Notices by Alex, Oasis Keeper (wizardofdocs@wandering.shop)

May 1: May Day
June 1: Gay Day 🏳️🌈
July 1: Eh Day 🍁

@forteller oh good that's not just me

does it also crash for you when you press Report

@fuchsiashock this is, in fact, what happened

somebody sent me a photo of "advertising is the graffiti of the rich" written on a wall, and I'm honestly having trouble coming up with anything truer

@Bwee Mastodon is basically the reason I have friends this decade

@MicroSFF ......then what do they wear, and how do they make space travel safe

@inthehands @datarama @futurebird @snacktraces (sorry if that doesn't make sense, I'm waiting on new glasses and I'm not thinking as clearly while I can't see clearly. What I mean is semantics focuses too much on the literal informational content of language, while pragmatics gets into all the reasons people say things the ways they do, which I think aligns better with what y'all are advocating for.)

@inthehands @datarama @futurebird @snacktraces yeah, formal semantics is my least favorite part of linguistics. That's why my master's thesis is in pragmatics: it lets you study speaker intent *without* all those assumptions.

@inthehands @futurebird @snacktraces this is a thing I had to learn the hard way in undergrad computer science

I'd come from a liberal arts background where looking up the answers was cheating

I still feel bad using other people's code, even though I hate programming, because everybody's going to know I don't understand what I'm doing.

When the truth is that being able to synthesize other people's code to do what you want is how you prove you do know what you're doing.

@sevenishmagpies #caption4u "My child is not a student of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated by this bumper sticker."

watching some guy's analysis of youtube's anti-adblock push

and I love that the strongest result is that youtube has taught its user base that adblockers exist and are helpful

@Rhodium103 @doctorjaymarie @MikeyMcFilms

A Higgs boson goes into a Catholic church. The priest says "you can't be here, calling yourself the god particle is sacrilege!"

The Higgs boson says, "okay, I'll go. But I'm curious--without me, how do you have Mass?"

@owncast so Twitch recently announced they were changing their TOS to prevent people from multistreaming

there's at least one streamer I really like and kind of know personally who simulcasts to Twitch and Youtube and will be affected by this; he's not massively excited about the fediverse, but I'd like to be able to make recommendations

@lain hi

@Gargron if you pay your moderators, this will happen a lot less