Second Bird @bradamant@octodon.social

First, sit on my chest and tickle my face with her whiskers. If I roll over, try kneading my neck with her claws while purring. Next, walk back and forth over my torso a few times. NEW STEP: given the opportunity, get under the covers and curl up; shortly thereafter freak out about being trapped. Finally, stand next to pillow to supervise alarm-turning off. Make a beeline for the kitchen where there is always food left.

@RebelMoogle Cool. BTW, as far as the VR event goes, I mostly get jetlagged flying east and feel super-productive-early-riser flying west, so I say go for it.

@RebelMoogle I haven't been back and I know it must have changed so much, because it was changing so fast when I lived there. I miss the food the most.

@emily I am also Emily and used to live in Brooklyn and honestly can't tell whether or not you are a fellow cat and bike-loving Emily I already know or not. :joy:

"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."

#piano
#cats
#running
#biking
#deutsch
#nederlands
#cookingwhilesemiironicallybingewatchingterribledatedtvshows

@myles Ugh, yes! But the promising difference I see is that Google Wave immediately prompted a sense of awkwardness and unease (am I emailing or IMing? should I wait for the other person?), where Mastodon sites seem to be prompting a sort of giddiness. Fingers crossed!

@RebelMoogle So I almost forgot that I saw this earlier but I scrolled back and found it! I am back home in Philly now but lived in SEA from 2012-2015. Moving there is summer is the way to do it--it's beautiful then.

Just saw my first bad toot (the fourteen words) which garnered a "Last tweet of this kind before ban" message from an admin within 4 minutes. *raises a glass to our Mastodon hosts*

@andyonhere I believe we have selected Mr. Clean as our leader.

@oldhat Exactly! And I've reached the point where I have nothing to contribute because so many people are saying the same thing. Just retweet and zing, meh.

Things I won't miss from the bird place: Nazis, political bots, threads, #brands, nested quoted tweets that don't pay off when you get to the bottom, institutional accounts that exist for PR without thinking about what content a follower wants to see, accounts that tweet with so many abbreviations and hashtags that you can't derive sense from it, brands that tweet the same content multiple times per day, being forced to make grammatical errors to fit in 140 characters, and oh yeah, Donald Trump.

I am responsible for a data center and am about to close on a house, so now I spend all my time thinking about air-conditioning.

@eenor My secret is just always using it without thinking, even though I haven't necessarily actively liked it since about 1998. Sometimes people think I'm a guy called Brad, and once someone tried to launch a line of bodysuits called Bradamant, but I had the username everywhere so they gave up after clogging my mentions for year or so. Ha!

@orielle That's actually more clever, I think, to know of a similar-sounding but totally different interesting animal. Cheers @CobaltVelvet.

@eenor And now I'm worried about my username! :P I took bradamant which I've used since the 90s but maybe I should have snagged Emily somewhere while I still could.

@RebelMoogle Ah, I see, there's a lot more info on about/more! Well, that sounds pretty good to me. I'd trust a competent sysadmin with my life. :)

Only thing I don't like about this so far: not knowing what it means to choose one mastodon server over another, and anxiety that I have chosen wrong for some reason I don't know yet. That said, I'm envisioning the Octodon as a many-armed furry prehistoric creature, which I rather like. And I don't *think* I'm having any problems with remote following.