this isn't just a non-sequitur, aldi has had christmas adverts featuring mildly anthropomorphised carrots for the past couple of years
what's christmassy about a carrot? no idea, but that's what they're running with
In case you didn't know, the internet archive has an open library, and you can get your "library card" with a free account there. And borrow books, in the sense of reading them. (There seems to be a DRM'd download option too, but I don't really want to bother wasting bandwidth on self-destructing information. Plus I was only looking something up in a book Google Books isn't allowed to index.)
I've had a couple of the new tumblr people ask me (paraphrased) "hi, where's the porn?"
These weren't people who were on computerfairi.es, these were on .social
Which means, of all the people on the entire fediverse, they chose me specifically to ask where the porn was
I have no idea how to feel about this
According to all known laws of social networks there is no way a volunteer-run federated alternative should be able to survive
There's just not enough venture capital to get it off the ground
The fediverse, of course, survives anyway
Because the fediverse doesn't care what a bunch of capitalists think is possible
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple