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nev, 1 day ago to random

dear diary, today while looking for a café I passed a trendy gender-neutral hair place and utterly, completely failed to go in

…I'll look at their website and make an appointment I guess

I did find a café and the coffee is good though :blobcoffee:

nev, 2 days ago to random

took the plunge, going mouseless

i just got around to making myself at "home" (by swapping the fn and ctrl, thank goodness I have a Windows box to use <https://superuser.com/a/1608389>)

#ThinkPadClub

sundogplanets, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

Hello Toronto - I'm giving a public talk there in 8 days. Want to hear me yell about satellites for an hour? Come say hi!

EDITED to add: Oops I didn't give image credit! The image in the poster was taken by Joshua Rozells, see APOD link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html

nev, 5 days ago to animals

Wasabi's crooked little face

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

amyfou, 6 days ago to random

#Monsterdon 🕷️ 👑 🕷️ 👑 🕷️ 👑

welp, I'm very sad for all the tarantulas who didn't survive that movie. But the cow, horse, dog and rat actors - as well as of course all those tarantulas - were compeling and smoochable.

It's left us with 1977's vision of the world wide web, I guess.

Thanks @Taweret and all you #Monsterdon friends for the fun!

nev, 6 days ago to random

Y'all it's #Monsterdon and there will be SPIDERS so, you know, mute at will.

nev, 8 days ago to random

it's my birthday!! so i'm getting work done early and then skiving off to tommy thompson park with my sister, catch you later losers

mhoye, 10 days ago to random

Well, a while ago I put a bunch of effort into making a minimalist install of Wordpress work with SQLite. Now that's over and I'm looking for an alternative.

https://mastodon.social/@javi@goblin.band/112365876463601732

OK, team, what blogging software do I want? I'd like a built-in editor, static site generation, generates/manages an RSS feed, doesn't refer to writing or art as "content" and isn't written or run by people who like playing footsies with the worst people in the world.

yvonne, 12 days ago to random

Sometimes you see the title of a new history book and can only nod to yourself in admiration.

nev, 14 days ago to random

at day of in-person co-op workshops, hiding from everyone, pray for me

normally not a huge deal but Passover taps out my Being Around Humans budget for, like, a month, so

nev, 16 days ago to random

I did it y'all, I survived the Seder

nev, 21 days ago to animals

cat in bag

#Caturday #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

nev, 22 days ago to random

anyone on here selling nice high-quality trans stickers, suitable for outdoor use?

blue-and-pink trans flag not necessary and, in fact, not preferred. i'm thinking like, pro-trans slogans, the ⚧ symbol, etc.

seraph, 1 month ago to random

this shit is so funny

Are you serious, X Corp? Ahoy there, welcome to roblotwitter! I assure you, there's nothing fishy going on here, so feel free to read on. Yeah, it's a "honeypot". Sorry about that. I'm not trying to apologize and get away with it, though. But when you clicked on this link, you probably thought you were looking at something like "roblox.com". Simple URL substitution can cause this kind of thing to happen, so I made this site. So let's shout it out. "Are you serious, X Corp?"

nev, 1 month ago to random

Y'all I am so happy to have my own copy of the Odyssey which I can dog-ear as I wish. Perhaps even underline. Like I woke up happier than usual because of it.

Just raced through the boring bit (the Telemachy, books 1-4) and am now upon Ogygia, Calypso's island.

mcc, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

So I somehow had the impression that Witchcraft was illegal in Canada, but I looked it up, and it turns out no, it is only pretending to do witchcraft which is illegal in Canada. So it appears witchcraft is legal but only as long as it's real, though you might have a difficult time in court if charged with fraudulent claims of witchcraft with proving magic is real

EDIT: See correction below

nev, 1 month ago to random

real fucking body horror implications here

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

My daughter just had the best the doctor experience while getting her brain tumor removed in Roblox (game). Whoever the random kid was playing the surgeon really knew their stuff and aced bedside manner.

nev, 1 month ago to random

just thinking about the Panopticam again (the webcam mounted above the preserved skeleton of Jeremy Bentham [the English philosopher who came up with the Panopticon], at University College London from 2015-16, which tweeted out hourly captures)

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/panopticam/

nev, 1 month ago to random

Happy New Year! It's the anniversary of the destruction of the One Ring and the fall of Sauron, and thenceforth is celebrated as the New Year in western Middle-earth.

Relive the day in my real-time LotR thread: https://bananachips.club/@nev/105951061412685611 (note: you'll have to put it in your mastodon client's search bar, just clicking on it won't work)

In real life, it's Lady Day, the anniversary of the Annunciation; in England this was New Year's Day from the Middle Ages until well into the eighteenth century. (More here: https://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/celebrating-the-new-year-medieval-style/)