Way to ruin a 4/20.
It's bad enough that they stopped carrying weed from one of the few minority-owned farms in Seattle. Now they have one of those accursed "ring" people-trackers at the door and they told me to take my mask off and stare at it before being let in. I am not going back to that shop.
Dockside Cannabis in Shoreline, WA, by the way.
All right, it's not exactly a lie, but it invites the question, "Valued at what?" I know it's non-zero, since their website doesn't let me turn off advertising emails (savings opportunities!) and it shows ads for Experian credit monitoring so I'm worth at least some ad revenue.
<sarcasm> Gee, if they're having to erode customer trust just to get some extra cash on the side, the health insurance industry but be really struggling to stay profitable. </sarcasm>
Reminder to all the Magic players out there that I do in fact make pay what you can art deco style pronoun pins so if you want a period appropriate pronoun pin for drafting or whatever I've got you covered. https://shop.sevenishmagpies.com/category/pay-what-you-can
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Mexico has decided to nationalize its lithium supply.
@behold3r in france they say 80 blaze it
Okay, now this is cool. @alan_hook@twitter.com has rigged up two fisheye cameras, a mask, and a low-latency RasPi VR rig to allow humans to see the world like horses do, to "help propagate interspecies understanding and empathy". And I just kind of want this, for Reasons.
Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAYW7ZkB_Q0
Site: https://www.equineeyes.co.uk/
GoToSocial, a lightweight Mastodon-compatible server
I may have to give GoToSocial a spin, just to see how portable and easy it actually is. Still early days, but it seems to be shaping up very well as an alternative to the giant jenga tower of Mastodon.
A couple points from feature list which caught my eye, too:
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GoToSocial offers public/unlisted/friends-only/mutuals-only/and direct posts (slide in DMs! -- with consent).
It also allows you to customize how people interact with your posts:
+ Local-only posts.
+ Rebloggable/boostable toggle.
+ 'Likeable' toggle.
+ 'Replyable' toggle.
+ Customizability for admins
Lots of config options for admins to play around with, including:
Easily-adjustable post length.
Media upload size settings.
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and
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GoToSocial doesn't apply a one-size-fits-all approach to federation. Who your server federates with should be up to you.
+ 'Normal' federation; discover new servers.
+ Allowlist-only federation; choose which servers you talk to.
+ Zero federation; keep your server private.
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And one feature Mastodon itself will never be able to boast:
"GoToSocial plays nice with lower-powered machines like Raspberry Pi, old laptops and tiny $5/month VPSes."
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
The latest 0.3 alpha release, Stimky Sloth, just came out, adding profiles:
Pushed a quick update to [a circle made of squares] - https://packbat.itch.io/a-circle-made-of-arrows - to handle the blinking issue: the current behavior can be selected as an option, but the new default behavior is that bricks are hidden if you cursor over a tile with bricks and hold the [x] button.
This hopefully will be less obnoxious (if more cumbersome) way to see what the arrows are under the bricks.
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Questions for alloromantic/allosexual people to consider
Part of aro/ace erasure is that non- aro/ace people are often unaware of the ways in which society privileges and centers certain experiences of romance and sexual attraction and looks down on aro/ace people.
These questions are intended to help people think about those things and begin to understand how they affect us. I do not need replies answering them, they are for you to consider and answer for yourself, if you’d like
My MOON8 vinyl record has finally arrived!
Cartridges are sold out, but if you've ever wanted Dark Side of the Moon on NES on Vinyl, now's your chance!
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