Notices by 𝚝𝚓𝚠 (thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)

"e.g." is short for "egzample" which is Latin for example

@inthehands there don't seem to be quite enough people in my immediate area doing it. That needs to be fixed... perhaps by me.

@skinnylatte I recently discovered some local birders who are giving free classes and I'm intrigued...

@inthehands that would be not just disastrous for social security itself but for the entire software industry. The damage could happen even if they fail to actually replace anything but simply say they did it. A bunch of managers and investors are suddenly going to have absolutely absurd beliefs about what's possible in development. So many people are so credulous towards Musk because they want to believe him.

@inthehands all those brainless center-left transphobes who thought there was a contingency of pro-LGB but not T people out there that Dems should appeal to are gonna find out real quick that those people are simply anti-LGBT.

@skinnylatte yeah I even like the bay area just it doesn’t quite hold up compared to the other major coastal cities. I’m in Reno/Sparks which wants to be Portland but isn’t.

@skinnylatte I like Portland and Seattle’s food scenes more than SF. Also music scenes are better in most respects but SF does get more famous bands stopping there.

@cwebber I would zoidberg the shit out of raisins (and have in the past) but alas I have to avoid sulfides

@cwebber ok I'm going to start using zoidberg as a verb now

@JessTheUnstill I deleted my Threads and am deleting my Facebook end of the month (it's been a lot of work using this time to try to lure friends here). I kinda have to keep ig for business but I might in due time delete that too. I certainly can't stand the app anymore.

@atomicpoet maybe part of the issue is even Twitter was always a niche anyway, compared to Facebook and Instagram. And Mastodon reminds people a lot of Twitter.

@dansup my pixelfed accts have custom domain handles on the bsky side (which are auto-translated by the bridge):

@shallotsanctum
@nonbinaryanalog
@tarpan

@lain worse, every few months *I* forget why and refresh my memory by probing into it, because I have the memory of a goldfish.

@dansup @pixelfed is multiple account support on the horizon?

I admit that American conceptions of what counts as breakfast food can be very arbitrary:

"I had potatoes for breakfast"
"Well of course, that makes perfect sense"
"They were mashed"
"Stay away from me, serial killer. That's dinner food"

@lzg if the text could have been shorter, it should have been written that way. Otherwise, I think the whole thing is important. Besides, usually the first or last paragraph is a summary anyway.

At least Montana's state house failed to pass a bathroom ban targeted at Zephyr with several Republican defections.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/measure-ban-trans-montana-lawmaker-zooey-zephyr-womens-bathroom-fails-rcna182733

@ben @pancakes @_elena @stefan @mia I actually looked into making my own alternate frontend for friendica and the main issue I found was one of the endpoints, the one to make a new account wasn’t exposed as a rest call but had to be done through friendica’s ui.

@mia @_elena @stefan @ben @pancakes the functionality of friendica but sharkey’s ui would help bring in people currently still stuck in facebook

I use the men's room, not to make sure I don't make TERFs uncomfortable but to make sure I do make men uncomfortable.