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cpm, 9 hours ago to random

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leaf blowers in springtime?

fuck right off

MagentaRocks, 2 days ago to books

I find this so unsettling, yet condensed #books and things like CliffsNotes have been around for years. I think this enables people with ADHD and those with the attention span of fleas, yet, maybe it can be useful for some. At least this isn't all AI.

#reading
@bookstodon

May be pay-walled, no gift link option available.

"Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/can-you-read-a-book-in-a-quarter-of-an-hour

JoscelynTransient, 2 days ago to random

What people don't understand about a white trash bitch is that we take care of our own - we can be incredibly tender and compassionate to our community because we know no one else will take care of them or see the good in them that we do. But we will also throw down in a fucking instant for our people because that's how we survive.

This is my ethos and written into my very nervous system by survival and trauma.

PatrickoftheG, 4 days ago to random

A guilt that I carry is this.

I hate cleaning up dishes and tools for meal preparation. I hate it so much that I basically live on disposal plates and cutlery, like a monster. I hate it so much I will prepare mostly just slops to eat from one pot or something so I don't have to do anything.

If it takes longer to plan, get, make, and clean up after than it does to eat I don't want any part of it at all.

My partner? She loves to cook. She makes delicious, happy food that is a joy to eat...

cpm, 6 days ago to random

I (for me, given my meagre resouces) spent an inordinant sum on this documentary;

plz watch it.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/motherload

RickiTarr, 6 days ago to random

WHAT IS HIS CRIME?!

RickiTarr, 7 days ago to random

I have a big group chat with my a large amount of my real life friends, then smaller groups out of that group that have particular interests:

One is for the people who live locally to plan activities.

One is for art, but maybe the kind of art that not everyone would want to see.

One for BBQ and cocktails.

One where we talk about terrible home renovations and shit exes.

One specifically for handyman information and planning if someone moves or needs help with a project.

One where we seem to mostly talk about cute dogs, and often cheese.

Plus individual chats.

But now I'm wondering who has chats without me, do they have a secret chat where everyone talks about how I'm in everyone's business?!

cpm, 7 days ago to random

Testing if there's a 'bot'

....

Cory @pluralistic Doctorow is doing a thread right now.

I've gobbled up everything of his (that he has written) that I've been able to find for decades now.

He does the hard work.

(Yeah, it's hard)

I hope he keeps it up.
For a long time.

I can't imagine.

also hope he enjoys the benefits some of us get from his efforts (legion).

(now we'll see if this gets boosted)

RickiTarr, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

DrTCombs, 9 days ago to random

Look. I know I'm cynical, but I'm just not comfortable using my credit card to pledge money to a private company that will then coerce my child to run laps around a gym while calling it a "Fun Run" in order to increase the amount of money said company 'gives' back to my child's school.

But I'm trying to keep an open mind.

Anyone out here ever heard of a company called "My Booster" or maybe "Boosterthon" (it's unclear)?

#SchoolFundraisers

cpm, 10 days ago to random

FWIW:

Catering via bicycle as contractor vs pure bicycle-based landscape maint biz:

Catering: radically lower per-hour rates.

OTOH, get paid in a timely manner without the picky BS

&

No heat injury.

Win!

I think I'm going to drop my landscape clients as I am able.

Shame, really.

Silly me. I thought folks would buy-in on greenwashing. lol!

nope.
folks are wholly ok with the endless drone of small ICE running constantly. just want cheep!

bicycle logistics otoh?
there is interest

cpm, 10 days ago to random

It's invoice day!

Hooray!

(everyone is net 30)

printed up my invoices to hand-deliver, because I needed to go to town anyway and saves postage.

rain was due at 1300hrs, but started at 1000hrs anyway.

Let me be clear
cycling in the rain sux
it just does
I do it all the time
I hate it
have wasted gobs on rain kit that does fk-all,
can't see anything
dangerous (bc cars)
&
ages your bike alot.

sux

still better than driving

cpm, 12 days ago to random

Last load-out of the last day of this catering gig.

I'm beat, and the cold rain is just being devious! little sprinkly showers right up until I mount up, then it pours on me! Happens every time!

Gotta say, this cart has been a game-changer for me. Didn't expect it 'till later, but arrived yesterday, and it's great!

large folding cart loaded onto cargo trailer with cargo-bike. Cart tarped off & strapped down for transport.

RickiTarr, 13 days ago to random

So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

RickiTarr, 17 days ago to random

Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

mina, 22 days ago to random

The account of an Indian vacuum cleaner manufacturer asked to follow me.

The Fediverse is becoming a weird place, indeed.

cy, 24 days ago to random

Rainworld is a terrible unfun game, but of course the #adoraweird slugcats caught my attention. It's interesting how much of an anti-Buddhist message it pushes. To say that enlightenment is a doomed path, and suffering is the reason for existence. (Seriously that game is suffering.) Makes me kind of wish I could play games sometimes, just for that intriguing way of thinking. Wish I could make games more than play them.

jamesbritt, 24 days ago to random

https://wapo.st/3y71IsZ

#GiftLink

The Drug Enforcement Administration will move to loosen restrictions on marijuana in what would be a historic shift in federal drug policy, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The measure, if enacted, would not instantly legalize marijuana at the federal level but could broaden access to the drug for medicinal use and boost cannabis industries in states where it is legal.

cpm, 28 days ago to random

A thing that was rolling around 'TheNews(tm)' a few cycles ago.

in the US, the gop wants to further raise 'the retirement' age.

As an old fart, me, this is a very bad idea from every angle. Every one of us, who is holding a 'straight job, is fully indoctrinated, not gonna make waves, is holding the job hostage, mostly out of economic necessity,bc we were stripped of benefits
&
dinosaur old white men who will never give up power until they stroke out or die.

and the gop likes it like that

RickiTarr, 28 days ago to random

I'm going to start writing all my posts on old English, and daring people to correct my grammar and spelling.

skinnylatte, 29 days ago to cycling

I always love that @ternbicycles knows how to build bikes that speak to me, as. queer person.

The new Tern Orox: an all terrain cargo e-bike! In case I want to ride to the grocery store through the mountains! (Being very utterly serious about this!)

It's basically the Subaru for climate conscious lesbians like me

https://velo.outsideonline.com/urban/urban-gear/sea-otter-randoms-the-one-about-carrying-cargo-of-all-kinds/

#BikeTooter #Tern #Ebikes

enobacon, 1 month ago to random

"the average modern American, by one estimate, travels 7,500 miles a year, and put in 1,600 hours a year to do that, they are travelling five miles per hour."

Now if we could all learn to see the hidden potential of pushing one lane of cars off the road.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-30/the-hidden-potential-of-bicycles/