Notices by DavidB (davidbhimself@firefish.city)

If you know, you know... (if you don't know, you'll know in the next post of the thread)

#Japan #GachaGacha #Gashapon #Gachapon #Kewpie #Tarako

It's been a while since my last WTF Gacha thread!

Well, here we go.

For those who love riding the bus and miss it when they're home, we have the "I want to get off at the next stop button."

#Japan #GachaGacha #Gashapon #Gachapon #Bus

This one is not a cup ramen, it's an entire box of cup ramens!!!! How do they all fit in one capsule?

#Japan #GachaGacha #Gachapon #Gashapon #CupRamen #InstantRamen #Ramen

Re the previous post, if you don't know this is Kewpie Tarako.

Kewpie is a brand of mayonnaise in Japan, the mascot is a little doll. A few years ago (well, maybe 20 years ago) they had an insane series of commercials for tarako sauce (spicy fish eggs, basically)

Be warned, you may lose some sanity watching this video, and no matter what, the song will be stuck in your head for weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QUrM0kJkjc

Now, back to our gachapon in the nxt post.

#Japan #commercial #Kewpie

And... this time I bought some too!!!

First, there were these "yokai in a jar" that were just awesome.
I wanted the kappa, I got the nine-tailed fox... It will do.

#Japan #GachaGacha #Gachapon #Gashapon #yokai #kitsune

@BeAware@social.beaware.live The HOA. They're the reason we can't have nice things.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I tried to read but I'm too old to waste time reading rants. After three minutes reading, she still hadn't made a point beside yelling at clouds.

It's not a surprise considering their understanding of the whole thing. I'm sure they're part of the people who think that "Fediverse" is just a fancy word for "Mastodon."

@jrollans@jrollans.com @BeAware@social.beaware.live @reiver@jrollans.com Not "many people." A tiny loud minority that wants to dictate how we should all use the Fediverse.

@reiver@mastodon.social @BeAware@social.beaware.live @jrollans@jrollans.com I'm thinking more and more about starting something like Fediblock but just with the Mastodon Taliban in it.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live They come with instructions. Sets this size are pretty complex (and pretty pricey, that was my Christmas present to myself)

Interestingly, I never was a fan as a kid, but I'm obsessed as the adult (although my less these days for financial - they became a luxury product in Japan recently, in parts because of the weak yen - and space reasons)

Finished!


#Jaws #Lego

@BeAware@social.beaware.live I'm afraid the Mastodon Taliban (I don't call them the Fediverse Taliban, most of them are not even aware of the Fediverse beyond Mastodon) don't want the Fediverse to grow.

They think they are in their private pure safe space and anyone not part of their clique willl spoil it. The rest of Fediverse users are barely toleratedm but they don't want the "normies" (what a despicable term) to come.

Of course, their premise, that they're in a private space is wrong, but they're not aware of it and they will become violent if you point it out to them.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Bridgy Fed was supposed to be opt-out, that's how it was supposed to work. (But the Mastodon Taliban decided differently)

Being opt-in m, it just can't be widely adopted.
Now, hope resides in the fact that it has an official structure, and I don't know how reliable this is, but they could be in talks to become opt-out on Bluesky's side.

@BeAware@social.beaware.live It depends on your client. Some do help auto complete as you type. Including the basic Mastodon website.

@Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org It's because the Mastodon Taliban have bullied yet another developer into shutting down their project because they deemed it an attack on their imaginary privacy.

It's not the first time it happens, and I'm afraid not the last time.

What part of "Open web" is it that they don't understand?

If you think the Fediverse and Mastodon are private places and that anything that makes them a bit more open and visible is an attack on your privacy, sorry to break it to you but you're in idiot.


#MastodonHOA #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenWeb #privacy

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @audelherete@mastodon.social @kevinleecaster@social.beaware.live It's actually plagiarism from someone else's post. A literal copy/paste. Sad and pathetic.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al There's a sequel: "How to fight fascism by simply boosting outrage on social media."

@BeAware@social.beaware.live Yes, but if you see my posts it's because you care about what I post (and that's why I follow you too.)

Why should I follow someone who posts about things that I have no interest in? Or things that upset me or annoy me? I want to have an usage of the fediverse that has a positive impact on my mental health, not a negative one.

Also, nowadays I unfollow Americans who never contextualize their posts because they think that everyone here is American or that foreigners don't matter. Fuck those people, even if they're lovely for everything else.

In other words, there are many reasons to follow or unfollow someone, it's not one size fits all.