Notices by Wolf (publicwolf@social.vivaldi.net)

@revndm I'm liking MangoLanguages.com . The price would be prohibitive if I had to pay for it myself, but it' comes free with my library card. Check your local library to see if they're partnered with Mango Languages, too.

@skinnylatte My skandihoovian husband was astounded when I told him why the character 中 is written that way. The center of the earth. At least for most of the earth's population, anyway.

@killyourfm Pretty amazing. Hope your feet are holding up! Thanks for sharing the hike with us! 👍

@agasramirez The husband is thinking we ought to visit Manila in June since it's the only major city we missed in SE Asia last year.

Other than Fort Bonifacio/Intramuros, I have no idea what two tourists would do in Manila. Do you have any suggestions?

@agasramirez We're up for anything, really, but we really enjoy seeing things from a local perspective. We don't care for the sanitized, Disneyfied experience. We eat where the locals eat, we travel local. I figure we'll use Jeepneys or public bus to get around. I thought about checking out Binondo.

@killyourfm Have fun! There are good people on the trail. Enjoy them, too!

@skinnylatte
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@skinnylatte That's a place I'd eat at. 👍

Maybe see if they serve tapsilog. It's a pinoy classic. A little garlic and vinegar the side.

@skinnylatte
Me: In the USA, they have thousands of breakfast places. They serve eggs, lots of cheese on everything, pork, potatoes, but no rice!

Lola: (turns pale)

Me: Then they eat breakfast in their cars. WHILE THEY DRIVE.

Lola: Haiya! Liar!

Back in the Navy, guys used to joke about retired submariners, how they'd have preventive maintenance schedules for everything in the home, etc. I used to laugh, too.

Just now I realized that because it's a new quarter, I've changed all the air filters in the house, changed our toothbrush heads, done some paint touch-ups, and because tomorrow is the first Friday of the month, it's time to clean the tub in the washing machine and dishwasher, and give all the drains a chlorine rinse.

It was true all along! 😳

I hate to sound like a hopeless fanboi, but over the last 4 days I took a social media break, and one of the things I read was @pluralistic 's Pirate Theater.

My review: Gadzooks! Phwoar!

Even offline, I caught wind of some copyright news, and this book is totally germane. HIGHLY recommend you read it.

Buy it directly at https://craphound.com/shop/ and put a few bucks into @pluralistic 's pocket instead of Uncle Jeff's.

Now I need to learn how to torrent stuff.

@inthehands Thank you! Very kind of you to reply.

I'd been trying to choose between Tuta and Proton, but just yesterday was told of Fastmail.

Thank you again!

@inthehands Thank you for that well-composed thread.

May I ask what you use for email?

@pluralistic Ha! Colma! A fitting place for a dead company! 👍

How the heck do you know so much about so many places?

A camp for HIV positive kids in Northern Minnesota is closing and going up for sale.

The reason? Anti-retroviral HIV drugs work. There are now not enough HIV-positive kids to need the camp.

Some good news to start your 2025

🥺 🥳

https://www.startribune.com/closure-of-northern-minnesota-camp-is-the-greatest-story-heres-why/601199362

#HIV

Oh no.

My husband's mouse somehow stopped connecting to his PC. No prob. We deleted it from the devices and scanned for Bluetooth devices to reconnect it.

My friends. We were not prepared. We live in a condo building, and apparently, our neighbor got a new Bluetooth-enabled friend for Christmas. It's called "Vibrator03".

😳

Saw someone’s typo, and realized “Appellation Trail” would be a great name for a Napa Valley wine tour.

Mozilla.Social is going away.

If you like being here on the fediverse, please support your local instance. Good practice in general, but I'd like to specifically call out users of mstdn.social - if you're on that instance, you seriously need to throw a few bones @stux 's way. He can't be expected to shoulder the expenses for one of the more important instances all be himself.

Or we can let independent instances die off until Mastodon becomes the private property of one or two centralized instances. Our choice.

https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249

Just learned about 500.social which is a Mastodon instance that
1. Is intentionally small, limited to 500 users
2. Requires patronage, albeit a minimal one.
3. It's helmed by @kev , who's also co-captain of fosstodon.org.

I've said it before, I'll say it today, I think this is the future of Mastodon: user-supported and small.

I'm intrigued. Tempted, even. Check it out.