As "finishing school" is about to transition into "and still unemployed" in 2-3 weeks, I've gone ahead and lined up another round of my absolutely-not-career-track side-hustle. Are you in KW or SWOnt and get cold feet in the colder weather? Unplug from the matrix and come knit socks! Doing 2 […]

[Photobombing spider butt.] RE: https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/117040571067865374 hahahaha. Not the view that was promoted!

Canadians, #fediforum regulars, and those of you who are unconference-curious - are you interested in checking out the seemingly *very* un-conferenced https://reimaginefestival.ca ? I've just signed on. The "schedule" runs August 12 - 26th, but the platform is open now for those who wish to […]

Another late-in-day productivity burst as finish lines approach. Stupid ADHD - brain always flips to "done with this" long before "this is DONE" and I end up in a spin. Not being helped now by a sense of being not on same frequency as 2/3 of the rest of my team. Nobody's a problem to work with […]

So much progress made, so much more to go ... argh. I probably had a good 7 hours of the last 10 actually with my brain snapped onto schoolwork, for the first time in a while. Unfortunately it snapped on to 1 of 6 deliverables for 3 courses and I am still just so. damned. slow. at getting to […]

IFTAS can see 2,343 un-actioned botnet accounts, and thousands more are likely hiding in plain sight. They’re spewing spam every few minutes, cross-following, bridging, and federating hundreds of thousands of unwanted posts. And server admins are footing the bill. While we can't shut them […]

lots of chickens in my timelines today for some reason.

#silentsunday

RE: https://lile.cl/@capibarabot/117029359000273870 Capyburger.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/117006595394251523 Cosmic dread, but I need to go get more cheese.

One of the biggest, possibly THE biggest challenge of the Open Social Web is funding its operations. This place is built largely as a labour of love by volunteers who have an hour or a few free in a week, and possibly not on a regular basis. It's more than just your personal Mastodon login, too […]

RE: https://mstdn.plus/@DeanFarrell/117006358760184502 Well, if you need a little levity like I do ... #hashtaggames are fun tonight. MFC wreck. #CarTroubleASongOrPoem

Oh, damn. This is awful. I recently "discovered" Glen Hansard (realizing in recent years the name/performer behind several songs I liked). https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-ireland-hansard-9.7288673

Just noticed something that looks to be a thing between @gotosocial and @pixelfed (@dansup), and I'm not sure where/how to report. Pixelfed and its usual forks do not display text-only posts, so if I follow someone on a Mastodon server I still only see content with media attached. However, it […]

Yes great thanks I needed to involve CAA in my day too. Lovely.

huh. pharmaceutical access went slightly in the right direction for a change. I hadn't paid close attention, because my pharmacy costs seem to be a monthly random number generator anyway, but when I discussed my last refill with my endo, she asked if my Ozempic price adjustment worked. Seems […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116970314282378969 This whole thread. The biggest problem with the internet today is the monetization model. Advertising went very, very wrong by not gibetting Canter and Siegel immediately in 1994. I continue to *love* seeing ads on exactly one site […]

Who is out here still knitting nowadays? 🧶 I still use Ravelry on the regular (its the *first* social site where I grabbed johannab as a handle before the other johannabs showed up). But the friends & groups just makes me sad, because the social spheres migrated away to other places. My brain […]

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116978543019815433 Totally laughed my head off at this one.

It's a very different thing from #HillsideFestival but the next thing on my calendar - and after my semester is finished, so no distractions! - is the Busker's Carnival. If it ever occurred to you to visit this weird Waterloo place ... good weekend to hang out Uptown […]

Had to go looking for more of Angine de Poitrine ... Rick Beato's videos are always awesome. One of the few music journos/interviewers who really is all about the music. Bring's a professor's depth to any & every commentary. https://youtu.be/zO8bt94-ybg?si=rRXG5ZlsdyTEt9t_

Is there a fediverse client for a Nintendo Switch yet?

Kid and I did lighten up on the walk home, getting into a set theory and language discussion on the interrelationships of birb, chonk, and borb after passing a dozen or so fat robins having a field day on a wormy lawn in the rain. I was told I have to ask the fediverse: is borb a special case […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/116959871338565909 My recent export-consolidate-import of my previously 3 mastodon following collections has somehow wiped out all lists-but-remove-from-home-TL and that's kinda some fun rediscoveries. Although Plague Poems is a little heavy - it's good.

Kid and I did lighten up on the walk home, getting into a set theory and language discussion on the interrelationships of birb, chonk, and borb after passing a dozen or so fat robins having a field day on a wormy lawn in the rain. I was told I have to ask the fediverse: is borb a special case […]

Lifelabs not in their best game today. First could only find my appt, not my kid’s, so checked her in as a walk-in with a 40 min longer wait than my appt time. Then she showed up on the leaderboard at her original appt time, not checked in. So I had them correct that - just a couple minutes […]

RE: https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/116944127241604271 Everyone is going to call this kid “brilliant” and “a prodigy” and they are not wrong. But I see some finer details here. This young person is incredibly caring towards his fellow creatures and so attentive to their experiences, he noticed a […]

My podcast guilty pleasure of late is “Do As We Say, Not As They Did”, by Dr. Nerdlove and Dr.Liz. The superficial premise of “dating advice by trashing the worst of incel Reddit” should be both cringe and irrelevant to me. Except the two hosts seem to be genuinely skilled humans at being human […]

Totally determined to give new music a fair listen. But what the heck is “math rock” and how do you pronounce “Khn”?

@johannab@bookwyrm.cosocial.engineering Hello from the home timeline, welcome Bookwyrm