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
Alright it is twenty minutes until #MONSTERDON, which means if you don't want to see a bunch of nerds watching a monster movie you should set up a filter!
@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.
Whoops accidentally went back to the dawn of cinema. Instead of 1977 the year half of the bad sci-fi movies of all time came out. #Monsterdon#WhenTimeBegan
This feels so much like a compliation movie edited from a long running tv show, and yet still nothing happens. It's just so much of nothing happening until the 5 minutes with bones and dinosaur s and a city of clones and a King Kong. #Monsterdon#WhenTimeBegan
@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