@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

moira

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

She/her :blobcatheartlesbian: ex-software dev now writing words for money, fun, and/or survival. I like new people but may be too busy to follow back.

Republicans have campaigned on killing me and mine my whole life, so "Democrats are just as bad" crap gets a fuck off and an unfollow.

I write long-form on my Federated blog at @solarbird. If you want to support me or this instance, have my patreon: http://patreon.com/solarbird

https://justmytoots.com/@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

moira, to mastodon

here, i think this is about right

(original via @nancycomics )

moira, (edited ) to HashtagGames

If you're not aware, Mastodon 4.2 will directly break relay.fedi.buzz, the relay many small instances like mine use to pull in posts from other instances based on hashtags used.

This is a massive degradation of small instance ability to participate in many hashtag-based social activities like and so on.

I've left many comments about this starting here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23989#issuecomment-1670115412

They're trying to solve a real problem but they're absolutely breaking us by doing it this way.

eta: Beta release notes now mention they're breaking fedi.buzz.

eta2: they locked the ticket down and so are no longer taking comments.

eta3: fedi.buzz has reportedly worked around it for now

moira, to USpolitics

HEY, LEFTIES. LISTEN UP.

Guy I knew had a phrase, "can't stand prosperity." It refers to people who can't take good news, who have to turn it into bad news.

That's a lot of you. STOP IT.

See link. Is this a complete victory? No. Is it a step? Yes.

The response of a lot of lefties is "that's not perfect so it's shit, and you're shit for being happy about it." Not those exact words, but close, and it's exactly the attitude.

If that's not what you mean you react that way, then here's the correct response:

"Fuck yeah! Now let's make them do [the next step]."

Because "that's shit and you're wrong for being happy?" THAT'S NOT ANALYSIS, THAT'S SELF-SABOTAGE AND AIDING THE ENEMY.

STOP.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111427593887443105

moira, to mastodon

Hey, users and thinking about Threads!

1: Users:

A: You can limit who can send you DMs/PMs! You can also limit notifications!

B: You can also block a site entirely for yourself.

See attached pics for how.

2: Instance administrators:

If you don't want to block threads.net entirely, consider these options for your userbase's safety:

A: Between "Full federation" and "Suspend" there is LIMIT, which hides content from an instance unless a user either follows the user posting it, or searches for it.

B: There is also "Reject media," which means you never cache a remote site's attachments. This de facto makes all such content sensitive ("unavailable"), requiring an additional click to view.

Content policies on our threads.net domain block showing what "Limit" and "Reject media" look like in the UI. Individual users can still follow and talk with users from threads.net, but all threads.net content will be hidden from anyone not choosing specifically to follow those same users.
The profile of Instagram head Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) as seen from Mastodon's web interface, with the "more" (three vertical dots) button pressed to bring down a menu which includes "Block domain threads.net" at the bottom. Select that to block the entire domain.

moira, to random

I just realised that @TexasObserver outlasted Tucker Carlson xD

Anyway you did a great job of saving them from bankruptcy, now's the time to sustain so they can keep going and not have to do that shit again.

Saddle up! :D

https://texasobserver.social/users/gabrielarana/statuses/110255065302333341

eta pls boost ty ^_^

moira, to random

Meanwhile, from Hard Drive, gamers doing the gods' work:

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/heartwarming-players-camp-outside-spawn-to-keep-henry-kissinger-from-coming-back/

#kissinger #dead

moira, (edited ) to random

omg assholocene 😹

"MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR

"assholocene: the current era of human history, defined by the ubiquity of assholes"

eta: there are others, that's just one of the nominees ^_^

@grammargirl
https://zirk.us/@grammargirl/111706128379340553

moira, (edited ) to random

Hey, - anybody else had search stop indexing? This is a very-small-user-count instance and I don't use search much and I've just noticed that new results haven't been being indexed in since October 28th.

Elasticsearch is happy and running fine. But I am seeing this in sidekiq:

Chewy::ImportFailed: Import failed for TagsIndex with: Index errors: `{"type"=>"mapper_parsing_exception", "reason"=>"failed to parse field [last_status_at] of type [date] in document with

Not sure where to look for why, really. I mean, it's version 7, which is the supported version. Ideas?

