George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

If you could somehow write your Mastodon posts directly in #Vim (or Emacs, or any text editor of your choice), that would be *very* cool. Maybe there's a way, but I don't know what it is or would be.

Vocabulary Quiz

The word _____________ means “marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances.”

If you don’t know take your best guess. No Googling the correct answer.

Please boost to get more responses.

https://grugbrain.dev/

Microservices

grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

seem very confusing to grug

Facebook is where you realize, you don’t like the people you know.

Mastodon is where you start liking people, you have never met.

Me: [spouting off about DEI on a board call] blah blah blah

Benson: [jumping on top of me and lunging across the screen to eat the last bite of chicken salad]

Me: [going off camera but not mute] GOTdammit! That was my salad! Oof! Leave it! Stop! Down! GAH. Fine! Take it! You DOG!

I love him and hate him.

This is why I'm drinking a Black Manhattan right now.

#BensonUpdate
#DogsOfMastodon

Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.

Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
https://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/160-spontaneous-synchronization

The workbench carcass is done and the top planed to mostly flat. Onto shelves, then the top!
#woodworking

U.S. destroys last of its declared chemical weapons — including a stockpile in Pueblo — closing a deadly chapter dating to World War I https://coloradosun.com/2023/07/08/pueblo-chemical-weapons-destoryed/?utm_content=buffera6f0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.

Sometimes I forget this fantastic moment existed, then I find these images again and am filled with whimsy :blobcatbounce:

My annual sharing of a U.S. Army veteran’s take on the “Star Spangled Banner” at the Woodstock music festival on Yasgur’s farm in 1969.
#MusicOfMastodon
#ClassicRock
#Hendrix
#Woodstock

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CcWlKtBzgs

@Laurel @demvoter @AbandonedAmerica @irisRichardson @ObsidianUrbex @SurlyAmy @Swede1952 @streetartutopia @mattblaze

The internet is not so different from the television set, Laurel. If you don't like what's on, change the channel rather than yelling at the tube.

Going to try to rededicate to this site because birdsite sucks.

Have a lot of thoughts about that, might post about them later.

In the meantime, as penance for my inactivity, I have dog pictures.

Periodic reminder:

Marginalized people don't owe you shit.

Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.

Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.

Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.

Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.

Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.

Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.

We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.

If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.

The evil overlord revealed