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Few things as satisfying as day after thanksgiving chaos plate dinner. Second thanksgiving is awesome.

The US is fucked on guns cause half the country thinks the alternative to gun violence is tyranny.

I sat on the fence as long for as long as my ethics would allow me to, but bringing Trump back to Twitter was it for me. I used Twitter as a consumption/aggregation type service for news and analysis and Mastodon is distinctly not that. However, it does remind me a bit of the BBS systems I loved growing up so that’s been a pleasant realization. Gonna be tough not being a wallflower though. I fully intend to post through it. I’m sorry, everyone.

I kinda just want to sit around, drink beer and write code tonight. Might just fall asleep. Got a world of possibility ahead of me.

I think about “runk” on a near daily basis.

Based on my uselessly small sampling, turn out in my neighborhood looks pretty good today. That’s encouraging. Can’t wait to be disappointed. My fellow Americans, please vote today. Bonus points for not voting for sociopaths!

There is something wildly amusing to me about the fact that I’ve gotten more actual, human engagement with my posts in less than 1 week on Mastodon than I have in 13 years on Twitter. It’s almost as if monetizing engagement artificially shapes conversations. Or maybe I just got way better at posting overnight. It’s probably that second thing since the alternative means business guys are bad at people stuff and that capitalism has uncorrectable problems.

Question: at what point do folks consider themselves programmers? Or scientists?

I've written programs, but don't feel I've earned the title "programmer". I've used the scientific method to identify and resolve issues, but "scientist"? Not I. At what point do folks feel comfortable identifying themselves that way? Just wondering if anyone else is pondering what I'm pondering.

The nice thing about Twitter self immolating is that folks who would otherwise never even look at alternative platforms seem to be kicking the tires and trying to make things work on other sites. Really helps with the chicken/egg issue. If Twitter -> Mastodon works, no reason to think there isn’t hope for Facebook -> Diaspora (or similar). At that point, only thing left to do would be to make friends to connect with. Exciting days ahead!

"Toots" is a terrible name for these missives. "Toots" is also perfect.