Nunatak @IceWolf@meow.social

Is the gray wolf still endangered? Depends who you ask. - National Geographic

https://apple.news/A_VjJeTrNTMu8FlIfqfoDNA

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/gray-wolves-endangered-species-united-states/

I need to figure out how to be less verbose. I keep running right up against the 500-character limit. (:

It's funny, when writing papers I usually have the opposite problem!

#meta

@hi_cial @cyborgfox

So, first you'll need to open the developer tools. On a Mac it's ⌥⌘I, on other platforms ⇧⌃I (Shift-Ctrl-I, capital I not L). Then go to the Console tab.

You'll see a big scary warning. Pay attention to that. *If you don't know what the code you're putting in does, stop.*

In this case, it's just changing the CSS of the document. But you can actually put any JS in here.

It only lasts for the session, you'll need to do it again when you restart Discord.

If I seem like I'm always happy, it's probably just because I'm only posting the good stuff going on in my life. Please, don't let that make you depressed because "everyone else is so happy, why is my life so terrible?"

(I would never have thought of this if I hadn't read a book a while back about how social media depresses people because of the constant positivity.)

#PositivityBias

Does "RT" mean "retweet" / "retoot"? I've been guessing it meant "reply to". (:

When sending hearts to people I don't want to just use red all the time, but I don't have a fursona, so I've been using their color instead of mine. Is that a little weird? (:

Is there no way to even browse Pixelfed instances without making an account?

Now that I think about it, I should probably have CW'ed that with "unicode ****posting". (:

Huh. Apparently it only wrecks line spacing in the editor. I wonder what the difference is.

Hm, I wonder if I can do this, although I can't see any possible practical use for it...
⌗FakeHashtags

Well, looks like it completely wrecks line spacing. And looks nothing at all like a #. Well, I tried. :3

Kind of depressing how few wild animals there are compared to our domestic livestock. ):

...Holy crap. This means humans outmass /all the wild land animals on the planet combined/? Wow.

(This is from 2014, but almost certainly still relevant.)

https://xkcd.com/1338/

Also, one thing I really like about Firefox is the ability to automatically clear your cookies when you close the browser. This lets me turn on third-party cookies (keeping them off breaks sites occasionally, often in weird ways), while not letting them collect /all/ my history. Although I should probably change that to a more restrictive setting, but I'd most likely get infinite CAPTCHA loops again. Those *suck*. :3

#privacy, #Firefox

Huh. I can stop websites from overriding keyboard shortcuts? That's good to know! :3

(Sorry for the blindingly white screenshot, Firefox doesn't support OS X's dark mode in the few places it uses native windows.)

#Firefox

Is there a way to make something unlisted even to your followers, so it only pings the person you're @-ing but is still readable by people who happen to come across it? (I don't know how that would happen exactly, but maybe if they reply public or something.)

Specifically, the context here is telling people they have nice profile pictures. It's not something I really want to broadcast to the world, but it's not something that needs to be kept private either.

[#Mastodon #Mastodon101 #meta]

Is there any way to search through your starred posts for a particular tag, or filter search results to only things you've starred?

I tend to star a lot of microfiction, and sometimes I'd like to see a list of all the microfiction-tagged posts I've starred previously.

[#Mastodon #Mastodon101 #meta]

I may go on a microfiction boosting spree every so often. There's so much good stuff out there! Sorry for cluttering up your timelines, though. (:

Is the gray wolf still endangered? Depends who you ask. - National Geographic

https://apple.news/A_VjJeTrNTMu8FlIfqfoDNA

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/gray-wolves-endangered-species-united-states/

(Should this be CW'ed? Not quite sure how to handle that for links like this.)