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Currently enjoying my first "whack and unwrap" dark chocolate orange in a while, my local Target's last one on the shelf. Yoink! Mmmmmm. -- nm - con_carne Nov 19, 19:30
So... why haven't we started our own Mastodon server yet? -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 19:28 16
- I'd rather have a discord, tbh. Mastodon is like Twitter and I don't think Twitter is really a very good way to engage with people. -- nm - colin Nov 19, 19:34 9
  - Twitter is, however, a great way to enrage with people. -- nm - Qale Nov 19, 20:34
  - From what I understand (which is not much), you start somewhere, and everything is connected. - JaxSean Nov 19, 19:38 1
    - This is the case, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:40
  - I personally really don't like Discord, even though I use it daily of late. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:38 5
    - I agree with you. Discord is noisy. Guys just tell me where to go. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Nov 19, 19:41 3
      - Have you tried HSX.com? I heard it’s the hip happening spot. -- nm - Qale Nov 19, 20:34
      - Yeah, I'd like to dip into Mastodon, but reluctant on where to start. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 19:49 1
        
        Joinmastodon.org has a server search function. If you sign up somewhere now & we start an instance later, you can migrate to it semi-easily. - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:52
    - Related, though: Matrix sounds interesting -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:39
- I have some reasons for why I haven't personally started one, but there's not really very much stopping me from it. - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:32 3
  - Why haven’t you already made thotter.com into an gay otter porn site yet? -- nm - Qale Nov 19, 20:35
  - Is 2 important to the overall Fediverse? It sounds important (but I don't really know). -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 19:36 1
    - There are other hosts, but that's the one that my current instance (phpc.social) is on, and they've been doing very well so far. - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:37
- Maybe we have? -- (link) - znufrii Nov 19, 19:32 [Backboard] 1
  - oh, no, that is a much smaller undertaking. Might even be able to finish & ship it tonight. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:33
“What does it mean to lose your soul?” - znufrii Nov 19, 19:17 2
- Apparently soul seems to be interchangeable with empathy. -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 21:00
- “You get paid biweekly.” -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 19:32
Today was a good day at Stanley Ranch. A quick meeting this morning with a descendant of the donor family of one of our historic homes resulted in - Meg Nov 19, 19:10
Ana de Armas at the Governors Awards. -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:49 7
- Margot Robbie at the Governors Awards. -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:51 6
  - Mia Goth at the Governors Awards. -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:53 5
    - Florence Pugh at the Governors Awards. -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:53 4
      - Keke Palmer at the Governors Awards. -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:54 3
        
