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jmac

@jmac@masto.nyc

I live in New York. I get paid to write about databases. I don’t get paid to write about other stuff, but I do it anyway.

Tech writer at Google; Co-founder of IFTF, an interactive-fiction nonprofit; Liker of coffee, cats, open web technologies, et cetera. Co-admin of https://masto.nyc.

All views I express in my personal posts are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Five Borough Fedi Project.

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990000, to nyc
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Visiting the museum of natural history makes me wish public parks had T-rex or Allosaurus, or some other similar dinosaur skeletons on permanent display so kids and just people in general can study them casually and frequently. I know it would be a maintenance nightmare, but it would be so cool.

jmac,
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@990000 Why, I was at Dinosaur Playground at Riverside Drive just yesterday! What more do you want!!

danblondell, to random
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My friend leant me his racing wheel so if all goes well I’ll soon be Racing Rig Guy

jmac,
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@danblondell Is this your plan to not be Don Draper, then

CarlMuckenhoupt, to random
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An adorable dog moment:
I walk into my building. A family of three is waiting for the elevator, accompanied by a small dog. My apartment is on the second floor, so I start up the stairs. The dog follows me. The family calls to the dog, but it pays no heed. I turn around and point down the stairs. The dog looks to where I'm pointing and is overjoyed beyond measure to see its entire family down there!

jmac,
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@CarlMuckenhoupt dying

18+ jmac, to random
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More proof that reality is always more subtle than fiction: If last weekend's verdict had happened in fiction, then at least one of those jurors would have turned up dead by now. Why even write the story, otherwise?

BONUS: I didn't mean to when I started thinking about this toot, but I'm feeling a swell of pride for my twelve brave anonymous neighbors, and by extension for the other eight million too.

jmac, (edited )
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My gold standard for truth's subtlety over fiction is the story of Tara the Hero Cat, who rescued her young human companion from a dog attack ten years ago.

Ask most any writer to draft out the scene, and they'd have her tearing in yowling with teeth and claws. But Tara knew the goal was not "attack the dog" but "get it away from the boy", and so she leapt and twisted to side-slam the dog away instead.

I think of this lesson often.

Tara is still with us, by the way! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_(cat)

jmac, to random
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Kids today have it so easy, when I was your age we didn’t have all these flavors of gay with their own flags, we just had LiveJournal quizzes to find out which Welcome Back Kotter character we were or whatever

jmac, to random
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Why isn’t there a stronger association of Sam Pepys just being a guy happy to just go home and jam on his lute until bedtime. It’s always kidney stone this, fire of London that
https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/112559850225530707

jmac, to random
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If you want to hire a full-stack developer who cares more about the long-term health and openness of the World Wide Web than anyone you’ve talked to since you last called home, then you should talk to Jacky over here.
https://todon.eu/@jalcine/112553640889348695

jmac, to nyc
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About to head over to Greenpoint Open Studios to see some art by my pal Emily, who makes Weird and Beautiful Maps of imginary spaces and topologies: https://greenpointopenstudios.com/artists/emily-garfield-2024/

Hoping to see some other artists too! I don't think I’ve ever knowingly visited Greenpoint before?!

jmac, to random
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You might know exactly what my reply to this would be, and I checked the replies on the original post to make sure that nobody else already pasted it in, but someone had, so I said nothing. 😇
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/112547435487073100

jmac, to VideoGames
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Watching this very good playthrough of Ninja Gaiden on NES, with just enough mistakes to convince me it's not tool-assisted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V822oMzJQSg

One remembers only an ugly, cruel game, but watching this played by an expert is so rewarding. Stunned to rediscover how much of my lifelong mental background-music playlist comes from this game.

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