Notes | Brutkey

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115951929075113659

if you’re new here, @FediTips@social.growyourown.services are a very good first follow. they're indispensable for columbusing the nooks and crannies of the #fediverse.

but do you know what are really wonderful follows?

HASHTAGS

i follow dozens of them like #sewing #crafts #embroidery. am known as a political commentator but i have a whole other life with #fiberArts and i’ve found wonderful folks thru those tags.

the fediverse doesn’t have techbro algorithms boxing you into a category.

ENJOY!

#welcome #newHere

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@spencexyz@theforkiverse.com

Hi Spencer, welcome 👋

If you want an easy-to-understand guide to how this place works, have a look at the website https://fedi.tips (especially the section marked "Quick Start").

Please feel free to ask if you want help with anything specific, I am trying to provide unofficial tech support on here 🙂

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/115818173490034682

Welcome to Mamdamidon. we’re here to just boost and fave 2026 into the mamdaniverse.

Andres
@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

🎉 HAPPY NEW MAYOR 🎉

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/115818182822294274

🗣 THIS IS MY MAYOR 😎

🗣 THIS IS MY CITY 🗽

🗣 LET’S GO #ANTIFA NEW YORK CITY #NYC ⚑

US news | The Guardian
@theguardian_us_news@halo.nu

Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/01/zohran-mamdani-sworn-in-mayor-new-york-city #ZohranMamdani #NewYork #Democrats #UsPolitics #UsNews #WorldNews

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

🗣AM ENDING 2025 WITH A BOOST & FAVE

look who just arrived in time to welcome the new year: my THING1 & THING2 in #plushtodon form, #Boost & #Fave.

it was hard to get a good pic of us together by myself, so i hope you don’t mind the potato quality of my tablet’s pics.

i haven’t stopped smiling since i opened the package.

🗣HAPPY NEW #FEDIVERSE YEAR TO YOU ALL

Fave kept hogging the shot in this selfie with me

Boost thought you can’t see them because they think they blend with the blue of our the art on the wall

this is the best i could do with the 3 us in the shot: Boost, me in the middle, and Fave

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

RE: https://floss.social/@doctormo/115741400039155176

oooooh! pinging @iFixit@mastodon.social and the @sewing@mastodon.social #knitting #carpentry #BikeTooter communities. i can see repair worskshops, not just for electronics but for clothes, toys, furniture, bicycles. i can see myself in a Ms. Santa hat, mending jeans with my funky patches. the last day, we call it #Fixmas and celebrate a work well done with milk (in our caffetinis) and cookies.

Martin Owens :inkscape:
@doctormo@floss.social

Is there a Santa who fixes all the stuff you already have rather than bringing new stuff?

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

someone tell Eugene @Gargron@mastodon.social to save me a #plushtodon or two cuz i already told The Things (aka my sons) what i want for #atheismas. everybody has a plushtodon but me pouts

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

🚨 🚨 🚨

The Times of London, today:
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/us-russia-deal-west-bank-occupation-ukraine-wfvnt6v6f

❝ Under this scenario Russia would have military and economic control of occupied Ukraine under its own governing body, imitating Israel’s de facto rule of Palestinian territory seized from Jordan in 1967.❞

ME, yesterday about #Ukraine and #Gaza
❝ 3,000 billionaires are paying for Palestinian and Ukranian #genocide in a vain attempt to wipe-out nations and re-draw maps based on their investments.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115011583755385225

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

and, then there’s Italy, where the #wildfires have been raging along Mount Vesuvio:

via @WiredItalia@flipboard.com
https://www.wired.it/gallery/incendio-a-cipro-le-immagini-delle-fiamme-che-stanno-devastando-lisola/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

via @ilPost@flipboard.com
https://flipboard.com/@ilpost/italia-geogjiogz/-/a-S_HHq6oEQHSkeQny466k9A%3Aa%3A2183656918-%2F0

via @LaStampa@flipboard.com
https://flipboard.com/@lastampa/le-notizie-dall-italia-e-dal-mondo-qaku7blvz/-/a-FOWzvOOJRYq6ygL9CNtSGA%3Aa%3A174132866-%2F0

i’ve spent time in this news curation exercise ―a reporting practice i helped pioneer more than 20 years ago on my blogs and social media― to show y’all that the #fediverse is a place to get the news. and that’s in part thanks to one company: @Flipboard@flipboard.social

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social

we need now to convince citizen journalists, bloggers and hyperlocal publications that having a presence in the #fediverse is, in the era of AI slop and #enshittification, more important than ever.

i would need to switch VPN localities to have access to the amounts of headlines from spanish, french, italian sources i get here ―on #Mastodon’s own search engine― than on ANY www search engine. they all rely on either Google or Bing slop. Mastodon doesn’t.

#journalism #media