io @io@rva.party

Very cool to wake up to a message from a new instance being set up for residents of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - I love the idea of hyperlocal fediverse instances, hope to see more as the years go by

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this is not a real poster.
(I photoshopped it).
But it should be. #iww

We now have a new instance header for rva.party thanks to @Mous! He's open for commissions if you want an instance header as cool as ours. You can also get neat stuff from his store at https://nngenderfluid.squarespace.com/

This little instance has been around for four months now! Y'all are the best!

Spare $5 for the cause? Please consider helping my civic #hackerspace and #makerspace keep our doors open to the public.

Help us keep exchange of knowledge free-flowing (we don't charge admission fees for our workshops)!

#crowdfund : https://www.gofundme.com/HelpLabB

mastodon is like

Yesterday we did something cool and low-effort at #hackerspace, called "Tauschrausch" – everybody brings the project parts (Arduinos, chips, speakers, motors, …) they always wanted to use but never did, and offer them to others. Shop around for cool stuff and get rid of your old parts. Make some waffles/popcorn/drinks, and you have a really enjoyable evening.

@io Yes, makerspaces are also hugely important and largely overlooked by the left! As is the #maker movement itself (collaborative, open-source, decentralized engineering). So many times when someone tells me people just wouldn't work under anarchism I just tell them to tour a #makerspace and watch all the activity for a bit

Leftists need to get behind and spread the word about the cooperative movement/solidarity economy/whatever else they're calling it these days. Worker's coops, community land trusts, etc

In particular because my hyperconservative dad just spent 10 minutes gushing about his utility coop, and when jokingly asked whether that's socialism just brushed it off. Even though, yeah, that's literally #socialism

https://youtu.be/jh5buGkQVQI

capitalists unfollow me pls its only gonna get worse

If you're thinking about making a new instance, keep in mind that there are plenty of instances full of alt-right sadboys. But here, you can do something about them by blocking those instances from yours.

I have a list that I keep regularly updated, and it documents a lot of examples of the kinds of things people and admins say on an instance, and I deconstruct common bigoted dogwhistles and conspiracy theories!

https://github.com/dzuk-mutant/blockchain/blob/master/list/list.md

retoot to protect mastodon from terfs

Lastest Space Nerds in Space development video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwmLa1IOmJg

If someone is being nasty on Mastodon, you don’t have to try to get justice from drawing attention to their nastiness and hoping enough people will be outraged enough to block and report them so that something happens.

Report them. Their moderator will actually see your actual report and will actually do something about it. I know it’s weird to think that could do something, but it does here.