Christina O'Sullivan 🇨🇦 ✅ @christinao@mastodon.social

@lostchild I don't have any followers on this mastodon.social account either (it's a backup for a wobbly, active account). Has someone yet suggested making an #introductions post of seven hashtagged #interests?

#geocaching
#letterwriting
#deathpools
#dataprivacy
#ADHD
#mysteries
#fountainpens
#LCHF

oho I didn't post an #introduction (then again it's a backup account).
frequent subjects: #reading #letterwriting #fountainpens #geocaching #gopher #celebritydeathpools #retrocomputing #privacy #linux
#radio

Also, if it's been three years or longer since you watched television in your home, how do you feel when you encounter TV screens in restaurants, on buses, at gas station pumps, supermarket cafes, doctors' office waiting rooms?

Did you stop watching your #television? As in, does your TV set sit gathering dust because you can watch Hulu, Netflix, Amazon; or because you find interactive screen media more interesting?

If you're accustomed to not having the television on, how do you manage when you visit relatives or friends and they have the television on?

Are your cultural and sociopolitical perspectives very different from that of someone who watches your nation's average hours of television per day?

oooh yes, run me through with your firm blade, Capitan

Basil Rathbone vs. Tyrone Power, "The Mark of Zorro"

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=nB8tiSMCwRE

Spouse: "Why haven't we seen this yet?"
I: "We keep seeing the silent version with Douglas Fairbanks"

@Gargron thank you for reading our concerns and removing the Trending Now panel from the current release candidate.

This is new: a two-minute silence spam call. Said "good morning" but that didn't cue anything, made high-pitched "EEEEEE" sound for ten seconds, nothing, put on hold, call still active.

Finished _Some Tame Gazelle_, but hurriedly, as it's overdue and I couldn't renews. Slow-going at first for me, this is rich inner-life material in a small English village, where the locus of activity is the church, and the dotings on the clergymen the focus of activity.

TIL that the early 20th century US baseball team the Brooklyn Dodgers took its name from wary pedestrians jumping out of the paths of streetcars.

Question: This am I went to joinmastodon.org to look for instances for bookreaders. I have an account on bookwitty.social but it runs Mastodon 1.4, and for a long while it wasn't connecting to the fediverse. Are people finding the hashtags #amreading, #nowreading and #books effective enough for connecting with other book readers for commentary and discussion on general-interest, larger population instances?

@david_ross I'm in Slack now. I wasn't kidding about being cognitively compromised: I was convinced the password I used 5 times before was the right one, because I use the same email and password elsewhere. Getting 502 Errors on sdf.org instance so contacting you via this. Thanks and Good night.

Between the much-too-late discovery that "gammon" means ham, and comes from "jambon" which in turn comes from jambe, and "combinations" used to pertain to attire, and "celanese" (latter two words from Barbara Pym's _Some Tame Gazelle_) I feel like I am finally learning real English, and wonder how much of what I speak and write is limited dialect.

Tyrone wants you to know that smoking is bad for your health

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6JXRN2hro

I wish the witches.town instance hadn't folded in April. Maybe there are active Tarot readers settled and happy in newer instances federated with sdf.org.
I watched a YT video on "Tarot Politics" and copied most of the spread, have some very interesting results that'd benefit from a knowledgeable interpreter. Volunteers will be answered via DM.