Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@Fenreliania Drowning out doesn't really work for me, it only increases the amount of noise.
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Someone else on another network said (and again, I think they meant it as an insult) that Mastodon is social media designed by people who think that social media is bad, and unironically yes.
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Oh my goodness... a LOT of new people... 😮 Welcome! 👋
If you need help with using Mastodon and the Fediverse, have a look at:
It's written for a non-technical audience, and hopefully answers most beginners' questions.
If you're looking for accounts to follow, there are lots of ways to do it summarised here:
If you have any problems, ask me and I'll try to help!
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I wish I knew how to communicate that I wanna be touched. Like I wanna be hugged, leaned on, hold my hand, cuddle, rest an arm on me. Even just platonically I want folks to get close.
animal psychology, conditioning/training //
@lioness Huh. In hindsight I feel that I never really responded to punishment, but I had assumed this was unusual.
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to hell with executive function, this brain is now a worker co-op
nail art
I found this shirt in my metaphorical closet, so I had to use it to show off this lovely nail art that I received this weekend.
Doing it but set to archive instead of delete, just in case.
Tempted to make a filter to just delete emails containing "How likely are you to recommend", but worried it might delete something important.
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US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn’t like the options
People want both action and to keep using fossil fuels.
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This is your periodic reminder that, unless you buy and download the music you love, it will absolutely disappear out from under you at some point.
I failed to heed my own advice! This album is pretty obscure, sure, but now it's grayed out on Apple Music, and totally gone from the iTunes Store, so too late there. Bummer.
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Today's gender is the sound of a dial tone.
I'm thinking it might be fun to wear my unpairable socks and treat them as free radicals that can break up another pair.
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Saved @naomikritzer 's new @clarkesworld story "Better Living Through Algorithms" for a quiet Sunday morning https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/ . It's as charming and inspiring as others have said.
In a similar spirit to her "Cat Pictures, Please" short story and Catnet books; also engaging with some of the same ideas as https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/ Bruce Sterling's "Maneki Neko" (a story I find way less engaging) and Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".
Youtube and Nebula are both set to 50% zoom here because the thumbnails in video listings are too dang big and there'd be like 3 videos to a page at the default zoom.
@SpriteGuard Does anything sound good on phone speakers?
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Joined Aug 2018
