@Annalee I don't care the least about figure skating, but I have randomly endedup Twitter following several people who are really into it and it's adorable and wonderful and fascinating watching it all on my timeline.

It's the best seeing people enthusiastic and engaged in their interests.

@Annalee Okay first I seriously want to be friends with this Breyer horses friend of yours, I was in love with those horses as a kid but was never allowed one for some reason and have been plotting to get some as an adult they're so neat!

Also I feel like IG in particular has become so... weirdly limiting? Like I love my community and need to return to it, but I want to discuss foods I wouldn't necessarily recommend and that's tough on that platform when it feels like a post equals endorsement.

@Annalee this is the main reason I love going to tiny museums - it's exactly that energy but in a real physical space

https://www.niche-museums.com hosts my collection so far

@Annalee .

I love to #selfhost things. In fact the #mastodon #instance that this account belongs to is self hosted. This took me like 5 hours to do, because it took me a while to realize that @team's docker image did not include #postgres, and #redis, which are a requirement to host mastodon. Once I got mastodon up and running however, I could not create an account without an #SMTP server. I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to get that working

@Annalee so true.

When we're little, everyone is interesting.

Then we learn boredom. By our teenage years many people and topics are boring. We sneer, to belong.

Then as we grow/age, we hopefully rediscover that everyone is interesting, if they care, if you allow yourself to see.
There's no industry, no hobby, that isn't interesting

one thing social media seems to do is shrink that sneer phrase for teenagers, by widening options for belonging, that's a win, imo

and I've so waffled off 😳

@Annalee I'm taking your advice 😆

https://cupoftea.social/@Richard/109563318176879326

@Annalee

This is a thing I'm trying to shift in my mind.

It's hard, bc often when I need the social vitamins the most, I'm least inclined to put myself out there, like, at all.

@Annalee not my video but I do watch it every time I’m going to service my bike’s fork.

https://youtu.be/OmehC5MJDHE

@Annalee I love hobbies and nerds!

I regularly meet up with brass music enthusiasts who collect and play late 19th and early 20th century instruments, such as valve trombones, alto horns with the special Swedish valves (third valve lowers slightly more than four half-tones instead of tye customary three) and tubas of meager design and function. Together we play waltzes, marches, and polkas that no-one thought they wanted to hear but everyone loves.

@Annalee I charge all my portable electronics (phone, laptops, power tools, vacuum, anything with a battery) using solar juice. Lately I've been using a Jackery as a big solar bucket to collect the juice, then I use 12v car adapters off that to charge devices or smaller battery packs.

I have a 90w Dell car adapter and a 90w DC barrel jack adapter as well, but I needed a USB-C adapter.

Bought a crappy one on Amazon, branded "Scruak" of all madness. It overheated instantly.