Cyberfæ @alexandria@cybre.space

Welcome to the Fediverse. It's good to have you here!

But, please do remember that you aren't the first ones here. This space existed before you, and we have an existing community & culture. Please respect that.

Fedi isn't a place for Influencers, Brands, or Screaming Matches. It's a place for real social interaction. Fedi is fun, friendly, and *weird*! And it's the home of many queer folks who don't have an accepting community elsewhere.

Please don't destroy what we've built.

Ill be posting some past work on here, seeing the great response from my current project. This is an 1959 IBM 1401, 1:16 scale, scratch build, 100% hand made

I think it is really funny how many people from corporate social media are completely unaware of the concept of vetting a website before immediately signing up with your personal information. They are very confused about the material politics of hosting social media, generally. I've seen websites/instances rise and fall all on the hubris of their operators and moderators since around 2016 at a blinding speed compared to the weird websites that can't talk to each other. One site is nothing without the whole, and there is this thing called "society" which impacts who wants to interact with which sites based on who runs them and how they are ran. Installing a social app doesn't ask you to think about any of that material reality behind how the site runs at all. So they show a kind of annoyance at being informed that actually that does matter for purposes of protecting the vulnerable, just to show that familiar kind of liberal annoyance at actually being exposed to the problems of butcher that keeps the meat on their plate. It makes them think about the bad thoughts, like ethics and values. The invisible politics of their expectations, uncomfortably close to mind.

"you should stop autistic masking if it makes you unhappy :("

me stopping autistic masking means writing an essay on why caroline polachek's music attracts a certain genre of trans person and how kate bush vibes resonate past the gender binary.

equipped with historical documents and scientific papers on music-as-language and gender-as-art.

i cannot do this or i sound crazy

but i am absolutely right

I for one and tired of being treated like a person with the ability to determine for myself whether or not I want to see other people or instances

frankly, what I want is for some random people to decide for me!

relax, you don't need to understand mastodon. i don't and i'm fine

checking out the federated tl to see folks who joined 12 minutes ago explain mastodon to folks who joined 6 minutes ago