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

A friend just sent me this link and oh it's such good advice:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

In short: The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”

Meaning, if you're trying to be witty or clever without context (like, the first DM) with someone who doesn't already know you very well, well, don't.

It'll likely get taken the wrong way, and that's a far worse outcome than your first interaction being polite and to the point - the wit can shine later :)

(I have definitely fallen foul of this many times!)

@CppGuy @neil I guess... At least the GDPR rules mean (in the EU anyway) we all get the horrendous cookie banners so we know how far our data is being passed on ("we and our 745 partners value your privacy" *laughcry*) - but yes knowing what happens with it after that is still quite the mystery...

@binarydigit this is indeed awesome!!

@kims maybe they don't like mom and dad's anticapitalism:

(via https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/hpd7e3/these_days_the_junk_mail_comes_through_instagram/)

Something to chew on, this Pride month:

As a cis and/or hetero person, you don't have to understand how it feels to be gay, pan, or ace, to be trans, enby, genderfluid or any other identity or orientation. You don't need to intellectually "get" it. It doesn't have to make sense to you.

There's nothing more to it than taking people's word for how they feel, and standing alongside them, as they simply live their lives as themselves.

Much love :BetterPrideHeart:

Just done a ... Thing?

https://sarajoy.dev/say/

A little anonymous message thing.

Just did the code directly in GitHub via my phone, so it may not be ideal on a desktop, and I haven't yet pulled in a privacy policy thing - but yes this one goes through a spam checker too: https://sarajoy.dev/#privacy-policy

Edit: Idea inspired by / stolen from https://samwho.dev/ping by @samwho and https://roe.dev/ama by @daniel

Lol it only took a few seconds before a couple of jokers sending blank messages helped me realise I needed to add a "required" in there.

We'll see how long it stays before it becomes a spam magnet like my other forms.

And whassuuuuup, happy Sunday, thank you, meeoooow!, and hi to @mattl and one of the Adrians that follows me - it is supposed to be anonymous yaknow 😅💚

@matuzo when there's a loading spinner on an otherwise static restaurant website that doesn't even allow ordering or bookings - only shows you the menu 😬

@yatil @matuzo LOL yes

I'm totally overwhelming my poor computer right now, moving stuff that was only in OneDrive (mainly the big long camera roll of 7 or so years) over to Koofr, and also moving some other stuff over to our local NAS that I don't need on my personal hard drive.

I'm a GUI girl, so I'm doing lots via Windows Explorer which is probably the dumbest way! Hm, I used to use TeraCopy... Nevermind. It's all going OK. Koofr Windows app is also busy on a couple of syncs that it should keep up to date. Woohoo!

@skinnylatte @vfrmedia wow building wheels spunds like super hard mode! I don't dare mess with spoke tension balancing 😅

The flats you get - where on the tube are the holes? Are they from sharp things that have got through the tyre, or are they near the valve, or are they pinch flats?

I had a bike that always got a hole by the valve - turned out the rim tape was badly placed and the edge of the valve hole cut into the tube. New rim tape, Marathon+ tyres, done. Never had a flat since.

We're getting close to the needed signatures against conversion "therapies" in the EU!

Signed as a German. Come on the rest of you, es gibt reichliche Deutsche hier!

We now have the 7 countries over the line, we just need pure numbers - go go go

Direct link: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114501692323303297

10 hours got us 100,000 more signatures let's go go go!

Another ~200,000 needed! Hope we can reach it today 🙏

Maybe Germany and Sweden will pop their thresholds today too :)

Germany has crossed the threshold! 🎉

125k to go!

@binarydigit you're strong in more ways than one haha

@binarydigit lol. Bought it yet?

Pretty grannies' bonnets growing just over the fence from our garden.

#bloomScrolling