2024-04-11 10:12:44
I am who I am.
I like what I like.
I love who I love.
I do what I want.
#Motivation #QOTD #Quotes
I am who I am.
I like what I like.
I love who I love.
I do what I want.
#Motivation #QOTD #Quotes
Thanks to my absolutely amazing wife @… for the beautiful Valentine's Day gift that arrived today!
#ValentinesDay #Gift
I just received an invoice from ITU
(International Telecommunications Union). Their letterhead states a TELETEX number (in 2024!). I love it. #retronetworking - now I seriously wonder how I might be able to get connected to a public network that can reach it.
I do! I do love the little tacos! #TacoTuesday
I got Hole's first single and hated it. I found Pretty On The Inside to be just ok, a bit too noisy and dissonant.
But Live Through This not only sounded better, the songs offered a more sophisticated take on feminist punk rock.
This article does a good job of explaining what was so cool about this album from a socio-political point of view.
“Another problem I had with all my folder full o’ posts strategy was that I didn’t know whether a post was nearly done or a scrap of an idea. I was lost. Every two months or so I’d have to click through each file to repopulate my memory buffer with the statuses of each post. […]
I needed a tool to make sense of those words. […]
It’s overkill, but it’s my overkill, and I love it.”
@…
i love the game of ice hockey! i played it for 10 years. But i really dislike the business of the NHL: B*ttman, the fighting (ban fighting and contact in general), the officiating; call all the penalties i don't care if that means special teams all night!
I am still in the beginning stages, but I am REALLY enjoying Palia. Been finding it relaxing playing it on my Switch with a YouTube video playing on my iPad.
I want to see how the later stages are and what the devs do, but I’m very impressed so far! And I love not having a sub and am fine with the only monetisation being cosmetic items to help support the game.
#Palia
I post about it every so often, but I again wish to take a moment to mention how much I love my breakfast sandwich making toaster.
Some water in the tray on the right
Pop in bread, and egg and whatever topping I want heated and turn it on and go about getting ready and in a few minutes…hot breakfast sandwich waiting to be assembled!
You can see how much it’s been used since you can no longer read the brand lettering. 😂
I love that my wife is so generous with material possessions. I never had any problem at all with her lending or even giving our stuff to people in need.
Except for the time when she gave an old digital camera to a budding migrant photographer without checking what was in the data card.
Because what was there was a picture of myself kneeling in front of Sir Terry Pratchett, when he was in Milan for a book signing a long time ago.
I still love her, but it's harder.
…
> i just don't care what briefcase business boys have to say about anything, they do not imagine cathedrals, only plastic bags
— @…
https://blob.love/@nora/11242362767817
Memory, nostalgia, personal
Today I've reached the part of Szczecin that I haven't visited for 15 years or so. I have to say: memory is interesting.
I only had minimal recollections before, some place names I've visited, some associations, maybe a few rough visual memories. Looking at the map helped uncover a bit more but not much.
Today, walking (unknowingly following a similar route), memories returned in bulk. "I've been here before", "I totally forgot about these plane trees", "I remember this fence", "we sat somewhere over there". Even some images returned.
I was hit by nostalgia too. After all, all that was important to me. I was in love, and for the first time in my life everything was going just right. These were the good memories.
So what's the issue? Perhaps it is that it's easier to cherish good memories when the present is good as well, or at least you're convinced that it's going to go in the right direction. Perhaps you need precisely that to avoid perceiving these memories as the good old days that are never coming back.
Or perhaps it's an autism spectrum thing. Perhaps these memories will always represent attachment to a person that's no longer a part of my life. Dreams that didn't come true. Good times that has passed, and that I didn't cherish as much as I wish I would. Memories made together that remain important to me, but not to anyone else. And these memories that I've lost, though they remain present at the edge of conscience, reminding of their existence, but ever unreachable.
#ActuallyAutistic
While I appreciate every project that I work on, I would really love something longer term, or contractural.
17 years experience of working remotely so far!
#fedihired
I know it sometimes seems like a bit of a pointless kitchen gadget, but I love my soup maker.
Grab a bunch of slightly-past-their-best veggies from the bottom drawer of the fridge. Throw them in the machine with a stock cube. Fill with water. Press the button.
Then go and waste time on Mastodon for half an hour (protip: you could do something useful with your life in this period of time, but honestly why would you!).
