Hi, I'm Nick. I'm pretty passive on this platform (but hope to get a little more active in the future) and mostly use it to keep up with news and people which catches my eye. So mostly news, tech and board games.
grew tired of "use a cloth mask that's less effective against covid" being the usual response to those of us looking for sensory friendly masks .
kept looking and found other alternatives like elastomeric respirators and Zimi masks that don't sacrifice protection for comfort ! wrote about it here :
Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.
I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.
I’m located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.
Boosts are appreciated. 🙏
#FediHire #webdev #typescript #backenddevelopment #fullstackdevelopment
RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/115919598890197646
If there is no Native/Indigenous #Mastodon category, and there are no Native/Indigenous instances listed at Join Mastodon, how can Native/Indigenous People signing up for the first time or even later choose a Native/Indigenous instance? As well as other non-white cultures, really WTF!
#Native #Indigenous #Racism
There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.
The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.
Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.
Sign 👇
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738780
#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse
I'm really glad I moved over to Jujutsu VCS (from Git). The idea of anonymous branches was a bit of a head scratcher at first but now I don't think I could go back to without. It makes experimentation and exploration of code changes so much simpler. #jujutsuvcs #programming
"Playing as a mage in Morrowind vs Oblivion vs Skyrim"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL49pmH1Smk
#pcgaming #tes #theelderscrolls #morrowind #oblivion #skyrim
This year BG stats (I honestly don't remember playing cafe this much 😅) #boardgames
"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."
-Ed Zitron
chat I need to stress test this instance, boost this post as much as you can, and let's see if this instance crumbles now that it's on a new host!
@webonaire Kingdomino is a tight tile placement game, if you want something similar to Carcassonne. Spots is a very fun kind of dice placement/push your luck game, which is also a favourite of ours.
Hey sweet kittens, critters, puppies and other creatures of the Fediverse!
So, some of us got together and had a blast filming themselves while they had a camera put in front of themselves... and we just wanted to share.
Oh, and also, maybe our kickstarter has just launched 0:-)
https://kickstarter.dotmeow.org/
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Winter guardian #lordpercival sits in a stoic pose on the porch before moving to his backyard lands. #cats #caturday #catsofMastodon #catsofFediverse #tuxedocat
Interview with @pluralistic at The Daily Show! :awesome:
With special mention for Mastodon! This was excellent! I highly recommend watching it!👇✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
#Enshittification #Facebook #Mastodon #Fediverse #Interoperability
Yesterday, a court in #Jersey, selected by the British Government (!) because it would sit without a jury, refused to convict peace activist, Nathalie strecker.
In one of the most Orwellian cases imaginable, she was charged under terrorism offences - a vocal and well known pacificist, note - and a British Government paid QC directed the Jersey Government's prosecution. WTAF???
This article explains the situation: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/12/the-terrifying-case-of-natalie-strecker/
Thankfully - the court still refused to convict.
Describe your Mastodon account in a single image
Here, I fixed that Mastodon meme. That's most of my bookmarks...
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.
But I did it "by the book"
As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.
In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.
In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.
Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.
The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".
In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.
In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".
In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.
The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.
At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.
And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.
Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?
When history forgot them, she wrote them back in 💛
