Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
It is surprisingly hard to buy a car right now. At least for me, it’s hard to buy a 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV Premier with sunroof. Been talking to four different dealers for more than a week, and today declined a “new” car that had been at the Texas State Fair, with 557 miles to show for it, in favor of one that isn’t a color I wanted but will be delivered Saturday.
Driving a car in a color I didn’t want should build character, right? More than waiting until March?
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Hallelujah! Governor Kate Brown of Oregon has commuted the entire death row and ordered the execution chamber to be dismantled.
A brave, moral act. I salute her.
#DeathPenalty #executions #GovKateBrown #CapitalPunishment
https://www.oregon.gov/newsroom/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=76509
This is not a commercial for Dave’s Hot Chicken! I have been enjoying their sandwiches and decor, is all.
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To all mastodon admins:
Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!
Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!
(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)
I finally put up the holiday tree on Saturday, so it's starting to seem a bit more like the holiday season.
Not too much, just a bit.
The artificial tree is pre-trimmed with lights and even artificial pine cones and berries, and it looks so good just out of the box that all we've added to it is the traditional star on top. We have traditionally bought one new ornament each every year, and we'll do that again this year, but those will likely be the only four ornaments on the tree, other than the topper.
I don't think there's any "right way" to celebrate holidays, although I suppose there are plenty of wrong ways. Don't be hateful, be kind. Be gracious to others, and accept with gratitude when others are gracious to you. Be gracious to yourself. Beyond that, you can light candles or cut down a tree or pull a tabletop artificial mini-tree out of a box, and decorate your living space however you wish, and if it works for you, I think that's all that matters.
Whether you mark Christmas or Hanukkah or Festivus or some other event this time of year, I hope you can take a moment to be grateful for having survived another year on this planet.
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#Mastodon has a LONG way to go to on Black #inclusivity. This is surprising because it’s hyper focused on #accessibility and #LGBTQ+ inclusivity. We all need to uplift #BlackMastodon in every way we can. This will make Mastodon a much better place and create a sanctuary for the Black community. Call out, fight, and report all micro aggression/racism witnessed here. Boost posts/accounts of Black Mastodonians. Use your #privilege to be a voice. This is our #responsibility. We’re #StrongerTogether.
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Posted for no reason other than to say Sade is timeless and we should all appreciate her greatness.
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#dealingWithStrangers lesson 1:
If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, “did you bring the money?”
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Hey, fellow white people. Listen up.
Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color do not exist on this site or anywhere to “help” you or teach you how to be less racist, how to understand racism, or how to understand their experience of racism.
They do not owe you explanations, apologies, or education.
They do not owe you a seat at the table.
They do not owe you friendship, conversation, or even acknowledgement.
If you don’t get why, you have a lot of work to do.
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The NewsGuild members at the #nyt are going on strike for 24 hours at midnight tonight, and they said:
“We’re asking readers to not engage in any #NYTimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Pull out a cookbook. Break your #Wordle streak.”
I’ll be sacrificing my #NYTCrossword streak to the cause of solidarity.
DON’T CROSS THE DIGITAL PICKET LINE!
iMessage Contact Key Verification brings over a feature from Signal, and will still require *some* measure of trust in Apple, but seems like like a step forward. Given Apple, I’m sure most of the time people will use the prompt to learn when their family and friends upgrade their iPhone.
Security Keys sound great, and I want one now. Wait, they’re only $29 from Yubico? Wow!
End-to-End Encryption for iCloud Backup is huge, and while I want to say “about time,” the second-best time to plant a tree is today, so I’m glad it’s here now.
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"If all you have is an MC Hammer, everything looks like you can't touch it"
- ancient proverb
Sean McCoy (@seanmccoy) has lit my imagination on fire, and the conflagration is threatening to burn out of control! He’s talking about #Dungeon23
https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23
So now I’m talking about #Dungeon23
“A dungeon room a day, every day, for 2023. That’s 365 rooms.”
I’ve never designed a role-playing game from scratch, and I would have said I wouldn’t know where to start, but now I do! I’m going to actually try this, and I already have some ideas about how try to stand out, and maybe avoid producing the same exact mega-dungeon (in a different order) as hundreds of other people.
I’m going to aim for a 52-story building. Seven rooms per floor, and some of the floors might be subterranean. Or trans-dimensional. Because this building, it ain’t right. It ain’t even wrong. It ain’t any kind of building you’ve seen before, and if you wake up anywhere in it, you’re about to have a bad time.
Of course I want it to work well with Mothership 1e rules. The stress mechanic alone is inspiring.
I don’t know. Should my first-ever RPG design be a 365-room mega-dungeon for the best horror RPG system out there? The way I think about it, even if I don’t quite make it 365 days, I should end up with a decent-sized area to explore, right?
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Hello fediverse - here's your occasional reminder that putting alt-text on your images makes a better, friendlier, more accessible environment for everyone.
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The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.
Photo Credit: Steve Sargent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sargimuss/26650626112
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The HOA has sent me a reminder that my Santa decoration should "fully and appropriately clothed" this year.
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I've had to delay this a few days due to work and finals, but here we are.
Mastodon has a huge racism problem. My girlfriend pointed it out and I started looking into it and realizing just how bad it was here. It was stupid of me to hope that a decentralized network would somehow not still reflect the white supremacy ever-present in our world.
So, with the small power I have, I'm trying to raise awareness. I added a section on content moderation (specifically the second paragraph) to Mastodon's #wikipedia article, to make sure the issue is a matter of public record and the ways it can be addressed are as well.
If you can talk about killing Nazis and stomping out racists and fascists, you should not be afraid to #fediblock them online. Protection of the most marginalized is as important in the digital commons as it is in the physical one and if this space isn't to devolve further into a white circle-jerk then protection of BIPOC comrades should be the first priority. Report and block fascists and racists.
Don't look to me for any answers, I get some racism and islamaphobia but I still only pass the brown paper bag test if the bag is one of the slightly lighter ones. Follow hashtags such as #BlackMastodonHistory, #BlackMastodon, and #BlackFedi, shut up, and listen. Not just hear, but listen and take action. Don't argue, don't ask questions requiring labor when you could just google the answers ffs, don't prize whiteness and civility over action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)#Content_moderation
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ #dataviz #boost #climatechange #climate
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
Joined Nov 2022
