misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

hot take: Masto should not focus on acquiring new users

it should focus on providing its users a safe, stable, reliable place to form a community, and allow users to join organically

trying to emulate other systems by incorporating their flaws is a terrible idea and guess against the whole ethos behind most people who came here

Happy Equinox, everybody! Spring is here, or Autumn, take your pick!

If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, please do not pick Autumn, terrible terrible things will happen to the Earth's axial tilt. Likewise if you're in the Southern, please do not pick Spring. Choose your seasons responsibly!

is this how your racks look, @wxcafe

Gather your loved ones together.
Tell them all that you love them together.
Tell them individually that you love them, each and every one.
Think of one thing about each of them that you love, and share that love with them.
Share with them how it makes you feel, when you experience that act, that facet of your loved one, that part of their inner self that love.
Be in the moment with them. Hold them each in your heart.

Repeat as desired. It should come more easily the more often it's done. Don't wait for another to start. Open your heart and take that risk, and bathe in the glow of your love returned.

If you're in pain, I hear you.
If you're hurting, I see you.
If you're suffering, I believe you.
This world is cruel beyond measure, doubly so because it doesn't have to be, but because small minds and closed hearts have made it so to protect themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Please, don't give in to Moloch. I know how hard the fight is. I struggle daily, and often I fail. But still I fight, because I believe in the world beyond Its reach. I see you fighting, too. I'm proud of you.

Never assume your employer will have your back.
Never assume your employer will see you as a person.
Never assume your employer will reciprocate the time, the effort, or the mindpower you give them.
Never assume your employer will see you as anything other than a potentially fungible resource that will have to be replaced one day.
Build your care networks away from capitalism and its evils.
Find what comfort and solace you can in those who will see you as a person, not as food for Moloch.

A Tragedy, in Two Parts*
https://medium.com/@hieromech/a-tragedy-in-two-parts-8c9c822d2979

(*Creative riffing, shitpost humor, not any actual tragedy involved.)

I will never not be amused watching bat rescue videos. The way their little faces go from "I AM THE NIGHT UNHAND ME" to "wait you're giving me juice?" the first time is adorable.

@mawr as always, my main creative project is Drive-in Saturday, the officially unofficial bad-movie-riffing group of #pfaf. we meet every other Saturday night to watch and riff shorts, music videos, and the worst and weirdest that cult cinema has to offer. (anybody reading, if you're interested, get @ me for details.)

and of course there's the new podcast i'm doing with @Aradia, "Moonbase Betamax," available now at driveinsaturday.libsyn.com.

otherwise, staying out of trouble.

tired: Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Socialism.
wired: Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Socialists.
inspired: gay robot hive

So, @Xkeeper found the music frequency tables in Super Mario Bros. 2 a few days ago.

<Xk> Let's see what happens when we swap the values in reverse order.
<Xk> ...
<me> ... oh dear.

Here's what we got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBpfImpTT5Y

Laying with @ElectricKeet@, listening to one of @emanate's mixes. "Dissolving Time" starts playing. "It's the auditory equivalent of a dude painting with a lens flare."

:)