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tiddy rooseveltThe fedi isn't like email. The fedi is like if you accidentally triple booked a bdsm convention, a FSF convention, and a communist workers AGM all in the same german arena
syn@babe somehow I had tickets for all 3
13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
Stlex 
@babe this should be in the official documentation somewhere
@infernusgoatus it would help people understand the vibe
posiputt ÖvÖ@babe wie bitte!
Sadie! 
@babe that is strangely accurate
Dreamwinder@babe Also, there’s college professors who signed up for more than one of these events.
Andrew Benedict-Nelson@dreamwinder @babe are there CEUs?
Another Angry Woman@babe this is the best goddamn analogy I've ever seen for the vibes here, and it's worth noting that for half the attendees it's very Germanly efficient because they wanted to go to all three conferences in the first place
@stavvers and they all popped in to see what was going on in the cyclists convention next door
like somehow you can come up with something which seems to fucking unrelated and yet *waves arms in the general direction of the federated tl*
Passenger
Steffi the Redhead
Tony Wells
Air Adam
Eleanor Saitta
modulux@babe And this is why we like it. :)
Matt Hodgkinson@babe That's my spam folder.
Eragon@babe You forgot the german furry convention too. They where right next to the bdsm and FSF one.
Advanced Persistent Teapot
Mx Autumn 
@babe you're not wrong 
Troed Sångberg@babe I'm here for the bdsm convention. Ich habe wie Deutsch gelernen prepariert.
not a martian, honest@babe I don't have so much bdsm in my timeline, I think I got the furry convention instead.
Aaron
Tim Panton@babe Back in the late 80s I went to a small Xwindows conference in Boston. The conference hotel was also hosting a Dental conference.
The sharply dressed East Coast Dental professionals looked askance at the hairy sandal wearing MIT dropout crowd.
Getting in a lift was a source of continuing amusement to me.
Siobhán Greaney (Shivers)@steely_glint @babe
Airport hotel in Birmingham used on occasion for the Discworld Convention also hosted large weddings for the Birmingham Indian and Pakistani community, and sometimes other businessey conferences at same time. My memory is a little hazy but I *think* I saw an Avon saleswoman get in a lift with gentlemen in suits, ladies in saris, and someone in costume as a 7ft skeleton in black robes with glowing blue eyes.
Airport hotel in Birmingham used on occasion for the Discworld Convention also hosted large weddings for the Birmingham Indian and Pakistani community, and sometimes other businessey conferences at same time. My memory is a little hazy but I *think* I saw an Avon saleswoman get in a lift with gentlemen in suits, ladies in saris, and someone in costume as a 7ft skeleton in black robes with glowing blue eyes.
John Maxwell@shivers @steely_glint @babe DefCon 2009(?). Shared the Riviera with the national association of gospel singers (not capitalized because that's not their proper name, which I don't remember.) Some interesting elevator conversations.
kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️🌈
Brian Nisbet@kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Not only did it happen, but the hotel later asked me to ask said skeleton to not wear the full costume in the non-convention areas as apparently some of the guests were disturbed by him!
See also scantily clad barbarians drinking from drinking horns across from wedding guests.
Can't possibly understand why eight foot *looming* skeletons with glowing eyes in communal spaces would possibly be perceived as a problem.
I'm still amazed that somehow every hotel didn't end up with blue body paint on every surface.
@kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Well, in the case of the Brum Metropole, it was because we were very cheeky told if the relevant people didn't take extreme care the hotel would forbid body paint and go further if necessary.
Mike Knell
Marco Villalta@natural20 @kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Didn't somebody also raise a complaint about Butcher at some point?
@villtin @kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Not that I was ever aware of, either in Ops or as Chair. However I do remember our wonderful liaison at the hotel telling me how she'd gently escorted him to the lift in the early hours of the morning after he'd feel asleep in the bar.
Thomas =:-)
Cat Ashton Ryan@shivers @steely_glint @babe this year it's at the same time as Festival of Quilts at the NEC... My quilting friends seem quite amused by the dwcon antics. 😄
Rachel Wright@shivers @steely_glint @babe I was once changing trains at Birmingham New Street to go to an embroidery show, and looked down the platform to see a six-foot rainbow unicorn in platform boots striding towards me, flanked by an elf and a superhero....
Yves L. Jardin-Noam@babe
Do you, uh, do you still have tickets? Asking for a friend.
Do you, uh, do you still have tickets? Asking for a friend.
peter@babe this is just hamburg
@babe briefly lived in a vegan antifa warehouse in hamburg in 2012 where we showered with a watering can, went dumpster diving and had 100mbps internet
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Quinn Blueheart 🔞✍️🔥@babe And here I thought it was only my timeline! 🤣
Nothings Monstered@babe Bluesky is similar, except fewer software nerds and more furries
Neven Falica@babe Oh damn, this is an amazingly fit description! Love it! 🤩
Rhinos Worry Me has moved"Accidentally"?? 😂
𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e@babe
Luckily fully a third of the attendees had booked tickets for two of the three in the first place
Luckily fully a third of the attendees had booked tickets for two of the three in the first place
@babe The model train people are somewhat irked at not being mentioned, I suspect.
Ciarán O'Brien@babe and somehow it all kind of sort of works anyway
joël@babe isn't that just the big chaos computer club event at the end of the year?
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@babe
I'd book for that.
I'd book for that.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
@babe Fedi meetups sometimes be like that.
Caspar Addyman@babe "accidentally"
Clara@babe Oh Ja Ja Ja!
Kim Key@babe Oh wow... I clearly do not follow the right fedi folk. At no point has anyone on my feed casually worked in an anecdote about their urine-obsessed landlord midway through a 16-toot diatribe about cybersecurity best practices
Condorito
ᴚ uɐᗡ@babe PFFFT.
"accidentally"
UrsaEthically manufactured leather lederhosen and a multilingual Debian package for my raspberry pi all in one place?! Yes please!
watzon@babe no wonder I like it here
Lyle Solla-Yates@babe resisting the powerful urge to graph this
Helle, Queen of Dissociation 
@babe sure feels like home