valhalla @valhalla@mastodon.social

Today I've finally managed to have time to gather chestnuts with my SO.

We went there late, ~1 hour before sunset (and met other people with bags), but were still able to get 7 hg.

looking forwards to roast them and then OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom……………

Today's lunch: raw fennel with tuna sauce (canned tuna in oil, pickled cucumber, pickled capers, anchovies sauce, ginger).

bento safe, quick to make, and yummy.

Now, if the weather had been sunny and warm like two days ago (when I've had soup) instead of raining it would have been even more suitable, but one can't have everything

git commit -a is evil and should be treated as obscure plumbing and never run manually.

The province of Massa and Carrara looked quite good for cat lovers: in the week we've been there I think that we've met cats almost every day.

This one was in Levigliani, where the buses for the Antro del Corchia started.

#cats #catsOfMastodon

I may have accidentally ordered a length of mostly wool fabric to make myself a new rectangular cloak for modern wear to replace the one I've worn every winter since 2003.

It's in any-colour-you-like-as-long-as-it's-black, and I'm not sure what to do with the edges; on the old one they were just covered in fold over binding, and that's an option I'm considering.

I'm also thinking in the general direction of tablet weaving, but I'm not sure that would be ready before the start of this winter.

A marble white cat from Colonnata, near Carrara.

#cats #mastocats #catstodon #catsOfMastodon

Dear federation: do you know of a place in europe that sells english language steve jackson games (i.e. munchkin) online?

I've already tried with the local game stores (they have the italian languages one, but they weren't able to get the english ones).

Of course, not amazon, and if you know of a local-elsewhere shop that does online sales that would be great.

writing prompt?

AU where rather than refusing the french innovation of the metric system the british empire adopted a regularly duodecimal alternative based e.g. on the inch?

So one would have a inch, a dozeninch, a grossinch (144 inches, or 4 yards), a greatgrossinch (1728 inches) etc., an unit of weight (and later mass) based on the weight of a cubic inch of some material and the like.

This would happen some time in the early 1800s, so what the US would do remains an open question

But please also consider people who have multiple interests and doesn't want to have to create a new account for each of them, and people who simply prefer to keep their account(s) on a server they have more control on, and consider if you really need to exclude them to reach your aims.

(and I repeat, if you decide that you *do* need to exclude them it's fine)

6/6 will now go back to my regular sporadical posting

So, if you want to create your own personal silo, you are free to (and it's great that now there are tools you can use for that!), just remember it's a silo / content bubble.

It's a bubble you curate for yourself, and thus much more positive than one curated by people whose aim is to extract as much profit as possible from your data, and I can imagine a few usecases that I would even like to be part to.

5/N

I don't have short term plans to self-host a mastodon instance (see tastes above, but I think that pleroma may be promising wrt hopes of entering debian, and that would make me consider it), but I may decide to start to interact with people from the friendica account I have, I'm still trying to decide how I want to manage them (and the account I have on pixelfed).

I don't think I will remain forever on the megainstance, however.

4/N

Here on mastodon I'm doing mostly the same: I've looked at the list of people I follow and I counted 12 before I had a repeated instance.

Being on the Huge Instance means that I basically can't use the local timeline, but I've found people through boosts, announces of new instances (by browsing their timeline, when available) and by browsing tags I'm interested into.

3/N

Using them mostly with people on the same instance, however, would be pretty boring! that would mean always interacting with the same few people, the same ones I meet regularly in person.

Especially on friendica, most of the people I follow are from other instance (or other platforms, even), often found when somebody shared some interesting content and I looked at the original poster.

2/N