I'm doing this tomorrow, and I am so prepared: all my little numbered stickers stuck to the right bits of my bike, pannier packed with things I might need, cycling clothes laid out on the bed so I can grab them in the morning. Now to begin the process of completely shitting myself and wishing I had never signed up to do something even vaguely outside my comfort zone. https://www.ridelondon.co.uk/our-rides/ridelondon-essex-60
@w7voa the Prime Miniature is now standing outside Number Ten and just announced a general election for 2024-07-04. The amusing thing is that someone down the street is playing the song “Things Can Only Get Better” (used as Labour’s victory anthem from 1997) while he is talking
@ianbetteridge I’m currently on holiday, and took a couple of snaps yesterday for your enjoyment. Looks like Mushroom is no more, though. We did look. (We wandered around Hockley and the Lace Market area)
Well, I didn’t see the magic space lights but I did reacquaint myself with nighttime cycling, and I discovered the joy of drinking a midnight beer in a dark East London park, in the company of others all doing the same while staring at the sky ❤️
@girlonthenet I arrived in London (I’ve lived in Thailand for twenty years, and have not been to the UK in a decade) on Friday. The first I saw about the aurora was in the morning when I saw everyone had been posting photos. I was even awake and outside when it was supposedly going on! But I’m going to blame the bitter and the 13-hour flight, as to why I didn’t see anything
So I just had a transphobe try to piggy-back off a recent popular post I made, presumably to gain reach. i have a decent following here on fedi, but am a micro instance. They too were a micro instance. By default, people on micro instances are not easily discoverable other than by interaction, so if you have a following on one, it’s generally because you’ve built it “organically”, as it were.
They presumably thought that by posting transphobic rage bait in response to me, they could get me to reply, and my reply would federate to my followers, and then they’’d be seen.
Instead I just instantly defederated their server with no response.
They are howling into the void, and nobody is there to hear.
This is not Twitter. Just because someone replies to your thread doesn’t mean the rest of the word will see it. This is the achillies heal of bigots here. Most big instances will moderate them into oblivion, so they start micro instances, but unless people actually like what you’re saying, and interact, you simply won’t federate.
And they won’t even know I made this post now. LMAO! LOL!