Come back into the kitchen 30 minutes later to find a lovely hot tasty and probably fairly healthy soup waiting for you.
I'd do that "follow me for more recipes" meme thing but realistically this is probably your lot!
I love DeArrow browser extension.
Video title provided by the youtuber: "I Played Every Rockstar Game EVER"
Video title provided by the community: "I Played Some Games Published by Rockstar Games"
😅 🤣
Retrospring
Favourite color? — Hmmm idk, I love lots of colors
I love pink, green, the waterish green/blue as you can see in my retrospring theme, purple, … https://retrospring.net/@Luana/a/112258543604160118
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #Radio2LovesEurovision
Meat Loaf:
🎵 I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
#MeatLoaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UrgDocbHywDZv2f3mBhCq
https://leonell.bandcamp.com/track/meat-loaf-id-do-anything-for-love-but-i-wont-do-that-official-music
I just love that we live in a system where all the free work you do for the common good has absolutely zero value and you’re only deemed successful if what you do makes money.
And then you wonder why you’ve ended up with the Elon Musks of the world.
i've been listening to ladaniva for the last couple of days and i love their music! #eurovision
I'm fascinated by the discussion around protocol #bridging (currently: #Bluesky). I understand some of the arguments, but I'm less clear on where/why people are drawing certain lines.
If you're anti-bridging, I'd love to know what you'd consider okay *for yourself*:
- Being able to follow people on Bluesky from Fedi
- Being able to be followed from Bluesky
- Being able to comment on Bluesky posts
- Being able to receive Bluesky comments
- Sharing of Bluesky posts within Fedi
- Vice versa
It's not that I think Tiktok is an angel or I love the CCP, –I think the data collection done by Tiktok and all other apps/sites should be banned. It's sus to go after one app unless it's doing something Meta wouldn't do.
Powerful (I thought) narrative from Sabine Hossenfelder about why she’s no longer an employed-in-academia scientist and is instead a YouTuber: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-i-fell-out-of-love-with-academia.html
i love the game of ice hockey! i played it for 10 years. But i really dislike the business of the NHL: B*ttman, the fighting (ban fighting and contact in general), the officiating; call all the penalties i don't care if that means special teams all night!
I love these Sam Francisco summer nights. 8pm, still bright but foggy af, a cool 59°. Feels like some kind of weird limbo out there.
So whimsical. I love whimsical. https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/111925067442188821
@… I bought two of your prints! I'm so excited, we love your art style!
I love how the OpenSearch container supporting my GrayLog runs 181 java threads and consumes 6 GB of RAM. Oh well, it is doing it's job...
[Edit: Oh. "By default, OpenSearch Service uses 50% of an instance's RAM for JVM heaps up to 32 GiB in size."]
#Java #OpenSearch #GrayLog
I love me a thoughtful critical review that actually changes my mind (some if not entirely): https://thebaffler.com/latest/eichmann-in-auschwitz-thomason
Grace Potter is playing near here in June!
Since my bestie is coming in March for the Bodeans show, I'll have no one to go see Grace with!
I love her. I may just go by myself, dammit. #GracePotter https://
The golden rule I can aspire to, with one exception.
No love for Nazis.
Vote for Democracy!
I love this open protocol overall and am thankful it's not opt-in or nobody would see my bullshit by default🤣
#ActivityPub #Fediverse
The slow drain is really hitting me hard today. Medicating with coffee.
I haven't been this depressed in a long time. It comes after three weekends of doing what I love, and spending two weekends to recover.
What I love is draining for an ambivert like me. I wish that wasn't true, but like so many things I am good at, it is draining.
These are just thoughts and I will treat them like grasping at sand.
Still sucks, though.
I know it sometimes seems like a bit of a pointless kitchen gadget, but I love my soup maker.
Grab a bunch of slightly-past-their-best veggies from the bottom drawer of the fridge. Throw them in the machine with a stock cube. Fill with water. Press the button.
Then go and waste time on Mastodon for half an hour (protip: you could do something useful with your life in this period of time, but honestly why would you!).
Come back into the kitchen 30 minutes later to find a lovely hot tasty and probably fairly healthy soup waiting for you.
I'd do that "follow me for more recipes" meme thing but realistically this is probably your lot!
Lemme fix the headline...