        Michelle Yeoh -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:55 2
        
        Aubrey Plaza -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:56 1
        
        Miles Teller and Keleigh Sperry -- (link) - mud Nov 19, 18:57
Uh oh. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:46 [mastodon]
Copyright protection is down, so please enjoy a film via Twitter. -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:34 6
- My God. Is this what schadenfreude feels like? -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 19:40
- hack sum planet -- nm - budice Nov 19, 18:40
- This is probably what will hurt Elmo the most. -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 18:39 3
  - Maybe United Artists will send their other asset after him. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:41 2
    - The name's - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:44
    - I miss that logo -- nm - budice Nov 19, 18:41
🤔 I'm still pondering disabling the twitter embeds due to the recent development. - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:33 5
- Do it. Us Twitter linkers can link to the articles directly - decline Nov 19, 20:37
- Do it. Also, run pihole and just blacklist it. -- nm - colin Nov 19, 19:33
- Prolly should. -- nm - Dark Callisto Nov 19, 18:47
- Do. It. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 19, 18:44
- SlackerTalk Classic -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 18:37
Things might be getting dicey over there. -- (pic) - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:16 [Attachment]
this doordash order mistake is a whole journey -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 18:14
Elizabeth May elected new (old) leader of the Canadian Federal Green Party -- nm* - Beaker Nov 19, 18:03 5
- Recycling. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 18:16 3
  - Technically this would be "reuse", not "recycle" -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:17 2
    - also reducing their chance of winning anything -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 18:21 1
      - recycled slogans lead to reduced results -- nm - budice Nov 19, 18:24
- ... oh boy. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 18:09
I just want to sail & code & retreat from the world. If I had the money to throw around, this is the current used listing I'd buy for that ... -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 19, 17:59
Musk is allowing Trump back on Twitter. Goodbye to all the advertisers in that letter. -- nm - MDH Nov 19, 17:23 14
- donny says he'll stay on his own Truthstupid but I don't believe it, he'll cross over,cross post...he craves an audience -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 19:19 4
  - Man, I did not have ‘Twitter crashes and burns before Truth Social does’ on my bingo card, that’s for goddamn sure. -- nm - twitter Nov 19, 19:21 3
    - How's foone's head of lettuce looking? -- nm - colin Nov 19, 19:36
    - It didn't crash and burn. It was murdered. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:23 1
      - (this inspired a mastodon post that is doing "numbers") - Beryllium Nov 19, 19:36
- Pity that I cannot delete my accounts again. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 19, 18:07
- Already well over 100k, almost all of which are bots. -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 17:52
- No ads. Im ok with that.. Just block him too. -- nm - budice Nov 19, 17:40
- (ostensibly because of an online poll) -- nm* - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 17:29 5
  - But really because it was always the entire point of buying it in the first place. -- nm - znufrii Nov 19, 17:31 3
    - pretty much -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 17:35 2
      - That’s probably very close to true. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 19, 17:51
      - I saw this thread earlier and 100% agree with it. -- nm - Tim Nov 19, 17:41
  - A poll with all the legitimacy of a russian election -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 17:31
Millie Gibson is the Doctor's new companion. If you Google her, be aware that many of her photos are very... boob forward. -- (link) - Mop Nov 19, 17:17
Hockey: in the Habs games when the digital ads aren't there, the actual ads on the boards are monochromatic purple. Why? -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 17:14 7
- cancer awareness month. -- nm - Reagen Nov 19, 17:16 1
  - to wit -- (link) - Reagen Nov 19, 17:37
- Probably easier to overlay like that -- nm - zork Nov 19, 17:16
- chromakey can operate on colours other than green, maybe? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 17:15 3
  - Yep. Started out as blue. I've talked with SFX people and depending on the set, location, costume, etc. colours, they will use orange, purple, brown, -- nm - zork Nov 19, 17:17 2
    - Imagine trying to do post production with Gamora or the Hulk using green screens -- nm - zork Nov 19, 17:22 1
      - Green is usually used because it appears least often in everyday life especially the shade/hue you see in behind the scenes clips -- nm - zork Nov 19, 17:25
the Chapek Touch -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 17:10 1
- I'm beginning to think the cranky nutjob has a point. -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 17:11
World Cup: first match starts at 11:00 Eastern so get your picks in by then -- (link) - zork Nov 19, 17:06 1
- I intended to put an A.M. on that time. - zork Nov 19, 17:07
The tradition of directors, passing congratulatory art work, for box office records—A pretty cool thread—the Avengers to Avatar ones are pretty cool -- (link) - Flavorize Nov 19, 16:31
*starts coding on a little idea for an ST improvement* .... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 16:18
from b2, Bery’s coworker will send a 20% coupon through etsy if you heart/favorite something. -- (edited) - i.b! Nov 19, 15:10 1
Benzema out of the World Cup. Tough one for France. - Volnelk Nov 19, 14:57
It's almost two months since I bought my wine advent calendar and every time I walk past it in the hall it seems December will never come ;) -- nm - Meg Nov 19, 14:35 1
- ~wake me up when november ends~ -- nm - Meggie Joe Armstrong Nov 19, 15:00
what we lose when we lose Twitter -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 14:10 4
- Re: Mastadon, I assume there's going to have to be some corporate and/or govt operated federated servers at some point, no? -- nm - Mop Nov 19, 17:13 1
  - As there is with email, and as there could have been with IRC. And as their might have been with Usenet. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 17:17
- Jack in the Box should have replied with Thanos -- (link) - Remlik Nov 19, 14:33 [youtube] 1
