arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
My fucking father in law is gonna eat this shit up. We're going out to his family gathering next weekend and my son has a really cute rainbow and pink outfit he's been dying to show off. For context, this extended family has an ex-in law who came out as trans and whom they violently hate, so my kiddo won't be exposed to them too much as he grow up. Alas, the old G-pa in law doesn't have much longer so we gotta go hang out with peeps.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
This shit is fucking BROKEN.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
If that's the vibe in your workplace, then you for sure need to unionize.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Yet another reason to want to move to the Netherlands
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Its because they signed up for Twitter
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah I'm in BC
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Tbf, I'm an anarchist/antifascist (aka non-Trump voter), and I definitely have strong opinions on manhood. They just happen to be the opposite of what the MAGA nuts would believe.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I'm glad you have a wife that is supportive.
I hear you about platonic friends. Its really hard to make friends as an adult. I'm in the same boat. My wife has friends because she's lived in this town for decades, but I'm an immigrant who's only been here since 2019 and 80% of the other people in our town drive pickup trucks and think vaccines kill people. The struggle is real. Whatever its worth I'm proud of you for putting yourself out there. I dont have the courage to try that so much myself.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Fuck yes!
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Ive heard a handful of Christian leaders say things like, "I know its all gonna end in flames eventually, so I'm happy driving my massive SUV thank you very much".
Assuming you'll get captured before having to pay the consequences for climate breakdown, while knowing fully that your actions are causing the destruction of the world, should result in legally having all of your property confiscated and given to a refugee family.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I am so so so sorry that happened to you. That is so incredibly fucked up and not okay. The fact this happened at Pride is just...so heartbreaking. I am a cis-het male, but I inevitably cry tears of joy every year at our local Pride festival because there are so many people from across the entire LGBTQ2IAS+ community in our very conservative/religious city who get so much shit from judgmental bigots, every day of the year, but Pride is a time when they are not just accepted, but fucking CELEBRATED! Friend, if the hater who spewed those lies to you won't celebrate you, I sure as hell will. Such_lettuce7970, I dont know you IRL, but judging from your post history you use Linux, and youre here on the threadiverse, and you have seem to have a heart for sharing vulnerability with others which is such an incredible gift for all of us to be blessed by. You're a fucking cool-ass woman, and I hope you are able to find people IRL who are able to validate that about yourself. Sending a handful of soldarity tears and many, many loving vibes your way (and if you're cool with it, some WiFi hugs as well). Youre a fucking treasure, and your cats are lucky as shit to be able to hang out with you.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Does this include Crimea or just territory seized since 2022?
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I actually disagree - the glasses were kind of his thing...
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I mean, tbf, he's pretty racist himself
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I literally just bought one yesterday for $100 😄
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
You can buy a cargo ebike for about $2500 (RadWagon 4).
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Congrats!
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I'm actually shocked and not shocked at the same time...
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Perhaps the Democratic Party should understand that this is what happens when you campaign on social justice and then govern like a Republican from the early 2000s, and then adjust accordingly. For many on the left, the prospect of having a Republican president in 2024 may be less frightening than letting the center-right Democrats get bullied around by the GOP and Fox News for another 4 years while actively targeting/destroying actual progressive movements. I'm not necessarily saying I'm on that side of the fence myself, but the Dems have spent the last few years deeply undercutting a lot of the progressive base that got Biden across the finish line and into the White House.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Remember when Windows 10 was "the last operating system"?
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I follow a bunch of the stuff on kolektiva.media but would love to see more content get shared on cool instances
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
This is the point at which the left-wing in France needs to step the fuck up and convince the centrists that the best way to beat the Nazis is not to vote for Diet Nazi.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Not to be an asshole but I feel like he's been crystal clear the entire time about his anti-LGBTQ crusade.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
As someone who works in IT, I can tell you that ive witnessed firsthand so many people who get viruses because when someone gives them a URL, they dont just go to that site. They go to www.google.com, search for the URL, and blindly click on the first result, which is almost always an ad, and which sometimes is a link to malware. Fun times.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Well we went from an era where only a small portion of the population congregated online in forums and chats, which basically required you to either be a kid or a techie of some kind, to a world where your grandma was on Facebook because FB made it hella easy to signup and adductive as hell to stay. The Grandma (or even Parent) on Facebook types have never interacted with the internet in the ways we (rightly) romanticize
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Welp, we've already beaten the Italian fascists before. Let's do it again!
