ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

"Can the democrats keep up this momentum for an election cycle!?"

Yeah actually. Easily. That's one of the great things about the timing, the GOP has to scramble to find a message because they can't repeat a lie for a year until it sticks.

In the meantime:

August: DNC Boost
September: Second Debate Boost (if Trump chickens out this could be a town hall)
October: October Surprise
November: Election

Somewhere in here is the VP pick boost as well.

Her first time up there; she's just lookin' around ... #CatsOfMastodon #mastocats #cats #fedicats #catsodon #kittycat #cute

Finally made another large-scale #SecondLife terrain model! 🗺️ To go along with my #SL21B exhibit, where I have a model on display of Heterocera, I've now mapped and made a video showing Sansara as well, SL's oldest continent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCdQO179uqM

More links as well as a brief overview of my process are available in the video's description text. And a shout-out to @Blender for being such an awesome piece of software! This project would never have gotten off the ground if not for #b3d and bpy.

Blogged:

Balanced on a Cloud Edge in #SecondLife - https://wp.me/pxezy-AK7 - #SL #ExploringSecondLife

We should name our heat waves after oil companies, in alphabetical order like hurricanes or tornadoes. So you’d say the western US is currently suffering from heat waves Shell Oil this week.

"MetaFilter turns 25 this month, a shining beacon of the Good Web. Reluctant owner Jessamyn West tells us how rusty tech and vibrant community keeps it vital."

MeFi's b'day is Sunday. I haven't been there all that time but I have been lately. Here's a podcast talking about some of the challenges of moderating a very different web than the one we had in '99

Of particular note is the auto-generated transcript which misses words like Gopher, NNTP and Usenet

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/104-good-web-metafilter/

Was listening to a news segment in the car the other day about how more narcotics are being cut w/ fentanyl. Seemed like the message of the story was "test your drugs." All of sudden I felt extremely old, b/c I was struck by how far we've come in 40 years, when the prevailing public message was, "Just say no."

1984: Just Say No.
2024: Test Your Drugs.

Want to talk about this article on MetaFilter? You sure can.

https://www.metafilter.com/204616/MetaFilter-a-time-capsule-from-another-internet

current gemstone levels are 46%

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@the_etrain I ❤️ Huckabees makes me laugh every time. Not sure what that says about my mental state, but I would totally hire the existential detectives (Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman) to investigate me and find out.

Scotland, PA is also hilarious. It's Macbeth but as a dark comedy set in a fast food restaurant in the 1970s. It's got Christopher Walken. Enough said.

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