howfar @howfar@octodon.social
aka @amancalledprak - I like tabletop RPGs, housing law and overthinking genre fiction. #MeFite
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:
"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.
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
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.
DADDY CHIPS
#knuckletats (but you have to use the thumbs too)
One of the things I think about a lot is Terry Pratchett's brand of optimistic humanism. The later novels that focus on different professions seem sort of Nietzschean in their emphasis on the creation and importance of particular value in a context, rather than on abstract goods. "There is no Justice, there is just us" seems like a pithy summary of a certain sort of resistance against nihilism.
Hello! I'd like to make some friends! I am so very tired right now, having spent the day walking around town, feeding squirrels & dodging newly laid tarmac paths. Sleep is imminent! But I'd still like to hear from nice people. I've tended only to 'lurk' elsewhere so it's a bit of a test of myself here... I think I need hashtags, yes? Um... Stuff I like includes: #arts #cinema #education... I play the #clarinet & #sax + a bit of #piano. I used to be really good at #drawing but now I'm not. You?
[[clapping hands]] GET JOHN DARNIELLE ON MASTO
One of the things I have loved the last two summers has been gardening for the local brewpubs. It's finally warm enough to start working. Meanwhile, these--Magic Molly and Russian banana fingerling potato seeds--arrived today. Where's the emoji for "serene with anticipation"?
I've recently got into listening to Hound of the Baskervilles as a bedtime story (the Simon Vance readings complete Sherlock Holmes was one credit on Audible and it's brilliant), mainly for the charmingly stuffy Victorian atmosphere of the interview scenes. My only concern is that I might tragically lose the ability to tell fantasy from reality and start supporting Brexit.
