Mastodawn

@kat I've one further little favour to ask. I've been thinking of what music to add to this little project, and I recall sometime last year you posted a video of you playing some old standard. I wondered if you had any recordings to hand of you playing something of this ilk, suited to the tastes of an old fuddy-duddy like myself.

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Katy Swain 1d ago

Feeling the absence of somebody to say "Well done. Let's go to bed and have a bit of a cuddle."

It doesn't _have_ to be a cat. A human would do in a pinch. Beggars can't be choosers.

Think I'll go to bed anyway. Night-night, fedifriends.

Katy Swain 1d ago

Had a fantastic day today. There's a part of me that expects the scales to balance out with some bad days shortly, but I shall carry on regardless, assuming more fantastic days to come.

Katy Swain 1d ago

Life is too short to try to be kind to fitted sheets. Just roll 'em up in a ball and get on with your life.

Katy Swain 2d ago

I am so tired, and I have so much to do tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, that I feel I should complain about it.

But it's so much better than not having anything to do.

Katy Swain 2d ago

Damnit. There's some problem with the machine my VPS is on, and Linode is migrating me to another machine.

I really need some sort of backup regime independent of the hosting service. And to get my stuff out of the US.

I hate sysadminning. Bless you people who can do that kind of work without (I presume) having a nervous breakdown on a daily basis.

Katy Swain 2d ago

#3GoodThings for yesterday:

- I got out on my bike yesterday, spent the afternoon in the park, and didn't get sunburned.

- Went to the Degrowth Festival, where I contributed nothing, but my colleague Harry delivered a fantastic soapbox speech to a large and fascinated audience. I couldn't have done better myself, and being so terribly conceited, it's not often I can say that.

- Afterward had a quiet couple of drinks with Harry and my dear friend Ann.

Katy Swain 2d ago

erin // Eileen 3d ago

so hrtcafe.net went down due to a coordinated terf/far-right action.

and so this is as good a time as it gets to make even more mirrors of https://git.gay/hrt/pages/ (or the github repo this is a mirror of already, if you want to touch github).

clone it, set a cronjob to do a pull every week. set up a web view like https://hrt.soap.systems if you have the means to do so and the willingness to deal with potential terf interference.

trying to shut down online resources hosted by annoyed transfems, that’s totally going to work and have the intended effect, right?

edit: people are asking if I know what actually happened, what kind of attack it was and such.

I didn’t see a lot of confirmed info about it (and didn’t really look too hard either), but judging by what I’ve read so far, I’m assuming a combination of doxxing, pestering the hosting and threatening legal harassment.

supposedly the person who hosted it took it down themselves to get the heat off of them - and I can’t blame them, that’s reasonable, no one doing this should ever feel expected to stand up to being personally targeted. that’s what we have a community for. they can back off to ensure their own safety, while we deploy a hundred more mirrors.

/erin

Katy Swain 3d ago

Tried cycling home after dark, with my poor eyesight that gets significantly worse in low light, plus a couple of pints under my belt. I found:

a) Whee! It's just like flying!

b) I really shouldn't do that again.

Katy Swain 3d ago

Going out in the sun this afternoon. Wish me luck.

I have been promised ample shade.

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