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@helveticablanc@merveilles.town I don't have a job to offer, but I just wanted to take this opportunity to say I always adore your work. Your use of texture, your color choices, your organic shapes, they all delight.
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@artemis@dice.camp I watched Crazy Ex-Girlfriend shortly after moving to a new city and starting a relationship with a new person who loved it and wanted to share it with me. It's definitely singular in its voice. It takes a lot of artistic vision to make "romcom sitcom but actually a drama about generational trauma and mental illness, like, really ugly sides of mental illness, and also it's a stage musical" work, but somehow, against odds, it... does?
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@sinituulia Yes, my boy Winston will, when he's really snuggly, curl up on me and wrap a paw around my forearm. It is the most touching little gesture.
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@Remittancegirl l recently finished listening to a 4-part Behind the Bastards episode on Jimmy Savile, and it was galling to hear how many times the man made open, cheeky reference to his crimes and abhorrent behavior, and it was just laughed off. So much so that it seemed like a combination of (a) personal thrill for Savile, to "fess up" and still get away with it, and (b) a way of hiding in plain sight.
Sarah Kendzior discusses this (vis a vis Trump) in her book Hiding in Plain Sight. I think a big part of what allows this behavior to work is widespread cultural naïveté about abuse and exploitation of power. People either normalize abusive power relationships (because they have been surrounded by them: at home, at work, at church, as a child), and/or they refuse to believe that someone could truly be as exploitative and cruel as that. Trump has skated along for a long time on people's normalcy bias: he would say and do the most horrendous, audacious things, but normalcy bias would kick in and people would self-generate excuses as their brains tried to convince them that something that bizarre or brazen couldn't be actually happening.
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@cwebber I wasn't ever going to use AI tools, but as a side note: As a sometimes blogger whose perfectionism is his most frequent stumbling block—due in part to being formed in the debate-me caldera of pre-Musk Twitter—I can't express how grateful I am for reminders like yours, that my work can have value even if not polished to a mirror shine.
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@XanIndigo@writing.exchange Oh my god, it's the Mastodon deep lore!
I had no idea. This is hilarious.
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The build is successful!
I finally finished* my TagTuner music jukebox and hooked it up to some speakers. It uses the ESPHome-based Home Assistant Voice PE as its brains and audio player, and when it scans NFC tags, it fetches corresponding media from my Music Assistant server.
I still have a couple bugs to work out, but this is definitely close enough to feel "ready".
I'm so happy to have a tool that will let us both (a) leverage my large home media server and (b) enjoy some of the benefits of physical media.
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I really hope @Bonfire succeeds in their vision for federated groups. This is so important for the fediverse and I can envision many use cases in my own life.
Sadly, I'm not in a financial position to support them right now, but I hope I will be sometime soon.
Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
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@aworkinglibrary To one of the points in this excellent essay, see the administration's seeming use of generative LLMs to fabricate a "scientific" report supporting their goals.
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@mttaggart The California bill got attention shortly after I finished reading Haidt's The Anxious Generation, and it seemed obvious to me that the legislation was intended to address similar concerns, as Haidt calls for almost exactly that.
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@hypolite @danyork @DanMorgan As someone who wears Ray-Bans but would never dream of wearing Meta's perv glasses: absolutely warranted, but unfortunate.
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Does anyone have a #selfhosted service they find useful for, like, coordinating neighborhood groups?
My wife and I host a neighborly potluck every few weeks, and I'd love to have a way to keep in touch with our neighbors, coordinate events, and chat in a space that's not a bunch of different group texts. I'm watching @Bonfire's work on federated groups closely, and suspect their "Community" flavor may be precisely what I'm looking for when it's ready, but I'm also curious if there are other offerings in this space.
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Anyone have good reliable resources for making your own fountain pen ink? Ideally, I'd love to make my own black ink that is acid-free, from widely available plant or organic materials.
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