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Fuck the far right in all venues and platforms.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
It doesn't do algorithmic recommendations like GoodReads or Storygraph. Its much more of a feed-based system of finding books via observing what others are reading. It takes some work to curate a following list that fits your tastes, but if you go to your favorite books and actually follow the people who feel similar to you, then over time you will start to get some wild recommendations by seeing the stuff they are picking up or marking as "to read". I much prefer it to algorithmic recommendations because it adds a human level of complexity - for instance, an algo isnt going to recommend a book that was published 40 years ago that has almost 0 online data about itself, but a person I really respect could say its one of their all-time favorites and now I have a new book that I literally never would have heard about anywhere else except for that one person.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
To be honest, I freaking love bookwyrm so much. One of my favorite ways to burn time online is to find books that come across my feed that are missing info like cover art, description, etc. and to fill it all in. I've spent hours doing this and it feels so cool, like I'm actually part of maintaining the system.
Also, Ive found that the people on Bookwyrm tend to like books that I really love that are also potentially kind of niche, so Ive found a lot of really great book recommendations that I never would have found from Goodreads or an algorithm.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
People could start setting shit on fire, that might be a good start.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
So unless you pay Elon Musk $8/month, you can only load 600 tweets per day. That's some fucked up shit right there man.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I've been really intrigued by the developments coming from the Web0 / small web train of thought. https://web0.small-web.org/
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
This feels like a big milestone in their enshittification journey, and also in the maturity of the fediverse. Part of what made Twitter so widely popular I think is that tweets were available to everyone, not just the few people who were online enough to actually have an account. To lock things behind a wall after so many people have left seems like a bad idea.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I've been feeling a significant amount of sadness at the feeling like I've now fully lost the 2 places that were my havens for safety and community during the pandemic (Twitter and Reddit). I mostly disconnected a few weeks/months ago, but this weekend feels like the full, official breakup. I wonder if anyone/everyone else is feeling the same?
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I am supremely jealous of your ability to take time and have no idea what to do. I have a 7 month old kiddo and a partner who plans our calendar months in advance. I dont think I'll ever have a weeklong stretch of unspoked for time ever again in my whole life.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
*Late / recently deceased CEO
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
There's already a shared public commons - it's called ActivityPub, and they refuse to use it because it would impact the shareholder value of their private company. Bluesky is as full of shit as my constipated toddler.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
Eugen is proof that the fediverse requires distributed (not just decentralized) ownership.
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
I'm curious what/if any info can be retrieved from Matrix servers?
arcticpiecitylights 1 year ago • 100%
That's concerning and I'm not saying they're perfect. They've been very clear that they're overwhelmed by all of the new folks here and the unexpected workload. Perhaps already being overloaded with content moderation om Beehaw was reason enough to defed from instances that would only make that problem significantly worse?
Nobody will ever convince me that this is not pronounced "Bike-ee town".
Great video from Tom Babin about bike racks
I've heard this phrase so many times in my life I dont even think about it, but the more I dwell on it, I dont really get it
Its a RadWagon 4 that I bought last year to haul my kiddo around (before he was even born lol). The bike's name is Clementino. I found the berry flat on the side of the road and then zap strapped it to the front for extra grocery carrying capacity. Its a beast of a bike for sure, but hopefully not too ugly 😄
I'm a ball of nerves because I've never actually gone 120km before, and I'm worried about my bike, and I'm worried about not being able to maintain the 20km minimum speed. I'm going to bed now to get a good nights rest but here's to grinding it out on the bike! See y'all on the other side!
Understanding barrel adjusters is really important if you want to tweak or make minor adjustments to your brakes or gear shifting. This is always the first place to start before getting involved with other more impactful methods of adjusting brakes/shifting. Essentially, barrel adjusters are a great way to fix problems without needing to use tools or take your bike into the shop.
With all of the wildfire smoke in North America right now, it's important to revisit the topic of masking. Turns out, COVID isn't the only thing that will fuck up your lungs. TL;DR - They say N95 masks work alright, but N99 masks are preferable.