Notices by Irina (irina@wandering.shop), page 3

@craigmaloney Most of the Dutch Orthodox church books were made on an Atari ST. (By an abbot well into his eighties for most of the work.)

@halla and me on the doorstep of the kitchenware shop: "do we go in?" "nah, we don't really need anything -- well, let's go in anyway"
so we came out with a green Le Creuset oven dish, a turquoise Le Creuset spoon-holder, a large deep stainless steel frying pan because the one that had served us 30+ years had developed a hole in the bottom, and two cut-glass whiskey glasses.

@craigmaloney They're not in the choir because reasons (one reason being that I'm the boss and I don't want them in it, they're too dominant for me to handle. I don't want every practice and every service to be a battle of wills.)

Dear person who isn't in the choir but can't help singing along:

(1) I understand that you can't help singing. I'm made the same way.
(2) I do mind, but I don't object.
(3) But please don't fill in missing parts, because this music is DESIGNED for incomplete choirs and if it's different from what we practiced I get confused. If you must sing (and again, I understand that you must) sing a part that's already being sung, for instance the alto part because I know you're an alto.

#ChurchChoir

@HauntedOwlbear @dessertgeek I dislike the term too. Calling creative people "content creators" rather than what they are (artists, video makers, writers, musicians, whatever) reduces them to making filling around the ads which are the companies' main payload.

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@craigmaloney I was on identi.ca for a while but it gave me the feeling that it was only virtuous and no fun at all (because the people I wanted to talk with weren't there, only very serious open source advocates and programmers, not for instance writers or artists). I stayed because I thought it was the correct thing to do, but left when pump.io took it over because I couldn't stand the slogan, “It pumps your life in and out of your friends, family and colleagues.”

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#Caturday

*sigh* why don't people know the difference between fiction, mythology and lies?

@feditips @pfefferle There's only me writing on this blog so the author address would do the same thing. Will try that if waiting until it federates doesn't work, thanks!

Username is "blog@valdyas.org" (which gives all the mastodon posts with "blog" somewhere in the text) and profile URL is https://valdyas.org/irina/fo3/@blog (which gives no results at all). Yes, I did click "save changes". I edited it in the "settings" page, and it showed up in the "welcome" page like this.

@feditips Yes, even installed WebFinger now, but it still does the same thing.

@feditips I must have done something wrong because I can't get it working! I have the ActivityPub plugin but it doesn't generate a feed, just irrelevant search results (I called the feed blog@valdyas.org and it gives all mastodon posts with "blog" somewhere in the text). Help?

@MicroSFF Or translate them, I suppose?

Lübeck, at dawn. Which we're not seeing nearly enough of but we might consider it for a city trip sometime because it's no further from home than Berlin, after all.

@pettter I have reservations for all the other trains, not through the app but through the website. I've tried the Finnish railways website but they want to sell me tickets with a reservation, and obviously we don't need tickets but I haven't found a way to buy only a reservation. We'll just take our chance. I can't believe that the Helsinki-Oulu train will be completely full.

Dear interrail website: I know what a seat reservation is! I know reservation isn't mandatory for this train! I want to reserve anyway, as you tell me I can! Why don't you give me a way to actually do it, *as you did earlier* when I wasn't sure the hotel would be able to print it? Oh, and also, I don't need more information because all of the "more information" is either irrelevant or I already know it!

Okay, it says reservation "included" but doesn't tell us which seats we have. If I go to the "I don't have a pass yet" reservation page, an option to reserve appears but it was greyed out, perhaps because I was in fact logged in and the site knew I had a pass. Well, we'll just go to the station early and find the train and grab the seats we want.

We're going to be on this train's entire route anyway.

@MicroSFF I'm not eligible to nominate or vote this time around but I wish you all the best.