe.
You were 15 once. No matter your gender...
Who do you think rules for that decade... hormones... or reason?
Cropped screenshot of a Mastodon post as viewed through the web interface. There is a row of differently-formatted hashtags displayed just below the body of the post. The hashtag row has been highlighted along with the caption "Hashtags neatly at the bottom of a post."
The rise of #stupidindividualism as a common sense path
Part of the shitty mess we’re in comes from the failure of #DIY culture and the rise of #stupidindividualism as the common sense path. #stupidindividualism is completely unscalable in social terms. It fragments, isolates, and exhausts. That isn’t accidental, it’s a classic divide-and-control strategy of the #deathcult. And ...
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Chatsworth Rd: Stalls and Code
A DRAFT story about markets, misfits, and taking back the commons (Tagline: “They came for the avocados. They left with revolution.”) ...
Looking for an affinity group to take the first step #OMN
The #algorithm on #YouTube has flipped hard right wing for me, a few other people have said the same, please add if you have seen this as well? If this is widespread, it shows how important it is to get normal people back to the #openweb reboot we are all involved in here. ...
The #OMN is a simple project
It can be hard explane this, as people make the needed change complex, it is not, yes, it’s messy and the are no simple answers. So a first step is composting the #techshit: ...