"Local community gives all its money to cops, who are surprised that people need more than cops"
I love towards the end when the cop says that the feds should be paying for healthcare.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/cobb-sheriff-says-homeless-terminally-ill-man-arrested-purpose-healthcare-hes-not-alone/FJXPDVWXPFEMJDGTJIECAN74MY/
I _love_ waking up to the tune of 16 cows roaring the heads off.
I LOVE the #UnderMine2 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3egh4JsQk
They start with the protagonist from the first game (nostalgia!), but no 10 seconds …
So @… said someone sent him a game to play -- pick a band you love and make an Eras tour style set list for them. 3 songs from each album plus a 3 song encore.
So I chose the Ramones. It was fairly easy. 14 albums - lots of songs. Ha!
#punk
Incel CS lecturer at Waterloo
$2.4.1 DIFFICULTIES OF HUNTING AT WORK"
I don't know what to say
"In academia, dating and romantic/sexual relationship between professors and students is controversial"
Yes. Yes it is.
"There is clearly a world-wide bias in judgmental decisions for accusing males, compared to females, in harassments. It may be because males usually ask out and show interest in females and females may take it as an offense."
Okay so has anyone explained to you the concept of power dynamics and unethical abuse of authority roles?
"A funny thing is that once, in a seminar for teaching assistants in the University of Waterloo, they told us that teaching
assistants should not date students. I asked about the case of John Nash. The professor answered me that they married
after the student graduated (which I think is not true). Then, I answered even if that is true, did they suddenly get
married without any dating? Of course, they dated before that, while she was a student! I think they themselves know
that this rule is nonfunctional because if the professor/instructor and the student are both single, they may like each
other or fall in love as they interact frequently in the school. This rule was even criticised in the American comedy show "Friends" (season 6, episode 18)."
Ok, there's a lot to unpack here, but the main bit is this: Do you understand that the sitcom "Friends" is not a good source for understanding ethics?
i fuckign love getting high on p4 [micronized progesterone, oral]
i don't care about it giving me tits i already have really nice big tits
i just like how high it makes me %___%
i just bumped a can of monster with a usb cable and it made a beautiful "twannnnnng" sound as it released all that energy as sound
so pretty
I have now started reading Joseph Weizenbaum’s increasingly relevant book from 1976, ’Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation’.
I expected to like it but 23 pages in I can already say I love it. On page 23 he quotes Hannah Arendt about recent makers and executors of policy in the Pentagon:
”They were not just intelligent, but prided themselves on being ’rational’… They were eager to find formulas, preferably expressed in a pseudo-mathematical language, th…
How is the soundtrack of Pacific Drive that bloody good. I love it!
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #Radio2LovesEurovision
Meat Loaf:
🎵 I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
#MeatLoaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UrgDocbHywDZv2f3mBhCq
https://leonell.bandcamp.com/track/meat-loaf-id-do-anything-for-love-but-i-wont-do-that-official-music
This is an older podcast, but it's still entirely powerful. What I love about Peter #Attia is that he is a mensch.
Why You Need To Protect Your Joints If You Want to Live to Be 100 | Peter Attia on Health Theory - YouTube
Just read @… article about #Sailfish and I love it. I was quite in love with Sailfish and Jolla, and somehow I still love it (I worked for them, and created JollaEs, the main website in Spanish about it). But we must admit that it is quite hard to use Sailfish if you are …
The Lion King: Genesis - Can I just make it past the stampede? [Day 3]
LIVE NOW 🔴🕹️ #Twitch
I'm reminded of that old Czech saying that goes something like,
"Oftentimes the person who needs love the most is the person who least deserves it."
Elon really, really needs a hug right now. You can feel it. It's so palpable. So thick in the air.
...I'm still not unblocking him on Twitter though, no. His mental health is not worth my mental health. And I personally can't help him anyway.
Daylight Savings Time is so awesome. I love trying to convince my kid to go to bed while the sun is still up, get out of bed before the sun comes back up, wear gloves and a jacket because the bike ride to school now happens at the absolute coldest part of the night, and ride the long way to school because the usual route is full of drivers who are now staring directly into the sunrise.
What's not to love?
@… you’ve probably seen this, but if not, it's worth the 6 minute read https://tegowerk.eu/posts/bicycle-repair/
Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
COMPUTER: Jam. Jamble. Scramble. Uncode. Declassify. Jargon. Love is the only reality.
