moira

moira, 9 months ago to climate

I've said this before but I don't say it enough, so JOURNALISTS IN PARTICULAR, LISTEN UP:

If you are writing for Americans about #GlobalWarming and/or #ClimateChange?

USE FAHRENHEIT.

STOP USING C. STOP IT. USE F.

If you say "1.5 degrees celsius" most will hear one of two things:

A: 1.5°F, which they will further reduce to "nothing," because you can't really feel it. "A degree or two" means nothing.

B: ZERO, because they hear "small number I don't understand."

USE. FAHRENHEIT. AT. AMERICANS.

For real. "2 degrees (C)" means "basically nothing" but "4 degrees (F)" is "huh." It's something Americans know they can feel. Americans know the difference between 68F and 72F.

So I beg you:

Stop. Using. C. At. Americans.

Use. Fahrenheit.

moira, 2 months ago to USpolitics

christ the commentary ahead of the #sotu is so fucking terrible

hate to be waiting for the actual speech nattering heads just going bau bau bau bau bau bau bau

#uspolitics #uspol #sotu2024

moira, 13 days ago to random

so okay people were asking about my headcanon shit

I have a pointless amount of headcanon about this movie. Not the least of which being the IT crowd shutting down everything as fast as they can in order to get the situation under control, followed by slowly picking the pieces back up and putting shit back together.

And when they're doing that they find out that Computer has been fucked up for a while. Like, seriously for a while, and that's why there are big sections of the city which are broken and so on.

So. What was supposed to be happening?

#monsterdon #LogansRun

moira, 6 months ago to 3DPrinting

One year ago I put three test objects, two PLA, one PHA, outside in a flower pot half-buried. I just brought them inside. Let’s see what happened!

#3dPrinting #pla #pha

moira, 7 months ago to random

i remind everyone that the house republican clown show is live on c-span and the vote to remove the speaker is next. if you’re into clown shows, now’s a good time to start streaming. #uspol

moira, 5 months ago to StarTrek

Have I mentioned how much I appreciate that Lower Decks has turned my pre-existing winter raincoat into an away-team jacket?

#StarTrek #LowerDecks

moira, 1 month ago to baking

i am measuring FLOUR by the TEASPOON

#baking #applepancakebake

moira, 1 month ago to baking

so thanks to the lunacy of american traditional i can provide this horrible data:

1/12 tsp ≈ 1 pinch plus one drop

which is to say 1/16th + 1/64th teaspoons

(round 'em a little to make up the shortfall)

which is to say can we please be metric now please i'm begging you save me from this bullshit xD

#baking #cooking

moira, 5 months ago to meta

I was in a discussion today with @TechConnectify and @feditips about reply toxicity here, and I've tried to make all of that into a coherent post.

I want to go to #MastoDev with a version of this, but need to let it sit overnight and probably rewrite it. But I also think it's something anyone interested in non-corporate-controlled social media needs to think about, because a fair number of people go "influencers, fuck 'em" and that's... not how I think this needs to be understood. If you don't care about them, fine, but care about their followers who will follow them away.

Because like it or not, if you want to go against corporate-owned social media, you need these people too.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/11/18/even-on-mastodon-people-are-a-problem/

#meta #mastodon

moira, 3 months ago to baking

let's go bakers let's goooooooooooo

#baking #bagels

moira, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to HashtagGames

If you're not aware, Mastodon 4.2 will directly break relay.fedi.buzz, the relay many small instances like mine use to pull in posts from other instances based on hashtags used.

This is a massive degradation of small instance ability to participate in many hashtag-based social activities like #Fensterfreitag #Monsterdon #TCMParty #HashtagGames and so on.

I've left many comments about this starting here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23989#issuecomment-1670115412

They're trying to solve a real problem but they're absolutely breaking us by doing it this way.

eta: Beta release notes now mention they're breaking fedi.buzz.

eta2: they locked the ticket down and so are no longer taking comments.

eta3: fedi.buzz has reportedly worked around it for now

#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

moira, 5 months ago to USpolitics

HEY, LEFTIES. LISTEN UP.

