quintessence

sidereal, 3 months ago to random

If you haven’t seen any fediverse spam then thank the people who run your instance because they are doing a good job.

Impossible_PhD, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Holy shit. I just talked a cis guy on the internet down from "Let kids be kids" and got him to see why gender-affirming care for teens absolutely cannot wait.

This is one of my greatest achievements. I have a legitimate urge to take a victory lap.

quintessence, 3 months ago to random

Just had a math moment when I realized why certain generations say things like "stop buying coffee" and the infamous avocado toast BS.

Let's say you spent $30/day, every day, on take out lunch and coffee/tea or whatever. If you stopped completely you'd save ~$11k/yr.

This would be the cost of US college in the 80s, ish:

https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year

And the median house cost in 1980 was ~$50k/yr (10% down payment of $5000).

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/how-much-housing-prices-have-risen-since-1940.html

🙃

quintessence, 4 months ago to random

Does anyone have documentaries they like to watch that are soothing?

I've been searching for some, but it might not surprise that searching for documentaries while grieving typically returns results about death or true crime or similar, rather that something that's Just Nice and Not Traumatic or Triggering to watch.

🤔

quintessence, 1 year ago to random

Ok I finally got mentally past the fact that you need to create an account for Arc (rather than local profiles).

This browser is nice, I'll give it that. Damn.

quintessence, 1 year ago to random

Finally figured out the reason that webcams were weird on Vivaldi is because apparently Google Meet is "autoplay" so disabling that caused shenanigans.

quintessence, 6 months ago to random

You know what I miss from the c 2010s? Hyperbole and a Half. Just very relatable, all the time.

quintessence, 11 months ago to random

For #FollowFriday - what are your favorite not-a-human accounts to follow? I like @nocontexttrek a lot personally. Mainly because of the weekly Seven of Nine :startrek: posts on Fridays :blobfoxlaugh:

quintessence, 1 year ago to random

Call for info - primarily for BlackMastodon, but also for anyone in a historically underrepresented group who finds themselves frequently needing to educate those in overrepresented groups. On behalf of the Hachyderm mods: we see you, we want to help. Proposal:

• What: Curated, attributed list of work including people to follow, hashtags, and other resources
• Location: our user documentation
• Goal: create a resource for people to see / reference, rather than have the same conversation 50x.

🫶

quintessence, 10 months ago to random

Something that would be a neat feature for the Calendlys / Cals of the world:

Some sort of "coupon code"-like feature where, if you want to allow a schedule override you can. e.g. if you normally schedule in CST (US) and need someone to have availability in Europe, you can give them a coupon-override to get earlier in the morning, or perhaps even a weekend (context dependent) to accommodate, rather than have your usual calendar avail just start at 5 AM on the regular.

quintessence, 9 months ago to random

Thread to make space for grief. How are you all doing?

🖤 🕯️

quintessence, 10 months ago to random

Relevant to my Too Many Tabs Friday complain post, something that I do that normally helps with this is Close All Tabs Friday.

Basically on Friday I force myself to either read or bookmark the damn thing, because if I haven't by Friday I won't. And if I'm keeping the tab for "research" then I should be saving it, not floating it on my screen.

It's one of those things that took a few cycles to train my brain around, but honestly it really helps.

Sharing in case this is useful to anyone ❤️

quintessence, 8 months ago to random

I dunno why but I just realized that Power BI has a "second" brand association :QueerCat_Bisexual:

quintessence, 8 months ago to random

Fellow penthusiasts there's apparently a whole-ass fountain pen instance 👀 🖋️

penfount.social

quintessence, 7 months ago to random

I randomly remembered a blog post and interactive map that I saw awhile ago now (apparently c 2018) about All Roads Leading to Rome. It's a lovely project and while some of the links may be inactive now the visuals are awesome

https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/roads-to-rome.html

Map nerds: what are your favorite data sets / visuals? :)

quintessence, 8 months ago to random

'tis the season, another reminder to make sure to schedule your fall vaccines as needed: COVID 🦠, flu, and so on!

quintessence, 6 months ago to random

In a cPTSD engendering world, I wish more resources were in place to help kids+adults have A+ coping skills and available help at all levels.

Trying to learn anything, let along coping skills, when you're already going through the trauma isn't great.

quintessence, 7 months ago to random

For anyone with Gather Town:

Amongst the Fall Items is a Baba Yaga house. You can make a little patch for your Baba Yaga house, make it a private area, and boom: all your 1:1s are in the Baba Yaga house.

You're welcome.

quintessence, 1 month ago to random

If you could re-invent / re-imagine how email works (protocols): what would you change to make spam prevention easier / the default rather than reactive?

quintessence, 2 months ago to random

Premise for a scifi novel (or something) that I'm not sure if it exists already or not:

There is only one soul in the universe, and while as a life form the soul experiences linear time but can be reborn as any species, on any world, at any time. Not sure what happens once the being is born as every beetle, cat, human, non-terrestrial species, etc.

quintessence, 2 months ago to random

I know this post may date more than a fair few of us, but what was your first computer? (This includes family computers, for those to whom this applies.)

Mine was an Apple IIGS that was bought before I was born. Was reminded of that sweet old school look-and-feel by an account that's tinkering with one on oldbytes.space .

aardrian, 1 month ago to random

“She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.”
https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/

Via: https://kolektiva.social/@pdxlawgrrrl/112368905566697243

IMO, those fees are to continue to disenfranchise people after Floridians voted to restore voting rights to felons because Florida Republicans don’t actually care about votes:
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173786694/felon-voting-database-florida-registration-card-disclaimer

Unclear why Reason article does not mention that.

quintessence, 5 months ago to random

I've been debating on writing a blog post on grief and how we don't deal with death in the US at all. Between my mother and fiancée passing so close together (and for unrelated reasons) I feel like I have a lot to say around You Thought American Healthcare Was Bad, But Wait There's More: Meet American Death Logistics.

quintessence, 3 months ago to random

Seeing pieces about the housing crisis making rounds:

https://www.zillow.com/research/buyers-income-needed-33755/

When there's reporting on the housing crisis, it's almost always "average home value" which I disagree with. I think we should be measuring:

• Average price per sqft
• Average sqft per home
• Average home type

I can tell you right now that a 0-1 bdrm apt in Seattle WA is about the same as a 2-3 bdrm house in Buffalo NY. 1/2