I ... finally finished https://www.grrlpowercomic.com , or more accurately I finally read all that's been written so far.
There's SO MUCH.
it's good, if you're 👍 with a super-heroes story with lots of Image Comics style of inserting implausibly sexy women in implausible poses in half the scenes. These frequently involve garments that violate the laws of physics. An overlapping half of the scenes have implausibly hot guys who seem to be missing their shirts. So.... 🤷♀️
The young dog still does not have a concept of “sleeping in” so sometimes after I walk them, I will flop on the couch and go back to sleep. This happened when I tried this morning. It felt too cute not to photograph.
Some of the flower buds, I photographed the other day have opened up. I like the way this picture came out. I think it would make a good desktop wallpaper. DM me an email addy if you want the full-rez version.
I believe this is some sort of fancy apple tree that is grown for beauty, not fruit
New #transgender milestone reached:
Our tractor's fuel hole is nearly chest high on @dachary so I - being taller - became the one who refills it.
1st I go to grab a 5 gallon can of fuel (~35lbs or ~16kg) and am like "oof!" being caught off guard by the weight. Then, I go to lift it to my chest height to hold it over the tank & I am struggling. I need to get a stool to Captain Morgan my leg on, so that I can rest the can on my raised thigh / knee and tip it in.
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I miss-aim, pour some down the tractor's rear & onto the floor. 🤦♀️ Then I get the nozzle in, continue to struggle, and 2 more times end up getting some past the hole.
D's getting frustrated, but can't lift it because of her back.
Eventually she looks at me and says "I wonder if this is one of those hormone things."
I'm like "muscle loss? heh. yeah" At that point it was a pretty big understatement. ;)
The problem with being an old‡ #transgender woman (re)starting their transition is that there are so many fucking beautiful young(ish) trans women posting selfies and I'm like "fuck. like ... that's not even 'goals' because there's no way in HELL i'll EVER look that good unless I can get a brain transplant. "
But also, god DAMN does it make me happy to see them getting to be beautiful and happy.
@bardi 's Tusks app is nice, but it's still early days.
I tried making my thread in FediThready because i prefer the way it chooses to chunk up long posts - and lets me control that if i want to - as well as how it lets me review the full thread.
However, FediThready can't post & doing a long thread 1-by-1 with the Mastodon UI is... "sub-optimal"
SO I used FediThready to make & review the thread & Tusks to post it. It worked quite well.
Full disclosure: I discovered a bug in FediThready. I'm guessing there's something I didn't account for in the updated Regexp that finds split points. Might be related to all-caps words, but I'm not sure. I'll look into it Monday if i remember, but if you're an interested JS geek looking for a small Open Source task to help with... I'm happy to have external contributions https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready/issues/3
@iamada Tooted a bit ago about troubles getting their developers to contribute to a changelog.
I used to be a release manager at one co. I know the pain well, and i have a LOT of thoughts on it.
The short answer is that as much as we wish they would update one with / for each PR they wont, and if you're talking about literally editing a CHANGELOG file then you DEFINITELY do NOT want them to try.
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AND even if your team is like the unique magical unicorn capable of understand the value of the task, you've still got the abstraction problem.
My best advice for addressing this problem is to (with their input) modify the template you're using for PR descriptions to have a heading that says something like "At a high level, describe what you did in 1 or 2 sentences" followed by whatever details are needed for the other geeks to understand & review the PR.
THEN you, the release manager, or anyone on the team who can put themselves in the reader's shoes... sits down, goes through all the PRs in the release, and rewrites all the geeky sentences into something that's more concise and conveys the right level of info for the reader.
It turns out that there's enough solar activity to take a 2nd crack at the #Aurora tonight.
However, we're covered in clouds, and would have to drive 8hours - not counting stops - in order to get to a potentially cloud-free area that's at a higher latitude.
Unfortunately, I've been tired all day, desperately need a nap, and am the only one comfortable driving our ~12,000lb (5,400kg) 🚑 because it's effing wide & wifey hasn't practiced in it yet. But she's also pooped so. 🤷♀️
I mostly saw what looked like light pollution on the wrong side of the clouds. Occasionally we could see a brighter streak reaching up. @dachary was able to make out fainter things with more colors, but only tempting hints.
These were all long exposures on a jib with iPhone 15 Pro Max.