TARRANT: I don't suppose this kind of machine would respond to a kick in the ear, would it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/409/174 📺 B7B5
I *love* taking the train into NYC. No worries about watching the traffic. I can read. I can use the bathroom. It's a win-win-win. #publictransit
Why I love #HomeKit is I can still do machine learning with facial recognition, my doorbell recognised my sister’s face, but it’s encrypted and the data isn’t feeding a public dataset of faces.
Reunion with OC Greg Roman key in RB Gus Edwards joining Chargers: 'I love this scheme' https://www.nfl.com/news/reunion-with-oc-greg-roman-key-in-rb-gus-edwards-joining-chargers-i-love-this-scheme
I know a lot of people LOVE using the iPad for drawing, but after all these years of using various non-screen Wacom Intuos tablets, the iPad feels like a compromise.
I would rather just crack open a fresh PSD and pick a sketching pencil and start from there.
in my opinion there is no better physical feeling than the dopamine and other chemicals released into your body after an extremely intense orgasm with the person that you love. Drug addicts would compare a large dose of injected heroin or peaking on ecstasy to this sort of orgasm but I disagree. Not even close. This is by design. Reproduction is instinctual and our biggest purpose as humans.
🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Hoctor Band:
🎵 I'll Always Love My Mama
#HoctorBand
Chef José Andrés says Israel's 'unforgivable' strike on his aid workers must force 'real reckoning' - #ABCNews
https://abcnews.go.com/Politic…
Morland P.I. 🔎🌹📖
Dramatized romantic comedy | Kit Morland, true crime podcaster and wannabe heroine, is dying for some excitement. When her neighbours offer to take her on a trip to Bath, site of the famous Chawton Murders, she knows this is her chance to investigate the unsolved mystery. But Kit’s new environmen...
https://www.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
r mccarthy:
🎵 I Think I Lost That Love
#rmccarthy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UqRhRTH7FqsnOR0AZ16rX
https://infinitebisous.bandcamp.com/track/i-think-i-lost-that-love
I have a disability and I found a job I love. Social Security is making me pay dearly. | The Hill
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4563974-i-found-a-job-i-love-social-security-is-making-me-pay-dearly-for-it/
#EchoAndTheBunnymen
I love this song. 😊
#EchoAndTheBunnymen
I love this song. 😊
Guardian reports #Eurovision lost almost a quarter of viewership in the UK this year compared to last. But note last year's show was organized in Liverpool, by the BBC.
Anyway, I'd love to see viewing figures in other countries as well; this should help prove the theory that #Israel go…
all caps tv show trash
OMFG THIS IS NOT A DRILL CHLOE VEITCH IN THE NEW SEASON OF EX ON THE BEACH I CANT OMG THIS IS GOING TO BE SO GOOD! I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!
It's not that I think Tiktok is an angel or I love the CCP, –I think the data collection done by Tiktok and all other apps/sites should be banned. It's sus to go after one app unless it's doing something Meta wouldn't do.
I used to love these book as. Actually, just got the Fighting Fantasy books on iPad to play again.
My Top 10 Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YWHP0oxBqu8&si=ri5q7Ed6618LbtLq
God I love @… Just saved my soul for the finals, I had torn a pretty expensive book but thankfully didn't have to re-buy it.
My brain when I'm out of town: bro, I would love to write that blog post right now, I can literally recite each and every sentence of it.
My brain when I'm back home, in front of the computer: *Windows XP shutdown sound*
😠
By the way, do you have a personal website and does it have a home page? (I’m pretty sure it does… 😁)
I would love to know: what’s on your “home” and why?
Feel free to share a link, of course. 🤗 As always, I’m also asking on behalf of my #OwnYourWeb newsletter subscribers.
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
The Ronettes:
🎵 Baby, I Love You
#TheRonettes
https://open.spotify.com/track/4V6ZLk1IHdG00qu3B4m8Y9
https://fox-jaw.bandcamp.com/track/baby-i-love-you-the-ramones-the-ronettes
Honestly, I love reading Stephen Jay Gould's essays on #evolution, #biology and other topics. Some of them are almost 50 years old, many of them are outdated (sometimes corrected by later essays), many of them state things that are obvious to people living today.
Nevertheless, they're not only written in great style, but reading them is like witnessing history in the making. It's not like dry facts you learn a school, or historical accounts made by people with future perspective (though Gould often did such accounts as well, and tried to put ideas in context of their era) — it's about witnessing them as exciting new ideas.
