Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠
What's a hobby you enjoy, but the act of introducting it to others can be seen as slightly evil? 🪝⁠
Mar 15 at 7:13pmWeb
Show threadPinchy63 🇨🇦Mar 15
@catsalad
Numerology. I have a thing for numbers.
Show threadEpsiMar 15
@catsalad At my old office job I mentioned how I was getting into lockpicking and everyone made jokes I was becoming a career criminal so that's one
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 15
@epsi It's so FUN though! :3
Show threadEpsiMar 15
@catsalad I suck at it, but it is quite fun to pop one and be like 
Show threadDavid G. SmithMar 15
@catsalad @epsi Y’all follow @alice ?
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 16
@iDGS @epsi @alice Only since they joined 🥹
Show threadLord Tom Klopf of CZ Mar 15
@catsalad manipulating others like puppets!
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 15
@thomas_klopf Very useful when driving above the speed limit, though!
Show threadZak Mar 15
@catsalad
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 15
@zak 😹
Show threadaevaMar 15
@catsalad Posting
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 15
@aeva 
Show threadGuenther Schmitz ⏎Mar 15
@catsalad automation 🤷‍♂️
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵Mar 15
@catsalad rocket league. because it will enshittify soon and then it'll be unplayable, so that will be painful for those addicted to it
Show threadpapush!Mar 15
@catsalad drunk driving
Show threadSoftwarewolfMar 15

@catsalad Distance running. It's the friendliest cult you'll ever join.

"Come on, it's just one mile!"
"If you can run one mile, you can run three!"
"If you can run three miles, you can run six!"
"If you can run six miles, you can run ten!"

Next thing you know you're doing a 50K where you have to eat at 8 Taco Bells. https://tacobell50k.com/

Taco Bell 50k

The world's most gastricly demanding ultramarathon

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 16
@faoluin I was in that cult in my youth. A Taco Bell 50k sounds fun as hell LOL!!
Show threadSimon 🐮Mar 16
@faoluin @catsalad Is that supposed to be a natural gas powered run?
Show threadJohn SextonMar 16
@Firesphere @faoluin @catsalad It is a leisurely run (after a wc visit) for a few minutes and then sprint (to the next wc)
Show threadElshara SilverheartMar 16
@sb @faoluin Interesting.
Show threadPer Haps ✅✔✓☑Mar 15
@catsalad steepling my fingers
Show threadNeville ParkMar 15

@catsalad two words:

fountain

pens

Show threadMichael GemarMar 16
@nev @catsalad Yeah, that cult has taken my spouse…
Show threaddevlogicMar 15
@catsalad lockpicking!
Show thread[screaming moth]Mar 15
@catsalad attacking someone with a sword
Show threadOzzelot Mar 15
@catsalad Probably most things I do
Show threadChrisMar 15
@catsalad tommy tanking
Show threadJohn Q McDonaldMar 15
@catsalad napping
Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 16
@jqmcd Nap gang, best gang!
Show threadBillMar 16

@catsalad @jqmcd

Cuddle puddle with the dogs (or cats if you got 'em)!

Show threadInsiderTreatMar 15
@catsalad Magic the Gathering
Show threadFritz AdalisMar 15
@catsalad
Self-hosting.
Show threadCANELA BLANCAMar 15
@catsalad Being alive.
Show threadMichiel PiscaerMar 15
@catsalad my understanding of a hobby is that you are ok with just burning money just for the fun of it.
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyMar 15
@catsalad Not inherently evil, but bowling. No one wants to enjoy my slice of entertainment.
Show threadcR0w   🏴‍☠️Mar 15
@catsalad shitposting
Show threadInsiderTreatMar 15
@cR0w @catsalad easy to learn, hard to master.
Show threadcR0w   🏴‍☠️Mar 15
@InsiderTreat @catsalad Are you talking about baiting again?
Show threadInsiderTreatMar 15
@cR0w @catsalad do I ever talk about anything else?
Show threadcR0w   🏴‍☠️Mar 15
@InsiderTreat @catsalad 
Show threadkwayk42Mar 15
@catsalad according to capitalism, I'm evil for trying to make things on my own instead of buying them. Also for not giving my stuff away for free so corporations can sell it instead
Show threadComrade WeezMar 15
@catsalad I have cursed many with #hamradio. It will eat up all their time and money and I can cutely and innocently claim I am merely helping improve technolgical learning and emergency preparedness, then I will snicker up my sleeve, knowing I've fully gotten away with it again
Show threadFennixMar 15

@catsalad

Factorio.

Show threadcrypticcelery 🔜 EH23Mar 16
@fennix @catsalad was about to reply this. For the right kind of person, it can become a real dangerous time sink…
Show threadGreg HaaseMar 15
Can I introduce you to this book "The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing" by Charlie Papazian?
Show threadBirds Books and BullshitMar 15
@catsalad Mastodon would excommunicate me if I shared my evil hobby. Others would be stoked, but Mastodon would ride me out on a rail.
Show threadAlisdair Calder McGregorMar 15
@catsalad Photography. Fun hobby, but it's simultaneously expensive, full of deeply nerdy technical stuff, and contains people with obscure decades old beef with one another.
Show threadAlexMar 16
@catsalad astrophotography... how to make photography cost more, slap a telescope into the mix 😅
Show threadsexy blue and purple octopusMar 16

@alex As if photography wasn't expensive enough 🥲 It's one of the things I would definitely get into if I had some spare money and darker skies where I live.

@catsalad

Show threadohesoMar 16
@catsalad Cycling: Wave bye-bye to all your disposable income.
Show threadDusk to Don Mar 16

@catsalad

Modular synthesizers

_I_ don't enjoy modular (I do love synths); two of my friends love it.

Show threadAlien software, human hardwareMar 16
@catsalad #EveOnline
. low chance it will infect the other person, but if it does, it really sticks.
Show threadPaul BoneMar 16
@catsalad home automation. Unless it accessibility for a disabled person then it's benevolent.
Show threadDFYXMar 16

@catsalad Tabletop miniatures. It starts out harmless enough. You get a board game with some nice minis and want to paint them. So you get a few paints and a cheap brush...

After a year you have spent hundreds on more paints, more minis, more brushes, an airbrush, a compressor and probably a resin 3D printer.

You drown in plastic crack without the slightest chance of ever painting even half of it, let alone getting it on the table afterwards.

Show threadOrjanMar 16
@catsalad Historical reenactment. Community, camping, crafting, combat - an unlimited number of rabbit holes to dive into.
Show threadJamey SharpMar 16
@catsalad typography. teaching people to recognize bad kerning is cruel but, well, misery loves company
Show threadGergely NagyMar 16

@catsalad Mechanical keyboards. Especially combined with equipment ergonomics.

Good luck getting out of those rabbit holes. (But their health will thank them, so perhaps not that evil afterall!)