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To be very brief, I hate the coldest part of the winter here in Maine (January/February) and need a couple of breaks for my sanity.

(I will preface this with saying that I'm rather high right now. But I do think the general sentiment will hold up in the morning.)

(this one, I'm lightly editing)

I'm not editing this, as it was already edited, and capitalization on ethnicities were wildly different in 1998. This is my first published piece, the one I swore I'd never share, but it's actually not as bad as I feared. This is how I got into journalism, and while I don't agree with all of it now, it's pretty fucking clear I wasn't bad at this to start.

I'm not really sure how well this aged. Some parts, sure, but others ...

beginning this week's reading:

The column I referenced in my desperation post.

I first tried to kill myself in 2000, and writing about it of course resulted in another fucking award from Columbia.

Sorry not sorry

Maybe I should already be writing my memoir. Apologies for any inconsistencies on editing or tense. This was written while things were going well, and I've tried to before posting make some upgrades, but a 98% success rate as a copyed is off the scale. This is a lot of copy to revisit, and if people were able to edit themselves, not much point in the role.

it's time change season so now my internal clock is completely fucked up

Did Weaver try to grow corn?

I'm gonna miss the subreddits I've made but if I remember correctly, subs can be passed onto somebody else and they weren't large or active subs so I think they'll be fine! I've used the platform for quite a while but between the API shutdown and the absolute jerks I've met there.. Yeah, I'm good.

By Pete Hahnloser The Daily of the University of Washington October 26, 1999

I’ll make some promises in a moment, babe. But first, I think some perspective is important. We’ve been through more in the past 20 months than most people go through in 20 years. We’ve had those moments where we wanted so badly to hate each other, and in those times of darkness found that we loved each other too much to let that happen.

Here we go again

currently juggling reading 4 different books at the same time; i would recommend you get a note-taking app if you are in a similar situation

I just never thought I'd hear GPL software get such a huge shout-out. It was literally the second thing said during the acceptance speech for Flow (best animated picture).

After seeing this discussion being brought up again, I was going to genuinely ask you all to explain where that comes from. I’m from Brazil and I don’t recall ever shopping at a place with a large parking lot, which I believe might be part of the issue. I was thinking how come people value this act so much and before starting to write a post here I sent a message to a friend, then it hit me: it’s absurd.

my entire family got sick so i have been in the unenviable position of suddenly being load-bearing, and i'd greatly appreciate if that was not the case

With all that talk about Lemmy, it's great that Lemmy is thriving. However, the Fediverse goes beyond Lemmy. Do you know any communities that you like across Mbin or Piefed or whatever else instances? If so, which ones?

YOU are the icon. ;P (re: the icon making the icons)

My little corner of the fediverse is currently on a cherrypick server. Love it. We are a very small group, though, and the admin is fizzling. Not trying to add large videos to the pile. Is everyone just doing PeerTube to upload vids? Anyone have a favorite PeerTube instance or another suggestion?

the Super Bowl halftime show was pretty good, they should consider continuing the strategy of getting people who aren't totally washed

Let’s try a thought experiment. I define fanaticism as maintaining a position that can’t and won’t be changed by any sort of rational argument. That said, I ask for the second time: Are you a fanatic?

Like, I don't really enjoy airing all of my dirty laundry on here, but when I heard the idling diesel of a pickup parked against me at 9 p.m. for 10 minutes, I sort of knew what was coming.

I've been seeing that a lot of Reddit communities are getting banned if they bad mouth Elon Musk. I was hoping that after the last Reddit exodus, folks would understand that that company, and any other that backs a major social media network — They don't care about what's going on.

busy at work as usual. anyways go to your local protest and join your local political organization

How are we Beehaw? My great-grandmother (God bless her) told me not to worry about Trump and that we'll be alright. I want to believe her. I really do. I'm already a little ticked off at him retracting some civil rights laws, also making it so Black History can't be taught in schools? It really will be a long four years.

after snowing on and off all of yesterday, it is once again sunny here; unfortunately, this mostly just means ice everywhere because it's still freezing

I'm not here to whinge about the sorts of things depressed people do. Yeah, life sucks, and for my generation, we learned that from *The Princess Bride*.

it has been incredibly cold for the past 4 days, but thankfully i have new clothes so it hasn't been very bad in practice

I was on bluesky about to comment on some art someone made and was going to comment it is a diamond in the rough but I did a search to make sure it was rough and not ruff because it is not an expression I use much. When I searched it I found out it meant. "a person who is generally of good character but lacks manners, education, or style; a rough diamond." I just thought it meant hidden gem. Has anyone else misunderstood the meaning of an expression?

