Notices by wordsmith ⁂ (wordsmith@writing.exchange)

@BeAware I've found many more people to follow thanks to tags rather than boosts; the former are an underrated gem of the Fedi IMO.

@advicepig

@advicepig Hello Fedi stranger. I found your post because I follow the #fediverse tag, demonstrating that tags go far and wide.

I hope this toot finds you well.

@purple
Does the really big red button do anything?

Took the purple adoptee with me for #TowelDay. No disasters fell upon the live music in town but if they had, I would have been glad to have Not Panicked.

Boost the meek.

@checkervest ohh this hit a nerve! We used to have a postage stamp-sized garden that my parents had to put a pond in, for obvious reasons. The local cat grapevine works quickly and they held a near 24-hour vigil by the puddleside, hungry eyes on the languorous koi and their tasty ways, but only for about a decade.

@checkervest Clearly this feline attention was a problem for Dad, as one doesn't want one's fish to be fished. So began the Paws Race, it's like an arms race but with paws. To solve the problem of the neighbourhood cats who never once caught a single fish, Dad dutifuly erected a perimeter of vertical netting. They just reached over the netting because apparently, cats arms are twice as long as they actually are, when there are fish to be pawed at.

@checkervest ugh this box is so tiny I should write a blog post. Naturally the netting went higher so the cats simply stuck their, wait, cats don't have arms, excuse the previous toot. They stuck their legs through the netting and continued catching no fish while getting their paws wet. The fish were so worried they did not in any way react. Dad could not abide this escalation.

@checkervest New netting with smaller holes went in. Reaching over is now ruled out, as is poking cheeky feline limbs through. The crafty assailants then realised if they leant on the run across the long sides of the pond, the netting would give enough for them to lie on it and they could then maintain their piscinicidal misdemeanours.

Dad could not abide this, early in the morning with the dew still wet, in his dressing gown with cup of tea in hand, observing the battlefield.

@checkervest There was hammering in the loft workshop. There was cutting and testing and prototyping and a montage of piles of increasingly-workable netting mounts made from tent pegs, spare clamps and curtain rails. A plantation of tea was drunk and many a buttered crumpet to follow. The prototyping complete, finished products came off the assembly line. They clamped to the edge of the paving slabs lining the pond and held the netting high and taught. Surely no shenanigans could penetrate this.

@grammargirl What..how can they continue to function without...the people that make them exist?

@jalefkowit So we went back to Apple and said "We have this great idea, but we need a bigger budget." They said "yes" so we paid normal people to...

or:

...and they said "no". To this day I'm still glad I drew a line at employing Nazis for something as worthless as a commercial.

As an aside, I find it ironic that this advertisement is entirely more relevant to today's federated, free social media vs. abusive social media, than the computer related to anything in the '80s.

Anyone interested in a new home for their #writing, which federates as part of a fundamental feature, might be interested in this:

"New and current subscribers can get 25% off our Pro yearly or five-year subscriptions!"

https://write.as/deals/new-year-2024-sale

@purple Take my hand. You've fallen back into 2002.

@purple
I will learn tmux's key combos
I will learn tmux's key combos
I will learn tmux's key combos
I will learn tmux's key combos

@davebonta
My local social history museum has an annexe for the Edward Thomas Fellowship and his #poetry graces various places. "Sowing" was one in the cafe and reminded me of you.

The first two verses:

It was a perfect day
For sowing; just
As sweet and dry was the ground
As tobacco-dust.

I tasted deep the hour
Between the far
Owl’s chuckling first soft cry
And the first star.

https://edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/2018/10/02/sowing/

@brandkopf Little she-bear mermaid?

@ewdocparris Only @matt or another admin can say. We're almost at 2000 active users, twice that at which the server went to invite only so I assume that the server load is having to be closely monitored.