Mastodon 102: How to Follow (or Unfollow)

After leaving Twitter completely, as I shared in "Me and Social Media", I have had time to explore Mastodon.lol (where 🙌 is in my username if you can see it), Mastodon.art (💜), botsin.space, and some of the other instances that talk to them. I've also poked through articles and sites offering help in using these …

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Poetry | Gifts in Silk

© KateNovikova ​I have given you bows wrapping my body, faux silk printed by bots, so tiny, creating, spinning from liquid — the opposite of melting touch. Originally published in P.S. I Love You: Poetry Sunday.

Fiction | Popping Personal Bubbles

My hive handle? 0gRobinHood © oneinchpunch These crops are coming along nicely. I take this moment, ignoring the persistent ding of a message, to enjoy balls of various colors floating in the center of the huge recreational deck. A different algae mix bloom inside each ball: Blue-green-black. (Not the harmful black, my assisting AI reassured …

Fiction | Disconnect

Rana tries reaching out to her fiancée during a bad work day. image source: intographics   Message from RBytesSsnake — — — Calendia? Hi, my girl. I don’t know if you can read or hear this. It’s been too long since I messaged an external hive cell. You know I always… I mean you pick on me …

Near Future Tech: Home Printing in a Day’s Work

A fun post about building technology that might be normal in the near future.