Ok computer-touches of the fediverse, I’ve had enough of the Windows fucks and will be installing Debian <soon>. Maybe 20 years has been enough for a viable Linux on the desktop, who knows…
So what window manager are the cool kids using these days? Is Enlightenment still a thing? I want to not have fuck with things
Root post for #monsterdon where if you are not this account and you reply to it (untag me plz) your posts will show up in monsterdon feed but not your local TL
since there was no conflict or any content to the plot, and there wasn't any character development or reason to care about olsen, there really isn't a lot to resolve here, but we still have 9 minutes for them to continue to do nothing until nothing happens #monsterdon
@matthiasott My site's landing page has a relatively brief "About Me" description, plus links to "featured sections" and recent or featured blog posts: https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com
I used to have a much, much longer "About Me" section, but I recently was inspired to massively trim it down by looking at @kissane & @dansinker 's sites.
@siracusa thank you for your post because while looking up your book (it helped me locate a very similar book I had as a kid but forgot the name/author) My long lost book was actually "Aliens In Space: An Illustrated Guide to the Inhabited Galaxy by Steven Caldwell" but now having found the book id been trying to think of for ** YEARS ** , I am going to check out Michaels book as well as it seems very similar .. and I loved the Steven Caldwell book, so thanks, this random post help me find it!
“At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a portion of the company’s overall workforce declined more than 5 percentage points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found. At Apple, the decline was 4 percentage points, while at SpaceX — the only company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person — the share of senior employees dropped 15 percentage points.”
The problem with federated alternatives to centralized services (and also one of the main problems with centralized services which lead people to look for an alternative) is Discovery.
Etsy and Twitch and YouTube provide an audience, supposedly. With the right pitch (and the right advertising dollars) you can get your own slice of that audience. (For as long as the algorithm graces you, and as long as you're willing to stomach the other things your viewers will be algorithmically suggested.)
It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.
@Amoshias I honestly think it's a kind of delusion, if you believe you're the good guy you put your own traits onto characters you like, even if the text or show really says the opposite
Taking a short Mastodon break. I'm tired of the culture of criticism here. Unlike Twitter, on Mastodon, it comes from those on the left who attack liberals for not meeting their purity tests. I've been attacked for wanting to help defeat Trump by those who don't like a Biden policy; for COVID-safe dining outside with heaters because that harms the environment; for traveling masked because some immunocompromised feel they can't. Stop attacking others; start being the change you want in the world.
You are trying to get out of a pit with your friends, the sides are slippery and there is a guy at the top who sometimes throws things at you and you know he's helping other people to make even more pits that are even deeper someplace else. There is a slim chance he could be replaced by another guy who will start filling all the pits in with a bulldozer. Do you keep the jerk or brave the dozer?
He's a fucking president not a goddamned absolute monarch ruling by decree.
He can only do what is in his power, and he's been pushing it about to it's limits. The corrupted Supreme Court has already rolled back some the stuff he was trying to accomplish.
One absolute guarantee is a Trump win will ensure all the bullshit discriminatory legislation at the state level with be duplicated at the federal level.
#MastoHelp Alors voilà, dimanche dernier, dans mon TER pour revenir d'Amiens à Paris, j'étais toute seule, épuisée, je suis handicapée à 80%, et ma maladie Chronique fait que si je ne change pas de position, assez souvent, j'ai très mal.
Donc j'ai allongé mes jambes sur la banquette devant moi. Mes pieds ne touchaient pas le siège, juste mes mollets et le dessous de mes talons. Des contrôleuses sont arrivés en disant que c'était indécent et que c'était illégale. Et hop une amende de 60 euros.1/2