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pmonks

@pmonks@sfba.social

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Living on Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone land (#SanFrancisco)
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This is an authoritarian (both left- and right- flavours), bigot, MAGA, TERF, tankie, anti-vaxxer, climate-change-denier etc. free zone. Conservatives and libertarians should be on their best behaviour too - I have a small amount of patience for your nonsense, and a large block button.

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skinnylatte, to random
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In case you’re thinking of learning to swim as an adult in SF: YMCA Embarcadero and Presidio both have adult swim classes. I’d recommend the private class if you’re a n00b (like me). $50ish for 30 min for members, more for non-members, once a week? I took 6 classes and I learned freestyle and backstroke. I feel reasonably confident, enough to start swimming on my own.

Maybe I wasn’t 100% a n00b (I could do breaststroke) but I needed to build confidence after an accident in a pool years ago

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte As a former parent of small children the toilet situation in the city is farcical.

pmonks, to Bloomscrolling
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Still life with poppies and bay.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Mastodon is what happens when well-read children and compassionate thinkers grow up, and congregate in one place.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr Well-read children *and me.

pmonks,
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@RickiTarr I’m barely one rung up the literacy ladder tbqh.

luis_in_brief, to random
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🔥 it’s a core mistake of the movement that OSI (and maybe Creative Commons, though it is differently situated) emphasized licensing so disproportionately over community in the early 2000s.
https://hachyderm.io/@mattdm/112134152636307431

pmonks,
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@luis_in_brief On the flip side there is plenty of valuable open source that doesn’t have community. The Olsen timezone database was (for many years, though less so since the 2000s) an excellent example of such a project. In that context licensing still remains critically important.

But yes to your broader point, not focusing on community is indeed a missed opportunity, at the very least from a succession planning perspective (something I think about a lot as I get older).

pmonks,
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@luis_in_brief Yeah I struggle to imagine alternatives where licensing doesn’t come first. Establishing rights and obligations certainly seems foundational to me, including for community building.

Binder, to random
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idgaf about the Mile High Club; wake me when we've got high speed passenger submarines. I'm yearning for the Fathom Below Club membership card.

pmonks,
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@Binder Rub a dub dub, hankypanky in a sub!

pmonks, to Bloomscrolling
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BAYANOTHUS!! 😍

pmonks, to Bloomscrolling
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JFCEANOTHUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111122 😍😍😍

skinnylatte, (edited ) to magASEAN
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This is a good biryani list for Singapore.

Most people from Singapore will just be familiar with the Malay / Yemeni biriani, or Indian-Muslim Malay / mamak style, but this list shows the vast array of regional Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani biryanis that we now have in Singapore

My fave is the Junior Kuppana and Malabar ones on this list. I have a preference for short grain and spicier biryanis, especially southern biryanis

https://biryani.substack.com/p/a-biryani-list-for-singapore

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte Parsi biryani ftw!!!

Binder, to random
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SOMEONE keeps eating cherries & absent-mindedly wiping their fingers on MY clothes & if I could figure out who it was, I'd have stern words for them.

pmonks,
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@Binder They’re using you as a hanky. Perhaps they’re keen for some hankypanky? 🤔

skinnylatte, to food
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Speaking of how the food cultures you grew up with impacts you:

When I left Southeast Asia, I only knew how to cook mostly French and Italian foods. It didn't make sense to cook Malay or Indonesian or Chinese foods because, well I could buy it cheaply any time I wanted. In that region.

I learned quickly that because I had never eaten a simple meal my entire life, eating food that was prepared simply made me extremely sad. Like, mental health bad / my life is bad / why did I leave, bad

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte While in India the recipe would be happily shared, but will probably be “get some pyaaz, tomatoes, and lentils, and cook and add spices until it’s right”. 😜

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte Yeah that's exactly the same as in India! 😂

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte Oh right. Yeah Indians will happily share without the marriage part, but it’s still not useful in a western “give me detailed instructions on every single step, plus a 1000 word intro detailing your life history right up until you learnt it” sense of the word “recipe”.

pmonks,
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@skinnylatte Yeah for sure. ime for many Indians food means love, and preparing food is primarily an act of expressing love to others. As someone who grew up in a “food is fuel” familial culture, that was pretty foreign to me, and while I understand it intellectually (and appreciate it!), I personally don’t feel that way about food myself (and don’t consider either position to be “right” or “wrong” - they’re just different).

I've also noticed this can have some negative side effects - we have friends who get riled up when their kids don’t finish their food, for example, and I think that’s partly because they consider it a rejection of their love. Another example is that I, despite being a reasonably healthy weight for my height, regularly get the “you don't look healthy” (which is code for "you’re too skinny”) when visiting my in-laws.

dgar, to random
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Why did St. Patrick drive all the snakes out of Ireland?

It was too far to walk!

pmonks,
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@dgar Is again?

dgar, to random
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How do you think the unthinkable?

An itheberg!

pmonks,
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@dgar Pleathe shtop

pmonks, to random
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This is the worst honey I’ve ever tasted.

Binder, to random
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    pmonks,
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    @Binder To be fair a Jackson Pollock painting made with sewage then animated with AI would be better than Titanic.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Writing Prompt:

    Write the saddest sentence you can think of.

    pmonks,
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    @NeadReport @RickiTarr Thanks now I’m ugly crying in Starbucks.

    pmonks, to Bloomscrolling
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    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay just a little experiment I'm gonna link a couple songs, can you listen to a bit of it, and give me a couple adjectives about how it makes you feel?

    https://youtu.be/4Tr0otuiQuU?si=VTcptOW1N1V2Pwvw

    pmonks,
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    @RickiTarr This had better end with an epic Ricki Roll.

    ai6yr, (edited ) to cycling

    Mmmm.... new use for evaporated milk.

    pmonks,
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    @ai6yr Soon: “why does my bike stink?”

    pmonks, to fediverse
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    Has anyone else noticed that kolektiva.social seems to consistently harbour some of the most deranged people visible in this corner of the Fediverse? I haven’t bothered checking what that instance purports to be about, but the pattern is quite glaring.

    mxtiffanyleigh, to random
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    I'm instantly suspicious of anyone whose entire online personality is "Oops! All Retweets!" plus the sentence "As usual, [Name of Any Internet Pundit with a Substack or Podcast] nails it."

    pmonks,
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    @mxtiffanyleigh @Binder As usual, mxtiffanyleigh nails it.

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