Craig/Wendell/Foop/whatever @oneswellfoop@octodon.social
Alleged in my spare time.
Living in disability midway 'tween San Luis Obispo and Pismo Beach (right turn at Albuquerque)
Male pronouns but you can call me it
So the local weather forecast calls for incoming thunderstorms... with rain likely evaporating before it hits the ground... not good for our already scary fire danger (I'm in San Luis Obispo County, coast central Cal)
@infini @joshmillard
It's just that there has been a divergence in the definition of Crank (perpetrator of opinions that annoy - nowadays more of a provocateur) and Cranky (synonym for Grouchy).
@infini
that's almost me... (without the long socks and hair bun, but my hair has grown so long a manbun is becoming an option)
@infini @joshmillard
Scalzi (who I knew from when I tried to sell him humor content when he worked for AOL in the '90s) is a True Crank, but not Truly Cranky (there is a diff).
@infini @joshmillard
I don't think Scalzi has ever "done" PKD the way he has "done" Heinlein, Trek ("Redshirts"), Robin Cook ('Lock In" as a better "Coma'), Piper ("Fuzzy" literaly) and OSC ("OMW" as the opposite of "Ender'). He is the sum of many influences but notsomuch Philip K Dick.
I think it's super important that we realize that Mastodon isn't "the next Twitter / Tumblr / whatever". It's not there yet. I was on the ground floor when people were "migrating" to Google Plus, and that went so horribly because we all thought it was gonna kill Facebook tomorrow.
We won't kill *anything* unless we make this a place people want to come to by 1) keeping all oppressors out and 2) making good community / context / posts
Ryan North is the Indisputable Master Genius of Comics (even if T. Rex in Dinosaur Comics has become boring over 14 years), but he got Garfield's Jim Davis (or his art staff) to do a couple pages for Marvel's Squirrel Girl with Galactus as Garfield.
http://ryannorth.tumblr.com/post/166499694784/garfield-creator-jim-davis-is-drawing-a-galactus
@Lafe @MexicanYenta @afabulous @leifandersen
I have been with Metafilter since its beginnings in 1999 as an "open group blog", and followed its expansion into Ask (now its most popular section though the one I DON'T regularly follow) and FanFare (responding to the shutting down of a couple good media sites). AskMeFi has some running jokes ("Can I eat this" questions about expiration dates and relationship questions with 'dump the MF" answers) but it's better than most internet "ask" sites.
It's like Show more
Almost-everybody's-favorite French webcomicker Boulet... ANIMATED!
http://english.bouletcorp.com/2017/10/16/temporal-encounter/
(make sure your YouTube subtitles are on for English translation)
If you think the Internet invented "cute cat videos", check out this Encyclopedia Britannica Film from 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piUN606FFic
@infini best use of iceberg lettuce I've ever seen. signed, Cabbage Lover
@infini As a lifelong WM, I have zero trouble with the idea of "silencing WMs'. The repetitive noise they produce are tedious and boring,
aaarrrggghhh... graphics fail... click on this
http://oneswellfoop.net/media/pics/oneswellfoop2%20220x120.png
A good piece of writing on 'font hate'
https://thebolditalic.com/in-defense-of-papyrus-your-guide-for-when-to-use-despised-fonts-73fd6edcd2a2
Relieved it didn't mention the font I've been overusing in my personal branding since 1980... Bookman Swash https://octodon.social/media/yKGiXw9ldeY9auX_k44
🏳️ (white flag)
picked this up from @Siphonay
https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/000/699/799/original/b7a1ef5f86230bdf.png
who was using a clippy emoji 
for giggles like this : Are you trying to overthrow capitalism?
@MexicanYenta
I'm on Firefox 56 on Windows 10 and the text box has a little emoji face in the corner that opens a dialog box with all the official emojis, plus ones like doge, clippy and trashcan
@MexicanYenta @hellojed
but what if I already didn't care? 
(just discovered mastadon's Custom Emojis)
