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
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
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
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
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. #videogames#retrogaming
I watched a dear friend get ordained here earlier this year. The space defies description, as well as any attempt to capture its majesty with a crappy little phone camera. (Though based on the hashtags, I see that this person did a great job with one just the same!) https://mastodon.art/@jennylam/112537978391577771
Made one of my occasional visits to the former Twitter just to breathe in the fumes from tonight's top news story. And, like. Other than those of us who left, everyone is still there, huh.
No judgment! I'm happy for myself that I have kicked that habit entirely, and found fulfillment here instead. I hope more people come, and I hope we can make it more welcoming, but I know it's not for everyone.
Still, I guess I was expecting it to be LiveJournal-dead by now. Not by a long shot, no.
@jmac Interesting - I had a different experience! I also did similarly, making a short visit to check what people were saying about current events. I didn't do any searches or check any hashtags, just checked out the timeline of people I was already following, and I found nearly no comments. (Then again, I had turned off retweets on some folks years previous.)
I infer that the population of people I was already following are mostly not posting current events tweets anymore.
Most of the posts I saw were from "professional posters": pundits and media figures and others for whom Twitter was so important to their identity and livelihood that they've remained part of it even as it's transformed into whatever it is now. And I follow a lot of them. (I never deleted my old account!)
Things are fragmented, and true mass-culture events don't happen in Fedi like they did in Twitter. And that's... okay, actually. Better-and-worse-but-better.
I had the pleasure of helping test this new strange work directed and edited by @rcveeder. It is a quilt of small parser-IF games by many individual authors stitched together at the edges, with the player (and their inventory!) able to traverse freely between them, making one large space to explore. #InteractiveFiction https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@nilsf/112524852506128389
@auran recommended this show and instructed me to go in blind, so I did. Amy, who accompanied, chose to read a review.
I was curious why the ticket-site seat-picker showed the front row sold out, but then people seemed to choose seats as far from the stage as possible, while avoiding the center aisle. How odd! I happily bought two tickets for fourth row, center. Amy, knowing what this portended, said nothing.
Even though I'm not really sure what just happened, I'll never forget it.
I'm not saying that I actually thought that Jay Smooth, JB Smoove, and Smoove B were all the same person, but I am saying that I never really put the energy into disentangling the three names in my head until circumstances forced me to do so just now, okay.