pootriarch

purplepadma, 25 days ago to random

I’m struggling and I need cuteness or soothing things in my feed, anyone able to oblige?

metabrainz, 28 days ago to random

#MusicBrainz edit 111111111!

https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/111111111

flexghost, 28 days ago to random

** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON #MastodonMusic **

Tonight’s theme is:

🎬🎞️📽️ STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN! 📽️🎞️🎬

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🎵 Post music made for—or featured in—movies...along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
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Bonus points if someone who made the film helped make the song!

🍷 Charlie Chaplin ‘The Kid’ + Sidecar🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Video of an older Charlie Chaplin conducting an orchestra. I believe his fly is zipped, his shoes are not tied together and he's not doing that pancake bit Yes he composed this and many others.

bluestocking, 1 month ago to random

Bookshop West Portal just sent out an email asking people to tell SFMTA not to make any changes to the streets at West Portal Station because it would ruin their business so I guess I’m never buying anything there ever again. I can’t believe 4 people JUST died there and they actually typed up an email that said this and hit “send”: “we believe limited SFMTA resources should be directed toward the already-identified high accident sites in the city. West Portal is not one of them.” They also take a potshot at the Valencia bike lane using disproven stats, and try to use the elderly and disabled as a cudgel against traffic safety improvements.

Also, they keep talking about the tragedy of a handful of parking spaces going away, when they’re along multiple transit lines. I have only ever arrived at their bookshop via transit. Do they actually have any stats showing that only people who drive buy books there? Or is it that entitled drivers are more likely to make conversation about parking (or lack thereof)?

scott, 1 month ago to random

"As a leading craft beer gastropub, a third of our sales might come from delivery... the entire experience of The Monk’s Kettle has now been transformed from a welcoming place where you hang out with friends in a fun atmosphere…to eating a lukewarm burger and fries in your apartment."

a sad statement on what's happened to community, culture and public space in San Francisco.

https://mastodon.nelson.fun/@kurt/112243763088779802 @kurt

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

#TuneTuesday #goosebumps #PouetRadio

saint etienne · hobart paving
https://youtu.be/pNPAkVcnlfA

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

if x is such a great name why do i still see screenshots saying 'retweeted'? people should be rexing. reposts should be RX. which is what i'd need if i ever went back there

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

the deeper you go in the comments, the shallower the comments get

Urbanhedgelady, 1 month ago to crochet

Is this cute? Weird? Cool? All of the above?
#crochet #amigurumi

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

it is always a relief to see that the library book you haven't quite finished has no holds, and so can be renewed

scott, 1 month ago to random

This man needs a therapist. It’s, on one level, kind of funny to see such an absurd reaction to a bike lane, but I don’t feel great pointing and laughing; he really seems not well. https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/yasmins-owner-pledges-30-day-hunger-strike-over-valencia-bike-lane/ #bikeSF

jules, 1 month ago to random

is there a fediverse equivalent to lastfm

pootriarch, 1 month ago to Trains

where'd my #introduction go? i know i had one pinned… whatever. i boost #random #dumb things, #trains, #dogs, #cats if they're outrageous enough (they're a dime a dozen here, gotta be selective). i'm highly political and try to keep it off masto (including filtering hot-button topics from my own feed). i buy local #art and post my haul. i live in an english-speaking country but occasionally break out jacques clouseau #french to torture people. my shift key hasn't worked since about 2006. and i only #over #hashtag in #introduction posts.

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

i wrote this about my reading habits a decade ago but it's still basically true

If I feel disappointed or tricked by the author — i.e., I invested a lot of time in the book, I expected to be interested, but it became useless — it will get one or two stars. If I didn’t read enough of the book to make a fair assessment, or if I disliked it but knew going in that I wasn’t the target audience, I drop it off my queue without rating. If I am experimenting with something I don’t typically like, but that came highly recommended, I will defer even adding it until I’m sure I will like it well enough to rate it.

If the book is controversial (religious, political, etc.) I will rarely write a text review. I typically will throw it back without rating even though I finished it and have an opinion. This is a defense mechanism that is based on the universe of the book’s readers, not about the book itself.

mxtthxw, 1 month ago to random

People complain a lot about LLMs but there's so much other stuff about worth complaining about at the moment.

Don't miss out!

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

i had forgotten that april fools in french are april fish

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

y'all, la cucaracha is still the best car horn
this has been a public service announcement

pootriarch, 1 month ago to random

so some terrible corp does a terrible thing, not world peace terrible but enshittification terrible.

people go on reddit to bitch about it.
some dude lifts a bunch of comments and makes a not-quite-coherent story out of it.
some site writes a clickbait headline and wraps it around the crap story.
this isn't a shit sandwich. it's more of a shit burrito

KydiaMusic, 1 month ago to ADHD

I was having an ok day, until someone said I was being annoying. :sadness:

Feel free to mute me, unfollow, or block me if the way I conduct myself on here is not to your taste. I welcome gentle correction if I'm behaving in a way that's hurtful or inconsiderate, but I don't tolerate rudeness or requests that I alter my behavior just because someone doesn't like how often they see my posts. There are plenty of people who are annoying and you can just...ignore them.

#ADHD #RSD #ADHDMemes

CavedaleRhones, 1 month ago to random

Just got the call from State Farm that this is the last renewal of our home insurance. We have a year (which was either nice of them or regulated, not sure which) to find an alternative. I’m thinking that maybe we should require Exxon and PGE to buy us all home insurance as part of a climate change adaptation.

jomc, 1 month ago to random

Not a proper review or anything but what I like so far about the 3 Body Problem on Netflix is I can pay attention with the dumb and useless parts of my brain that usually otherwise have me clicking on something like Selling Sunset

mxtthxw, 2 months ago to random

Went for the Keychron K10 with brown keys. Feels funny, obviously very different to the old Mac keyboard.

Let’s see how well it shitposts…

pootriarch, 2 months ago to random

i have for the longest time had the ⏚ symbol in my pseudo. this is the electrical ground symbol, but also that of soulèvements de la terre, a french environmental activist group. when the government nearly banned them, i added ⚖, which i intended to be read as 'justice for soulèvements de la terre'. while they remain under heavy state pressure, they evaded a full ban. so i now add ✨​ to my profile; this is intended to be read 'justice for glitter; soulèvements de la terre'
#iykyk #glitter

pootriarch, 2 months ago to random

i just looked at the logs for the server that handles my masto verification link, and y'all, i had no idea there were so many mastodon instances

amberage, 2 months ago to random

So how do you ask your doctor "can you please look into diagnosis x" without putting it like that?

Doctors don't like it when patients think or read about stuff, but also this stuff is really worrying me.