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shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Shauna GM
@shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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governance nerd; open source developer & community manager; novelist; activist; uswnt & washington spirit fangirl

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the three con men of Christmas
Screenshot of a tweet showing Anna Delvey, Martin Shkreli and George Santos posing at a Christmas party
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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If her birthday was yesterday you know what it would have been....
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Get a cat that looks at you like this
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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#nwsl
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Nbd just Megan Rapinoe rocking a #freedc flag as a cape at the #nwsl championship game
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Lorena over Dickey and Bev over Vlatko are objectively dumb results but idc because Tara McKeown defender of the year!!! Did you know she used to be a striker????

#nwsl
Tara McKeown grins while holding her Defender of the Year and Best XI awards. From either side of her, Trinity Rodman and Croix Bethune blow kisses at her.
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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I've double checked, and I'm pretty sure I've inserted all the code from the tutorial correctly. Which means I'm at a loss for what the error is. Line 215 of federation.ts is the part of the code I'm touching, but why `const follow = await accept.getObject();` is throwing an error I cannot say.
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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ok, the answer lies in here...if I can find it
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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All right, possibly relatedly I have hit my first head scratcher. Tutorial says this sql query should give me a result:

"SELECT * FROM follows WHERE follower_id = 1"

But a look at the follows table suggests the following_id and follower_ids are reversed from […]

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November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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What a great post, Esme. So true, and so findable from Mastodon
a picture of a mastodon search result with a post from a user with name Esme Morgan, reading "Spirit won the quarterfinals!"
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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And now I'm following fake Esme! :D :D :D

I think that's it for tonight, but I'm more than halfway through the tutorial with no major hiccups yet. There's a lot of code I'm copy/pasting without fully understanding, so we'll see how well this sets me up to code […]

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November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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LFG! This is so neat.
A picture of a temporary mastodon profile for my Esme Morgan fake account
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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"yet another format of the public key"

this sounds like something i could get people to vent about at length over a beer 😂
screenshot of the following code: interface ActorKeyPair { privateKey: CryptoKey; // Private key publicKey: CryptoKey; // Public key keyId: URL; // Unique identification URI of the key cryptographicKey: CryptographicKey; // Another format of the public key multikey: Multikey; // Yet another format of the public key }
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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success!

(original video https://bsky.app/profile/dreyesceron.bsky.social/post/3m55h3ey4yk2g)
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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yay I've reached the activitypub part!
Implementing the actor As the name suggests, ActivityPub is a protocol for exchanging activities. Writing a post, editing a post, deleting a post, liking a post, commenting, editing a profile… All actions that happen in social media are expressed as activities. And all activities are transmitted from actor to actor. For example, when John Doe writes a post, a "writing" (Create(Note)) activity is sent from Joh Doe to John Doe's followers. If Jane Doe likes that post, a "liking" (Like) activity is sent from Jane Doe to John Doe. Therefore, the first step in implementing ActivityPub is to implement the actor. The demo app generated by the fedify init command already has a very simple actor implemented, but to communicate with actual software like Mastodon or Misskey, we need to implement the actor more properly. First, let's take a look at the current implementation. Open the src/federation.ts file:
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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okay this has all been unnervingly easy so far...
screenshot of a browser that says "Set up your microblog" with a username field and button to submit
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Marta coming for McCall Zerboni and she's not wrong

#nwsl
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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😁😁😁

#nwsl #freedc
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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they're like swiss cake rolls for giant worms
A stack of rolled slabs of grass, at night, waiting to be planted by construction crews in the morning
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"Let us, then, look with new eyes at the fact that when a dictator takes out a loan from a Western bank—pledging as his surety the future revenues produced by the people who he uses men with guns to rule—we can be utterly sure that long after he is dead and gone […]

