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iDGS

@iDGS@mas.to

Web enthusiast, developer, ...occasional visionary! Worthless superpower: easily spots #FourLeafClover. Rochester, NY area. http://idgs.1e6.com/ (defunct; will make new site)
(Was https://twitter.com/iDGS Deleted W. 25 Jan ‘23)
P.S. Always read the ALT text! 😘

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paul, to random
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I've reached peak laziness, it's all downhill from here.
https://www.scoopsoldiers.com

iDGS,
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@paul In our area, it’s “Doody Calls” 🤪

iDGS, to random
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@GramrgednAngel @grammargirl ICYMI… 🤦‍♂️
https://aus.social/@dgar/112426875821283942

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone know of a way to buy an EV that doesn't relentlessly spy on the driver/passengers and send the data to whoever the carmaker feels like selling it to?

Related: Does anyone know of a service in the Bay Area that will disable all the surveillance that was, without my knowledge or permission, built into a 2008 Prius?

iDGS,
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@dangillmor Might be of interest: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

ElleGray, to random
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oh but I will

iDGS,
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@ElleGray @patrick_h_lauke Never got a photo, but once saw a sign staked in a lawn in winter, lotsa snow on the ground:

DRIVE LIKE
YOUR KIDS

                • (snow line)
                  LIVE HERE
iDGS, to random
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@ivory Bug or feechur? Certainly not in all cases, but seems recently I’m getting lotsa placeholder pix of dog-eared paper instead of pretty webpage previews. E.g.:
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/112354758430978140

iDGS,
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@ivory OIC. This one is a link to another toot (which then links to a webpage). Is that true of all of them?

iDGS, to random
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@zachleat @5t3ph Hope all’s well and you find this funny… 🤞✌️
https://m.ai6yr.org/@cookiesinheaven/112346427446462382

zachleat, to random
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Tornados have interrupted @eleventy Merch Bundle packing operations! 🌪️🫣

iDGS,
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@zachleat @5t3ph ⚠️ Friday’s ABC Evening News warned much the same areas will be at risk for tornadoes again on Saturday. ⚠️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=In-yyMbA2A0

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

iDGS,
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@RickiTarr Yep. Years ago, a female colleague at a local college. Great verisimilitude. Took a while to realize what was happening. Compulsive liar. Creepy, sad, and disappointing.

dgar, to random
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I quit my job at the helium gas factory.

I refuse to be spoken to in that tone.

iDGS,
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@dgar 🤷🏼‍♂️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gzGHIO8e_xY

iDGS, to random
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@glennf ICYMI…
https://universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquant/112218861073521633

iDGS, to random
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@trumpet 🤷🏼‍♂️
https://newsie.social/@LALegault/112211331730055131

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

iDGS,
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@RickiTarr Visiting grandma in the mid 1950’s, at a park outside of Ada, Oklahoma, there was a public water fountain labled (someone read it to me) “Laughing Water.” Well, I wanted to laugh, so I tried it—and then everyone ELSE was laughing at my noises and faces from drinking sulpher water! 🙀

Then dad ran into a small stream to rescue my younger brother who’d just thrown a “log” (small stick) off a tiny, no-railing footbridge (glorified plank) and had forgotten to let go. 🙀

seachanger, to animals
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Ok let’s do this, reply with your #dogsOfMastodon

iDGS,
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@seachanger July 1, 2018 was a really hot day hereabouts!

glennf, to random
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I’m incapable of adequately conveying just how many crows are in this neighborhood.

video/mp4

iDGS,
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@glennf AFAIK all the crows in Monroe County still coverge on downtown Rochester, NY for the night. You might enjoy this representative clip from a few years back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_SoEu3UT97w

StillIRise1963, to random
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Neither disease nor death are important to the people who make ready made foods. BEWARE. Cook your own food.

iDGS,
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@KatM @StillIRise1963 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review 👀

iDGS, to random
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Erm,… My updated to 1.8 iOS @ivory is for some reason showing me “BOOSTS ONLY” on my home timeline. Anyone know how to make it so I can also see all those I follow as well? 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’ve poked around a lot looking for something like a show-all switch, but me no see nada. (And I know they’re there b/c I can see more such traffic via the plain vanilla web page interface.)

iDGS, to animals
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I’m taking quite a licking! 😹

Teal-point Ragdoll cat repeatedly licking the inside of my elbow with his raspy tongue!

iDGS, to Cat
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Help—There’s a cat sleeping in my armpit and I can’t get up! 🙀🤫😹

iDGS, to accessibility
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FWIW, Even though I’m not (yet?) blind or visually impaired, I like to read ALT text.

Sometimes you get awesome prose, sometimes you learn stuff, and sometimes you get extra, bonus information!

ALT text is not a chore.

ALT text is enrichment.

ALT text is an opportunity!

For example, I would have otherwise missed something important in this photo: https://historians.social/@emmanuel/110994996306520188

iDGS, to Rabbits
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Baby bunnie! Waaaait for iiiit…

Baby bunnie sits motionless in profile. A few moments later it looks behind, then leaps! out of frame, only to leap back in the direction it was originally facing, video ending on freeze frame of a bunnie blur in flight.

iDGS, to random
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@heydon @andy Nice to see you featured on the @Clearleft Utopia video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DDuGtN-GakA (And “briefly” speaking of videos… 🤣 )

iDGS, to random
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PSA: I’m fully vaxed and bosted. I wear an mask when I go out in public.

The mask annoys my family.

Yet so far, I don’t have .

Even though, last week, my entire immediate family (3) got it!

So now the N95 stays on at home, even while I sleep in a separate, well-ventilated room.

And 6 days in, I STILL don’t have COVID.

I’m not bragging. I’m sad.

COVID is easy to catch. But it’s also pretty easy to NOT catch.

To stay safe, all you have to do is take it seriously.

Please?

iDGS, to random
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@ivory Something weird? I’m now seeing some gray blocks in my timestream, with what looks like three open dots. Here’s one, that, when I tapped on it, just seemed to be an ordinary toot. Did I break something?

Example of a toot revealed by tapping on gray block.

iDGS, to random
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The web's most important decision - The History of the Web https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/the-webs-most-important-decision/

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