esther

@esther@strangeobject.space

:antifa: :Blobhaj_Witch: #queer #goth lady, lots of #tattoos, some custom body parts, #neuroSpicy, #photography, #art, #writing, #witch, former #tech worker, #psychology student, #antiFascism, #antiCapitalism

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esther, (edited ) to random

Did you know? Mastodon offers RSS feeds for people's public posts. So if you want to read someones public stuff but maybe your server can't see the other person's profile or maybe you don't want all the communism you're reading to be visibly linked to your main account where your cop parents could see it or whatever, just drop the profile link into an RSS feed reader.

It's also useful for following announcements that might otherwise get lost in your timeline. I for example use it to stay updated on @ MastodonEngineering.

And BTW: content warnings will become the main headline in this context

esther, to random

A little nice-to-have advice:

If your budget allows for it, over-provision your servers by quite a bit. On the list of not-entirely-necessary-but-nice things I would put this pretty high up.

With many instances running on VMs, the compute power you have available varies, sometimes a lot, and the load Mastodon caused is also not at all constant. If low power and high load come together, you'll be happy about that headroom.

It's also really nice for maintenance. If your instance is almost at capacity under normal load, doing stuff like database dumps, search index rebuilds, or installing new Mastodon versions will take significantly longer and impact your member's user experience noticeably.

timberwraith, to random
@timberwraith@mastodon.social avatar

A few weeks ago, an ex-boyfriend was expounding upon his new favorite toy: a souped up handgun that he has been taking to a firing range where he lives in Texas.

I replied with a story of my own discomfort with guns and a rejection of the joy of using guns that I had as a teenager.

I felt kind of bad because I think my reply annoyed and alienated him. I didn't hear back from him.

Having read of several more shootings this week, I have lost that sense of feeling bad over my reply to him.

esther,

@timberwraith I thought like this too for a long time, and I still struggle with diverging from that belief, but hearing anarchist and especially Black voices talk about community defence made me realise it's far more complicated.

james, to random

How do you tell if it's Autumn? Your local trans masc has switched from baseball caps to beanies.

esther,

@james @pupether 🫡📷

tante, to random
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

Giving Fairphone shit because while trying to build a long-term viable, sustainable and socially and economically fairer device they also think about the people in the real fucking world who are supposed to use them and offer them the software most of them rely on (like Google Apps) is more toxic purism than I can stand.

People who are willing to suffer in their life by using something different, something slightly incompatible to what the rest of the world uses already do install roms and run whatever on their machines.

Getting real actual people to buy a phone that's not built to be thrown away in a year of two, that highlights the values of sustainability is a huge win.

And making the medicine ("your phone might not be as fancy as your peers' phones") taste sweeter ("for 8 years you have access to all the applications you need for your life to function within a digital society") is just a smart move.

esther,

@tante and often, especially for these low-stakes tasks like organizing a picnic or whatever, if not using corporate-controlled tools is important enough to put in some effort, a non-tech solution might have a lower barrier for most people after all. “Give this person a call or email them, they’ll take care of it” is remarkably accessible and flexible

queerde, to random German
@queerde@mastodon.social avatar

Miley Cyrus war schon in jungen Jahren ein Arbeitstier.
https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=46810

esther,

@queerde sehr seltsames Framing Kinderarbeit so unkritisch als “nicht faul sein” darzustellen

esther, to random

Not a good day to be a fedi admin/mod :Blobhaj_Shock:​

james, to random

Hello, my name is James and I approve this message.

https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/110977770141356415

https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/anarchonina-and-oliphant-social

I am a member of the aforementioned "fedimins" discord and act as a moderator there. So, whilst not directly involved in the incident I am both informed and actively supporting the people mentioned who were harmed.

esther,

As the other admin of strangeobject.space, I also stand behind this.

MayaMitKind, to random German
@MayaMitKind@chaos.social avatar

Heute ist so ein Tag wo ich mich beim Aufwachen auf die Seite drehe und spüre wie sich dabei meine Brüste weich aneinander drücken und auch einfach wirklich sehr hübsch aussehen.

