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The mastodon stages:
1: getting used to the interface
2: discovering that most people are just people, engaged in everyday adventures, big & small
3: the allure of the notification sound
4: a gradual getting used to the fact that not everything is about US politics, and that it's okay to filter it out on a macro level
5: a quiet moment when you think "there can still be poetry in this world"
6: some sort of reconciliation with the quantum magic that is the federated timeline
7: pineapples
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@GinnyMcQueen tootenham
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You go, east coast
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Today is not only the last day of a year, it is also the last day of a month, and you know what that means
that's right
100% unadulterated self-promotion, utterly disconnected from any notion of community values, pumped straight into the very heart of [%SITENAME]
it is time to synergiz- [garbled static, fading out and transitioning into a smooth vaporwave beat that sounds vaguely familiar]
the 90s never ended, but soon, 2016 will
:blobpats:
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@djsundog mmm, Schismatrix
industrially produced code that has exactly two (2) well-documented bugs
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if you ever find yourself in a potentially awkward situation, you always have the option of shouting PARKOUR and running away in a convenient direction
bonus: this also doubles as a life heck
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I wroted a thing about the new star wars movie thingie
or, rather, about spoilers in general, as they have been made even more topical with the new war star movie out in the world
enjoy
http://streetremix.blogspot.com/2017/12/spoiler-warnings-and-you.html
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@jk it will only be me and Sarah Jane
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@Ghost it is a badass mofo, and it knows it
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The best promotion is to tell others about what your friends are up to, so do that when you get the chance. "Somebody once told me" is not just a masto meme - it's usually the way people get into things
No, don't tell them about me, tell them about your better friends instead
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So anyway, boost my stats so I can impress my (entirely fictional) media professional soon to be colleagues, who will swoon at my feet upon noticing my ridiculously tubular numbers
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The thing about self-promotion is that it has become a genre. It is something that up-and-coming media professionals do in order to get past the up-and-coming stage, and something that established media personalities hire up-and-coming media professionals to do for them. This narrows expectations, and makes everyone who self-promote look like they're trying to boost their stats
Telling people that "hey, I did a neat thing, maybe look maybe?" is not that
Do it when it feels right
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@croxus bountz bountz bountz bountz
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@bryan these are self-confident words, strong in their identity
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@woozle they call him
Wordsworth
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@batterpunts that word knows what it is
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@djsundog a speedrun
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This is a shoutout to the word "monosyllabic", which is in fact not monosyllabic
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