g z thompson @gzthompson@social.targaryen.house

I just registered quid.fit to make an instance for Latin-tooting Mastonauts. If I manage my time responsibly, I won't be able to actually set it up for another month. Does anybody else want to get involved?

The officer who shot Charles Kinsey (who was helping an autistic man out of the middle of the street) has finally been charged with a crime, attempted manslaughter.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/charleskinsey-shooting-jonathan-aledda-cop-who-shot-charles-kinsey-charged-with-attempted-manslaughter-9272627

I've been following the case for about a year now, nice to see charges finally come down.

on a daily basis i boil water for tea and then forget to brew the tea

https://social.targaryen.house/media/In-ORjzNSA2aLIeEoQs

The only way Mastodon could fail is if it becomes a niche refuge for artists, bohemians, outcasts, and dreamers, and the vast bulk of boring people stay on Twitter. Oh wait

http://lauragonzalez.com/TC/BUTLER_gender_trouble.pdf

https://social.targaryen.house/media/ONTjsNiInfd9DfnYvbE

Citation.needed: a mastodon instance where your toot must be peer-reviewed and include citations to prior work to show you've done your research and that you're not just spouting off an uninformed opinion

Read "I hate the internet" by Jarrett Kobek last night. A quick, highly stylized read with some great passages.

On the "Arab Spring":
"Social protests staged in countries thousands of miles away, on a different continent, were covered as advertisements for multinational corporations headquartered around and near San Francisco."

https://social.targaryen.house/media/RB2F2Gyr01SIf-Ojanc

"I hate the internet" by Jarrett Kobek on Black Twitter:
"The users of Black Twitter were supplying White people with effortless access to a body of language and thought which could be harvested and transformed into content on websites owned by White people.
The managers of these websites were very interested in demonstrating a fluency with Black culture but had little-to-no interest in hiring the people who lived it."

https://social.targaryen.house/media/olX8PILQEzsyOrWr9u8

Can we stop giving hipsters programming jobs please

Here's the latest update to the silly map.

I still need to figuure out something for "here be gnus" and I'd like to add maybe a handful of important villages (instances with 500-999 users) beyond the witches and awoo (though actually it looks like witches.town should actually be a town now)

Anyway any suggestions for village instances would be appreciated.

http://tootplanet.space/media/LXAxNZOu4zYiFgYlLvU

I've written 'toot', a very simple command-line utility to allow Mastodon posts to be sent from the command-line: https://www.npmjs.com/package/toot

The N + 7 constraint, invented by Jean Lescure, consists in replacing every noun (proper excluded) in a given text with the seventh following noun in a dictionary of your choice. It is usually performed on pre-existing works, often famous ones—a paragraph of Proust’s—in which case it serves as a fine example of “analytical Oulipism,” ie, a constraint used not to structure a new work, but better to understand the structure of an old one.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_beha