Notices by Lydia Conwell (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)

All the toys in the world. All the plush and plastic.

You could probably take all those resources and all that energy and use it for something more useful instead.

@aral Who owns indie.web?

@aral You know my super power is criticising things?

So you know this comes from a good place ...

But I follow your link and I don't know what I'd be donating to. Then I click 'about' and still I don't know. I have to follow more links to know what your project is about.

In fact, I end up on a different website -- your own website -- before I get more of a clear explanation of what the project is.

And it's a good explanation.

I think you need to make it clear what your project is on your donation page and your about page. And a simple tagline/explanatory paragraph is no bad thing.

This is good:

"The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments).

On the Small Web, you (and only you) own and control your own home."

Although I think there's room from start up independent businesses on the small web, no?

An idea to shame users of corporate social media sites:

Instead of calling them Users, call them Customers.

You know, draw attention to how they are not just passively existing on those sites, but by being on them they are giving money to bad people.

#AskFedi #Fediverse #SocialMedia

@spanghero Yeah, you have to be disciplined and live of muesli and tofu.

One day I'll be a billionaire.

If I work real hard, I know I can do it.

Just like Elno did. Worked really hard to get there.

I was looking at what I thought was a quote post and the first one was talking about Benedict Cumberbunch's mother, while the quoted post was a link to an article about a woman who spent time in Chinese prison.

It turns out that it wasn't a quote post, just two consecutive posts in my timeline.

I'm eating something called Ding Dong and it tastes like cheese and onion crisps and sugar puffs, with a hint of occasional Bombay mix.

#Snacks #Eating #DingDong

@aral Is that European Commission account just automated and they haven't labelled it as such?

I just looked at a thread where folk were calling the burning down of the very fictional wizarding school Hogwarts a hate crime.

The original post was clearly about rejecting the Harry Plopper franchise in solidarity with trans folk.

While I am all ready to not watch the reboot, I think it is unwise to use the popularity of the show to gauge public levels of support for trans people.

Regardless of how much people care about trans issues, I'm expecting the show to be well received and to be watched by a large audience.

There are many influences in people's lives that encourage or even manipulate them to get them to buy into corporate crap.

You will probably get a few 'I support trans people but I still love Harry Potter' types, but I think many, many people just won't be aware of the issues with Harry Potter, like they don't know the issues with Amazon, or any of the other crap services they use.

I suppose what I'm saying is, don't be disheartened if it turns out to be a success, and don't use a fictional world's fandom as a gauge for how much people care about trans people.

Having said that, it would be delicious if it completely fell flat and people rejected it.

#HarryPotter #Trans #JKRowling

@aral Yes, we know you're Superman.

@cmconseils Stick alternative QR codes over them and maybe they'll stop.

I literally sometimes annoy online people with my misuse of the word Literally.*

*That was not a misuse of the word Literally.

Is there a Debian gang and they hate the Ubuntu gang and the Ubuntu gang hates the Debian gang?

Or do they all just love one and other?

@GreenSkyOverMe What about a temporary memory erase that just lasts for the movie/TV show/book and disappears afterward?

Would you prefer it if the movies and TV you enjoy could be sort of erased from your memory, so every time you watched them it would be like watching them afresh?

I bet I could run a marathon.

If I was fitter and was inclined to do exercise.

Easy.

#LondonMarathon

Actually, I've always had a problem with people thanking god for their success, particularly if they are doing better than most.

It just feels like a wilfully fuck-you to people in worse situations. Like saying, "I deserve this because I'm so god-loving."

I'm not into that. It doesn't make sense to me. I think people should be praying to ask the lord for strength to be a better, more charitable and compassionate person.

But then, the churches aren't likely to promote such things because they are moneymaking schemes and they are right wing and supporters of division.

That's why charity has all but evaporated from Christianity.

#Atheism

Someone posted a video with an Italian man trying to pronounce Worcestershire Sauce.

I kinda think it's one of them fake I-want-it-to-go-viral videos personally.

The thing is, the real life hack is you can just call it Worcester Sauce.

Us Brits have much more important things to do than to be putting 'sher', 'sheer' or 'Shyer' at the end of every word.