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apples_and_pears

@apples_and_pears@mastodon.world

Retired male, social media novice, living just outside of Seattle. Here to discover social media so far it's a universe all it's own. Touch typist with little tolerance for predictive text or automatic spell check.

Also https://calckey.world/@apples_and_pears

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danilo, to random
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We really had it all, for a moment

RSS, for a moment, was an invitation for every single website to participate in any sort of application developers could imagine

And they DID it was the thing

Everyone had RSS. News sites. Social platforms. Indie blogs. Government portals.

It enabled a fundamentally new chapter of the web, while simultaneously being invisible, save for a few affordances sprinkled between UI chrome and page content

apples_and_pears,
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@danilo I beg to differ. RSS is alive and thriving. Perhaps not in all circles, but RSS is a primary source of new information. I subscribe to about a hundred and get something from most of the a few times a day, others periodically. There are thousands of active RSS feeds consumed daily.

There is one thing missing -- advertising. A very good reason to subscribe to RSS feeds.

RiversideBryan, to Bloomscrolling
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with the flowers of Jacksonville on Belvedere Avenue

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apples_and_pears,
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@RiversideBryan You've got some vibrant flowers today! Very uplifting!

Today is a cold, drizzly, gray, and gloomy Winter day in Seattle.

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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Exploring Jacksonville

#Jacksonville #Florida #Photography #AmateurPhotography #Pixelfed #StreetPhotography #GalaxyS23+ #NightPhotography #Construction

apples_and_pears,
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@RiversideBryan Dentist's advert?

Dodo_sipping, to knitting
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My knitted sweater has arrived and fits. My son is happy. @knitting

apples_and_pears,
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@Dodo_sipping @knitting I like that design!! I've never seen a sweater like that before. Is the pattern available for purchase online somewhere?

Jdreben, to random
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    apples_and_pears,
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    @Jdreben That threshold has already been past by. Ask a senior the last movie they enjoyed or how much television the actually watch v. using the TV as background noise.

    Tastes change over time. Giving too much credit to current demographics data (snooping by social meda) will skew results. Why? because only those spied on are included in that data.

    Meta will read that as, "We need to collect much more data on those that avoid our fishing nets."

    soc_i_ety, to random
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    Despite the centuries of looking for a third way, are there really only two directions in politics that still remain, left and right?

    Everything else seems just a matter of how extreme or how indifferent we can be.

    :mastodon:

    apples_and_pears,
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    @TimWardCam @sepfeiffer @soc_i_ety Extremes in any direction may force dramatic change, but it also introduces unexpected consequences -- too often in the form of disasters.

    jkirkendall, to knitting
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    Hey fiber folk, Arne and Carlos have their knitting and crochet patterns on 70% off today! Take a look: https://shop.arnecarlos.com/

    @knitting

    apples_and_pears,
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    @jkirkendall @knitting The site is very popular, busy, and as a result the webpage is slow.

    _L1vY_, to tea
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    😂
    Via U.S. Embassy London
    7:41 AM · Jan 24, 2024:

    "An important statement on the latest controversy. 🇺🇸🇬🇧"

    apples_and_pears,
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    @robfrominternet @_L1vY_ That freaked me out, too! Never in the microwave. Everyone knows ya dump it in the perculator to brew it!

    paulrickards, (edited ) to genart
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    My first large plot in many months: a new Carousel, about 5 hours in, about 2 hours remaining. Cyan and yellow are down, magenta going down now, and finally black. Python generated and plotted on a vintage HP DraftPro DXL on 24”x36” watercolor paper.

    See next post for completed plot!

    apples_and_pears,
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    @paulrickards I like the color combination VERY much!!! These are colors I prefer to use when I knit a garment. I like the flow of the shapes, the slightly varied direction of the lines...

    Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!

    RiversideBryan, to Florida
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    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan Watch for falling aircraft parts!!!

    RiversideBryan, to Bloomscrolling
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    with the flowers of Jacksonville at San Jose Boulevard

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    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan My grandmother used to grow these :)

    apples_and_pears, to HashtagGames
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    Master Sergeant Bilko and Lt. Cmdr. McHale fall asleep on duty,
    get woken up on Gilligan's island by the professor wearing only Mr. Howell's underwear.
    The professor looks confused.
    Gilligan pretends he's Manard G. Krebs and hunts down Dobie Gillis.


    GW, to Texas
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    #Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an #abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a #fatal #diagnosis.

    Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge's ruling that approved an abortion for a #pregnant #woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the #U.S.

