nicole @nicole@myna.social

Ah, writers of the 18th century 📜 Why would you simply say 'brothel' when you could say 'seminary for initiating youth in the mysteries of the Paphian Queen' ... ?

(Public Advertiser, 2 Aug 1791)

#history #18thcentury #histsex #histodons

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

Since Mastodon saw its initial popularity circa 2017, I've noticed that most users and those reporting on it either don't think about the Fediverse as anything more than Mastodon, or treat its history as beginning with Eugen Rochko and the beginning of Mastodon. In fact, Mastodon is the latest in a long line of federated social networks going at least back to Identi.ca, and though I wasn't around for all of it, I find this history pretty interesting. (Thread; boosts welcome!)

A thread on transphobia.

I don't get what it's like to be trans. I am straight, white, cisgender. Upper middle class.

For a long time, I didn't say much in public. Because being trans was so foreign to me. It made me feel uncomfortable. I didn't want to speak for someone else. But over the last year I realized that had to change.

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Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

“for sheer iron-willed capriciousness and morb­id narcissism, nothing comes close to Stanford”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n23/james-lasdun/stop-all-the-cocks

I JUST WANT TO HACK 32BIT DOS GAMES IS THAT SO WRONG

Things are extremely scary over on the birdsite, and I don't pretend to have all the answers. But I do know that calling for Apple and Google to outright ban apps used by millions of people for all kinds of important things is ... playing with fire and not in line with global human rights. Pushing for moderate at that level of the stack is not going to lead to more safety for LGBTQ+ people or other marginalized folks. It's gonna get us censored & silenced. Sending love to my ppl. I get it

Some of you may or may not know that I also write #interactivefiction particularly in #twine. I’m a big proponent of all writers learning a system like Twine actually - it really helps sharpen ‘linear’ fiction as well. Anyway it’s a few years old but my most recent big work is A Bathroom Myth, which is an ongoing fundraiser for the Transgender Law Center.

https://adeniro.itch.io/a-bathroom-myth