Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ @gamehawk@mastodon.social

Today in headlines so good I'm not gonna spoil it by reading the article: "Yummy."

(Lazy Sunday morning for the headline writers too, I see.)

"Right-wing populism is always more engaging," [...] the content speaks to "an incredibly strong, primitive emotion" by touching on such topics as "nation, protection, the other, anger, fear."

"That was there in the [19]30's. That's not invented by social media — you just see those reflexes mirrored in social media..."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/26/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146

Is that... did that FB exec just say "sure, we'd have pushed Nazism to make a buck then too"?

Either NYC doesn't have very many Amber Alerts, or they only hit us with the ones that have some kind of South Jersey/Philly connection.

I bet Apple Watch data shows a pulse spike when those go out. 🔊

@sunsetmoth Animal Crossing is gonna get sunset moths next month.

A more correct fix is here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450200/xdg-open-on-debian-9-fails-to-open-browser

but apparently I didn't use the right keywords to find it the first time.

AHAHAHAHA the open_lxde subroutine just... doesn't open a browser. So if you comment it out and replace it with the open_generic call, it works. IT WORKS

this has bugged me ever since I upgraded to Deb10.

(Debian 10, LXDE desktop, update-alternatives are set, $BROWSER is set, Chrome is default browser but it also happened when I used Firefox (hmm, I wonder if Firefox has fixed that bug yet?))

I love Linux on the desktop with ONE exception: links in stuff like the Slack and Discord apps try to open all links as "/home/silver/https..." so I have to manually copy the link into the browser.

I'm not even sure what it's trying to do. I mean, it's not launching the browser, it's trying to open a file on my drive. Why?!

I am scared to look and see if this indoor Ring drone is a real thing.

Hashtag alll-the-nope.

tfw listening to a podcast about the Kansas Legislative War kinda makes me feel... better? https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/legislative-war/12174

Just signed up to be a poll worker in a pandemic, in case you wondered how pissed off I am about *gestures* _all this_.

Oh huh, Monoprice is practically giving away their tiny temperamental resin printer. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=30994

$140!

At some point it wandered back to the shrubby corner we call the "thicket," and I startled it out of there just now when I went to refill the bird bath. Soon as it heard the water running it froze, and it was racing back to the thicket before I was even inside the sliding glass door. Shouldn't be too long before it decides it's safe to get a drink, but I'm not camping by the window to wait.

(It's lying in the moss under those trees directly past the birdbath, chewing its cud.)

The screens on that window roll up, and I spooked it because they're spring-loaded (and olllld) and there's no quiet way to unlatch them. It took off to another part of our yard where I couldn't readily take its picture any more.

Good morning from my inability to hold a camera level and this deer's complete acclimatization to suburban life.

RIP my irises though.

If you haven't seen older ones, start at the beginning because they definitely escalate.

THAT'S TODAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zzEDrYTkkg

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZ1hOXhJ_O/

https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/1308078836995641344

(yeah, they're all awful platforms, hold your nose and choose one though IG doesn't thread past years and Twitter has DMCA'd the 2017 one 😠)

Exercise status: decided my hip was recovered enough to ride the stationary bike. Forgot to check the resistance and the kid had it set pretty high. Turned it down a few minutes into the ride but now my hip is complaining. 😔

COME ON 2020 THIS WAS THE ONLY EXERCISE LEFT TO ME

It used to look like this, so converting it to "pinwheel" crossings was... an improvement? I can't actually tell.