Wraithe

BE, 14 days ago to random

I've written this and deleted it a few times. Which is probably good because each one has become less of an angry rant with less profanity 😂 There's really no need to read it and I'll warn you up front of that fact. I'm just venting for my own sanity about 3 separate people in the last 24 hours telling me various versions of "Your posts are too long for me."

Look, simply put, I don't care if you are offended by the length of my posts. I don't care about your precious timeline. I don't care that you don't have the time to "read it all." Is this some sort of weird entitlement that because you can curate your feed here, I'm supposed to post how you want? I'm not ChatGPT. I'm not summarizing science for you, on command. I honestly don't know why every time something I write gets over a certain number of boosts people come out of the woodwork to tell me this.

I'm not offended when someone clearly doesn't read and replies anyway. Chances are good that I blocked the person complaining already, which is why they're off sub tooting about me. Yes, I do understand that there's at least two of those this morning. I love the block and mute buttons. Seriously.

I'm not for everyone and I'm not trying to be. I don't need a course on scientific communication, although I enjoy the subject and am pretty much always willing to discuss it. I love talking about science. That's my happy place. If yours is reading two sentence summaries, don't read my posts and we'll both be happier for it.

I'm sorry some of y'all were(probably literally) raised on twitter and you really believe that if you can't make a point in 200 characters then you've failed. In my opinion, that's a large part of why we are where we are in today's society.

I'm sorry you feel the need to tell me about the first 100 characters of my post without reading the rest.

I'm sorry that you feel the need to tell me that my post lengths are offensive to you.

Whether or not you Mr. I-feel-the-need-to-fire-off-a-half-dozen-DMs-to-you-while-you're-sleeping-about-how-I-need-you-to-change-how-you-post read and understand what I write is not on my list of things to worry about when I wake up in the morning.

My Mastodon origin story is that I saw a need in the world for some information curation and discussion that was largely missing. The people that I was doing that for in the real world had stopped listening to COVID information, so I had some free time already carved out of my schedule. As we get further into the COVID pandemic, honestly, there's less of a need for that. COVID is bad. Anyone bothering to read anything I write gets that. I don't need to break down yet another paper about it.

Sometimes interesting, novel things still come up, but, at this point it's largely rehashed info honestly. So now I talk about PFAs, or other pollution more often rather than preach to the choir about not getting COVID three times a year(anyone noticed a LOT of people are using that number now about themselves?). These are things I am eminently qualified to talk about and could write books on if I thought anyone would actually read them.

Why? Because it is, actually a need. You know how many people here on Mastodon have told me that they've made positive changes based on something I've written about? Dozens. And that works for me. That's why I went into science. I don't need anything more than that. Some people are going to be more healthy in the future than they otherwise would have been because I exist on this site. So, no, I don't care that you need me to "summarize my thoughts better." I'm just a guy who writes a lot of words and maybe 100 people read them regularly. I don't care if you make it 101 or not.

I could just as easily write you a 1,500 word article on the Denver Nuggets, something I've also been paid(very, very little) to do in life, but, I don't think there's a need for that the way that there is science.

Yes. I very purposefully sat here while drinking my tea and extended this over and over just to make sure it was extra wordy. Just the way I like it. R.I.P. to your timeline voluminous science haters!

Wraithe, 15 days ago to random

“Is this what we click on to get the new hires account and password?”

posts one use link to public slack channel

Me: 🤦🏻‍♀️

billyjoebowers, 15 days ago to random

"Last days: Shod with 84 years of Western tradition, Tucson's Stewart Boot Co. closing"

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/042524_stewart_boots/last-days-shod-with-84-years-western-tradition-tucsons-stewart-boot-co-closing/

hotdogsladies, 17 days ago to random

“Star Wars” had a wild teaser trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5kCIiGoM

Wraithe, 17 days ago to random

Holy shit, trump got roundly booed at the libertarian national convention, and it is making my little heart happy.
Yes, yes I know it doesn’t mean anything, but watching his face crumple makes me feel good. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C7aYYjWAZmo

dannotdaniel, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

does anyone have the Trump getting booed by libertarians video I'm not going over to that other site

libertarians: also the worst

guess I will drop some links as I find them here. maybe

timberwraith, 17 days ago to random

I am once again mentioning that for 55 of my 55 years of life, I have largely not given a shit about sports.

But cis people being bigoted fucks about trans women in sports has forced an activity that I have always found to be loathsome and boring into my awareness.

And they've left me with the conclusion that far too many cis people are as loathsome and boring as their bigoted, obsessive opinions about sports.

gedeonm, 17 days ago to random

Space: 1999 Mattel playset featuring the “Astro-flash Computer”. Basically a blinking lightbulb. 😂 As kids we didnt care but I admit I never saw this playset growing up. 🤖 #Space1999

Commercial from the 70’s of two boys playing with Space:1999 action figures and a Main Missions playset.

Wraithe, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

Ok this is a great thread. All of mine mostly end with “and I didn’t die/get killed”, which I share with a number of the stories listed.

Via drangel:
“What's something about you that sounds made up but it's not? Mine is one time I made a t shirt for my bicycle gang and it looked too much like a motorcycle club logo so I had to go before a Bandidos general and plead my case to use it and also not to be killed”

https://bsky.app/profile/drangel.bsky.social/post/3kt6aenr6b22s

Wraithe, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to whitewater

Ok…so after a few years of it sitting, I’m gonna pull the bag with my Kayak in it out and see how bad a shape it’s in.
And yes I said “bag and kayak”. I built a skin on frame foldable kayak back in 2013, but haven’t pulled it out in like 3 years. So…🤞it’s in ok shape.
#kayaking

Wraithe, 17 days ago to random

Just saw a post for a motorcycle expo and they accidentally put a space in their hashtag, so instead of “BikeLyfe” it’s “Bi” so honestly it’ll probably likely still work to reach their intended audience. 😂

lzg, 17 days ago to random

the tiny defeat of returning a book to the library, unread

Wraithe, 18 days ago to random

Someone checking up on my mowing job.
#CatsOfMastodon

Wraithe, 18 days ago to random

Client (Owner) to company: “Friday is a half-day, so everyone can have an extra long weekend!”

Everyone: “Yay!”

Me, IT consultant/director: phone starts ringing at 3pm on Friday (as was foretold in prophesy)

Wraithe, 18 days ago to random

I was just looking to see if anyone else is having huge issues with Quicksilver (app launcher and more) on MacOS, and as a result of my searches have been struck by a huge urge to build a gaming machine using a G4 quicksilver case as the base. 😂
They were just so nice looking.

gedeonm, 10 months ago to random

Hopefully at least a half dozen of these budding lemons will hang on and mature into full fruit. The plant is covered in them at the moment but can’t sustain them all so most of them fall off. Fingers crossed a few hang on though! 🍋

A very small budding lemon on my lemon tree. This one is further along, about the size of a small gumball.