ETA: ANSWERED! Check here:

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/111433026207991484

moira, to Facebook

I just saw a post that made me realise the importance of something I should’ve realised months ago:

Unlike on the birdsite, or , you don’t have to make your posts performative in order to trick an algorithm into showing them to your own followers.

That’ll happen every time, since it’s just chronological. You don’t have to write for advertisers or engagement optimisation or gods know what else just to have your toots be shown to your own friends.

You can just write whatever the hell you want and that will happen every time.

It’s not just the ads or the owner’s political agenda that’s different.

It’s that you don’t have to perform for the machine.

moira, to climate

I've said this before but I don't say it enough, so JOURNALISTS IN PARTICULAR, LISTEN UP:

If you are writing for Americans about and/or ?

USE FAHRENHEIT.

STOP USING C. STOP IT. USE F.

If you say "1.5 degrees celsius" most will hear one of two things:

A: 1.5°F, which they will further reduce to "nothing," because you can't really feel it. "A degree or two" means nothing.

B: ZERO, because they hear "small number I don't understand."

USE. FAHRENHEIT. AT. AMERICANS.

For real. "2 degrees (C)" means "basically nothing" but "4 degrees (F)" is "huh." It's something Americans know they can feel. Americans know the difference between 68F and 72F.

So I beg you:

Stop. Using. C. At. Americans.

Use. Fahrenheit.

moira, (edited ) to Seattle

Good news everyone!

No, actually, good news! Julie Wise is bouncing the conspiracy theorist by something around 70 points in the first ballot dump.

yeah, I said 70 points. that's not her vote percentage; that's even higher. 70 points is the spread. xD

https://press.coop/@seattletimes/111372999937514875

KydiaMusic, to random
@KydiaMusic@mastodon.social avatar

Nazis killed ppl with disabilities.
So I get annoyed at all the hypocrites who put “Woke AF” or “Antifascist” or “ally” in their bio, but then can’t be bothered to do the bare minimum on here by labeling images with AltText for those with vision impairments.
If you struggle to come up with AltText, you can use the Alt4Me hashtag; there are many ppl on here who will write it for you. Then you just edit your toot and copy-paste it into the text box after hitting “edit” on the image.

moira,

@KydiaMusic Also possibly helpful:

If you want to do alt-text but hate people telling you when you forget, there is a bot that will do so immediately:

@alt_text

(also https://mastodon.social/ - same bot different format.)

moira, to wordpress

oh wow okay this is a huge bug they're fixing in activitypub for wordpress and it's pretty likely it's also the cause of my problems with federation stopping working every so often:

Fix sending posts to at most ten instances
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/588

I have blog followers from more than 10 different instances on the first page of my blog's follower list, so this is definitely hitting me. And if unfollowing and re-following puts my instance back into the list in the first ten, that would explain why that works.

They're dropping the new version early this week. Watch for this one, it's very important!

moira, to random

EVERYONE BE VERY SERIOUS, THEIR VISION IS BASED ON SLAPSTICK.

moira, to art

f'reals

moira, (edited ) to twitter

Aaaaand we're off again!

Hello to the new wave of and please enjoy a few tips for getting started!

1: There's no algorithm to fill your Home feed for you. You must explore.

2: What are the feeds?

"Home" is who and what you explicitly follow

"This server" is everyone on your instance

"Other servers" is everyone followed by anyone on your instance.

3: are important here, and can be followed. To do so, search for one, then click the "add" icon in the search results bar.

4: Follow (and unfollow) with abandon! Follow people who boost a lot, that helps you find stuff. But you can also follow people and choose not to see their boosts, see first photo.

Welcome, and good hunting! 🧵:

moira, to mst3k

the whole way this fundraiser for season 14 has gone makes a lot more sense after the last update sent out

there was all this stuff they couldn't do because of the writer and actor strikes. couldn't write stuff, couldn't have hosts doing anything even longer.

it's hard to have hype when most of the people who would do the things can't do the things because the studios were being complete dicks

anyway they're trying to play catch-up here at the very end with this telethon/marathon so if season 14 sounds good to you now's the time

https://showmaker.mst3k.com/makeseason14

moira, to twitter

This morning's Fascism Watch is short, starting with Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) fully functioning as a fascist propaganda fountain, with floods of paid "verified" users posting AI-generated anti-Semitic memes and videos.

