King Midas, from our universe, who didn't think it through, and died. Queen Midas, from their universe, who realized her mistake immediately, and set about solving the problem.
Faraday mitts that let her handle objects. Hyper-amorphous meals that resisted transfiguration. Gold-threaded fabrics that fooled her powers enough to stay comfortable.
Her life was difficult, but her treasury always had funds, and her subjects were always happy.
The soil she was buried in still shines.
youaretearingmeap.art
@acw relevant to your interests:
mom: hey son I joined this new Mastodon thing
me: oh shit mom, I coulda helped you find a server, which one did you choose?
mom: well I liked the privacy policy on satanic.bikerladi.es but then communist.blaze.party had the shortest ping latency so
Scuttlebutt, a truly decentralized, peer-to-peer, secure social network: https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html
wooaah give it a read! kind of technical, highly fascinating. as long as we're having meta social network discourse here \o/
Greatest things about traveling by train:
• No delays or layovers
• I sit where I want
• Plenty of legroom
• Nobody cares what I bring
• Nobody cares where I go
• Everyone's quiet
• Free wifi
• I can actually see outside
• And...
What else did I miss?
I was discussing autonomous vehicles with a Frenchman. Summing it up by: The Turing test for autonomous vehicles is to be able to cross the place de l'étoile (Paris) quickly & safely.
Mastodon: *paints beautiful wall mural*
Twitter: Who's gonna buy that? You can't even transport it?
Mastodon: *does an elaborate interpretive dance in front of the mural*
Twitter: Wait, is that part of the art?
Mastodon: *group meditation chanting "awooo"*
Twitter: Ok but how do you monetize?
Mastodon: *stretch*
Twitter: ...?
Mastodon: *a thousand voices sing a hymn to diversity as a million weirdos dance*
Twitter: We're, uh... we're going home now...
Mastodon: *builds space ship*
Toot in your native tongue, please. Share your culture with the world.
Pouez dans votre langue naturelle, s'elle vous plait. Partagez votre culture avec le monde.
= MASTODON =
WHAT THEY EXPECTED: a VC backed startup intending to destroy twitter
WHAT THEY GOT: a bunch of cyberpunk kids hanging out behind the mall
"Just in 48 hours,the free, open-source Twitter clone network has grown by 73 percent" Show more
kɜ:ʳ 
@chaotic_signals Millenials Are Pinging, Tooting, and Awooing and It's Killing The Economy
is there a weird mastodon?
Here's a thing that makes Mastodon instances work less well than they could...
when you visit an instance, all the front pages look the same.
"About this instance" is a TINY little link under the sign-up form. This is crazy.
Instances should LEAD with a community description, not bury it.
That's like a newsgroup leading with the OS it used to run the newsgroup rather than saying: "This is a Kenny G community"
@PorFavorDama @pseudomichael
Bump this
Radio Ahlee - Static
https://youtu.be/7kvxqnv36mc
William Shatner could not find me.
The nights are safe once again.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
1) pyrokinesis
2) bioluminescence
3) omnipresence
4) eyebeams
5) pine scent
6) robot arm
7) gills
u can 🎺 if u want to
u can leave your 🐦 behind
cuz ur 🐦 dont 🎺
an if they dont 🎺
well theyre no friends of mine
