So.... mission accomplished? It doesn't matter which bird won (so long as it wasn't a bloody bat!), John Oliver did the organisation and the birds a massive favour.
General pessimism this morning. Would anyone be interested in a couple of weekly threads showcasing non-misery-inducing things? I'm thinking maybe a thread to show off things we've made ourselves (building projects, cakes etc) or maybe a photo challenge?
I've never done cover pages before, my entries have always just run on one from the next, but I fell into the habit of doing a doodle calendar, then it expanded to two pages, then I needed to fill a blank page so the calendar would be on a single spread...
You know, the usual evolution of journaling, haha.
I love that random bypassers were supporting him, especially the road crew donating gloves.
I think it was only the second time I've sat down to stitch this year so have a bit of catching up to do! Pattern is A Crazy Wonderful Owl Family by HAED.
That is a really unfortunate url 🤔
I would prefer not to federate with them. Their track record is abysmal and the privacy invasion is horrendous. One of the people over on Mastodon recorded more than 200 queries from the app within an hour of installing it - they are determined to scrape every last detail of your life into their advertising database and, well, fuck that.
Mastodon.nz announced a week or so back that they have no intention of federating with them and I found that to be reassuring: we're all here because we specifically Do Not Want a corporate body throwing adverts and algorithms at us.
It wouldn't surprise me if blasting the fediverse with millions of users is specifically designed to weaken smaller instances, just to oh-so-graciously offer their users and 'safer, more stable' place to set up.
Got my hair did, smell like salon potions.
Morena. Heat pump is going and I'm on my second coffee. Hope everyone is keeping warm this morning, I don't think we quite had a frost but that was probably to do with the wind than anything else.
I love the lady on one news being completely disbelieving. I guess she doesn't like the idea of partaking of something with such a social stigma.
At first glance I think it's a kneejerk reaction. Most of the people here are pretty tech savvy and are here because they're not interested in centralised systems, so they're going to be able to decide on their own whether or not to block company-owned instances.
But... there's precedence there. Facebook/Meta might not have the trail of bodies that Google has but I don't think anyone is foolish enough to think there's anything sincere or philanthropic in their motives. The fact that they're putting everything behind an NDA seems directly opposite to the entire ethos of the fediverse, which isn't a great start.
I think an abundance of caution wouldn't be a bad thing. I stopped using Facebook because it degraded so badly and they kept overstepping boundaries. It would be a real loss if the same thing started to happen here.
I can see it happening in stages, much like Twitter's inexorable decline. Seeing that Steve Huffman said in an interview recently that he admired what Elon Musk was doing, I don't think we've seen the worst for redditors yet.
I have a Kobo Libra 2 and I think the only extra features are that it's waterproof and you can do audiobooks on it via Bluetooth (you might be able to do that on Kindle too, I'm not sure).
I went with Kobo because I'm not a fan of Amazon and because I wanted to access a subscription service through it. With the optional sleep cover I never turn it off so it's always ready to go.
I think the stress and uncertainty of the last few years has left us with no real optimism. There's usually a lot more talk of New Year New Start and resolutions about getting your life generally better but now it feels like it's just dragging yourself past a check-in point on a fairly mundane racetrack.
This year I'm definitely going to try and focus on good things in my journal to see if I can improve my outlook.