Fewer than three weeks now until the days start getting shorter again.
Notes for reply guys
In northern hemisphere, as I am posting from England.
** Days, as opposed to nights. Not days as in the set 24 hour periods which, of course, stay constant at 24 hours.
*** Summer solstice falls this year in England on 20 June, which is 17 days away.
@ryanhoulihan take LOTS of “before” photos. They will help remind you years later, why you went through all this. Right now, how you look now is “normal”. Soon it will be “weird”, and years afterwards it will be unbelievable.
In the first criminal trial of a former US president, the Trump hush money case is now in the hands of a NYC jury to render a verdict after 70 minutes of instructions to the panel from the judge.
I'm doing this tomorrow, and I am so prepared: all my little numbered stickers stuck to the right bits of my bike, pannier packed with things I might need, cycling clothes laid out on the bed so I can grab them in the morning. Now to begin the process of completely shitting myself and wishing I had never signed up to do something even vaguely outside my comfort zone. https://www.ridelondon.co.uk/our-rides/ridelondon-essex-60
@w7voa the Prime Miniature is now standing outside Number Ten and just announced a general election for 2024-07-04. The amusing thing is that someone down the street is playing the song “Things Can Only Get Better” (used as Labour’s victory anthem from 1997) while he is talking
So I just had a transphobe try to piggy-back off a recent popular post I made, presumably to gain reach. i have a decent following here on fedi, but am a micro instance. They too were a micro instance. By default, people on micro instances are not easily discoverable other than by interaction, so if you have a following on one, it’s generally because you’ve built it “organically”, as it were.
They presumably thought that by posting transphobic rage bait in response to me, they could get me to reply, and my reply would federate to my followers, and then they’’d be seen.
Instead I just instantly defederated their server with no response.
They are howling into the void, and nobody is there to hear.
This is not Twitter. Just because someone replies to your thread doesn’t mean the rest of the word will see it. This is the achillies heal of bigots here. Most big instances will moderate them into oblivion, so they start micro instances, but unless people actually like what you’re saying, and interact, you simply won’t federate.
And they won’t even know I made this post now. LMAO! LOL!
@ianbetteridge I’m currently on holiday, and took a couple of snaps yesterday for your enjoyment. Looks like Mushroom is no more, though. We did look. (We wandered around Hockley and the Lace Market area)