mastodon 4.7.3Previously: trying to pull evil out by the roots but darned if it isn't stuck in there pretty tight
Now: seeing how many tater tots I can fit in my mouth
trans rights are human rights, Black lives matter, we owe children everything and they owe us nothing
Tags: #50forFOSS, #programming, #cycling, #utah
You’ve heard of epoch time, now get ready for: Microsoft time, represented as the number of GitHub outages since October 26, 2018
Every Utah city election is
• 3-5 people who kinda suck but at least they know how to keep the lights on
• 1 guy with zero experience whose platform is “taxes hurt my feelings”
• 1 woman who’s smarter and more competent than God but will get 0.2% of the vote
• 7 people who forgot they signed up and the newspaper can’t find them
Today I donated to #Navidrome, an open-source, self-hosted music server that checks all the boxes: lightweight, powerful, reliable, open. I loaded a bunch of my favorite albums into it last month and have been trying out third-party web, desktop, and mobile apps...there are so many options. It's been awesome.
Thanks, Navidrome!
THEM: so your hobby is writing stuff and submitting it to magazines?
ME: yeah
THEM: how many times have you been published?
ME: none
THEM: so your hobby is getting rejected
ME: more of a kink at this point
I just want to congratulate everyone on improving the work culture around alcohol. It’s easy to forget how big of an issue that was 10 or 15 years ago. I’m not even strictly sober but I don’t wanna drink all the time, who does?
And now every bar has NA beer and mocktails, my coworkers run the gamut of drinkers, sometimes-drinkers, and non-drinkers for a variety of reasons, and nobody bats an eye if I order a Shirley Temple.
Y’all did that. Stellar job.
*pendulum swings* haha. good.
*pendulum swings again* what? no no no no no
“Mike Flanagan” isn’t a name, it’s something you say very slowly and strenuously when you’re trying to get out of a soft chair
"The key isn't how bad you want it. It's how long you want it."
This is...so good.
Sniffing a cheese stick from end to end like a cigar
A character is someone who's insecure about something. Everyone else is just a prop.
(Inspired by "Immersion & Emotion: The Twin Pillars of Storytelling," which I picked up a couple weeks ago. While it's fairly 100-level stuff, I think a return to fundamentals is what I need right now.)
I've been noodling these concepts for several months now. They're important to the current cultural moment, and I'm worried we'll lose sight of them:
https://isaaclyman.com/blog/posts/there-is-no-genius/
1. Everything that looks like genius and talent is actually technique and repetition.
2. Everything that looks like magic is just a full-time job.
3. There’s no such thing as a good idea.
4. Ideas are a product of work, anyway.
The Toy Story vending machine aliens and the Despicable Me minions somehow all got on the same group chat. The aliens react to every message with ‼️ and the minions react with 👎 and 🍌. I guess that means they're getting along
