Today in the back shop: Beach Boys and a detailed, introspective discussion of the meaning of 'umami'
There's nothing like hearing your daughter exclaim 'ooh look! Ladybug exoskeletons!'
At work, I frequently eat lunch in my car. This isn't meant to make me sound sad or lonely; I just really like watching the groundhog drama unfold across the ditch from the parking lot.
The best part of being the boss is having to fix Quadro driver update issues after Patch Tuesday.
"Owners of electric juicers will find this attachment convenient for cleaning hats."
(From Popular Mechanics 1933)
The people who run our local ReStore are like cheery pagan monks. My happy place.
Six tomato plants in the bed. In the background, a white peach tree on one side of the compost bin, and an Gravenstein apple tree on the other. https://octodon.social/media/qpJ3H2Lbu4UhihdCL_8
Hey dudes. Don't @ women telling them to not speak about their experience with harassment.
It is, in fact, more harassment.
17 days ago: oh wow. this social media is quirky. not sure if I'll leave <bird site> but this is neat
now: I have three accounts, setting up my own instance, and have had better interactions with people than I've had in the 6+ years of using twitter.
thank you all, very much.
to combat "hey guys" a friend of mine made a site that will give you a gender neutral alternative every time you refresh
(Noodling hat: ON)
So, we're getting a lot of new instances. Like, nearly 90 new ones in the last 24 hours. This is great.
Here's my concern: $5 and I can get a new instance up and going in about an hour. Do it enough and I bet I can get it down to 5 minutes, including domain registration. This makes a blocklist impractical for protecting against hostile actors with money, time, and skills.
What we may need, more than a global blacklist, is a global whitelist.
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Net Flix or other streaming services should offer a watch together option where people can watch a movie synched up and talk to each other.
yo now my mastodon account has 1/2 my number twitter followers.
I know, I know, you're saying "but catdad, the numbers don't matter" and you're right.
But it's just interesting to me to see how many people want to listen when I just post about whatever I want to instead of trying to "be focused" or "interesting" about some topic.
My twitter originally was _all_ work / programming things. Then it devolved into political garbage, and now I rarely use it. Mastodon feels like home already π
Now that I said that,
I'm not so sure that "in whack" would be better.
No.
Wait.
Yes, it would.
I could watch the 5th Element 2.17x10^9 times. Oh wait, I have.
Related: this week has been a fun journey of substituting matzoh for everything. We made a matzodilla with cheese and guacamole. It was tits.
@spiderrobotpig debating somebody right now over this. Basic attitude: "hey if you don't like something, block it. Troll control is an imposition on freedom".
Asked him if he was white cishet guy: "Um yea but so what?"
I always hit an impasse hereβhow do you explain harassment to someone who doesn't experience it and doesn't care about people who do?
(I remember someone said this re: defending the ACA:) "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people.")
LB: me, anytime I've been in online communities ever. here I'm working hard to not be concerned and actually have fun and get to know people. it's a difficult obsession to break, though
LA is surprisingly quiet right at this moment but somehow I can't figure out how to make 'tinnitus' sound ethereal. Fuck yeah, anyway.
Dear friend taught me the magic of transplanting seedlings with a soup spoon and here I was thinking I was such hot shit until now.
