Zatnosk @zatnosk@manowar.social

"Make [X] Great Again" is fascist rhetoric.

It implies that there was a Golden Age where [X] was Good, and that "We" should return to that age.

It's a slogan designed to evoke the "Myth of National Rebirth"(1) that is central to Fascism, while still being vague enough that any disagreement can be dismissed as "Against [X]".

It's a dogwhistle(2).

If you use it, you're either ignorant, naive or a fascist.

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This is me doing re- #introductions

Hello! I'm a programmer and a (new-ish) parent, I've been running this personal instance since time immemorial.

I talk mostly about tech, but I try to branch out into artsy stuff on my secondary account: @zatnosk

From time to time I get #crazyidea|s, and some of those ideas have been channeled into my #MastoGram and #MastoCity projects.

I do my best to be kind and understanding, and I'm not afraid of some emotional labor for friends :)

When I think of a future with Open Social Media, I imagine three pillars.

1) Microblogging (ActivityPub), for sharing thoughts with strangers, ephemeral community building, and broad+global reach.

2) Forum / Stable Community (no good solution yet, AFAIK), for discussing, planning, buying/selling locally. All within a distinct group of people, membership of which can be managed.

3) Peer2Peer (Scuttlebutt?), for talking directly to friends, family, nearby people, and easily sharing files.

Programming interfaces suck, why can't I meaningfully build software with a touchscreen?

Gaming is pronounced GAM-ing. It's the activity of Genetically Altering Mangos. It's participants enjoy fiddling with fruit and changing the size and shape of mangos.

A majority of GAMers prefer their mangos to be either triangular or square. While they have many grievous arguments, both groups unite in hating anyone they believe smuggle round mangos (of any size) beneath their clothes.

Oh nice, noticed the first change in #tusky5beta:
Like and boost counts under the opened toot. That's nice. 👍

tfw you're in bed, you want to do something, and then you just get up and do it!

What a rare and powerful feeling of unimaginable and seldom ocurring powerfulness.

Is it ill-advised to help people who ask questions, when I'm very sick with the flu?

Yes. Achievement unlocked! Someone replied "big mood" to a post of mine.

I'm a real millennial now, y'all comrades!

A Mastodon Garbage Collector.

Sometimes I feel like I'm poisoning other people's threads by replying nonsense.

I keep wondering if I should setup a script that autodeleted any (public) post that didn't have hashtags, replies, likes or boosts.

I feel useless.

But not in a self-deprecating way, just as a mood.

I feel like being absolutely useless right now.

A chair it never hurts to sit in.

Back pain after fighting monsters? No problem.
Neck pains from praying to the gods for new spells each morning after sleeping on cold stone dungeon floors? No problem.
Took an arrow to the butt? No problem.

I would like to just not be sick, please

Årh, mariekiks med smør og pålægschokolade. Max nostalgimad.

#CrazyIdea

I kinda want to figure out my dreamteam of pokemon and commission several art pieces:
One of me and the whole team, and one each of me and a single pokemon out. And then use the team picture as profile background and the others as avatars.

Sadly, I can't afford to pay decently for such artwork.

(Anyone is more than welcome to copy this idea)

LB: https://deadinsi.de/@cute/101586180180689475

Would it be okay to write "pale scandinavian" instead of "white", or is that just more internalized racism? I'm genuinely curious.
I feel like "white" has a lot of american cultural annotations, that I don't identify with at all.

... I meant to include the link.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/858883/run-php-task-asynchronously#858924