Mark Shane Hayden @msh@coales.co

I finally bought the limited edition Thesaurus that I've always wanted. When I opened it, all the pages were blank.
I have no words to describe how angry I am.

I’ve deleted the phone numbers of all the Germans I know from my mobile phone. Now it’s Hans free.

Today a girl said she recognized me from vegetarian club, but I’m sure I’ve never met herbivore.

i wonder if the true lesson of these 'evil instances' appearing on the fediverse isn't the one i have been teaching all along -- safety is better accomplished through small communities (less than 100 active users) than having large silos?

This is a problem.

Yes I may be touching the third rail here... but this is Vice media's fault that this shitstorm started in the first place.

I #arduino custom keyboard that i use for twitch streaming. Now with 3mm black acrylic casing! I got some crap on my blog for having the final product as just a circuit board.. Similar to a Raspberry Pi the case is up to you. It's personal. Unique. I'm only adding a case just to show one possibility. link how i made it is here - https://www.s-config.com/arduniodeck/

Playing with 3D-printed fabrics. Feels really weird & funny but pleasant in the hands.

Federation - what flows where, and why? https://blog.dereferenced.org/federation-what-flows-where-and-why

Omg my dad just texted me to remind me of something extremely important:

Today is Wotan's birthday! 🎉
He is 3 years old today!
And I think at this point, Wotan has earned some birthday boosts

I tend to click on a lot of links that are #retrocomputing related and I wanted somewhere to post lots of them, without spamming everything into Chinwag Local - so I'm trying something out.

https://yellowplastic.club/

Come hang out, post stuff if you want, let's see if it goes anywhere.

Today I learned that Rocket.Chat, an open source team communications platform similar to Slack, allows federation! I am a big fan of IRC and XMPP because they are open protocols that allow anyone to set up their own private server. XMPP further allows you to federate your server to other XMPP servers. I definitely need to keep an eye on Rocket.Chat now!

https://rocket.chat/docs/administrator-guides/federation/

Mastodon Gestalt Timeline:

2017: HOLY SHIT IT'S BBSES
2018: WAIT NO, IT'S SORTA TWITTER WITHOUT NAZIS
2019: HANG THE FUCK ON IS THIS EMAIL
2020: OH GOD RUN IT'S NEWSGROUPS, WE REINVENTED NEWSGROUPS

This is the sound of rhubarb growing in the dark. And someone really needs to take some sound samples to make a percussion track from it.
https://youtu.be/P2NMffyX2yw

"Forced rhubarb" is a technique for growing fresh rhubarb in the Winter, while keeping it in pitch dark conditions. Done correctly, the plants grow super fast. Fast enough that you can hear it popping and creaking as it grows!