Notices by Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)

Sometimes I just crave cheese. Cheesy music.

Fun fact, I know all the words to American Pie and will sometimes sing it all the way through if someone is playing a piano and I am drunk enough.

It's been a good decade or two since that happened 😆

I can't sing well really but people enjoy the performance and everyone joins in on the chorus 🎶

FINALLY I GOT TO SEE THE AURORA!!!

It wasn't *quite* as bright as the phone camera suggests - but it was all visible to the naked eye.

Hamburg, Germany.

Lol. I feel old. A couple of somewhat younger colleagues didn't recognise the "all your base, your base, base, base, all your base, are belong to us" reference.

Is the best MS Office alternative still Libre Office? If I'm not wanting to use Google docs?

Tooty and Fruity/Frooty (seen the other way around, Fruity on the left, Tooty on the right) wish you a Frohe Weihnachten, God Jul, Happy Christmas Eve, and Merry Christmas for tomorrow.

A present from @hl and I to ourselves. We can't really decide which one should belong to who...

#plushtodon

@skinnylatte awesome! Sadly all I really saw was the factory, my hotel, and the beach - but yuummmmmm. The hotel breakfast alone was a feast.

Oh and we did have Ais Kacang while I was there. Which was pretty bonkers, lolol I did not expect the beans (obvs I don't speak the language!)...

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115770564510375050

It's not Singapore, but I once spent a week working in a PCB factory in Penang, Malaysia, overseeing some hardware being manufactured for my company.

The canteen was amazing. It doesn't sound as expansive as Adrianna's school food, but it was simply delicious every day - so many options and flavours. Wonderful.

@inthehands yes yes yes yes this

Very much of the opinion that modern life is far too intense, and those that struggle with the (increasingly narrow) way of being that allows you to thrive in it are seeking help one way or another - be that via diagnosis, medication, therapy, drugs...

"We didn't have that back then!"

Oh yes you did. Was life as expensive, as full of tricks to con you at every turn, as competitive for every job, as precarious?

We are safer than ever, but so very stressed.

@evan I try those but my brain starts racing unfortunately.

I have all the tips I need, body was just working against me for a couple of hours!

Please send me sleepy vibes. It's 4:38am and I'd prefer not to be awake...

RE: https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/115698007334320881

I did this myself, for a little while. I wondered if I was maybe some level of trans, given how I present myself.

In the end the thought experiment brought me back to "nah, I'm cis and comfortable in the clear femininity of my body, even if I dress boxy, keep my hair short and wear no make up".

I don't even consider myself butch, I just am. And that's fine.

Now I know trans people feel something in themselves that I don't, and I don't have to know how it feels to still fight for their rights.

Thank you @tommi and @fraxinas for standing up.

https://pan.rent/@tommi/115485846413579206

@cadusilva also of course big thanks to @Claire for sorting it out!

@cadusilva ooh yes, the second one: "This is done in the backend to avoid third-party clients having the same issue."

Good stuff. Thanks for bringing this to light Cadu!

@Gargron @Bright5park @Mastodon so very very many times I've been disappointed by things shopping to US only. Vice versa happens too.

It's sort of nice to see an EU-based somethingorother get popular enough stateside that they get sad when they can't get the merch delivered.

Tonight I went out dancing (swing, mostly lindy hop) for the first time in a very long time, in the city where I first learned to dance it, where a decent number of the people at the event were people who went to the same classes and dances as me from 2007 onwards.

It was like a homecoming. And a real tonic. Lots of love and joy and sweat and music - and apparently it's all still there in my muscle memory.

Pure joy. So good.

@kims I make the answer 57% but I could be wrong

Gosh how I loved Tomorrow's World, especially in the first half of the 90s: https://youtu.be/XpZ5STahhPE

It had a rebrand at some point after the mid-90s, it got new presenters and set and to me, it lost its futuristic sheen.

This is why I'm also on bluesky - I wish all the lovely things were also posted here, but sadly they're not:

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:52isu377grrhxp2lwoqsrhjy/post/3lwfmkqp7ss2i