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@aredridel
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I live a life of dissent.

they/she/Aria

Actually @aredridel is totally my jam. Go find me there.

I need to figure out what Mastodon insances have the good local community I want to be involved with.

Mastodon doesn't form community quite the way I normally experience it. Pitching in and helping is hard here. It's a bunch of individuals, but not quite a community. Some form anyway, but it's not quite right. I wonder how that can be improved.

I think Twitter might be over for me. Or getting there fast.
big dumb cat friend on Twitter

“A story about @ZarrocBrisingr”

Twitter

Best life advice I've received:

1) Turn a screw backward until you feel a bump to prevent cross-threading.

2) For good posture, think about leading with your sternum. (Thanks, @kurtm!)

3) If you find someone's passions interesting or admirable, tell them so! We don't need to reserve our compliments for achievements.

We have now restored the sun to its normal functioning state. Maintenance was carried out successfully and we anticipate no lingering problems or further downtime. However, please report any experiences of dimness, flickering, altered color balance or other solar phenomena promptly so we may address any issues.

#Eclipse2017

neither vim nor nano will help fend off existential dread.

there probably is an emacs lisp script for that though, but who can remember the key chord for it?

the thing about data in charts is that you don't really see very much about the individual data points. you miss common themes and details if you just sort them by worked/didn't work
telling yourself that everything is awful, & nothing can be fixed, is a marvelously expedient way to absolve yourself of responsibility. There is nothing about an apocalyptic worldview that obligates you to give up any of the comforts and conveniences that have accrued to you as a consequence of global injustice; & you get to feel superior to all those tender fools who still believe that a kinder world is possible! (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-regrettable-decline-of-space-utopias)
"Tanuki, what about 'adult food'? There's nothing about that term that is pornographic!" No, machine learning has spoken:
https://mastodon.social/media/9Gths79sQV8lbYOY4tI
https://mastodon.social/media/lqemFsMSZtRY6fpqVtg