@jake4480@c.imI discovered Ozzy via radio (and my dad had the first Sabbath record) but my wife discovered Ozzy in a different way. When she was younger, she was searching for 'Crazy' by Britney, but 'Crazy Train' came up, and she was like, 'what's this', and listened to it. She liked it, made it the custom ringtone for her mom's phone number, and kept it as that (it still is). 😂 She later heard the early Sabbath stuff and loved it, of course.
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Funny, I was in the midst of trying Xfce on my Linux Mint, and liked the theming. I agree that Xfce is more themeable than most DEs, but I've decided to go back to Cinnamon, I think. I'll leave Xfce on my PC, in case I change my mind.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotFirst time cooking artichoke tonight. We nuked it which worked well but main finding is wotta lotta hassle for some wee bites. Our 16yo liked it and wants to have it again so it was a success in that respect!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 1: Five things we liked and didn't like, including J.J. McCarthy's poise, unlikely heroes, bad vibes
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-w…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialAs for the youth, of which I tend to think of these games as sales presentations for loans, they were good.
At 16, Ngumoha really looks like an up and comer. He's patient mostly, but quite direct as well.
I liked Nyoni last year and I liked him yesterday. He wasn't flashy, but he always made the right decision at the right time.
Stephenson was good in the middle. I think he looked a bit nervous on the ball, but made no real mistakes. Good performance.
4/n
@pre@boing.worldWatched Rick and Morty Season Eight.
Justin Roiland has nothing to do with it any more and Dan Harmon barely seems even mentioned in the credits. So I guess now it's the continuing zombie monster of the show they created. Zombie Rick and Morty for a hundred seasons.
Every episode still very dense with ideas, reality swapping and clones and simulations and false memories.
Liked the last one best, when a memory-Rick tries to escape by driving Beth insane to rescue the last memories of his wife.
Zombie Rick And Morty is still pretty amusing and worth half an hour now and then.
#watching #tv #rickAndMorty
@kevin@social.losno.coOh god, someone with a problematic past liked one of my posts on Bluesky… what do
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… I mostly just liked that it rhymed 😅
@samvarma@fosstodon.org
@samir@functional.computer@… I find this at once a shame and a relief.
I liked the sounds of it! But I don’t know what it solves.
@joe@toot.works... Considering how bad recent DC movies were, I liked this.
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 25-15
I liked the work bringing Doom to the Amiga, without actually using Amiga code.
And I learned some new things about the history of Civility in the BBC podcast.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/08/friday-links-25-15.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz'Diva' Micah Parsons 'not well-liked' with Cowboys, anonymous AFC coach says https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/diva-micah-parsons-not-well-liked-dallas-cowboys-anonymous-afc-coach-says
@scott@carfree.cityI liked the premise of this The Dig podcast, that it was going to tell me why Chicago's left-wing mayor is seemingly so unpopular, but it's very in the weeds and didn't provide much of an overview of the issues. Feels like it's only for people who are already Chicago politics junkies
https://
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialI always liked VIMEO, and I have some stuff on there. I hope this doesn't mean the end of them:
https://petapixel.com/2025/09/10/bending-spoons-buys-video-platform-vimeo-for-1-38-billion/
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well that was lol funny. I typed in the answer as my 3rd guess and then thought of another word I liked better so I used that as my 3rd guess. I still like my 3rd guess better as I feel it provided more info though, so I don't feel bad!
Bot had a better 3rd guess that would have left only 1 word no matter which of the 7 words the answer was, instead of the 2 that my guess left.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toWell i mean its not liked they asked him when he was born...
@ruari@velocipederider.comJust relaying a story I told elsewhere.
When I was young, maybe around 5, there was a cat in our neighbourhood who regulary came into our garden. His name was Monty. He was a really nice cat and my brother, sister and I really liked him.
At some point our parents bought us a cat and we disgreed on what our cat should be called but in the end we agreed to just copy the other cat's name because we liked that one so much.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBen Johnson shares pointed assessment of Bears' practice habits: 'Yet to reflect a championship-caliber team'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@detondev@social.linux.pizzahi yall! weird and arty movies used to be a massive part of my psyche for a brief, intense time when i was younger. but then i had a particularly bad depressive slump that killed the habit. now i wanna get back into it. each day for the next week, im gonna watch one Andrei Tarkovsky film (i found a free collection on archive.org!) and post my initial reaction afterward. i saw one of his movies, Stalker, when i was about 15, and while i liked it, i know i was too young and stupid to actually …
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineMade a pass on this script, and see where I have two scenes/sequences still to write. But really liked reading it after a long time away from it. I needed that today.