Dachte das solltet ihr wissen. 😇 Guten Morgen!

esther,

@MayaMitKind Guten Morgen, Maya’s Brüste 💜

afilina, to random
@afilina@phpc.social avatar

Is it possible that some people come up with overly complex architectures because they're worried that showing something too simple will cause others to question their worth? It's a theory I have but not sure how to test, so I'm just following the logic.

esther,

@afilina Definitely seen this in action many times and I had to defend my own simple designs countless times. It's an uphill battle

esther, to trans

I wrote something I usually don't: a product review

It's about the fucking best vibrator for people who have had a vaginoplasty. (according to me)

https://www.selfawaresoup.com/notes/2023/08/30/funfactory-volta/

esther,

Trans people's sex lives get so rarely talked about openly. It feels like a huge taboo thing. As if we're not allowed to have an active sexuality at all.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
@Adam_Cadmon1@mastodon.online avatar

I get a very weird vibe from a lot of 80s pop songs. Like there's some esoteric shit being discussed and disguised.

esther,

@Adam_Cadmon1 when in doubt, during the 80s it's cocaine

esther, (edited ) to random

When you get a link to someone's personal website, do you explore it further than just the page you were sent to? (Assuming you follow the link at all)

Please elaborate if you like.

esther,

If you'd like to take a gander :Blobhaj_Read_MD:​ https://www.selfawaresoup.com

em, to random
@em@babka.social avatar

i don't mean to brag but i'm, uhhh, pretty good at facilitating a retro IfYouKnowWhatIMean

esther,

@em “I’m more of a Scrum Switch myself”

esther, to random

When archiving is a crime, then that's all the more reason to do it.

esther, to random

A lot of computer enthusiasts really need to understand and accept that computing and the internet as they actually materialized in our world (as opposed to their idealized mythology), and also to large extents free/open-source software, are nowhere near the universally liberating forced they like to see them as, but have capitalist, conservative, and reactionary politics embedded in them.

That’s not to say there isn’t anything good or useful about them, but the good parts often need to be deliberately pried apart from the context they appeared in and nurtured using very different politics.

They also need to be critically examined and rejected if they turn out to be harmful, rather than accepted as neutral or even inevitable.

esther,

@doc1429 computing systems have a tendency to reproduce existing power structures, to codify them in software and to justify unjust processes by separating them from human actors. They often help systems of power resist change, conservative in the very literal sense of the word

esther,

@doc1429 a lot of open source software is maintained by major corporations (Google, Amazon, Apple) and they don't do this out of the goodness other hearts but to further their interests. They also often rely on the unpaid labor of smaller maintainers which reproduces systems of worker exploitation.

A good example are Google's and Apple's respective browser engines, Blink and Webkit, two of the most used pieces of open-source software, and both are built with business interests in mind (e.g. DRM technology, or not supporting features that would make native apps less necessary), and not with the wish to make the best possible browser engines.

Jaqspur, to random
@Jaqspur@jorts.horse avatar

much to think about

esther,

@Jaqspur cc @welshpixie

girlonthenet, to random
@girlonthenet@mastodon.social avatar

It's extremely rare in my line of work that I come across something genuinely new to me but... yeah... THIS is new to me. https://laphwing.com/en-gb/products/laphwing-benedetta-male-masturbator-penis-massager

esther,

@girlonthenet I can't imagine how this would feel but it does look like it could be fun

esther, to photography

I wrote a little thing about smartphone photography and why it just doesn't work well for me.

https://www.selfawaresoup.com/notes/2023/08/29/phone-photography/

esther,

@chris_radcliff sometimes if there’s a lot of specific scenes and perspectives I want to remind myself of but usually my visual memory is quite good so I don’t rely on that aid much.

More often though I snap a pretyy random picture just to get the GPS coordinates in a place I can easily find again.

shippychaos, to random
@shippychaos@homo.promo avatar

the 8” height difference between us is never more obvious than when we are packing for a trip and my partner can fit 22 whole outfits into the same amount of space it takes me to fit 3 pairs of shorts and 5 t shirts

esther,

@shippychaos haha, not in a place like Berlin. I don’t even want to know what the ground is coated with

umpi, to random

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    esther,

    @umpi truly cursed. Thanks for that image being in my head forever

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