Calamity Jan 🐍 @vjgoh@octodon.social
Cyclist at Large, Secret Asian man 🇨🇦
Here's how to say my name:
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I've been watching someone hate-read Ready Player One on Facebook live and I can't believe that a) this book was published; b) this book was popular; and c) this book was made into a movie. Such unrelenting garbage.
"As God has renounced himself out of love, so we, out of love, should renounce God; for if we do not sacrifice God to love, we sacrifice love to God, and, in spite of the predicate of love, we have the God – the evil being – of religious fanaticism."
I think I really need to read more Feuerbach.
I don't even look at the federated stream anymore. I actually just have one person in that column so I can follow what she's tooting without it getting lost in the mix
Okay, how am I gonna manage this mastodon thing? I think part of my problem is that I AM interested in politics and news, and so much of this place is politics and news free for good reason.
Anyway, more of the people I like from twitter are showing up here, so that should help.
So...
I find it really baffling how so much of the great political insight I get is on Twitter, in 140 character snippets. The long thread format has really caught on despite it being the exact opposite of what the site was intended for.
I am still alive and here! That means you get pictures of my hair!
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Yay, Hermeowne visited! #nekoatsume
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Basically, we've got 500 characters to actually type interesting things out and talk about what's going on and have discussions, and I mostly see it used for things less meaningful or interesting or educational than what I'm getting on birbsite.
I DEFINITELY get that my white, male, privileged experience of most of the internet is that I get to pick what I see, so I'm happy to have to sift through a little more noise to find the signal I'm looking for here if it means other people are safer.
And then there's the problem of maybe TOO many CWs? At this point, it's probably better than too few for a lot of things, but I see CWs for random stuff, and it starts to make me wonder if it's worth clicking on or if I'm just going to see another 'bloop' with nothing else meaningful behind it.
And if you're unhappy with capitalism or your government or whatever, I don't think that's CW-worthy, honestly. But everyone has their own line there that they're comfortable with, so I get it.
I don't use Mastodon much now that the shine has come off, and I think it's largely because it's hard to find the kind of content I'm looking for. There are some great people that I've followed and I'm happy for that and that's why I'm still here, but there's a lot of noise and for some people this noise IS the signal.
Like, I'm not interested in random posts with noises and emojis in them day in and day out. It's cool if you do it, it's just not what I'm into.
A tiny almost luminous moth flew in to the house and came to rest on a door frame.
It's a Small Grass Emerald, relatively scarce, with a contracting habitat.
We share this world with fragile things just going on their way, not knowing that we gave them names longer than their own wings.
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I'm not completely anti-social. I talk to my swim teammates on deck for a long time after practice. Really, I think there's nothing like a desk job to make an introvert be happy about two weeks where he sees almost nobody.
My partner has been away for a couple weeks, and I've been on vacation for most of that, and I'm really not lonely at all, despite being alone for most of the time. I miss her, of course, but I feel pretty content to just do my thing and talk to my cats.
This is even more amusing when you consider that I'm poly—what kind of poly guy is happy when he's alone? Well, now you can say you totally know a guy who is.
I was going to go out, but Taco has taken up a spot on my leg and I can't.
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Interesting collective nouns for animals:
Skein (geese)
Tower (giraffes)
Charm (goldfinches)
Dopping (goosanders)
Rasp (guineafowl)
Husk (hares)
Boil (2+ hawks circling)
Kettle (hawks, other birds, large #s, circling)
Cast or lease (hawks)
Array (hedgehogs)
Siege (herons)
Bloat (hippos)
Bike (hornets)
Harrase (horses)
Cackle (hyenas)
I was just doing g and h animals today. Terms of venery are weird.
