howfar @howfar@octodon.social
aka @amancalledprak - I like tabletop RPGs, housing law and overthinking genre fiction. #MeFite
@infini Yeah, to be fair I'm not following it myself, just noticed it was there. I'm currently torn between being fascinated by current politics and too depressed to look.
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@infini Looks like you're following 4 people, from my perspective.
@Ada Avoiding this is like trying to practice mindfulness, though. Thoughts about the exercise are still just thoughts, and meta-meta-conversation is still just meta-conversation.
I think, though, that things might well work themselves out here. Ironically probably because I'm already following a bunch of interesting people from Metafilter! :)
9-year-old: What’s that symbol on your shirt?
Me: You need to keep reading your Harry Potter. It’s the symbol of the Deathly Hallows.
9yo: Oh. I thought it was for the Illuminati.
Me: :no_mouth:
@Ipsifendus Yes. It has been suggested that particular change is to avoid confusion with the Efficient Baxter. And, of course, there are issues with the way that the fictional timeline runs against the real one - e.g. Ring for Jeeves seems to take place in postwar Britain. I prefer the attitude that Wodehouse eventually adopted (in response to his critics, who would hiss "Edwardian" despite its notable lack of a sibilant), that he was writing, in later years, historical fiction.
"Eggs! Eggs! Damn all eggs!" - Lord Worplesdon predicts the decline of Twitter.
I could really use some help with macOS UI work for this Mastodon client I'm working on. I'm struggling ridiculously with the core concept of NSTableView cell resizing.
Please boost.
About a year ago I started an attempt to read through *most* of P. G. Wodehouse. I'd figured out, from what I'd already read and from checking wikipedia, that a big chunk of what he wrote is loosely in continuity. Any time he reused a character or a setting in more than one story, that story is in continuity with every *other* such occasion. I'm about a quarter of the way through that mass of interconnected stories now, and it's turned out to be one of the best reading choices I've ever made.
@Ipsifendus I've never approached Wodehouse in order (partly because the stuff before his general stylistic shift around the time of WW1 does not usually appeal to me as much), but I enjoy the richness of the continuity too - although there are, of course, some disconnects, most notably Lord Worplesdon seeming to have two entirely separate lives.
@Ipsifendus I'm similar. Ken is one of the great showmen - a hyperintellectual PT Barnum.
Although (almost embarrassingly when I think about the trauma for lots of EEA nationals living in the UK in particular), the largest single effect the Brexit vote has had on *me* so far is curbing my online RPG buying by making the $:£ exchange rate so much closer.
Things are looking very vernal!
Can people get a little better at boosting toots they like? Those of us on small instances who are looking for new content must basically discover new accounts through boosts from those we already follow.
#mastodon #fediverse #gnusocial
@ljpg Good news. :) It seems nice. The terminology around Mastodon is a bit opaque - but then think of the bafflement that people first experienced about Twitter...
@ljpg You have joined one! It's an individual server hosting a version of Mastodon. Your account is on the octodon.social instance.
There's a miserable irony in the fact that the phrase "mother of all bombs" is based on a calque from Arabic popularised by the despotic butcher Saddam Hussein.
@sonicbooming Sleep well fellow chump!
@komara I think he was in the year above me when I was studying at Cardiff.
