Danny Ockilson - he/him @danny@justweb.dev

Had to show my ID to buy paracetamol; like I’m old enough to have kids who can buy paracetamol. I have plushies that are old enough to buy paracetamol.

Hello, Mastodon! Here is my obligatory introduction post for the new platform! My name is Michael. I am passionate about writing, reading and irritating my good friends! My content will largely be highlighting marginalized authors and teaching authors how to write more inclusively. Feel free to follow along for book recs and writing tips! #bookstodon #blackbookstodon #amwriting #indieauthors #writewithmichael #dybpublishing #bipocauthors #writersofmastodon

I sometimes hear people who are not even millionaires saying things like, “Just being a billionaire doesn’t make someone a bad person.” It absolutely makes them a bad person. One doesn’t just happen to accumulate a billion dollars because one has a great product or service. It happens because you exploit the fuck out of people and resources. You hoard profits for yourself rather than share them with the people who are actually making your products and providing your services.

It's a whole new year and since things are generally pretty bleak thought I'd share some things I'm looking forward to in 2023;
First it's #veganuary NOW, the easiest month of the year to be #vegan so looking forward to trying some new things
I'm starting a #sewing & #textiles night class so I can #makeDoAndMend a bit
#FrankieBoyle in Aberdeen then some travelling for #Muse #RedHotChiliPeppers (Glasgow) and a first ever trip to the Netherlands (Groningen) to see #Rammstein

See the real problem?

(Cartoon via #SchoenScheisse)

It's almost 2023, and I'm ready!

Just gonna leave this here for anyone who’s ever said “I wanna try going vegan one day.” Why wait? #Veganuary starts tomorrow. Jump right in and give it a try. The water’s warm!

https://veganuary.com 🐷✨

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

“Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, that’s not satire, it’s bullying.”
- Definitely not Sir Terry Pratchett.

#GNUTerryPratchett

Super frustrated with all the cheerleading over chatbots for search, so here's a thread of presentations of my work with Chirag Shah on why this is a bad idea. Follow threaded replies for:

op-ed
media coverage
original paper
conference presentation

Please boost whichever (if any) speak to you.

It's very disheartening to see that in the space of a month, the majority of images on my feed went from being described to having not even one sentence as a description. I started ID-ing on tumblr but #Mastodon really encouraged me to make it an actual habit.

Please, if you're able to, add descriptions to the pics you post.

#Fediverse #TwitterMigration #Inclusivity #Ableism #Solidarity

writing malware that will infect a Kindle and replace all the books with ads for mexican beer. that's right, a novel corona virus

Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?