    "Another Old White Man deciding what a Woman Can and Can't do with her own body"

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abortion-texas_n_6573e471e4b0fca7ad20d39b

    apples_and_pears,
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    @GW If it's against the law to practice medicine without a license then why is it not against the law for the legal system to practice medicine (making abortion virtually impossible)?

    clive, (edited ) to random
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    Sometimes, when I'm buying gadgets and technology, I want the best I can afford

    Sometimes, I prefer the cheaper stuff

    It's intriguing to ponder when and why I actually like the cheaper warez

    An essay on "four tools where I buy as cheap as I can": https://clivethompson.medium.com/when-cheap-tech-is-good-enough-a44c31d347cc

    A free friend link, in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/when-cheap-tech-is-good-enough-a44c31d347cc?sk=21cf33407e9f4286948034b09241665d

    apples_and_pears,
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    @clive Expected useful life for it's intended purpose helps determine quality of product I'm willing to pay. Sometimes I want a single use item other times I want something that will still be in use multiple generations from now.

    "Quality" is a 4-letter-word to many manufacturers. They prefer to talk about "planned obsolescence."

    RamenCatholic, to random

    update - I'm naming it

    Hannity was a real bitch this morning, but seems to be calming down.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic They strike with unannounced mind boggling pain. That pain can subside just as quickly. That cycle will continue until the stone leave the body. Just hope that it doesn't get stuck and block the path forward.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic I've had them twice (that's 2 times too many). Both times they announced their jouney while I was driving in heavy traffic, no pain meds, and couldn't pull over. I've never known such pain and stress. Fortunately, the pain stopped quickly and I could get home then call my doctor - that was before cell phones were prevalent.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic They are horrifc things that introduce themselves in the most unwanted ways :/

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic I sympathize. It hurts! It's brutal and there's no way to stop it from hurting. If you don't have pain meds at hand then getting to the doctor and then the pharmacy (along with numerous delays) is pure torture.

    Explaining pain using that silly chart is a joke - my 3 is 8 to another person and 1 to a third person. It's meaningless. I tell them if it has no definition, is meaningless, and to pick their favorite number.

    RiversideBryan, to Florida
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    This lil' guy wasn't having any of my picture taking nonsense. I must have shot 50 or more attempts before I slinked away in defeat. Here's 4 of my failed attempts 🤣

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    Pretty orange and black butterfly with white circle spots in patterns on the wings, pollinating some purple flowers.
    Pretty orange and black butterfly with white circle spots in patterns on the wings, pollinating some purple flowers.
    Pretty orange and black butterfly with white circle spots in patterns on the wings, pollinating some purple flowers.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan Some butterflies are camera shy. Cameras may make them anxious.

    Hiding the camera behind a screen won't work - butterfies have special sensors that detect cameras closer than about 3 meters. The shots you selected are impressive! Perhaps the butterfly was so engrossed in what it was doing that it didn't sense the camera for an instant.

    RiversideBryan, to Florida
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    Riverwalk Sunrise

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    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan Dude, you're gettin' really good!!

    RiversideBryan, to Florida
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    Accidental photo that is kinda neat 🤷‍♂️

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    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan It is very cool! Blow it up so that you're getting a much latger image and take bits of it such as the dark streaks n the concrete wall under the railing and you've got a unique neutral (dark) background for a composite image. Same for the sidewalk, only it's less unique.

    aral, to mastodon
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    Can we please have a setting in the administrator panel to set the character limit for a Mastodon instance?

    The current lack of such a setting does nothing apart from create a two-tier fediverse where folks who have the time to maintain their own Mastodon fork and folks who use other ActivityPub servers can write as much as they like whereas everyone else is limited to 500 characters. We’re not kids; make the option accessible and let instance owners decide for themselves.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @aral Whatever the solution ends up being, please include that limit (that value) it the "about" for the application (and) instance since one can override the other. This discussion has been going on for a year or more without a clear answer beyond "it's not my problem."

    erlend, (edited ) to opensource
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    Marketplaces do not self-correct. Ecosystems do.

    A marketplace is not an ecosystem. It is merely a single organism, a megafauna, whose sole purpose is to consume and grow as much as possible.

    An ecosystem on the other hand has no inherent growth-imperative. The primary objective of an ecosystem is equilibrium; circular exchange of energy. A secondary objective is emergent diversity for the sake of adaptability & robustness.

    Make ecosystems, not marketplaces 🌱

    apples_and_pears,
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    @erlend I think this topic is something that everyone (far and wide) should understand better. We have an opportunity to eliminate a cancer while it's still in stage 1 or 2, but before it jumps to stage 3 or 4.

    DemocracySpot, to photography
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    📷 The leaf hit the windshield and, not knowing what it was, I had a panic response, then slowed down and pulled off the road. It stuck there while my heartbeat returned to normal, then flew over the roof as I pulled away.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @DemocracySpot Cool picture!

    apples_and_pears,
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    @DemocracySpot Anyone would be shocked when something (unexpected) that size came out of nowhere and stuck to the windshield.

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