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 :)

Profile picture is: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clusius_dodo.jpg

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.

Apparently I have 94GB of cached media attachements on this here mastodon server. I should probably purge some of that.

Okay, I have now drawn three pixel-flowers for #MastoCity, but I have no inspiration for what I should draw as the last two. (I want five in total.)

Requirements:
- Must look like it's a single flower on a single stem.
- Must be believable in five different colors (assuming red,blue,purple,yellow,white - possibly orange instead of one of those)
- Must be something I can plausible draw in 32x32 pixels (this is the hard part, I'm not that good at pixelart)

Related to #3, when @pixelfed reaches v1.0 and feels stable enough, I'm planning on setting up a danish instance and try to grow it.

I'm not sure about naming or instance theme yet, but I'd like to reach the viking (reenactment) community and the witchy/pagan communities that I enjoy following on instagram.

Goals for 2019:

1) Release #MastoCity gardens.
2) Start implementing a modular AP #SocialWeb server, that supports OCap
3) Make preparations to convert Instagram-influencers to PixelFed or other fediverse nodes.

I want to get more danes on the fediverse, somehow.

Any tips on how I might do that?

#danes #denmark #danish

The renowned computer scientist, John from Newman.

Aaargh, stop writing "it's" as the genetive of "it", self! It's "its".

I just drew a pixelart rose in Krita on a 32x32 tile, and I'm very proud of the result!

Yeah!

Does anyone around here remember this thing? I think it made the rounds back in 2011/2012

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If you give someone a Capability, is that then a Universal Resource that they want to Locate or is it a Universal Resource that they want to Identify?

Ugh, I keep bumping into the you-don't-have-time-for-that hammer, when I think of something new I want to do.

I very briefly considered running an open / semi-open mastodon instance, but I really don't have time and spoons to do proper moderation in a serious way.
And unless there's some way to have my cake and eat it too, I should really just not put extra stuff on my plate.