probably past time to try a transition: - maz@dice.camp (games n that) - newsmary@mastodon.social (largely exists for worksona continuity purposes)

at last, freedom

Fun times: I’ve teamed up with the @ManaProjectStd folks to bring my intense brand of English linguistic pedantry to the Cowboy Bebop RPG

Grant was having trouble coming up with December’s one page game and I really feel like I was on to something with Festipus here

Anyway if anyone needs me I’m over at @maz@dice.camp now, and having a much nicer time there than I was here. I’d link to it directly but, well, see previous tweet

Waking up to discover that Twitter has - banned a bunch of journalists, apparently for reporting critically on its CEO; - apparently shut down access to Spaces after one critical of its CEO; - marked many Mastodon domains as malware & used disinformation warnings to block others

Lots of lovely chat about the mechanics of slaying someone else's personal demons in HOLLOWS, as Chris did an interview with Bloody Disgusting:

just popping in to see how everyone's doing

on the good side I guess I’m never going to suffer from imposter syndrome about leadership or running a business ever again

every time I've opened Twitter this week to tweet something innocuous about birds or gay raspberries or whatever, it's been a real Troy-returning-with-pizza situation

That Time a Car Manufacturer Decided He Wanted to Own a Publisher in Order to Advance His Own Political Agenda 🧵

tag yourself, I’m lachrymal terminals

is it a better experience for people who post less? probably! does this make it likely that People Who Tweet will migrate? absolutely the fuck not; the small weird demographic that creates most content here is not geared towards meaningful discussion any more than the trolls are

cleverer version of this tweet: going from Twitter, an undifferentiated service where we present a single identity & followers do the selection work, to a differentiated one, like Mastodon, where we as posters have to code switch, is more work than most people are willing to do

the thing about Mastodon is it appears to have all the same issues as Discord without the good onboarding

genuinely devastated

Absolutely no queer people were involved in the naming of this raspberry

I am become Death, the destroyer of words

an interesting thought experiment: what happens to the average user experience if Twitter loses its layer of blue-tick-leftover-from-2017 occasional shitposters (hi!) and replaces them with accounts that have a reason to pay for algorithmic reach?

Absolute scenes at the National Trust this morning. We have more than 4,000 clocks.