Bayou Tapestry @Swampwulf@mastodon.social

deer pressure

"all the cool deer are doing it"

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The comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO filmed by Rosetta:

From https://twitter.com/landru79/status/988490703075463168
#Rosetta #C67 #montage

"blocking someone means you're just afraid of what they are saying"

Just cause I put garbage in the dumpster doesn't mean I'm scared of garbage it means its rank and I don't want it in my house.

Well I did it. I went and paid for music for the first time in ten years. Not that I pirate music or anything, just I don't listen to music much, so it takes a *lot* for me to want to listen at all, let alone actually have a local copy myself.

The album? Hashtag, by Fox Amoore and Pepper Coyote. https://foxamoore.bandcamp.com/album/hashtag

@adeptomega linked See You Next Year earlier this week, and I just listened to Story, and they both moved me so much, I had to get the album.

Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.

Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.

“I understand that my activism is a problem for you. Please know that your inactivism is similarly problematic for me.”

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/12/15/stop-telling-im-angry-know-wish/

( 🎩 @Swampwulf )

https://mastodon.social/media/srgc1D-XSpUjGgeb0rA

The "Like"/"Favorite"/what have you button gets maligned sometimes. It's derided as "cheap" interaction. But the people who do this maligning forget, I think, that the "Like" button was invented to solve a problem.

Anywhere a "Like" button is implemented, the Usenet Nod largely goes away.

It's "me too" without the societal disapproval: a way to tell someone "hey, I see this and acknowledge that you posted it". Who cares if it's "cheap"? It's interaction, and that's better than the alternative.

An Etsy Engineer Made Earrings To Hold Your Two-Factor Security Keys https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbze3d/yubikey-earrings

I recently switched from Google to DuckDuckGo after a search for "how to cut steel pipe" returned:

DDG: the first four links at least answered my question perfectly

Google: a random mid-sentence clip of a YouTube video of a disembodied torso and hands using £500 equipment for a job that needs a £5 hacksaw, a chart about converting ear spacer gauge sizes and the rest of the page was links to buy pipe

Switch, seriously

Thought on Mastodon v. big 2 social media: birb & facey have conditioned us to "want" certain things out of "social media" and a lot of that is:
🔹 likes
🔹 followers
🔹 constant stream of content
Basically, it's evolved into more a marketing media than the social media in began as:
🔸 a place to feel comfortable
🔸 share interests
🔸 have conversations
🔸 have income-independent fun.
I don't know if mastodon will get me back to that, but I hope so, and I want to be open to it.

Tired: Thanksgiving
Wired: Sorry, no joke here—have a happy Thanksgiving or equivalent holiday celebration, Fediverse!

@Swampwulf @jk yotisserie