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This is just a thought experiment, of course, but the point of it is to bring out and make explicit that contrast. While the perversity of paying off your debts to your parents hardly needs comment – or of them garnishing your wages to pay for the hospital costs of birthing you – it is just as unspeakably normal for our debts to banks to seem, always and forever, the first thing we need to honor and respect. [...] Let us, then, look with new eyes at the fact that when a dictator takes out a loan from a Western bank – pledging as his surety the future revenues produced by the people who he uses men with guns to rule -- we can be utterly sure that long after he is dead and gone, that debt will live on. Banks will not only claim the right to be paid back, but the moral force of the world’s political and ruling classes will assent to the proposition that children unborn when their nation went into debt will somehow still be on hold as the debt’s guarantors. This will appear normal. This will not seem a monstrous perversity.
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"By contrast, Graeber argues that purely monetary debts – such as the $14k I owe in student debts to a variety of banks – legitimize violence and exploitation precisely because they take an otherwise irreducibly complex human relation and reductively simplify it […]

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By contrast, Graeber argues that purely monetary debts – such as the $14k I owe in student debts to a variety of banks – legitimize violence and exploitation precisely because they take an otherwise irreducibly complex human relation and reductively simplify it into a number. When you quantify a debt with financial precision – and especially when you invest paying it off with profound moral gravity, making it a fundamental moral imperative – you take what was a human relationship of mutual imbrication and co-implication into a financial one based on a kind of moral dominance, and thereby subject the indebted party to the mechanisms of financial debt collection instead of the precepts of human morality. If my relationship to my parents was a financial one, then I could pay it off and be done with them (or they could forgive the debt and be done with me). Or (and here is where it gets interesting), they could present me with a bill, demand that I pay it, and throw me in jail if I failed to do so.
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Of course, money itself is itself an abstraction, one with tremendous impact on social relationships over the millennia.

I'm going to quote extensively from Aaron Bady's review of David Graeber's Debt ( […]

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> [It] is in the very nature of a question like “What do I owe my parents?” that there is not and can never be a final, numerically answer. It is a question that we re-visit and re-negotiate every minute we are with them; obligation and love form an endless Möbius strip, through which our complex interdependence on each other makes the idea of paying off that debt – and of thereby severing the relationship – a sort of bitter joke. Precisely because it is a non-monetary “debt,” its function is to be an unpayable and unbreakable bond, one whose dividends never end and one that could and will never default.
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Speaking of Seeing Like a State, that book is full of examples of overvaluing abstraction and legibility - and it also shows that this preference is nothing new.

For example, Scott documents the rise of fiscal forestry:

"The early modern European state, even […]

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> The early modern European state, even before the development of scientific forestry, viewed its forests primarily through the fiscal lens of revenue needs. [...] one might say that the crown’s interest in forests was resolved through its fiscal lens into a single number: the revenue yield of the timber that might be extracted annually. [...] Missing, of course, were all those trees, bushes, and plants holding little or no potential for state revenue. Missing as well were all those parts of trees, even revenue-bearing trees, which might have been useful to the population but whose value could not be converted into fiscal receipts.
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Securities Fraud: As Matt Levine likes to say, "Everything Is Securities Fraud". Why?

"When a company harms some class of people in some bad but essentially non-monetary way, it is hard to quantify the damages as money; when a company harms its shareholders, you […]

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"When a company harms some class of people in some bad but essentially non-monetary way, it is hard to quantify the damages as money; when a company harms its shareholders, you can just see how much the stock went down. (Theranos was never public but, uh, the stock went to zero.) Ordinarily this is a story about the incentives facing plaintiffs’ lawyers: If a company has a rampant culture of sexual harassment, it is much more pleasant for plaintiffs’ lawyers to bring a securities-fraud class action (“when the sexual-harassment news came out the stock went down”) than it is for them to bring a sexual-harassment class action (“each of these 1,000 employees were victims of a pattern of sexual harassment at your company”), because the facts are neater and the plaintiffs more uniform and the damages much easier to prove and probably larger."
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM