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touch is important to me. what are alternatives to touch which can be used in more circumstances?
Over the holidays break I prototyped a lever less fight stick
Decided to boot this game (Moudjiya) back up and see if I can figure it out… I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of it.

This seems like very important things for USians to know.

Edit: we're already North of 100 boosts and just a few away from 100 likes and too much love is bad for me, so I'm muting the conversation now, but feel free to @ me if there's anything important that I need to know. :>

This one is for anyone how wants to get better at structuring their content and help convey their message in a more efficient way.
@La_pope put together a very nice matrix, with 10 patterns to structure your content for better understanding. Each pattern is illustrated with a small graph and examples of what the pattern is good for.
https://lapope.com/2024/11/16/information-patterns-and-narrative-structures-in-content/

It's meaningful to know that food deserts are caused by lax anti-trust enforcement. But also, it feels a bit too little too late to be getting the word out now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/

The Hidden Cause of Food Deserts

How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

The Atlantic
"Why do I know what Maciej thinks?? Why do I know that DHH is a fucking creep and a weirdo which is why I will never pay for their email service which otherwise seems pretty cool, why do I know that Brave is the homophobic browser in bed with cryptocurrency bros, why do I know that the Kagi dude thinks adding suicide prevention hotlines to search results for “how to kill yourself” is censorship, why do I know about Matt Mullendweeb’s entire existence??" - @phire https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2024-11-05/modernity
modernity is stupid: a rant not about politics

Omnivore is a read-later app. You know, one of those things that lets you save interesting articles you encounter throughout the day and the service will go crawl the page and download the content in a nice readable format and zap it to whatever device you wanted to zap it to, so that later when you’re not anxiously toggling between the same seven feed aggregators for fifteen seconds at a time, like maybe you’re waiting in line in the grocery store and you can’t do the NYT mini because they’re on strike and you don’t cross picket lines and god forbid you have a single second of mental silence, you can open the app and begrudgingly educate yourself on something that you alleged wanted to learn about at some point in time.

The Roof is on Phire

Hello, Hachyderm!

We've been talking about an upcoming post about our plans to prepare our infrastructure for possible changes in legislation coming from the United States' with the new administration. The post is finally here: https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/11/29/ensuring-hachyderms-future-improving-safety-resilience-through-strategic-placement-of-infrastructure/.

Please take a moment and read through our plans. As always, if you have any questions, please reach out to us @hachyderm or in our new community discussions section on Github at https://github.com/hachyderm/community/discussions/589.

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Ensuring Hachyderm's Future: Improving Safety & Resilience through Strategic Placement of Infrastructure

Updates about Hachyderm infrastructure and security plans, risk assessments, etc. for the new year.

Hachyderm Community
I made a quilted winter cover for the AC in my living room (in lieu of taking it out), and also a very silly joke.