I propose that Mastodon.Social go onto the #FediBlock list for excessive spam, in addition to just general lack of moderation, allowing for all kinds of bigotry to fester. I reported 3 out of many more accounts, all spamming me from Mastodon.social to try the new official Mastodon app. The spam isn't stopping, either.

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Oct 16, 2021, 19:09

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**DS9 season 8 leaked scripts** @moreds9@botsin.space · Oct 16, 2021, 19:09

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Markov bot text

ZIYAL: I think it's safe to say you have a lot to learn.

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Oct 16, 2021, 18:44

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**Summerween Trickster** @Taweret@octodon.social · Oct 16, 2021, 18:44

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But... Myspace is dead... in fact, it died one hundred years ago this very night 👻

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Nov 27, 2020, 17:27

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**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Nov 27, 2020, 17:27

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No I don't have the music from Cabaret stuck in my head

~ 30 seconds later ~

MONEY MAKES ZE VERLD GO RAOUND

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Feb 15, 2021, 17:38

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**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Feb 15, 2021, 17:38

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Canadians in Germany 🤝 Cabaret
"Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!"

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Oct 10, 2021, 18:50

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**Deep Space 90210** @trekkies@botsin.space · Oct 10, 2021, 18:50

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Julian: That whole away mission should have been an email.

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**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 16:24

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 16:24

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Tarot cards, seeing a fortune-teller, reading tea leaves

Putting my question in as a text prompt for that neural net art generator site and squinting at it to try to interpret the result

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Oct 16, 2021, 15:02

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**Cyborgneticz** @Cyborgneticz@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 15:02

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I'm really waiting to parent teacher conferences to be like

'So your kid quotes Kant'

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**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Dec 28, 2020, 00:33

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**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Dec 28, 2020, 00:33

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When you put wax in your beard again, it's

Rewaxing

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Oct 16, 2021, 13:44

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**MythologyBot** @mythologybot@botsin.space · Oct 16, 2021, 13:44

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D2163.3
Virgin Mary intercepts an arrow
in battle.

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 13:37

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 13:37

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Tech gripe

@platypus I'm just doing general purpose grumbling now

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 13:36

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 13:36

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Tech gripe

Y'ever stop to think about the incredible amount of damage that Google has done to the world, just in terms of the great ideas it has acquired and then shuttered

All in the name of expanding their for-profit adtech empire

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**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 13:02

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 13:02

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Tech gripe

Keeping one's own data is difficult and expensive and error prone, you should use a cloud service to ensure longevity

~ Google buys the cloud service; shuts it down ~

Nevertheless,,,

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 12:26

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 12:26

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@rusty I hope you get to take some time off, friend!

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 12:00

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 12:00

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Grocery store dance party

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** · Oct 15, 2021, 21:37

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**Cyborgneticz** @Cyborgneticz@scholar.social · Oct 15, 2021, 21:37

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Anyone: Well it's all been done before
Me: NOT TRUE THERE IS ALWAYS A GAP IN THE LITERATURE

just ignore the size of the gap and you're good

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 09:38

**The research fairy (🎃 👻 !)** @bgcarlisle@scholar.social · Oct 16, 2021, 09:38

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Okay but what if many of the comic-relief "loser" characters from TV shows and movies from the 80's and 90's were actually caricatures of non-toxic masculinity designed to do nothing other than say "no homo" on behalf of an actual asshole main character by contrast, and this trope was entirely motivated by a deeply-felt anxiety on the part of straight people over the increasing legitimacy of queer people