ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org

He sort of gargles it. “That brings oxygen in, to bring out the flavour ... That’s what tasters do, except they would spit it out. I didn’t bring a spittoon.” He says this sadly. “That is ... pretty revolting actually.” The Irish Times tastes Prime, the stuff all the kids are drinking https://www.irishtimes.com/food/drink/2023/02/18/like-a-liquidised-my-little-pony-prime-hydration-is-1299-a-bottle-our-wine-critic-joins-a-tasting/

Hey, folks. Big layoffs at DigitalOcean today, and my team and I were hit. In fact, so was my adjacent team, and a good chunk of my department. I don't have much reach here on Mastodon yet, but if anybody wants to discuss opportunities for a technical editor / writer / manager of same, I'm up for it.

“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”

~ Albert Einstein

#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange #OurPlanet #Nature

The Changing Online Language of Hearts - How to show a heart — the universal symbol of love — has shifted on the internet over the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/hearts-emojis-gen-z.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #computersandtheinternet #emojisandemoticons #tiktok(bytedance) #unicodeconsortium #love(emotion) #socialmedia #generationz #googleinc #aolinc

@alaric @pluralistic As an illustration of this point -- I originally created this account int 2018 (I forget the impetus...maybe some scandal with Facebook). At the time, I didn't find much content that interested me, and I wasn't really into micro-blogging anyway, so my account sat idle for a few years. When Musk took over Twitter and drove off many people, I came back to Mastodon and found a lot more activity and have stayed active myself. I've also heard that some big institutions are exploring adding more support for Mastodon- they move slowly by nature, but I am looking forward to when they come fully on board.

@wmclark @pluralistic

I love 'enshittification' as a word. It could be applied to so many aspects of life in the UK. We're in a terminal decline, watched by laughing toffs from the private boxes of our very own 'Theatre of Nightmares'.

Unless, of course, we begin deshittifying. Starting with the toffs-in-charge.

The #tory 'government'

So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>

May I ask that you help us spread the word that people can join us at https://mstdn.games ?

We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.

#VideoGames #TTRPG #Streamer #DnD #GameDev #Twitch

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