  - looks like things are starting to break at twitterverse as notifications are fubared -- (link) - zeitgeist Nov 19, 16:24
NY’s $750m crop of weed stuck in warehouses with no clear way to get to market -- (link) - znufrii Nov 19, 14:00 9
- Ocean’s 420 -- nm - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 14:20
- I should open a BBQ next door and use weed as fuel. -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 19, 14:16
- Never mind ... -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Nov 19, 14:14
- Belgium has seized so much cocaine that they can't keep up with incinerating it -- (link) - Reagen Nov 19, 14:03 3
  - The incinerating for fear of a drug cartel coming to get it, by force—that’s scary—but fun to think about…in an action movie sort of way -- nm - Flavorize Nov 19, 16:34
  - Mick, I must go to Belgium. It’s an emergency! -- nm - Keith Richards Nov 19, 14:19 1
    - you're too late. they shipped it all to NYC hidden in the rocker panels of 1970's Cadillac's -- nm - Peglegpete Nov 19, 14:20
- Krusty Alert! -- nm* - Remlik Nov 19, 14:01 1
  - I am willing and able to do my duty to lower the stock. -- nm - Krusty Nov 19, 14:32
RC & Crash. house of the year 7 part 2. -- (link) - Peglegpete Nov 19, 14:00 [youtube]
SBF pretty sure he can just explain his way out of this -- (link) - Reagen Nov 19, 13:53
Alright, I'm starting to enjoy The Gray Man a bit more, but I still think the movie was rather limited by its faithfulness to the book. - Beryllium Nov 19, 13:15
Speaking of cats occupying furniture, Portia the Porch cat has joined the movement. - ReluctantCynic Nov 19, 13:15 [Attachment] 6
- what a beautiful girl, and I can see how soft she is! :D -- nm - i.b! Nov 19, 13:41
- I think that was the look she gave me when I tried to say Hi :) -- nm - Meg Nov 19, 13:40 3
  - This is the look she gives my mom. -- (pic) -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Nov 19, 13:51 [Attachment] 2
    - Oh yes, she's Momma's girl. -- nm - Meg Nov 19, 14:12
    - pretty face... -- nm - Diva Nov 19, 14:11
- gorgeous kitty! -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 13:24
Every time they show BC storming the field in '93 a goose walks over my grave and heads straight for baron's -- nm - rollo Nov 19, 13:07
Hey all - have you signed up for the Not-So-Secret Stalker Card Exchange yet? -- (edited) - Cuzzin Todd Nov 19, 12:54 1
- Sign up today and spread some joy this holiday season! -- nm - Krusty Nov 19, 14:33
Darn. I though Illinois might hold out and win. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 12:34 2
- 4th and 8 on Michigan 34 and they run with over 8 minutes to go - eag Nov 19, 12:38
- they got some lucky that that wasn't there last play -- nm - Beaker Nov 19, 12:36
from b2 re: philz coffee. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Nov 19, 12:31 [Backboard] 5
- I buy Kicking Horse whenever I want to splurge -- (link) - Reagen Nov 19, 12:35 4
  - hey that's my brand! -- nm - mud Nov 19, 12:39
  - Kickinghorse always reminds me of Dave Broadfoot when I see it on shelves -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 12:39 2
    - A skit of his -- (link) - Beryllium Nov 19, 12:54 [youtube] 1
      - When I was a kid, my family went several times to recording sessions for the Air Farce radio show - zork Nov 19, 17:13
SEC social media thinks this is real. -- (link) - The Gossip King Nov 19, 12:23 2
- I was expecting finance, right up until I saw someone was named "Cork". -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 12:27 1
  - ha, I first thought it was finance, too. -- nm - i.b! Nov 19, 12:32
The ending of the TCU game was one of the most fun sports things I’ve ever seen. -- nm - MDH Nov 19, 12:13 3
- I didn’t like it. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 19, 12:16 2
  - I’m stunned they had the guts to do it. -- nm - MDH Nov 19, 12:19 1
    - I’m stunned Baylor had 500 yards of offense but when they got the ball and could kill the game, they essentially took a knee three times. -- nm - Volnelk Nov 19, 12:23
that TCU finish was weird - prayformojo Nov 19, 12:13
TCU just wow -- (link*) - budice Nov 19, 12:12 1
- heh -- nm - mud Nov 19, 15:25
Kansas St - West Virginia is on pace to finish 112 - 76. -- nm - Dano Nov 19, 11:58
My CTTP guess has come and gone, and Twitter still stands. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 19, 11:56 1
- Elon doesn't want to give us the satisfaction -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 12:21
FIFA: let’s do it and be legends -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 19, 11:47 4
- FIFA Prez: I know what it is to be discriminated against like gays in Qatar. After all, I was a redheaded child in Switzerland growing up. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 19, 12:04 3
  - Everything he's said over the past few days has been awful. And I bet everyone that works for FIFA loves it. -- nm - Krusty Nov 19, 12:24 1
    - The tone deafness of it is all is amazing. -- nm - Andie Nov 19, 13:03
  - gays have the closet...whats a redhead to do? shave everything? (mom was a left handed redhead in germany was called a witch in school had rocks throw -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 12:23
Video of a bolide (very bright meteor/fireball) with CN Tower in frame - zork Nov 19, 11:27 1
- cool. -- nm - mud Nov 19, 11:50
Michigan struggling against Illinois. Tied 10-10 in the third. -- nm - TWuG Nov 19, 11:18 6
- May want to tune into TCU / Baylor as well... -- nm - Beaker Nov 19, 11:39
- Texas A&M crowd at the start of the 3rd quarter -- (link) - budice Nov 19, 11:35 4
  - So much for the 12th man. -- nm - spamlet Nov 19, 11:38 3
    - That's the alumni side FWIW, but still not good -- nm - ty97 Nov 19, 18:41
    - What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure I can pick out the 12th person there -- nm - JD Nov 19, 11:48 1
      - A&M owes Jimbo another 85mil. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 19, 13:12
Did we see the heart warming video of a chimp mother seeing her baby for the first time? -- (link) - zork Nov 19, 11:12 1
- awwwww! -- nm - i.b! Nov 19, 14:17
Kim and I watched this live. -- (link) - The Gossip King Nov 19, 11:11 1
- Pacers would have won the championship that year. -- nm - Remlik Nov 19, 11:28
Brian Cox meet ... Brian Cox -- (link) - zork Nov 19, 11:09
Oh nice just sitting down in front of the TV and Star Trek IV is just starting. Why thank you tv programmers -- nm - Jovian Nov 19, 10:45 2
- Which channel? - zork Nov 19, 10:57 1
  - HBO Family -- nm - Jovian Nov 19, 11:24
Funky Winkerbean ending after 50 years -- (link) - TWuG Nov 19, 10:40 3
- Never heard of it -- nm - zork Nov 19, 11:13
- *sniffle* -- nm - The Gossip King Nov 19, 11:11
- Turns to the reader and stares with wide eyes of bewilderment -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 19, 10:47

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