@thedavemiester Well, this is the first time the fediverse has been how I first learned about a local disaster, so that’s something…

@001100010010 I live in bone conducting headphones most of the day, but when I’m at home, it’s either my crappy TV speakers or dedicated over the ear headphones

@emi What worked best for me was going in to Sephora and getting a makeover there. She didn’t know how to deal with trans features and did an awful job, but I walked away from it with a lot of useful techniques that let me start experimenting in a meaningful way. It also meant that I could watch short tutorial videos and make sense of what I was watching

Not really. I used to mod /r/brisbane, but basically stopped interacting with reddit around 6 months ago. I’ve been on the fediverse and threadiverse ever since!

I just realised there were no bin chickens in that photo!

My girlfriend recently had a serious accident on one that required surgery, and my ex girlfriend broke her neck on one a few years ago! I was planning on getting myself another one after my last one was stolen, but I don’t think I will now…

So, this was taken in Redcliffe on Saturday. I’m not sure whether that counts as “Brisbane” or “this week”, but I don’t care. Close enough :)

https://blahaj.zone/files/335ea8d9-a2e5-4855-92ec-7bd16e62d561

Image description: Several waterfowl and ducks grouped together, standing on bark chips in a park garden. The photo is taken from a low “birds eye level” perspective

Taken last Saturday at Redcliffe. I’m not sure it qualifies as “this week” or “Brisbane” but I don’t care! :P

Taken last Saturday at Redcliffe. I’m not sure it qualifies as “this week” or “Brisbane” but I don’t care! :P

I mean, to me, it sounds like it was written by someone who doesn’t deal with marginalisation in any real way. No unique selling point? The fact I can exist here without being constantly harassed by bigots that have a green light from a mega social media platform that doesn’t give a shit about me is a pretty strong selling point. Strong enough that having experienced it, I will never return to a centralised social media platform that isn’t aggressively supportive of minority rights.

@Matte I haven’t found that. I mean, luck is definitely involved of course, because it has dice, but with good preparation, you can mitigate the luck elements, and it becomes more a game of longer term planning than make or break based on a single roll.

That being said, Rallyman Dirt also has an interesting change that addresses part of that. The lead player rolls different white dice to the other players, with a slightly higher chance of failure. So being in first place for too long increases your risk, but giving up first place makes it hard to be certain you’ll get it back.

@ada

tbh, there is no such instance. Not blocking any other instances is often a reason to be blocked by other instances.

An instance that blocks no one is in effect a “free” speech instance that prioritises the right to be bigoted over the need to provide safe spaces for folk. And that means that instances that value the need for safe spaces over “free” speech are going to block the instances that don’t block anyone else as a means of creating and maintaining that safe space.