howfar @howfar@octodon.social
aka @amancalledprak - I like tabletop RPGs, housing law and overthinking genre fiction. #MeFite
How do you dress for a work presentation when only half the audience knows your gender? It's in a small town, you'll have to use the men's toilets and it distresses the local blokes if you look "too femme". However, you'll also need to discuss said gender with several work people and you'll need to look "femme enough" for those conversations go smoothly. If your choices make too many people uncomfortable there will be consequences. Does Miss Manners have an etiquette guide for this situation?
I am very pleased to have had an interesting conversation about TV and memory today with @DaveHiggins and @jlward. It made my day more cheerful and I learned some new things. ๐
We had no idea who or what Doctor Who was. We just stumbled onto the show, jumped in, and started watching. We were so confused when Tom Baker died and changed into a completely different man. Seriously. We walked around the house for weeks trying to figure that out. And this was pre-internet so unless you knew someone in real life, you were out of luck.
@howfar I suspect they are referring to boredom stemming from incorrect values, i.e. people are so focused on the now of notifications and status updates that they don't know how to live properly.
Or they are trying to suggest that going to church is fun.
I am puzzled by the decision to put this up outside a Baptist church, eternal life being typically regarded as something of a selling point. Any suggestions as to a significance that I'm missing?
DID YOU KNOW? History's greatest troll simultaneously gaslit all of the world's major cities in the latter half of the 19th century
For sale
Juice bag
Never squeezed
Heart full of napalm / stomach full of Flumps
... We have floors in our living room and dining room especially that we got a hot water upright cleaner to clean, but we'd also like to refresh the original polish, if this is possible and not too scammy. Any thoughts?
I had never heard of the plum equivalent of cider, plum jerkum, until today. It sounds like the sort of thing Nanny Ogg would brew in her shed, and not *just* because she'd enjoy the double entendres.
Everybody! I have solved the "Chicken or Egg" paradox!
Allow me to crudely sketch out this historic proof on my phone.
MY BRAIN: I am the best, nobody can sabotage this guy as good as I can
MY BODY: Hold my beer
I'll say this: choosing an instance is not just about the domain name, it's about do you trust the admin and what is this instance culture and _how does this instance enact that culture_, and circumscribing a non-toxic universe is a perfectly valid way to define a culture.
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Interlacing Menger sponges in oils. Penciled two sponges on, laid down stripes of drafting tape, painted this first layer with one sponge and background (all in cadmiums), peeled. Now to let it dry for a week or so and then tape the painted bits and do the other sponge in blues in the gaps.
It's that time of year in the West Country when you get lulled into thinking that summer has come and will last for months, forgetting that Glastonbury festival happens in June and that the gods won't pass up the chance to soak a student just because you like barbecues.
I've just started reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafรณn. It's been a very long time since I've read a novel. A few pages in, it's nice! What are you reading? #readinglist
I refuse to get over the fact that you could be lucky enough to live at this intersection in Manhattan in a beautiful, historic neighborhood that looks like the set of the Great Gatsby.
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the wonderful witches of witches.town have introduced me to the glyph ๊ฎ
it is "multiocular O", a variant of Cyrillic O that is used in certain religious texts in a phrase that translates to "many-eyed seraphim" and basically nowhere else
I honestly am having a hard time thinking of a single witchier Unicode character unless the Leviathan cross is hidden somewhere in the codeplanes
Folks who are missing a "translate" feature on mastodon. Install the Google Translate app on your phones or extension on your browsers.
It's not great, but better than nothing!
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