Notices by Christina O'Sullivan 🇨🇦 ✅ (christinao@mastodon.social)

Thankfully the feelings of impotence and futility are abating.

I feel a cycle of rage, but observing the rage is an important step. I am not yet at a point of forgiveness; i doubt the millions of people I feel rage toward are think they've done anything wrong. If I can transmute my rage into conscious self-preserving action with success outcomes that may be the best revenge.

@wftl Sounds like he's not one of our mosaic peoples who would by now have a tongue trained to deliver your name with ease. If I get a Visa Security call I'm going to try to remember to ask him what he believes the highlights of last night's game were.

#SDF's #Mastodon instance isn't loading for me this evening. As rare as these problems are, it's good to have a second or third account.

@kemonine I'd ask @sporiff, as his instance has only five users, how that account's posts fits his instance's theme and usage guidelines.

@kemonine https://bakusocial.com/@sporiff

If the local police force wasn't following me on #birdsite I'd have RT'd this:
"You can choose to wake up and feel grateful that you’re alive, or you can choose to wake up and feel disappointed that you didn’t die while you were sleeping...I usually try to go back to sleep and give death another shot."

Does the timing of Liberal cabinet resignations and the announcement of a Rebel Media employee as Andrew Scheer's campaign manager mean Canada is or will soon be as damaged as its neighbour?

@SlowRain I don't know. Wouldn't it be great to have a uniform 'Admin@instance.domain' format that's searchable so we could learn what's about to be blocked and why?
I did learn a few things (check @cosullivan@sdf.org for post and replies) today, so now my curiosity is sated.

Did I mention that Kibo Software received my msg to them via their privacy policy page, and not from the 'Report User' as expected? To Kibo's credit, they replied to me in English as I requested, and handled my report.

@SlowRain apparently the admins of kitty.town want to block (not ban) mastodon.social.

I'm unaware at present if I have any kitty.town followers -- they can go to @cosullivan

I'm still angry that mastodon.cloud Admins let open, public, full frontal nudity photographs enter the general timeline, that they ignore reports, and don't consider that obscene material.

I may've visited Japan only twice, but no men walked around naked in general public when I was there.

@SlowRain Yes. I have a third account at mastodon.sdf.org which is now my primary instance as it's most comfortable.

@SlowRain No #instance is immutable. This instance I'm on is threatened to be blocked by another; my original instance was sold to a software corporation that moderates only on business days, so porn photos are NOT marked sensitive media on some accounts. The software company can't be bothered to post a real Code of Conduct in English on the instance website.

The stark reality: no #instance fits all.

I'm thankful daily for #Mastodon, but on my #wishlist is a default text file instance hosts can modify and auto-message new users with the "make an introduction with five to seven hashtagged topics or interests not on your profile."

I see so many #introductions from new users, but plainly very few told them that hashtagging their interests makes them searchable, findable, and connects followers to them that much faster.

That guidance helped me when I was new -- it'll help new users now too.

@Louisa Cutting down on sugar got rid of my night sweats, as well as the night terrors.

@Louisa 1. I cut down on sugar, like 10 grams maximum a day; 2. I take > 1g glycine powder crystals in a 8 oz glass of water.

@Louisa I've had those for years and was so happy when I discovered the magic combination to make them stop.