Notices by Katanova, the Lucent Nomad (katanova@social.coop)

@derek I won't spoil it for you, but I have this recommendation:

Play it again, and look around more.

@derek There's another ending to the game.

The world resetting is telling you that you *didn't* get it.

@ntnsndr So what happens if a team gets bought by a private equity firm, which is then itself bought by some kind of community trust?

Could a local government own a sports team?

I'm volunteering for the Harris rally in Las Vegas.

The rally doesn't start until 5pm.

It is 2:30 pm now.

The doors opened at 1.

This is the current state of the line and parking lot.

I'm busy handing out water and cleaning up trash.

There's still 2 and a half hours until it starts.

Holy shit.

I think they're going to hit max capacity.

This is bonkers.

@freemo I make one final appeal to you: go worry about your own problems, and stop wasting our time

You left the united states, but you can't let it go. You've decided to spend your time trolling the people who are putting sincere care and effort into trying to build a better future

Your opinions are not helpful. You are not making the world better. You will be affected only marginally whatever the outcome of the election is

@godofbiscuits @CoachMark @WrenArcher @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

@freemo So enjoy your fucking techbro money from a country with functional healthcare and social safety nets. Point and laugh at how foolish we are for not already being as enlightened as you.

Something fairly consistent in my interactions with europeans on Masto is how arrogant they are when commentating on american politics.

Looks like you're acclimating perfectly well to european living in that regard.

@godofbiscuits @CoachMark @WrenArcher @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

@freemo Hey, dude, you left behind the united states to move to the netherlands.

Good for you. I've heard it's really nice there.

Not all of us are so fortunate to be able to leave all the deep structural problems behind and watch politics like it's a fucking spectator sport, because we fucking live here.

We have to live with the consequences of this election, and you get to sit back, point and laugh whatever the outcome.
@godofbiscuits @CoachMark @WrenArcher @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

Elon Musk was kicked out of the Bay Area Babyfur community.

Much respect to the furries for recognizing how much of a toxic piece of shit Elon is, and giving him no quarter. Even if this may have led to him acquiring twitter so that he could avoid being kicked out, it really shows the power of furry communities to maintain a healthy environment.

https://x.com/denimneverdies/status/1817441645236772931

https://x.com/HYENAFREQUENCY/status/1816661175037268201

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1ecshvh/elon_tried_to_enter_the_babyfur_community/

@heydon I hope you find something worth being kind for.

@aral There are proven effective ways to persuade people to work together to solve and address problems. You are not using them.

I'm going to bow out, though. No one likes to hear the kumbaya bullshit because no one wants to think about how they can change what they're doing themselves.

Everyone wants to start with what everyone else is doing wrong. See? I'm doing it too.

Fedi is a place to yell at other people, less so a place to collaborate.

@soller @thestrangelet @lucasmz

@derek
Holyshit, I knew there was a heatwave in the east, but 95+ for the entire northeast into the Midwest is absolutely bonkers.

Being fully dependent on the electricity grid is an unreasonable liability when crypto mining, AI data churning, and other server uses inevitably increase electricity consumption to fully negate any increased capacity (lower cost) induced by installation of renewable energy.

Build energy independence to save yourself from the electrical greed.

@JosephAndriano
And then it was over.

I didn't have anywhere to be, no pressing matters to return to.

Instead of joining all the traffic fleeing the suddenly unremarkable lands, I sat there for a bit with my partner.

That field, that partner, the car I drove there in, they're all long distant parts of my past.

That feeling of reality, of the world at once coming into focus through paradoxical distance and quiet, that's a feeling I still search for.

I've only found it a few times.

@JosephAndriano
In a field in central Oregon in 2017, I waited along with dozens of other people.

For just a few moments, the whole world came into focus, in relief. Like the moment after a camera flashes.

I felt the temperature drop 20 degrees, and for just a moment, all these impossibly distant celestial bodies were suddenly real to my life in a way they weren't before

The whole world was suddenly real

I noticed the sun starting to peak out, and I shouted to everyone around, "glasses on!"

@vantablack Here's something to think about: a lot of fedi drama centers around people trying to control who is part of the "canonical" fedi and who is part of the "shadow realm"

And if successful in relegating some instance or corner of fedi to the Shadow Realm (even if they didn't really deserve it) then those instances will become even more firmly entrenched there, because only other Shadow Realm instances will talk to them.

@mattly The book I recommended takes an approach of examining broader social systems in how they affect the parent-child relationship, and makes the case that the most important aspect of a healthy relationship is being emotionally present for your kids.

There's a lot more to it than that, and the book lays out its case very effectively in the first chapter.

@mattly There's a book I'm reading that describes a lot of really effective strategies for supporting kids.

It's called Hold On To Your Kids, by Gabor Mate.

I highly recommend it, and it might give you some really good insights into how to be a supportive parent.

My first thought on reading the introductory chapter was "yes, this was very much my experience growing up, and this is very relatable"

@derek Did you sand after or before the inlay was in?

At a guess, if you sanded after the inlay, particles from the wire became embedded in the wood around the wire, leading to the wood having different properties there, with the metal particles rejecting the stain.

I'm with @pete on this one. There is no singular monolithic fediverse and I believe trying to aim towards implementing a solution that makes this hypothetical monolithic fediverse happy is a losing proposition. The fediverse succeeds when it's accepted as a widely varied space that meets different people's needs in different ways, and it fails when different people with different needs try to exert control over the whole space as a monolith to suit their own needs exclusively

@J12t @tchambers