Notices by sunflowerinrain (sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online)

@MediaActivist
I tried to get colleagues, friends, and family to use Jitsi instead of Zoom. Only my father did, and he preferred phone calls anyway.
Now it's the same with Signal versus Whatsapp, though that's looking more hopeful.

One day humanity will learn to resist the brainwashing I mean marketing tactics, and we shall have the best things instead of the mediocre things that make more money for the few. One day.

@bmacDonald94
Lovely pic.
Once I was watching the start of a surfing competition in south Queensland. All the surfers lined up, still, tensely waiting for the big wave and the judge's signal - except the two blokes at the end of the line, who were fidgetting. Came the wave; the surfers stood on their boards and hurtled toward the beach... and I realised the two blokes at the end were dolphins.
They didn't win the prize, but I think that was just speciesism.

@fkamiah17 @HarriettMB @aral
Good!
I'm fighting the temptation to keep checking the site until after the deadline. Watching those numbers mount could be addictive.

Is there a Mastodon plushie made in the #EU? I want one, but buying from USA is not possible.

#plushtodon

@Fragglemuppet I usually say what it is, but had assumed that links to headlines and suchlike would show up as words. Oops. Should have checked.

Now, ought I to go back and edit?

@donw @adora @otte_homan @zacwest I need something to batch download my Kindle books. Doing 1800 one by one ... well, I gave up.

@bastianallgeier I drove from Dresden to Prague with spare time so didn't keep to a route, and remember the astonished joy when I went over a little bridge and realised I was in Poland.

Going along the road beside the river was a revelation. Sticks in the ground on each side, painted with the colours of the appropriate flag. The river is not wide - a serious long-jumper could cross it - and THAT is a border? What nonsense humans perpetrate.

@Linux_in_a_Bit @icedquinn I find the idea of an internet-connected toothbrush frightening, nay, horrifying.
Yonks ago I was with a group of excited devs discussing connected fridges which would monitor their contents and send an order to a supermarket when stocks ran out. As we were people who all hated shopping, it seemed a brilliant concept. Then I thought about the possibilities and ramifications. No. Really, really no.

On Sunday I was near a group of people during a break in rehearsal. One was explaining vehemently that more people die of the vaccine than of Covid. I did nothing, feeling useless to interrupt. The cowardice burns. What should I have said?

#CovidMyths #WhatToDo