Mottr.am

Cruising the Village

The PhD thesis of Dr. Michael Atkins, aka Cheddar Gorgeous (currently starring in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK). The ‘visual ethnography’ aspect is interesting – the thesis includes a graphic novel, drawings, sketches.

• Cruising the Village: A visual ethnography of public sex between men in Manchester city centre.
• See also Tearoom Trade (Wikipedia)

Charm

…tools to make the command line glamorous

I like the look of Gum - a set of shell script helpers including choosers, file pickers, confirmation dialogs, &c. - and Soft Serve, a self-hostable git server with a TUI.

• Charm
• Gum
• Soft Serve

Mastodon

Some older links that give context to current discussions on Mastodon re: its development model, moderation, defederation, homophobia & racism.

• Mourning Mastodon (2017)
• A thread responding to the above by Creatrix Tiara (2017)
• A thread on content warnings & ‘anti-politics culture’ by bundog (2017)
• Fringe Mastodev (2018-2019)
• Mastodon is crumbling and many blame its creator (2019)