I'm currently sick with strep! 4th time in a year, doc said maybe it's time to get the tonsils out. I'm not sure I'm sold on the idea - outside of the last 2ish years I feel like I don't get strep all that often. Anyone else have their tonsils out as an adult? What was your experience?

My mom would make offhand references to "come the revolution" when I was growing up. I'm not going to say she went out of her way to suggest that would yet skip a generation, but if she knew it would hit me, she was hiding it well.

Happy New Year from the future.

going out to dinner later this week

holidays edition!

I should have known better than to have something delivered just before Christmas. While *a* DC-DC charger from the alternator was delivered, it was not the right one and utterly useless in a chassis that cannot serve as ground.

*And suddenly all is well.*

It's difficult to know whether sharing mine would seem self-serving or inviting.

currently on the tail end of a sinus infection

The widely held belief of the echo chamber has been bothering me for a while now. I don't question the phenomenon itself. It's happened often enough; I totally agree this is a thing. What bugs me though is the idea that the root cause is members of a group agreeing too much.

Just a random thought I had I think clockwise is the way to go.

I'd consider myself somewhere between spiritual and maybe kind of pagan, idk

2024 wrapped is here. Post your stuff.

after a busy last week things have calmed down significantly; about to finish a 900 page book in three days, which is quite an accomplishment

I love scrolling beehaw because there are no rightwing Pepe greentexts choking every other post

I'm posting this from a flip phone! What's going on with you guys?!

busy coordinating some important left-wing stuff; i might be able to share this soon if things go well because it'll be public record :)

Using Lemmy again after a year of absence. What just happened? I was just on a post of mine on that instance and now nothing will load. Is the server down? 😭

Good morning Beehaw it is currently 5:30 am in the morning here in Australia Nov 9 2024. It may not be morning where you are but it is always morning somewhere on Earth. Plus this chat is more of a vibe. Have you been doing any hobbies lately or discovered a new tv show? Maybe you worked on something and want to share it or you recently found something you are passionate about?

I saw someone talking about this online recently and I wanted to bring the discussion here too.

it's election day--go vote if you haven't already

I was trying to think about why today has significance, and then it hit. History may not repeat, but it rhymes.

I tried /r/suicidewatch on that other site, but even though I made it clear that I was looking for advice and encouragement, the only two replies I got were in agreement that it doesn't get better. 😐 /r/depression is even worse by the look of it.

Or, if you are proud of your costume, what did you dress as?

it's been a busy week and i'm munching on a burrito

@chat I just want to ask you guys if you have any input on how the decentralization of Mastodon has ever posed benefits/drawbacks for you? I'm really interested in exploring the site and would love any feedback!

just got my ballot in (and it's been counted)--vote early and often folks

To give you an idea of the type of content that I like to watch, here are some of my favorite channels:

Just did a rewatch. Absolutely everyone is exactly who they need to be for the story to make sense. I've been aware awhile that Billy Crystal basically ad-libbed for several years, but everyone else, well, they needed to be there.

things are going pretty good. just published my latest blog post; i might toss it over here as its own post later today, who knows

watching the unbelievable development of Hurricane Milton, which 24 hours ago was about a Category 1 hurricane and is now a Category 5 hurricane (as a of a few minutes before writing). if you're in the Tampa Bay area and you're near sea level i'd probably get the hell out right about now

I'm 30 and horrible at keeping friends. I don't know if it's the unschooling or the autism, but I'm told I come across as hostile when I think I'm being nice.

i am working with people to co-launch a new social media platform and that launch happens tomorrow so we've been putting the finishing touches on it all week and it's been incredibly busy. hopefully it will not be starting tomorrow-ish

just finished my 43rd book of the year; currently helping administer an idea for a confederation of websites and we just got our Loomio set up

i’m back after an absence; i’ve been working on a bunch of stuff because Cohost is shutting down at the end of the month.

Because the shops don’t fucking sell them, and that makes me sad for some reason.

I have only been browsing here occasionally so I am not sure what all the new things happening here are. I did notice kbin.run is down so I am not sure what is going on with that.

OR Another perspective on separating the art from the artist.

Instead of focusing of creating good algorithms to push certain content to users why don’t we focus on creating a good map that allows users to find the kind of content they want more easily?

finished 40th book for the year (The Displacements - Bruce Holsinger); we move ever onwards

I wasn’t expecting anything Earth-shattering coming out of this given that everyone at Fox News was salivating for fresh meat. Problem is, not having a straight answer for anything now becomes the narrative.

closing in on my 40th book of the year; this should optimistically be read sometime next week