#script #film #screenwriting
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI have long liked Eleanor Homes-Norton who is nearly 90 and is considering yet another term as the (regrettably non-voting) House member from Washington DC.
She is considering running for another term.
Yikes!
The piece below is more about journalism and how to report - or more likely to bury - the signs of a fading mind.
However there are other aspects:
The first aspect is this: Aging elected officials who continue to hang onto power are discouraging younger peo…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialI'm not going to mourn Charlie Kirk. He was a genuinely evil man who liked being cruel to people.
I hope they find the shooter, arrest them, try, and convict them. Because that is the way of a democratic society. Justice must be done.
#uspol
@seedling@dice.campSome intermittent thoughts about 4E as I review it after not having run a game in like 8 years.
1. going from playing almost entirely super rules light NSR games to this has made me greatly underestimate how much prep is involved.
2. I'm also a lot worried about teaching new people this.
3. I don't like what they did about alignment, but I never liked D&D alignment. I do like the deieties as a shorthand for the player's values and I like the amount of emphas…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAs a child who liked tennis, I envied the players' relatives who had chairs on the court itself. I wondered why they didn't sit together though. This year they aren't allowed to sit on the court but must join everyone else in the stalls.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioDropped a friend of near the big university here today to catch her bus ride and I’m always astounded how little clothing American students wear.
They basically looked liked they’re coming from a pool party. (They did not, just normal classes.)
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 25-18
Quick selection.
This week I liked the podcast with the whaler, and the Chinese cycling industry.
#engineering
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you liked me with short hair, that’s cool, but honestly, I hated it, and I even felt really depressed about it sometimes, but now my hair’s naturally pretty long, so yay for that!
#LGBTQIA #GendedFluid
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzAnd only a little way away, demolition in progress of other parts of the old Broadmarsh Centre. I liked this scaffolding grid pattern!
#Nottingham #Broadmarsh #demolition
@raiders@darktundra.xyzESPN downgrades Raiders offseason for 2 of their bigger moves https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/10/espn-downgrades-raiders-offseason-for-2-of-their-bigger-moves/845374160…
@joe@toot.works
@ncoca@social.coopOne thing I liked about #Greenpeace was that they always made an effort to include social factors in their reports or research, and not have it just be about #climate or #environment.
Yet, in this rep…
@mino@blorbo.socialthe closest one that I liked (still casually) was v6 but they disbanded too few years ago so lol
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toOne of the things I liked about the original #Avatar #movie was towards the end when our heroes are on the ropes but then all the animals of Pandora come to fck up the bad guys. "Eywa is listening!"
Ok, so when do all the Earth animals rise up and trample us? Or we're overun by fire ants or killer be…
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialI muted a fellow complainer.
This proves that complaints can trend just fine...
everything is about making a "popular complaint" and you'll be super liked on Mastodon.
#Complaint #Complaints
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI was reading Lalo Schifrin's obit; - I hadn't realised he wrote so many of the scores for films I know; I bought his Black Widow album because I liked his music in Bullitt - but Cool Hand Luke, Dirty Harry, Kelly's Heroes, are all ones I grew up on.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialLast week, I finished a book that I really liked but the one I followed up with was a letdown so I reckoned I would finally read Elana Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend,” which everyone says is so great and it’s on my shelf anyway, bu then I found this old edition of GB Shaw plays and I’m reading that instead, Pygmalion first. It’s very funny — I laughed out loud in Act V. Also — spoiler alert! — it has a better ending than the 1964 film (which I love anyway!).
@seav@en.osm.town#TuneTuesday (Jul 29)
I first heard of #SufjanStevens when he contributed songs to the soundtrack of Call Me By Your Name and I instantly liked his dreamy and laid-back style of music.
But if I were to pick one song of his I really like, then it would have to be the demo version of “C…
@bourgwick@heads.socialenjoyed lewis porter's close look at #JohnColtrane's practice routines & how he consistently drafted different practice buddies over his career. https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/joh
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… For better or worse, we each have different ways of coping with the social pressures of not fitting in.
I remember my mother once telling me "Philip, you have to pick your battles" and without missing a beat responding with "I pick them all". That's who I was.
But some people... it breaks them not to be liked, they don't manage t…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaI'm the kind of friend that you sometimes don't hear from for months or even years, then randomly DM's you something I knew you liked back then (like a video of a specific kind of bird I randomly spotted in my feed).
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished my time-shifted watch of the #USMNT vs Japan from last night. Some thoughts:
I liked the formation change to try a 3-4-3 / 3-5-1 in and ou of possession. The idea of wingbacks is compelling for the talent available. Arfsten & Freeman did well, particularly Arfsten. He should make the World Cup roster, backing up Jedi. Having Ream & Richards paired is winning. Blackmon was good …
@compfu@mograph.social"Chaos Walking" on #Netflix is a really weird film. I liked it!
