The Literorrery @literorrery@mastodon.social

Exciting. Hey, mastodon.social admins, the Redirect URL I get when trying to log in via Tusky seems to be busted. Tested with different instances, they work. Login works fine via web and mobile, but the redirect is down, so the app's no-joy right now.

.... got that awful feeling of "hey, I've already solved this problem in code at work. It wouldn't be hard to log in to grab my build.gradle and see how I solved it there. That would be faster than trying to solve it again from scratch." That would also involve touching work systems at home.

... I made a project plan and I created a Gradle project. That's progress, right?

Design notes phase one written down. Much later than intended, but it's a first step. It's something concrete on which I actually want to work outside of office hours.

Leaving this here as a note to myself: https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/

If we assume that sites like Twitter, Google, and Facebook are "damage to the internet" in the sense that they're impeding the goals of the people who want to use "the internet," then we need to start doing what "the internet" does and figuring out how to route around them. Mastodon is a good step in the right direction, changing how social media and federation works, but can we drive this model further?

I think I've designed two community projects tonight. I'm going to need support, of course, but I have ideas on how to proceed. On things that need to be built. I need to write up the designs and socialize the ideas, to see if they're viable.

I don't want to build under a basket, but I don't want to share before it's time.

A garden is more than a plot of dirt from which you have removed all the weeds. It's not the product of happenstance you happen to tend. It's a deliberate act of expressed intent. It's seeds you bought and planted, fertilizer you bought and spread, water you poured and measured, light and heat you planned and prayed for. It's effort separate from the act of tearing out brambles. You have to tear out the brambles, but you can't just do that and claim at the end of the day you grew a garden.

Who could've known politics could be so complicated?

https://gregfallis.com/2017/04/14/seriously-the-guy-has-a-point/

What pisses me off here is that it feels simultaneously like the people who commissioned Fearless Girl did a disservice to the artist of Charging Bull, and that most people don't want to hear that because it complicates the path to goodfeel. Finding emotionally resonant paths through complicated situations is hard. People don't like doing hard things. I get that. But we must.

I don't remember where I first saw this, but it's worth sharing back out with the world now that I've read it:

https://www.academia.edu/32190126/Investigation_of_consensually_nonmonogamous_relationships_Theories_methods_and_new_directions

I made a music mix -- https://www.mixcloud.com/orrery/ancestral-celestial-chorus/ -- centered around languages, and the power of speech. At least, that's part of what's encoded within it. It's kind of nice hearing that at home. It's one reason I was so happy to see tootings in so many languages.

Be your truest self here. Let this be a place where that self-expression is possible and welcome. I'll do my best to understand it, and to work with it. I will fail. I will try again.