Travis

Software developer, amateur photographer (mostly film), drummer

2025-03-20

Due to the fact that I’m spending very little time on social media these days, and Mastodon hasn’t really exploded in popularity the way I hoped it would, I am planning to close down my cincy.social instance in the near future.

You can find me on Bluesky at @taestell.com where I’ll be consolidating all of my text based social sharing going forward.

2025-03-01

Wynn/Encore is definitely the pinacle, but Bellagio and Cosmo are very nice and usually a bit more affordable.
mastodon.social/@tvaziri/11408

2025-02-28

Another product that was extremely cutting edge and innovative in its prime, then stagnated into irrelevance after being acquired by a tech giant.
mastodon.social/@macrumors/114

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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦Paulatics@mstdn.ca
2025-02-26

My staff just shared with me that the Supreme Court of Canada is closing down its X account. #X #Canada #cdnpoli #SupremeCourtofCanada #SCC

A screen capture of a tweet from the Supreme Court of Canada, announcing that they are leaving X and will concentrate instead on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
2025-02-14

@RecDiffs “Idols with Asterisks” is also the name of my emo band.

2025-01-31

“Initially, everyone thought it would cause gridlock. But people adapted. Now we can’t imagine the highway ever being here.”
mastodon.social/@kottke/113923

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Botgovbotgov
2025-01-30

The following .gov domains have been registered in the past 24 hours:
allenparkmi.gov
brockwayborough.gov
chimneyrockvillagenc.gov
doge.gov
kanabeccountymn.gov
kewaskumwi.gov
leelanautwpfire.gov

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2025-01-29

My best evidence that the warm feelings towards Mark Zuckerberg have ended is the MetaAI summaries of the comment sections on his recent posts. Jan 1 vs Jan 20:

Photo by Katie Notopoulos on January 25, 2025. May be an image of 1 person and text.Photo by Katie Notopoulos on January 25, 2025. May be an image of 3 people and text.
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kottke.orgkottke
2025-01-28

The planned new spinoff of the CBS series “FBI” will focus on CIA agents and is currently titled “FBI: CIA”. 😂 Not even The Simpsons at its peak could have come up with something this nonsensical. variety.com/2025/tv/news/fbi-s

2025-01-24

@hotdogsladies I hope that some day I have my own Wikipedia article with a “Carnivory” section.

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Merlin Mannhotdogsladies
2025-01-24

I do not like Nepenthes rajah.

It is a plant that can eat a rat.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthe

2025-01-22

@drdrang @jsnell Use Apple’s naming scheme, e.g. “MacBook Pro (M4 Max)”

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2025-01-21

It must be ancient.

Dayton, Ohio is the oldest city in the world.
2025-01-17

@mastohost Just curious, would you ever consider getting into Pixelfed hosting?

2025-01-16

If you’re using Pixelfed, you can follow me there at @taestell@pixelfed.social.

Or technically you can follow my Pixelfed account from Mastodon.

Federated social media is good but also somewhat confusing.

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2025-01-16

I spent most of a decade traveling to authoritarian countries and teaching people how to circumvent internet censorship. I am appalled that this is now something I have to do in the US.

2025-01-15

@RecDiffs “rewri’en”

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2025-01-15

Client: "The forms on our website should cover ALL the bases."

🤔

#memes #webdev #UX

A screenshot of an online death certificate request from a county (?) website where "the person listed on the death certificate" is the question and the choices are "someone else" and "myself" (to their credit myself is greyed out).
2025-01-14

It could be because of high server load right now, but the app seems very buggy. Will try it again in a few days. I desperately want an Instagram competitor to succeed.
theverge.com/2025/1/14/2434361

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Casey Newtoncaseynewton
2025-01-10

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: platformer.news/meta-new-trans

And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram:

"There's no such thing as trans children."
"God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing."
"This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy."
"A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man."
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it."
These seem like strange allowances for a policy that begins: “We believe that people use their voice and connect more freely when they don’t feel attacked on the basis of who they are,” and later states flatly, “we remove dehumanizing speech.” It is hard to imagine speech more dehumanizing than to tell someone that they have no gender and are an “it.”

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst