Hi, I'm Daniel! At the recommendation of @starbreaker, here's my introduction. I'm a fantasy author and freelance writer. I dabble in far too many subject but am into:
#fantasy (I write books)
#bmovies and #cultmovies (I enjoy the subversive qualities of 80s cinema, but find devotional nostalgia boring)
#scifi (mostly of the cult and b-movie kind)
#philosophy (mostly #stoicism but also #buddhism)
tabletop #rpg
And #linux although mostly as a tool that gets out of my way.
some people say that social media rots your brain
to those people, I say: whomst'd've
βWhy isnβt the new year on winter solstice?β
The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.
My grandparents decided to learn Welsh when they were 65. After two years of lessons in it (and talking Welsh with me at home, I was going to a Welsh school and was already fluent), they were fluent. My grandmother, around the same time, decided to overcome her phobia of water and had me teach her how to swim. She'd swim laps with me in the pool up into her 80s.
You're not too old and it's not too late to try something new.
Please direct your friends to joinmastodon.org or another instance of your choice like octodon.social, toot.cat or toot.cafe, etc. mastodon.social is "default" choice for a lot of people and it's getting kinda hammered right now.
If you click on the #introduction hashtag it'll open a new column. Click the 'settings' icon in the top of the column and then 'pin' it.
Now you have a never-ending stream of new mastodon users telling you about themselves.
Introduce yourself, welcome them, make friends! :)
if you dream and wish hard enough, the loose fluff from your dog will become real! j/k, she's a lost doggo someone dropped off 'cos they thought she was Sunny. don't worry, tiny doggo is chipped, so her owner will be found (we took her to the vets) https://mastodon.social/media/viKbWMuldrFF15fgo4M
the best worst thing about UEFI is that it allows the kind of person who designed registry tweaking utilities, winamp skins and mainboard monitoring tools in 1998 to make boot menus
christ did I spend a lot of my mid-20s dancing with other sweaty shirtless hairy men
trying to think of distracting activities for my fairly immobile mom with Alzheimer's Show more
WiFi causes autism! But solar & thermal radiation don't?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/10/24/not-the-cell-phones-cause-autism-crap-again/
If an indie dev can just add accessibility based on a random offhand comment, what excuse do big studios have?
https://twitter.com/j_millerworks/status/922321108245843969 https://mastodon.social/media/79LJ6G_VCq7_jz_fhHQ
Just found this, it may interest some people here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies
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#StephenFry talking at 'BellLabs about the modern pandoras jar, the internet. And artificial inteligence, big data, ethics, moral and many other things my (and maybe your) head is spinning around oftenly.
Oh, and its very entertaining.
The speak is one hour and then there is a discussion
I am the cruelest human, for I have gone into the room of evil water and ~shut the door~ and lo, the kitteh cannot rescue me from my bad decisions nor watch water as it disappears down the drain
woe
woe
truly, the #cats are forsaken
so say they with paws edging under the door
tho yea and verily, if I chose to go into the monstrous water creature, they would not rescue me, just watch and wait for my safe return
now they hold vigil, for all is lost. why did I shut the door?
weekly reminder to backup your important data.
RAID is not a backup.