green heart except platonic @troodon@vulpine.club

"Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you. - Emily McDowell

- friendships made and maintained
- cheesy jokes boosted
- cheesy jokes posted
- worthwhile conversations had
- stress levels associated with reading home timeline and notifications
- pleasure derived from reading home timeline and notifications
- furries petted
- pets received
- lessons learned from marginalized people
- validation received
- validation given
- egg

My #kickstarter is only £170 from being able to publish on non-Amazon platforms! If you're able and would like to, I'd really appreciate it if you'd back it! Only have 10 days to make up the difference.

It's a librarians-and-necromancy fantasy novel with small town charm in a city of the dead.

Please do take a look! Support at any level is really helpful.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/381351683/books-and-bone-a-fantasy-novel/

I spotted this while I was out this morning and I demand to know which one of y'all's responsible

Some see a label maker, I see a fascist fighting sticker machine.

If you ever think you were born too late to make great discoveries—remember that it wasn’t until the 1980s that we discovered that the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid.

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Unless if you're personally familiar with AND trust someone who is posting a "missing person" flier to social media, or it's being posted by an organization that you trust, DO NOT REBLOG IT. Stalkers can use fake "missing person" fliers to dupe strangers into feeding the stalker constant updates on the victim's whereabouts.

Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

An FYI, Payless is closing ALL their stores after an private equity firm saddled them with more debt than could be paid (same thing happened to Toys R Us).

So if you were looking for inexpensive shoes, now is the time to do it I guess.

Pour one out for the retail crowd.

A couple things I saw and thought "Mastodon will love this":

- Alias, a 3D-printed "parasite" that sits on top of your Amazon Echo or Google Home, feeding white noise into its mic until you say the wake word: http://bjoernkarmann.dk/project_alias

- The adminbook, a wonderfully ugly design for the ideal sysadmin notebook: https://m.habr.com/en/post/437912/

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Hey, that's not a hoard of gold, that's just a gold-colored bean bag! #pixelart #mastoart #dragons

fully automated gay space gecko communism

i'm vaguely looking at Talkspace or similar therapy-via-text options; does anyone have experiences with these things?

bonus points if you're (polyam / trans) and had issues relating to that to talk about with them and had positive outcomes!

https://twitter.com/sadiemcshadie/status/1096516453589647361

So, just as a heads up, if you sell off etsy keep an eye on your account? Looks like it effects sellers more than buyers, but if you have an account should probably double check your card regardless.

Also tagging @adeptomega cause I know you have an account, cause I bought something from ya the other day :P

Appreciate your mods regularly

because even on a small scale, being a mod is stressful

The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were offered $100,000 on the condition that the donation "will not be used to support transgender girls".

They sent the money back, held a fundraising campaign, and raised $300,000. #ForEVERYGirl

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-girl-scouts-transgender-20150703-story.html

Lost my job, have to pay the farm mortgage, inventory clearance 16 Feb: Four bracelets, $15 each postpaid in the USA, two stainless steel, one with embedded anodized aluminum, one anod, one brass, take $5 off for two or more paypal.me/tarlimanjoppos #jewelry #maille #chainmail #art #mastoart

Aaaaaaaaaaaa, SatW is being adorkable again.

https://satwcomic.com/needy-dragon