The first collection is #book
And....almost an hour later and I'm still awake.🤦♂️
Gotta love insomnia.
On another note, I do LOVE when someone attempts to explain something I am quite knowledgeable about...🤣
Some dude just tried explaining how BridgyFed works to me on BlueSky after I called him out telling folks to use it wrongly.🤦♂️
I did kinda "leak" the info ya know, I know how it works.🤣🤣🤣
I enjoyed Joe Biden's State of the Union so much that I can hardly wait for Inauguration Day.
Gotta love a fiesty Democratic.
Be like Joe!
"Four more years!"
:mastodon:
I'm particularly interested in trying to understand whether it's just a case of "any interaction/bridge is bad" or if there are certain aspects of bridging that are considered more/less harmful/problematic.
I'd also love to understand why Bluesky is materially different from interconnectivity between Fedi software (Lemmy, PeerTube, Masto, etc.) or even between Mastodon servers. There's a definite argument around surveillance capitalism, but beyond that (or is that reason enough?)?
Tesla has done something truly unique with the cybertruck.
Been doing a lot of car shopping lately. Most of the time I see a picture of a car & don’t love it, looks weirdly disproportionate, but then I see it in person & it looks much better. Cars are generally designed to be seen in person, in 3D, with human focal length and ocular distance.
Cybertruck: As hideous as it looks in pictures, it actually looks 10x worse irl. Like someone made a replica for their kid out of f…
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
M People:
🎵 How Can I Love You More
#MPeople
https://open.spotify.com/track/0PArc42od9tA2YDk7udsy6
https://discomack01.bandcamp.com/track/m-people-how-can-i-love-you-more-discomacks-extended-edit
I love Ian McShane. TIL: He voiced the opening to Grace Jones' Slave to the Rhythm
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/09/ian-mcshane-when-i-was-about-to-get-it-on-with-richard-burton-he-said-i-reminded-him-of-elizabeth
#EchoAndTheBunnymen
I love this song. 😊
I just love the music in Hunt for Red October!!!
So good! One of my favourite movies of all time.
I know this week’s #MusicWomenWednesday has passed, but I can’t get this Patti Smith song out of my head tonight, so I’ll share it! I love her, & I love this song. #AllThatGlittersIsNot
God I love @… Just saved my soul for the finals, I had torn a pretty expensive book but thankfully didn't have to re-buy it.
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #SoundsOfThe60sWithTonyBlackburn
The Ronettes:
🎵 Baby, I Love You
#TheRonettes
https://open.spotify.com/track/4V6ZLk1IHdG00qu3B4m8Y9
https://fox-jaw.bandcamp.com/track/baby-i-love-you-the-ramones-the-ronettes
I know this week’s #MusicWomenWednesday has passed, but I can’t get this Patti Smith song out of my head tonight, so I’ll share it! I love her, & I love this song. #AllThatGlittersIsNot
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #SoundsOfThe60sWithTonyBlackburn
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 I Was Made To Love Her
#StevieWonder
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aCKBrLn7rbhStk5k4FwnF
https://magnumsextendedmixesv3.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-i-was-made-to-love-her-magnums-extended-mix
I love it when I reply to someone's post, telling them i love them and will miss them, and that person deletes their post and re-posts it so that my reply isn't there....
Guess I won't miss you then....🙄
if that faux :-) Yashica "I'm back" (LOL) came in pink, i'd buy it. Otherwise i'm sticking with small micro 4/3 cameras like the Panasonic GM1 which I just got and love! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/micro-mirrorless-y…
I’m so excited! @… sent the second Valentine’s Day gift I’ve ever gotten in my life. 😭🥺 I love this man.
I love portraits. So many ppl don’t—as #artwork goes, they typically just don’t sell—but I love them. We have #paintings of ppl we don’t know hanging all over our house.
I love portraits. So many ppl don’t—as #artwork goes, they typically just don’t sell—but I love them. We have #paintings of ppl we don’t know hanging all over our house.
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Tina Charles:
🎵 I Love To Love
#TinaCharles
https://open.spotify.com/track/1eZlpNbnVWPaJ9HWiLKccr
https://retrosoundwave.bandcamp.com/album/tina-charles-i-love-to-love-2024-3-versions