Guy I knew had a phrase, "can't stand prosperity." It refers to people who can't take good news, who have to turn it into bad news.

That's a lot of you. STOP IT.

See link. Is this a complete victory? No. Is it a step? Yes.

The response of a lot of lefties is "that's not perfect so it's shit, and you're shit for being happy about it." Not those exact words, but close, and it's exactly the attitude.

If that's not what you mean you react that way, then here's the correct response:

"Fuck yeah! Now let's make them do [the next step]."

Because "that's shit and you're wrong for being happy?" THAT'S NOT ANALYSIS, THAT'S SELF-SABOTAGE AND AIDING THE ENEMY.

STOP.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111427593887443105

#uspol #uspolitics

moira, 6 months ago to diy

my brain insists this man is gluing wood with mustard

#diy #woodworking

moira, 1 month ago to random

this screw sounds like my budgies nattering when they’re happy wtf xD

#maker #budgies #parakeets

moira, 17 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to MountainBiking

OKAY. Stopping point on the Northshore Bike Map, connecting the latest Seattle and brand new Eastside map.

I've added everything I know and I've stumbled upon a bunch of things I didn't before. This has been educational.

I've also labelled a bunch of stuff, added replacement labels for certain attractions that had their labels obscured, and made a couple of corrections.

I'm not including the sidewalk/path hybrid along Ballinger because while sometimes it sure does feel like a path most of the time it's just "sidewalk."

DO YOU KNOW ROUTES I DON'T?

Tell me about them! But only if they're public. I've not included a couple of trails here because they're private.

MAP REV 8 / RC2, 1 May 23:30

#biking #NorthShore #Seattle #BikeTooter

moira, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to RedditMigration

I've logged out of Reddit (possibly? probably? for the long term) after the whole "he likes Elon Musk" horseshit and have set up a kbin account to see whether I like it.

@solarbird

#RedditMigration #3dPrinting (since that's mostly what I used reddit for lol)

moira, 6 months ago to baking

forty five forty five minutes to go -o-o
i gotta boil some water
watchin' the dough rise, watchin' it grow-o-o
i gotta boil some water

#baking #bagels

moira, 2 months ago to baking

bagel dough is rising time to work on bike cargo carrier!

#baking #bagels #BikeTooter

moira, 4 months ago to wordpress

Anybody here use the modern Wordpress block editor for actual editing of text? Because it's destroying work underneath me literally every day.

I've gone back to Classic editor for now, but wow does that create some other issues.

I wrote about it here:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/01/07/giving-up-on-block-editor-going-back-to-classic/

#wordpress

moira, 10 months ago to Seattle

that feel when you walk into the new architectural salvage store in your town and you recognise shit (and talking to the employees find you are right)

#seattle #uDistrict

moira, 5 months ago to baking

do I want to bake baguettes today also?

kinda do

p. sure I can get them done before monsterdon

#baking #baguette

moira, 1 month ago to cycling

getting ready for first heavy cargo run! still a test but getting actual cargo. (groceries)

#BikeTooter

moira, 20 days ago to baking

okay bagels in progress, dough set to rise for an hour

got to clean up the off to shops for eggs for glaze since we’re out

that’ll be an interesting experience on bike

how many will make it home LET’S FIND OUT

#baking #bagels

moira, 3 months ago to random

okay back into the phone system after wasting 20 minutes in website chat support setting the clock at 1pm let's gooooooo

#AmericanHealthCare #PhoneTreeHell

moira, 5 months ago to baking

Wow, never had yeast just say "nah" before

I mean I knew it was aging out and I had a backup supply but still

(need to buy more YEASTY BOIS)

replacement is already going so that's a relief.

this week: GLUTEN BOOOOOOOOST in the flour LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

#baking #bagels