@futureisfoss

I am very bad at f2f socializing; that's why I do most of my work in the online/software space.

@tinker @jerry

@tinker @jerry

I have often thought about this, and I keep coming back to the idea that we need a "dark" backup network that has its own DNS-equivalent.

I think the tech for this must already be out there (not sure if Tor is adequate; I'm not an expert; there's definitely newer tech which might be applicable) -- but I mean more the institutions and resources.

@riley I'm always trying to think of ways to make protein powder more edible and less work... I used to regularly get one of those full-nutritional powders (inspired by Soylent but done better, from what I can tell), but it felt like rather more work (and not much cheaper) than frozen dinners.

@faithisleaping Well, why be just one tran?

(This would be funnier if I was a plural system... I mean, if we were... but we're not, I mean I'm not... as far as we I know... unless there's something the others aren't telling me. 🤨)

[I hereby release all rights for this joke to any plural systems who would like to use it.]

@rey I wanna know how to do all that...

(brane probly too smol)

OPEN post :ablobpride2:

I did a therapy--I mean a video about an ethnic minority in Sweden!

You can watch it for free without any ads in my studio post below!
(It also links to my youtube channel, in case you for some reason want to watch it there, with ads)

https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/2026/09/06/the-swedish-ethnic-minority-youve-probably-never-heard-of-video/

#Tornedalians #Tornedalen #Meankieli #Meänkieli #EthnicMinority #EthnicMinorities

@navi

My first question stands, then...

@cwebber @xerz @spritely

@cwebber @xerz @navi @spritely

Yes please.

(Are there reasons not to still aim for those goals? Is this significantly different from how Masto vs. PeerTube vs. PixelFed vs. Loops operate?)

@xerz @navi @cwebber

:plusone: become G+ but keep the fedi

(XL fedi pizza none capitalism)

This has cost me sweat and tears (no blood, yet...) but the HeartConf site is almost at the point where I can stop working on it and start spending some time on other things...

Honest (but gentle) feedback welcome! I love doing this sort of thing, and I'm proud I put this together all by myself, but I'm not a trained designer.

Still needs a proper social media unfurl, and some of it could use some tweaking for mobile (looks good on desktop though!)

https://2027.heartconf.eu/

@artemis I've been taking a similar tactic with my dad, who I think has similar issues with empathy. He has a habit of saying stuff which "surely he must realize" (I think to myself) is hurtful, but actually I don't think he has enough ability to model other people's lives to realize that... and it seems to work just fine if I push back firmly but politely (within his range of expression or slightly milder) against problematic stuff when I notice it in time (while my inner child is still fully expecting to be yelled at for disobedience or something).

@artemis I've always held that you don't need to get married to do that -- and if either of your respective families don't see it that way, then that's their problem... 😁

@Asuyuia this.

@BigShellEvent relateable... I was definitely always socially awkward, as well as being physically kinda awkward in sports (which never appealed to me anyway but US schools apparently feel compelled to make kids do them... [insert minor rant here]).

A lot of people talk about feeling awkward during adolescence, while I never felt that way. I mean, I didn't enjoy it, but "awkward" was... not the term, and adolescence isn't the part I'd have focused on, exactly...

...and it suddenly occurred to me just now that maybe most people experience adolescence as sort of an uncanny valley between two acceptable states -- the child they were and the adult they want to be -- whereas for me, adulthood was a nightmare and adolescence was just the beginning of it.

I wonder if that's a common element in the trans experience. :blobcatthinking:

#HashtagGames
#FightProcrastinationASong

"Right Now" by Van Halen
"Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac

@Unlikelylass

Yeah -- strangely much better than the James Blish novelizations of TOS... but that may just be because someone (no idea who), in their implicit wisdom, decided the latter should be more like short stories than novellas.

If it were me, I'd have said to turn each episode into a full-blown novel (of whatever length the author felt it deserved) -- there's a lot of background detail implicit in those stories which obviously had to be left out of the 50-minute screenplays. (That said: some of the short-story versions were arguably better than the actual episodes, even diminished as they were.)

@Harena @brooke

@Unlikelylass

Between the two of us, @Harena and I have two complete sets of those (except for Log 10, which fell victim to a bored canine in my case). ^.^

@brooke

@brooke That was the first story in the Alan Dean Foster novelizations (Star Trek: Log One) -- I remember eating through those like candy. (...if I liked candy, but you know what I mean.)

@brooke It was the best of toons, it was the worst of toons...

The voice-acting always felt kinda dead to me -- like they each recorded their lines separately. I think I heard somewhere that this was not the case, so... [baffled shrug]