Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@CoyoteTraveller The latter. Though it's a simple (user-removable, openable, and replaceable!) fish tank pump, so it's not too bad tbh

As for washing it out: I've opened it up before and cleaned it. Not too bad? Simple sink rinse after opening and it was good as new.

@CoyoteTraveller The main thing with this one as well is it's also basically dishwasher safe as well and the components are all very inexpensive repair/replace. But it is a filtered fountain model fwiw.

@CoyoteTraveller Our model (PetSafe Drinkwell Platinum) makes obscenely annoying noises when it runs low on water, if that counts? Makes it very easy to know when to refill it!

Tried and been really liking Pokémon TCGP since the holidays. The faster format and presentation are much more accessible than the mainline Pokémon card apps, being in line with the quality and polish of Magic Duels (at similar expense of a narrower roster of cards and archetypes to work with).

The only reason I don't recommend it is it also has the same aggressive gacha logic that attempts to coerce bad purchasing decisions. But if you already play, I'm 6976-2009-0143-4733 over there!

@Leviamicky @chr Any time I see a game or major project that (1) invests in manpages or a wiki and (2) actively curates it themselves instead of making us suffer with fandom's (aggressive, anti-consumer and anti-creator) system, I smile.

This even has an in-game handbook with the ability for mods to create their own pages, and many do. It's unbelievably nice by comparison.

@chr Also: it has documentation that isn't just on a fscking Discord: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Server_commands

@chr Note that if you really like the subblock voxel system, you can clone, rotate, and do creative operations with the blocks you make using https://mods.vintagestory.at/chiseltools. Note the author's report that it doesn't work with the latest release candidate yet, though.

@chr Tbh: I would try this with https://www.vintagestory.at and a combination of survival and creative modes.

It's a Minecraft mod that grew into its own separate program and, mostly, focuses on simulation aspects. And while most of it is your usual 1x1x1 cube voxel affair, each block supports sub-block chiseling and refining for finer details.

It'll also happily generate the top-down map for you, let you simulate weather effects, and let you get a nice sketch down that feels good to work with.

(For those that know them, this is PhotographOtter and Hiyu. Not sure if they intersect with circles here, but they're both wonderful folks.)

Unrelated to the previous, two friends just got the story of their kidney donation into the Sundance Film Festival: https://bsky.app/profile/joeahunting.bsky.social/post/3ldgvku5e6s2x

Honestly I'm most happy that the operation has worked out for both of them, but this is the second best news I've heard out of the whole thing, and am looking forward to watching it with them.

This article explains the situation better than I ever can, especially the parts about growing up online (my community being therian- and furry-adjacent, and their own journey resonates): https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

Postscript: an alternate hypothesis being floated for why Bsky is doing this: they're scared of the orange and X shitlords burying Bsky in expensive litigation and/or hostile government action (eg, requires login: https://bsky.app/profile/insortediaboli.bsky.social/post/3ldb23jr4vs2f ). In that scenario, they're trying to make themselves less of a target in the short term, to kick this down the road until a more favorable legal or political reality.

IMO, if Bsky or AtProto can't navigate that, they have a huge problem. And if they're afraid of a reality in which social media sites are litigated or regulated out of existence outside of sites sanctioned by rightwing billionaires, well.

One: decentralized solutions will survive. Folks will find a way to keep hosting and posting, even in a regressive and repressive US.

Two: that tells us the problem isn't engineering or Bsky, it's rightwing billionaires and their ability to buy power.

@KayOhtie Not sure I personally go that far, BUT:

If one of the accidental outputs of people moving to Bsky and using these new tools is a crash course in opsec and being really cautious about who you engage with at all, and people start to learn that through the website, that would be a really useful and really funny way for folks to learn about how useful site moderation is.