Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 8

@goatsarah please tell me it wasn't about admitting which shower you used.

@id1om
Was the writer also an advocate for uni-directional cables?
@goatsarah

@ZachWeinersmith
The "obsession" is that it's local, with all that entails: It stocks what the customers need/want, the owner knows a lot of those customers. IOW the "obsession" is that the bodega is part of the fabric of the community in a way that a corporate chain store hardly ever is.

The size of course is a function of real estate cost - so if you're looking at something larger, it's gotta have either higher margins, more volume, or both.

@goatsarah They're not urban but there's a species of Tasmanian parrot that is absolutely not to be fucked with. They're like crows joined the mafia & got elected mayor.

"#CollidedWithSurface" is the new "Crashed."

@KimPerales
John Bull (@garius) also has a Masto, & posted the same-ish thread there:
https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110775069963968471

@goatsarah people can compensate for a fair amount of retinal damage without being aware of it. E.g. I seem to have a fairly large blank spot in the right visual field of my right eye & I cannot make myself consciously aware of it. I only know it's there because of stuff suddenly becoming visible (like moving cars <AHEM/>) that I ought damn well have seen.

@feditips This was a good design decision for accessibility & usability. We do complain sometimes about Mastodon's support for #a11y, but there are many small decisions like this that demonstrate people did *want* to do the right think.

@IamAcand @feditips
If you follow the tag you'll find posts about digital accessibility. 'a11y' is a #numeronym for 'accessibility'. It dates back to 140 character Twitter & it's how most folks posting about accessibility tag their posts.

Numeronyms use the first & last characters of a term to bookend a numeral representing the number of characters in between. E.g. 'accessibility' reduced to 'a11y', which is a big deal if your trying to communicate in coherent 140 or 280 char chunks.

@aswath
Where's the 'approximate' & 'rough' language coming from? If that's actually written into documentation, it should be struck - the limit is deterministic. It could *appear* rough or approximate because things don't take up the same number of characters they appear to (e.g. all URLs being 23 chars*), but AFAIK it's a hard limit.
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*also I've been told but haven't verified that each emoji eats 2 chars?

@IamAcand @feditips

TIL that when you're blocked it doesn't immediately remove the blocker's posts from your timeline or mentions.

EDIT: Doesn't remove them from your history, either, which is fascinating. If I had more time I'd want to figure out how that works. Seems to me it would imply that blocked status is controlled at post level, which seems like it can't be true. Maybe the history is just cached?

@goatsarah convenient how the headline omits the fact that it's being withdrawn for violating standards of informed consent. Or that those were far from the only criticisms. No, it's all just "backlash."🙄

@goatsarah ah so THAT's what it was about.
I think I remember Ken from Metafilter back in the day & if I'm remembering the right guy, he got into lots of fights where he was clearly framing himself as the noble advocate for frank speech.
I find his legal perspective valuable so I grin & bear the nonsense [though had not prev seen the transphobia apologia, which might change things]; that said he is far too settled in his own sense of righteousness for my taste.

@goatsarah @helpers
I didn't realize you had open reg. Because it's a 'dyndns.org' subdomain I always assumed it was on personal hardware somewhere!

@goatsarah
I'm glad you're...um...appreciating?...it. It's EXTREMELY Scandinavian & that doesn't appeal to everyone.
@mattb

@goatsarah @dusepo
...& there was so much to like about it! Including but not limited to Colm Wilkinson's stunt-casting, Ann Hathaway's (not very surprisingly) excellent performance, a welcome-to-heaven ending 100% less-creepy than the traditional staging,.... But yeah, javert gets enough screen time it's hard to watch through his scenes.

@goatsarah @dusepo
I mean, the only thing I really blame Crowe for is TAKING THE ROLE HE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN OFFERED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
...Sorry for shouting, I guess that bothers me more than I realized.

@goatsarah @mattb
Book is disturbing as hell & IMO very worth reading. Alfredson's film version is a VERY close adaptation & it's very creepy & effective. Haven't seen the American version or the series.

@goatsarah guessing something like it might have been the inspiration for the thorn forest that shows up in a lot of medieval european epics.

@goatsarah No! But having just looked it up my reaction is, that's not unlike how the big pink-flowered monster in our old yard behaved. It ended up getting enmeshed in a rat's nest with Virginia creeper (an aggressive non-parasitic climber common in the eastern US) & 2 different ivies around a sumac tree to create something it took enormous effort to hack out & get rid of. Damn near ruined myself.