Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
Okay, this was a questionable plan. I feel like just ate an entire loaf of bread.
Dinner tonight is all the leftover biscuits that didn't get cooked for Christmas.
For a second time, Jeff gets the award for <only critic in the community to notice and condemn a rape joke.>
(The victim was male, of course.)
(And fictional, of course.)
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In January of 2023 will you publish at least 3 posts to your blog or RSS feed? If so join Bring Back Blogging, an experiment to encourage blogging by listing the bloggers who participate and allowing readers to discover new content.
So far over 130 bloggers joined, including yours truly. I blog regularly, so it was a no brainer.
Today I learned that_The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf_ exists, but has never been published in English.
Why the heck not?
A take so not-hot that it actually made me unfollow the person who boosted it.
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Every day the New York Times tries to convince me to read an article in their app instead of on the web because it is “better in the app.”
I downloaded the app to see why it is better. It appears to be an embedded web view showing the same article. If anything, it loads slower.
Pushing people to native apps for things that the web is great at is so stupid.
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Official sources have determined this is a good thing?
2023 is going to be the year of the rabbit and my timeline is already full of bunny girls.
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The greater Fediverse community is in store for a hard transition as the greater network transitions from “too small for anybody to care” to “financially worthwhile for professional disinfo trolls, spam farms, Grey-market adtech, and organized CSE groups.”
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me: the constitution says I have the right to assemble
Ikea clerk: you have to buy it first
On the holy mountain hear in witness
and our vow remember, Manwë and Varda!"
whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh,
finding keepeth or afar casteth
a Silmaril. This swear we all:
death we will deal him ere Day's ending,
woe unto world's end! Our word hear thou,
Eru Allfather! To the everlasting
Darkness doom us if our deed faileth.
"Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean,
brood of Morgoth or bright Vala,
Elda or Maia or Aftercomer,
Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth,
neither law, nor love, nor league of swords,
dread nor danger, not Doom itself,
shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin,
Comiket is on and my feed is full of artists shilling their art books and doujins (in Japanese, which I can't really read.)
It's a notable improvement over the usual, TBH.
I think the fundamental problem with Twitter moderation is that it acts against what's popular (RTs, trending, etc) when the tastemakers don't like it.
<How dare the common folk enjoy something gauche?>
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Useful test: don't join a Mastodon instance that doesn't let you follow https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi - defederated by many instances because they hired a policeman who had used a Pi to do police work in the past, and were then unapologetic about it.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspberry-pi-shows-how-not-to-mastodon/
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Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”
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Welcome to Mastodon! It's a laid back place. But here's a few simple rules you must follow:
1. Make an account on every fediverse server and create a unique introduction post for each one.
2. Put a content warning on any post that is tangentially related to the Irish Potato Famine.
3. Always use the hashtag #icomeinpeace. Otherwise, we will assume you are hostile.
4. When browsing Mastodon, remove your socks. It is customary.
5. Tell five of your friends to join. Yes, it's a pyramid scheme.
The latest drama is really good at highlighting who to unfollow.
