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2016: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2017: "Thinkpeice: Why Only Thousands use the Fediverse"
2018: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2019: "Thinkpeice: Why Only Tens of Thousands use the Fediverse"
2020: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2021: "Thinkpeice: Why ONLy Hundreds of Thousands use the Fediverse"
2022: "The Fediverse explodes in popularity"
2023: "Thinkpeice: Why even try when ONLY 1% of Humanity Uses the Fediv

@Owlor We're hoping it'll work for us too. Someday we'll find that perfect circumstance and achieve our Crowning Moment of Awesome, right?

I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.

LaTeX is versatile, but I can't imagine doing anything clever with it in a spontaneous fashion; it's complicated enough when one goes in with a plan. By contrast, InDesign has reliable easy-to-reach busybox factor going for it. I can drag around multi-column layouts and watch them rebalance in realtime. With LaTeX I gotta recompile and wade through 6d20 warning messages just to see if adding italics blew up the whole layout.

What I'm saying is that I love them both for different reasons.

Fantasy creatures, eye contact 

One today- cozy fantasy kobold, hill dwarf druid, and a (3e!) gnome tunnel fighter!

In case you haven't heard, the Streets of Rage 4 soundtrack is amazing. Here's the track inspiring me to post:

youtube.com/watch?v=GLone9cTMa

@noiob I've seen several examples of inkwells used for style and not a single one of them has been appealing.

LaTeX has some really neat features! One I just discovered is that it's possible to set up a table of contents such that its title disappears on every other compile with no changes to the source.

sigh

Off days suck. (ADHD, mh-) 

me, sitting at computer: "I want to do a thing."

ADHD brain: "Nope! Tired, don't wanna focus, can't possibly do the thing."

me: "Fine, I'll go get a nap." *lies down*

body: *too awake to rest*

me: *stands up to head back to computer*

brain and body in collusion: "Yeah, let's stare aimlessly at a bright rectangle and yawn a lot!"

Fortunately, this only tends to happen on the one day a week I don't take my Adderall. Still, it's so thoroughly frustrating....

Class Action Lawsuit for Seattle Renters 

"Do you or did you since 2016 rent a Seattle apartment maintained by one of the following companies: Greystar, Trammell Crow Residential, Avenue5, Equity, Essex, FPI, Lincoln, Security Properties, AvalonBay or Thrive?"
If so, you can join a class action lawsuit against these companies for rent fixing.
hbsslaw.com/cases/washington-r

:blobfoxdrakedislike: Saying "The <Brand> Map App"

:blobfoxdrakelike: Saying "Telemetry"

eg: "Telemetry says I'll be there in 10 minutes."

Wow, my profile is vaguer than it should be. I got clever and forgot effective – some designer I am!

Tomorrow's excessively time-consuming task: Write up a new profile and possibly pinnned introductory post.

The existence of draft horses strongly implies the existence of Final FINAL rev1 (copy) (backup) FINAL3 dot horses.

Image, seasonal, mall construction 

Construction Santa and his reindeer contractors

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Hello would you like a blue checkmark but don't want to give a billionaire money??? Well come on down to the Sevenish Magpies Memeporium and get yourself a REAL LIFE ACTUAL METALLIC BLUE CHECKMARK PIN (TM)

I am serious I just made a stack of these.

shop.sevenishmagpies.com/produ

Some proceeds will go towards throwing some money at vulpine.club!mastodon and Cohost Plus.

Nearly forgot with all the stuff going on, but the Desert Bus for Hope charity stream is starting tomorrow! desertbus.org/

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