Somnius @somnius@merveilles.town

#introductions

Hey there! I'm Somnius, a white tiger living in SF. I code websites, play indie & rhythm games, love all kinds of music, and turned vegan in the middle of this year.

Things I advocate for: furries, non-monogamy, sex positivity, gender identity, LGBT+ rights, democratic socialism.

All of you here inspire me so much with the amazing things you create. I have so much to learn!

When you detach our own identity from your physical form and start thinking beyond the limits of the physically possible, you can picture yourself however you want.

Maybe your fursona is someone exactly like you, but is also partly your favorite animal. Maybe they're the best parts of you put together. Maybe they're someone extremely different from you—all of this becomes a playground for imagining yourself in different ways, and that can be pretty powerful!

I just sent off a commission request that I've been sitting on for a while, and it's got me thinking about how furries are connected with art and artists.

We have a pretty unique connection with art of our characters, whether you're the one commissioning the artwork or whether you're the artist. Commissioning artwork is relatively common among furries, but not so much outside of that group, in my experience.

Ah, tech jobs. You're not a doctor, but you're still expected to immediately respond at 3am when the server is down.

I guess it's okay to put up with a little bit of this if I get to live how I live right now but being in a state of always working like this kinda sucks!

Check out the release notes for 3.1.0: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.1.0

And 3.1.1: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.1.1

Those are the changes! Hope y'all enjoy, I'm excited about having access to bookmarks now. :3

Awright everyone, welcome to v3.1.1! :D

Hey all! Sorry I'm a little late on this, but I'll be upgrading our instance shortly. There may be a few minutes of downtime, but hopefully there shouldn't be any. I'll let you know how things go! Stay tuned :3

Bleh, not working. I'll keep these separate for now!

Let's see if this works!

Star Trek series now completed:

The Next Generation
Deep Space 9
Voyager
Original Series (just now!)

I've only watched a couple movies, but I wonder… shall I watch the rest of the movies firs before moving on to Enterprise? :3

Yo holy shit, the amount of protocols connected here is nuts https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

Okay, I'm going to upgrade our instance to 3.1.1 this weekend! I'll keep y'all updated, but I plan to do so around Saturday evening-ish PST. Get excited :D

Looks like I gotta get more consistent about removing old remote assets to not drive up S3 costs, I'll be doing that shortly.

But, thanks again for the amazing help, y'all! Continue on being your lovely selves :D

Donations
$84.59 via Patreon

Total: $84.59

Infrastructure Costs
Amazon S3: $37.42
DigitalOcean: $24.68

Total: $62.10

Donations to Date
$1045.28

Infrastructure Costs to Date
$774.16

Money left over
$271.12

Took a photo after the Tycho concert I went to earlier this week and it turned out pretty nice! #theDarkroom

Mastodon 3.1 was announced! I'll be updating our instance to that and also providing a financial update soon. Cheers y'all :D