@AriCohn Cool story about Sky, my 90 lb malamute husky. We were out for our evening potty break, and I tripped on an ice-covered hole. I fell on her and dropped the leash. She yelped (hopefully just out of surprise), took 2 steps away, and then came right back and let me use her as a support to get my old, decrepit body back upright. I should mention Sky's a runner--usually if she gets off-leash she's 2 miles down the road. That's why I had to put 6 foot fencing around 1/2 an acre to make a dog park. A large dog run didn't work--she ate through it! #DogsofMastadon
@RebeccaPRN Nearing $5 million for #damarhamilton toy drive #NFL
RT @joshtpm@twitter.com
Talk about a rigged election. My man Hakeem Jeffries has now won three times and he's STILL not Speaker. STOP THE STEAL!!!!
As of 11:45 pm MST, the foundation had hit over $3million
You need to either publish that whole exchange, blog it somewhere, or cross post. I hate having to go over to that other site to get my evening's entertainment. A 1-act play with extra comments of some of the juicy chorus responses--I'd pay for that. #Bophades indeed!
Oh my gosh, I just loved reading #OMNI magazine back in the mid-80s. A big thank you to @clive for pointing out that there is a TREASURE TROVE of all the issues archived online. I am going to begin paging through them immediately!
Mr Thompson's article: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-strangest-omni-magazine-covers-of-all-time-f65e25d4a741
The archive: https://archive.org/details/omni-archive/
A new year means new works entering the public domain – which means a new Public Domain Game Jam!
There are tons of great works from 1927 that are now free to remix. Come join @mmasnick Leigh Beadon and me for 'Gaming Like It's 1927' to celebrate: https://itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-1927
And we're off...
Season 8 Episode 121
ENGLISH FOLKTALES
Listen free at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-121.html
A new season of The Folklore Podcast gets underway with award-winning author @neilphilip discussing English Folktales.
Neil's work has been highly praised by @neilhimself (who wrote the foreword to his book), @philippullman , Alan Garner and many others.
In this episode, Neil discusses the influence of Garner, folktale variants and much more.
Since many people are alcohol-fueled on NYE, here's a great one from #BuddyGuy with #JeffBeck and #keithrichards. #Cognac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzztqp6rE3I&ab_channel=BuddyGuyVevo #NewYear #Blues
#Dogs are weird. They can spend hours playing in water from a hose, they romp in a snowstorm, but when there's a teeenny little bit of rain, they complain bitterly.
PSA to all admins: I highly recommend a #FediBlock of #mastinator (ie. the entire mastinator.com domain).
Mastinator is a service that allows a person to anonymously follow people on the fediverse. No big deal you think? Your public posts are probably already anonymously viewable from your public profile anyways and all it is doing is aggregating public info? That is what its creator claims---it is just a convenience service!
Well no, it is mode concerning than that. It does this aggregation by following any account a mastinator user types into its service then replicating *all* your non-DM posts into a sort of "proxy inbox" in the mastinator.com domain that is completely out of your control and viewable by everyone!
In other words, if you are followed by mastinator.com it effectively turns your follower-only posts into public posts and lets people you have blocked keep following you by following the mastinator replica of your posts!
Innocent intentions or not this violates user consent.
I was just followed by @everyone. I blocked that instance immediately after seeing its goal is to swallow people’s toots and rebroadcast them, even follower-only ones. It’s block evasion, pure and simple. I recommend everyone to block that shit with haste. The developer has a very “if the protocol allows it I don’t see the problem” attitude.
More background here: https://coales.co/@msh/109595980918905804
Teacher, parent to 4-pawed children, and know just enough to be dangerous. Litigation disaster tourist--just along for the ride.
Navy spouse in the mountains of AZ.
#rorygallagher is the most underrated, unknown guitar god of all time.
The name is how I always understood the line from #T-Rex #bangagong instead of the actual "diamond star halo."