brandontlocke @brandontlocke@mastodon.social

when is chelsea manning gonna get a mastodon

The Al Franken Show Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US House of Representatives https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=810663904&oldid=805982209

Batman Taking On 'Almost Overwhelming' Fake News Reports

Reminder that unlike Twitter, Mastodon instances are supported by users like you.

Find out if your instance has a Patreon or something set up and toss some dosh their way to support your local admins.

A gripping, personal account of the human network that supported Snowden's leak of documentation that detailed the machinery of surveillance in the US.

http://harpers.org/archive/2017/05/snowdens-box/

The piece also hints that Snowden still has part of the story to tell, and may be writing it himself?

it's so bizarre that everyone's judgment of mastodon's success uses the same rubric as twitter's success.

for me, marginalized ppl feeling loved, cared for, and supported in a radical, restorative space is a success and I don't think forbes will ever understand that

Seems like good news: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/09/evidence-based-policy.html

My Technologies of Text students made class memes & I’m pretty sure I don’t need student evals now http://s17tot.ryancordell.org/fieldbook/student-memes/

PEOPLE ON MASTODON: hey, as a practice, we'd like to encourage people to put political toots behind a content warning.
MASTODON USERS: yeah, this is great
YOU: *nodding* okay but why should i. lets discuss it.
EVERYONE ELSE: we'd....like you to? we're asking you?
YOU: yes but whyyyy shouuuld i

don't @ me if you're not givin me a full 500 chars

Given that mastodon nodes *aren't* usually run by a corp with a lot of money, are they more susceptible to shake down by large entities (e.g. the US government) than Twitter?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH

if mastodon makes it into a drake song only then will we have made it

Crime novel parody idea: Dude-tective, a story about a dude bro who becomes a private eye. "He pops his collar and collars his perps."

Mashable: my five terrible sons are running a website without money and the inevitablility of advertising revenue soiling their pure ideological goals is making me bust a nut

ATTN PEOPLE POSTING IMAGES WITH CWs:

You have to tag the image as NSFW or we see that too which kinda defeats the point >.>

hey can someone ask lil b does lil b know about mastodon yet

the four genders