Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)

@kmactane

NYC/SF front-end web dev who loves fun, efficient UX. Cocktail and sci-fi fan, feminist, accessibility advocate, 🥓 and 🍣 lover, progressive SJW.

Brooklyn and San Francisco

kagan.mactane.org/blog/

Joined November 2008

Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)
@kmactane
Feb 4, 2023
Writing question: I have a female character who likes motorcycles. She's 29, grew up in the US. What are some movie/TV/etc. characters that might have been formative "girls can ride motorcycles? Cool, I wanna do that when I grow up!" influences? #motorcycle #ActionGirls
Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)
@kmactane
Jan 28, 2023
.@Iconfactory has 16.1k followers on Twitter and about 4.1k on Mastodon. Their last tweet received a mere 9 likes/3 retweets, and an amazing 287 favorites/163 boosts on Mastodon. Even "followers" don’t SEE what you’re saying here anymore. Why stay?
mastodon.social
Ged Maheux (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images The @[email protected] has 16.1k “followers” on Twitter and currently about 4.1k here on Mastodon. Our last post received a whopping 9 likes and 3 retweets on Twitter...
Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)
@kmactane
Jan 14, 2023
Tired: I'm not joining #Mastodon because I'm scared of picking the wrong instance. Wired: It doesn't matter; I can move instances later, and *nobody will even notice* if I don't tell them! mindly.social/@PixelJones/10… Make the switch. It's really nice over there!
mindly.social
PixelJones (@[email protected])
Amazing. I found out that two of the "big people" I follow (@[email protected] and @[email protected]) changed #Mastedon instances and it was invisible to me & their _thousands_ of followers....
Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)
@kmactane
Dec 18, 2022
In case you were following Taylor Lorenz, the WaPo tech reporter who was suspended *on Saturday* (i.e., *after* Musk "reinstated" at least some, but by no means all, of the previous round of censored journalists), she's on That Other Site: @taylorlorenz@(not-elephant).social.
Kagan MacTane @[email protected] (he/him)
@kmactane
Dec 10, 2022
[A major] social media network... has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (possibly and possibly user) information for partisan/ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections.
sciences.social
Chanders (@[email protected])
At this point the most important elite social media network in the western world has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (and possibly user) information for partisan...