I was just listening to the #Omnibus podcast and host John Roderick mentioned interactions on Mastodon and I was thinking about following him and... I have no idea how to find him. His account isn't posted on his personal web page, or that of the show, and searches here didn't help. Wonder if he's just participating as a normal-ass user not a findable celebrity?
@mph it says it's a fan account. I'm fine not finding John's Masto, esp. if he's choosing not to be a public figure here, I was just curious and surprised at its non-findability
@mph I don't know what that was, and he might have ducked out of twitter after the time he accidentally made himself the Main Character by posting a facetious funny story about his daughter. For he was Bean Dad.
@mph my nephew has just graduated with a film degree, and his senior project was a short movie, shot on film, for reals. It was awesome, but hearing him talk about how you just have to meter it and shoot it and send all the film to get developed, and hope to God you metered it right and nothing went wrong, cause you wouldn't know till it came back... God, how harrowing.
fabula murina (mouse story) CXXXVI
Minimus et Minima resticulam versant, dum Silvius transultat (Minimus and Minima are turning the skipping rope while Silvius jumps). mures cantant "sal, acetum, sinapi, piper" (The mice chant "salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper". #fabulamurina#worldskippingday
@Minimus really enjoying the fables. I was wondering, would you ever consider adding macrons, for those folks who are trying to learn them? I understand if you wouldn't want to, it would be an added hassle.
I don't know why but lately I've been browsing the "popular" page of Reddit, which is full of lurid confessions and complaints. "I cheated on my spouse, Am I The Asshole? My spouse cheated on me and I got mad, Am I The Asshole?" It reminds me of the True Confessions magazines which somehow still existed in 1991 when I worked at a book and magazine shop, though they seemed like something out of the 50s or 60s. Maybe with a slightly higher proportion of non-fiction.
Tired of a particular youtuber prattling on for ten minutes of Opinions about every random piece of linux news, and now even his mugging face on a youtube thumbnail bothers me. It's not the poor guy's fault, that is the hustle you gotta hustle, but I just reached my limit I guess.
@mph what.... what does it even mean to allow interoperation? that's just not even theoretically possible, it would be like turning a non-journaled filesystem in-place into a journaled filesystem
@mph another friend of mine who's followed a similar path just describes himself as a "nihilist" (and does not suffer kindly people who quote the Big Lebowski in response).
He emigrated from the US to Sweden, where his wife was born, because he expects a complete collapse into police-state fascism. He advises all his friends to do the same if they can.
@mph (Of course, I mentioned this to an Esperantist friend who lives in Spain and her response was, literally translated, "He moved to Europe to escape fascism? Oh, honey....")
@mph I have noticed with disappointment the degree to which "populism" means "right wing know-nothingism" today... Like, the people who are proud of it and the people who criticize it agree that it is the same terrible right-wing thing. Whereas originally it wasn't that at all.
