TL:DR A slow , sad day, with a couple of higher points. Slowly ascending the levels of my own personal hell!
Friends are life ! 🤗🥰
Today has been like wading thru treacle.
Up at 4am as per, said Hi to my Bestie then basically fell asleep again.
I had the ultimate mix of depression , SAD & Codeine withdrawal.
Breakfast was a brief, muted affair & I went straight back to bed.
I hit the codeine again because a) my back was killing me & b) it was the one are in my low mood I could actively tackle!
Chatted with my bestie , because I was in such a low state we had something of a deep sharing of thoughts & feelings, we came out of it understanding one another better & our friendship reinforced. 😊
Sometimes when I get this low my mind insists on an activity to divert me from painful thoughts, this afternoon was such an occasion. A major recabling exercise ensued in my bedroom & several tonnes of dust were introduced to the vacuum cleaner !
Tonight has been lovely, I am blessed with a number of close friends on Mastodon & they showered me with love, advice & kindness thoughts.
Whilst I am far from well, I am also ending the day several levels of hell higher than I started it !
Final Thoughts:
Fallout from unexpected major psychological trauma is not something that passes quickly.
Today was very much about finding a place to be alone & then slowly letting others in again.
Some paint, some cook, some partake in sport. I re-cable / install kit to seek peace & centre my soul! 😆
Thanks to my friends & all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you ! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@Tim_McTuffty@actuallyautistic Ultimately does it matter if you're officially diagnosed? If you've got the characteristics that's enough. The real question is navigating life with it, finding faith in yourself and just being the kind and awesome person you are.
Much love from the warren
There are two problems that are coming for Mastodon of which apparently an awful lot of people are unaware. These problems are coming for Mastodon not because of anything specific to Mastodon: they come to all growing social media platforms. But for some reason most people haven't noticed them, per se.
The first problem is that scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.
Good evening furriends. Today is the first #Bunniversary of the Thirring Mastodon server. A year ago we weren’t sure if Twitter was going to be around in days and needed a safe space for all of our amazing #smol#floof friends to land. One frantic week of server building and some serious documentation work later and we had the community built. We may have laid the foundation, but each and every one of you has made
this place what it is. The floofiest server on the Fediverse. I want to thank every bun for their pictures, their tales, adventures and all the peegs and buns I get to see here. We are incredibly greatful to all of you and are looking forward to the next year and the years to come!
Every so often, I check my follow list for "dummy accounts."
A "dummy account" is someone who joined, but never posted or even replied to any comment, ever.
I don't necessarily remove inactive accounts. Only those that have never truly been a part of Mastodon, beyond singing up.
I also remove the few accounts that joined Mastodon, just so they could promote their other social media account on Twitter, Facebook, Threads, or Blue Sky.
@paul_ipv6 posted about #project managers, fanciful #schedules, and his response involving a Magic 8-Ball. It reminded me of a story I've told about one place I worked. I've never told it here.
I was working at a small-to-medium-sized IT/#software company that had a few internal products, but mostly did outsourced R&D work for a behemoth company - one of the largest on the planet at the time.
It was classic #waterfall planning. HugeCo's R&D department would send us a high-level #spec.
Outside of work, in my free time (isn't much these days), I help mod a few local Facebook groups.
One of them was filled with spam at one point (things that slip past the system).
Simple new rule, if you're going to promote your business for free in the public group, you need to be verifiably local. Otherwise, go buy an ad from Facebook, we're doing you the favor, giving you a free space.
NEW: Food prices in Europe have been soaring. Earlier this year, the Austrian government said it would build a price database to let people compare costs at different supermarkets. It said this would take months to make and only include a small number of product categories.
Within 2 hours, @badlogic had built a first prototype, pulling the data from supermarket's websites, and open sourced the project. Now Heisse Preise lists 177,000 products from 10 chains.
The transparency has allowed prices to be compared: and the results appear to show supermarkets are watching each other and adjusting their prices based on others. The competition authority is investigating and already said new laws should make supermarkets publish proper APIs with full item data