Jay Knight ♞

@jayknight
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Orthodox Christian, Software engineer, Space nerd, Coffee nerd, Plain old nerd.

https://jayknight.com

Why do none of Trump’s ‘jokes’ feel like jokes?

Perhaps he’s doing his own version of Andy Kaufman’s Tony Clifton, but he never breaks character.

The Washington Post
@Gargron
How? Not sure... But why? Here's Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/HfHgUu_8KgA
Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps

YouTube

"Don't overdramatize either your sins or your virtues. Frankly, chances are good that neither are spectacular."

- Peter Bouteneff

#GreatLent #Humility

@kdvncm

@adingbatponder

Can you only search on hashtags on mastodon? Sometimes searches return nothing at all for things that I feel like someone would be talking about, and I want to find it.

@apps
Kind of related.... Is there a way to see the local feed of remote instances (without following the instance)? I feel like hopping from instance to instance would be a nice way to see what all is going on? I do that quite a bit from the web.

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@simon What if, instead, activitypub was a first-class citizen and got dedicated url schemes like email's mailto:? Here's some old discussion about this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2291
URL scheme for remote follow, share buttons · Issue #2291 · mastodon/mastodon

Decentralized nature of Mastodon causes rather awkward flow for the "Remote Follow" operation. Similarly, there's no way to make an easy "Share" button. The root of the problem is that websites don...

GitHub

A cloudy blood moon. Now going back to sleep.

#LunarEclipse #BloodMoon

"Many fascists... claim they are not opposed to democracy. On the contrary, they think of themselves as advocating a more pure version of it."

A fascinating examination of what fascism actually says about itself https://theconversation.com/why-some-people-think-fascism-is-the-greatest-expression-of-democracy-ever-invented-188967