june @june@mspsocial.net

MSP Social has implemented the following features that are not in the official Mastodon codebase:

Local-only toots
"Request an invitation" button
Described-image indicator icon
500 character bios
Minnesota-flavored error messages

There's more to do, but honestly I'm impressed we've gotten this much with a non-coder admin.

Thanks to the coders that have contributed code and github-expertise: @ecogeek @divergentdave @iangreenleaf @brandon @renatolond
https://github.com/lawremipsum/mspsocial-mastodon

If you're interacting with retail/food servce in the next 2 days you're going to ask for things with "please" and accept them with a warm smile and eye contact and a "thank you so much", and you're going to touch/move things at little as possible, and you're going to tip at least 30%

🤔🤔🤔 friendly reminder cops should be abolished

Hey so did you know my work recently released this really neat tool for finding out quick demographic facts designed for easy use on phones called Abacus?

https://usa.abacus.ipums.org/

What % of people lacked health insurance in Illinois in 2017? Tap: Variables, Health Insurance, Back, Place, Illinois, Back, Time, 2017. Done.

How does that lack of coverage shake out if you only look at non-citizens? Tap: Subpopulation, Citizenship, check the boxes for non-citizen statuses. Done!

*goes up to a polyamorous triad* so which one of you unspools the thread of fate, which one measures it, and which one cuts it?

youve heard of catgirls
youve heard of catboys

now get ready for:
nyanbinary people

"This fund exists to fight health disparities experienced by LGBTQ people with an understanding that trans and other gender expansive people, youth, people of color, immigrants, people living with disabilities, and people experiencing homelessness face some of the largest health and financial disparities. The goal of the fund is to help patients get their health care costs reduced or covered at the clinic."

My grandfather died over two years ago; he sent letters to all his grandkids before he died. In mine he took time to do two things: tell me he didn't "agree with my lifestyle" and also thank me for teaching him Excel.

He left me some cash that I'm gonna use to fund a program to help trans people access medical care at one of the clinics in town here that does fiercely good work.

honestly though, mastodon instances are run and moderated by real people who care about the network, to the point of often paying their own money out-of-pocket to run their instances.

the *one* time i've had to report a post, my instance admin messaged me directly to let me know the action taken about it.

don't be shy to report. it works here. the rules aren't there just to keep things advertiser-friendly.

welcome to mastodon. don't be a dick. hug your local mods/admins.

Like, God, there's so much handwringing about how the fuck we're gonna recruit edgy white boys.

Quick question: why would we actively make organizing spaces more hostile to EVERYBODY ELSE to accommodate ~edgy~ boys who have never once ever expressed any interest in or capacity to be any help to anybody?

Why do I want someone who'll drive off 10 activists and needs constant babysitting?

They're drowning? Let them fucking drown.