Also, Russian propagandists are praising Elon Musk, and his defence of Putin, Elon declaring him not a "bad guy" despite taking dictatorial control, making LGBT people illegal, legalising domestic violence, assassinating most of his political opponents and imprisoning the rest, and so on. Elon thinks he's just doing what's right for his country.

This is Elon's idea of what's right for a country. Take notes.

All this and more:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/12/16/okay-lets-go-fascism-watch-for-16-december-2023-the-x-twitter-update/

moira, to random

vampire trivia: the reason mirrors and film - black and white film traditionally - don't interact is because silver, the old basis of both mirrors and silver-nitrate film, is a pure metal, semi-holy, and refuses to interact with the evil of vampirism.

moira, to random

oh shit

From: @dangoodin
https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/111608342967609994

moira, to twitter

In a very special Watch, we learn that Elon Musk's twitter is literally paying fascists and other alt-right activists thousands to tens of thousands of dollars to be active on Twitter.

This is a fact. They're posting their incomes. It is not in dispute.

If you're active on Twitter too, that means you're making money for Twitter, and therefore, helping him directly fund the alt-right, helping funnel tens of thousands of dollars to people like professional misogynist and accused rapist and sex trafficker Andrew Tate, who actively recruits young boys into misogyny. You're also directly funding fascist propagandists and anti-trans activists.

That's you, if you're active on Twitter. WALK AWAY. NOW.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/07/14/fascism-watch-special-edition-elon-musk-doesnt-just-recruit-fascists-to-twitter-he-pays-them/

moira, to USpolitics

My next fascism watch is going to include this article and add a little discussion, but I think it was under-read and under-discussed when it came out so I wanted to give it a standalone boost.

It's about how Trump is working to disrupt and dispute the 2024 election, starting by getting Republican states to exit ERIC, the voter-registration comparison system that's been in use for many years, in favour of EagleAI, a system basically designed to create many false reports of duplicates. The intent is to create room for false claims of mass voter fraud to be believed as plausible as he contests the outcome, should he lose.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-election-plans-corrupt-voter-registration-eric-eagleai-1234920083/

moira, to politics

I've said repeatedly that no one will ever give up nuclear weapons again after Ukraine - and that salvaging any hope of nuclear proliferation control was one of the many reasons Russia needs to lose this war.

Putin knows this, of course, but obviously doesn't care. Now they (and China) have functionally ended sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, and it strikes me as rather unlikely they'd tolerate a new such regime against any other dictatorial state trying to insure its longevity through nuclear weapons.

https://www.38north.org/2024/04/after-russias-veto-the-future-of-the-sanctions-regime-against-north-korea/

moira, to MountainBiking

RELEASE CANDIDATE 2 of the Greater Bike Connector Map, built to link the Seattle and 2 Line Eastside Rail maps. Since we haven’t had one and nobody else is going to connect the dots, I decided I would.

Printed at 300dpi, the map is 24″x10.4″ or 608x264mm.

NEW IN RC2:

  • Added note "very difficult" to part of Tolt Pipeline Trail.

  • Added steepness indicators on Goat Trail Road/NE 178th.

  • Added steepness indicator on short path from Burke-Gilman to 61st Ave NE.

CONTRIBUTORS:

  • Erik H on Facebook (Bothell)

  • @sip (Shoreline)

  • @MHowell (Commentary, Tolt Pipline Trail)

Corrections desired.

moira, to cycling

I decided it was kind of rude to cut off discovery park so I widened the workspace to put it back on

and that also gave me the space to add back the west seattle bridge detail so I did that too

and a little cleanup why not

anyway it's 722x656mm or roughly 28.5"x26" now at intended print resolution (300 dpi because that's a standard here)

I really think and hope I'm done with this version, now that I know this thing has legs I'm kinda like "whelp now time to do it over again with proper tools" so that maintenance will be easier and alignment won't be such a bear and a half

project:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap

megamap:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/blob/main/MEGAMAP%201%20-%20May%202024.jpg

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