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Tips for being a reasonable person in a culture of outrage:
1. Make sure you’re getting angry about the right things.
2. Know when to walk away from a conversation.
3. Be meaningfully involved in creating solutions to the problems you see in the world.
4. Be intentional about what you let yourself be emotionally invested In.
Impulse bought one of these little ventilators that hook up to an USB port.
Me right now.
Let's assume I've been living under a rock for the day so far, and I just stumbled upon some troubling news from Russia.
Who can give me a clear explanation of what the hell is happening over there?
Went to see “No hard feelings” tonight. It was interesting 😂
Over the years, I collected several wallpapers for my desktop. It turned out into a nice collection. :)
I'm a full-grown man who's excited that Taylor Swift is coming to The Netherlands. It's my guilty pleasure.
Hefty thunderstorms expected in The Netherlands for the end of the day. Looking forward to it. I always enjoy a good rain shower.
Having read up on the #meta drama that occurred yesterday:
1. No, we won't block Meta before anything happens.
2. Yes, we will hold them to the same standards as everyone else. This means blocks, only when there's reason to do so.
Some #mastoadmin's need to quit this weird power trip. The software has great personal moderation tools for fine-grained control. Don't make decisions for hundreds or thousands of people just because you don't like something.
Accurate.
Working downstairs due to the heat building up in the attic, where my office is.
The cat 🐱 is enjoying the company. So do I.
Cooking some Roti on the grill tonight.
91 degrees Fahrenheit (ca. 33 °C) in The Netherlands today. ☀️🥵
I'm more of a cold-weather type of guy.
Guess who wants an Apple Vision Pro.
Words from 1995, but perhaps are even more important present day.
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew
Colors of the Wind by Judy Kuhn.
Floof in the sunshine. ☀️ 🐱
As it turns out, our Sun will swallow the Earth whole in a couple of billion years.
For some reason, this fact makes me somewhat sad. As if it's all for nothing.
Ivory, the Mastodon client for macOS is here.
Link: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274?l=en
Patiently waiting for Ivory for Mac, due today.
Debating whether I should sell my car privately and deal with people coming over and taking on risk with test drives and such.
Or sell it to some merchant and take a significant cut on its worth.
Any words of encouragement? Or success/failure stories, perhaps?