The premise is that on an alien planet everybody's thoughts are visible and audible to others. Exactly the kind of thing an author can invent but how would you pull it off in a movie?
It worked well! Solid VFX and nice matte paintings by a bunch of well-known studios (Rodeo, Crafty Apes, Spin) even though the …
@keen456@infosec.exchange@… if you liked District B13, you might like Yamakasi- you'll probably have to import the DVD but it'll be worth it
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzPackers Fans Troll Cowboys With Chant During Micah Parsons TNF Interview https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-thank-you-jerry-chant/?adt_ei=[email]
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euFeel free to disagree with the statement about the missing redemption, and find out in what ways fantasy narratives differ from real life 😃 ->
No. #1 Thing I Have Never Liked About the Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7w5sbquPAI
@samir@functional.computer@… I really liked A City Is Not A Tree too! And I agree, software patterns… um… only worked when people didn’t realise they were doing them. Monads, for example.
@mlippert@vmst.ioFinished season 2 of Wednesday on Netflix last night. I thought it was great, even better than the 1st season which I really liked.
I started by rewatching the last 3 episodes of season 1, very helpful for me to remember who's who, what happened, and "the story so far".
I'm looking forward to season 3 although from what I can google, it won't be out until sometime in 2027.
ps The Enid/Agnes dance was really good.
#Wednesday #TVShow #EnidAgnesDance
@teledyn@mstdn.cathe Theory of the Adjacent Possible
The TAP equation: evaluating combinatorial innovation in #Biocosmology #perimeterinstitutefortheoreticalphysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14115
to be honest, I just liked the idea of "Biocosmology" as a discipline.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaSigh. Google finally killed COG. I liked having that run in its own screen so I can quickly see an overview of the system. All I want is a simple screen showing basic stats about the ChromeBook.
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… made it last night and both my wife and I liked it!
@Caerfinon@mastodon.socialThe scent also rises
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #Comicstrip
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialHow popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 25-12
Today is apparently the Urbanism YouTube edition.
I also really liked the podcast about Hindenburg, and the video about the bikepacking trip (in Germany, sadly).
https://christof.damian.net/2025/06/friday-links-25-12.html
@mino@blorbo.socialI'm kinda sad a lot of things I liked really felt that they came to an end recently... so I've been focusing on original stuff lately. (PS4 broke so I couldn't continue replaying Z)
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Non-Parametric Choice Model That Learns How Users Choose Between Recommended Options
Thorsten Krause, Harrie Oosterhuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20035 https://
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAm I the only one that kinda liked Thor Love & Thunder... and now I really enjoy it? 😂
▶️ Marvel Studios' Thor: Love and Thunder | Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Go8nTmfrQd8&si=oIBNXeecuGBceLnZ
@joe@toot.worksThat kind of sucks. I liked that pizza place. #Shorewood #Pizza #Mod
@bourgwick@heads.social @shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialFolks, we need (#)Monthstodon.
Mastodon isn't exciting enough.
"It's all about engagement"
Yeah, but Monthstodon IS engagement.
You see what content gets liked, what gets not...then more quickly Mastodon users are going to want to improve their posts, post more stuff that gets liked...instead of posting their genuine feelings like I do!
Hahaha, you thought you got rid of my Monthstodon aspirations? Not by a long shot!
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cawatched the Mboko v Osaka match last night. It was a good match and obviously a great result for 🇨🇦
I do wonder how Osaka is though. She seemed so very in her own head. Not to take anything away from Mboko but tennis can so often be as much about beating the player on an emotional level as it is about physical and skill level. Mboko certainly had the emotional advantage for most of the 2nd and 3rd sets
Osaka really seemed to lose her composure and it at least cancelled out some or the trouble Mboko had with her own serve.
I have always really liked Osaka so I was a little disappointed in her state. I hope she is ok and can get into the US Open.
What a run and what a victory for Mboko!
Really looking forward to see what she does at the US Open!!
#tennis #canada #mboko #osaka #headganes
https://www.sportsnet.ca/wta/article/canada-celebrates-victoria-mboko-claiming-national-bank-open-title/
![After two last-minute appeals from safe street advocates, a state appellate court panel ruled on Monday afternoon that Mayor Eric Adams could rip out a three-block stretch of protected bike lane on Bedford Avenue from Willoughby Avenue to Flushing Avenue. Adams's Department of Transportation, which installed the bike lane barely nine months ago, began the demolition late Wednesday night.
"It's really sad to see [the removal of] a safety project that has been fought for by a whole host of com…](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/948/650/867/188/694/original/36d124901ef3d34c.png)
