I'm almost afraid to open this can of worms, but...
Hey, #weavers! Hi!
What's the simplest, low cost, low equipment form of weaving that someone could try out, someone who's completely new to it?
And aside from having someone to learn directly from in person (I wish!), what's another good way to learn? Do you have a website to recommend?
Question for those who are pros with mason jars and the like:
Can you put mason jars in the freezer? Does that wreck the seals?
I remember some years ago hearing about a unit you could make--basically, a bit of software on an old junk PC--that you'd pass your internet signals though (say, between cable modem and wifi router) to add privacy, block ads, etc.
Does anyone know what I'm thinking of? What was that called? Any point to having one today?
#computing
Man, I *really* need some good news today. And I mean something significant, big, not just a feel-good story.
Do you ever get the feeling that all of Mastodon is just one big house party, and the only difference between you and someone you don't follow yet is that you haven't gotten up to their floor yet--but we all know someone who knows someone we know?
Where does the phrase come from, to call someone "a good egg"?
Aw, crap.
Tomorrow, I'll buy chicken stock. 🙄
Then, you know what that means. 😃🥣
It's fall. Ham was on sale at the grocery store. And there's still a package of dried split peas in the cupboard.
You know that that means. 😃🥣
We didn't get paid this week. It normally drops into our accounts about 2am Fridays. We asked the boss, he said it was because of the bank holiday on Wednesday, and we'd be paid on Monday.
Does that make sense to anyone?
It's not like a holiday that affects the garbage pickup, like Monday's a holiday then your Wednesday pickup happens Thursday, because the Monday people get picked up Tuesday, and everyone's bumped. It's not like that at all.
I think he just fucked up and didn't get the payroll done on time.
Sometimes, because it's simpler and faster when I'm at a full keyboard, I type emojis in the old way. I wonder sometimes how badly that dates me, and how many people actually understand them.
:p
Wow. *Stunning* lack of self-awareness.
Let's say you have a condition. It impacts your life negatively, to greater or lesser degree. It also affects many others who have it, also to varying degrees.
In your personal effort to destigmatize, you make vast, blanket statements which, while true for you, are definitely not true, or could be dismissive or even dangerous for others.
Called on this by *every* commenter on your thread, you double down, get angry and accuse *them* of being the problem because you can't pull your ego outta your ass long enough to see that what you've said is *broadly* offensive.
Get over yourself.
😮😃
Remember yesterday, I posted about helping a Chinese woman I know, and thinking I should learn a few words of Mandarin?
That couple just came past, and I said hello! I said it well enough that they understood! It made them smile, and that's making me smile from ear to ear!
Nǐ hǎo! Hello! 😃
I wonder if Earth will ever develop intelligent life?
A feature I'd like to see Mastodon get is... let's call it "subscribe".
"Here's a toot on a topic, or with a question, that I'm interested in. I'd like to get Notifications when reply/comment posts are made here."
I have one, absolutely fantastic podcast recommendation for you, it'll change your life. Are you ready? Here it is:
Stop listening to podcasts.
Once again...
Nothing from anyone else I follow for an hour.
Sure, it's late. Many have gone to bed, as I should. But...
Surely, even without us in EST, someone at beige is still partying?
Apparently, July is #DisabilityPrideMonth.
I'm getting older, and a little less capable every year. But short of a future point when I'm using a walker or in possession of an accessible parking pass, I don't feel that I know at what point I have any right to self-apply the label.
I don't wish to appropriate anything. So I don't use that label yet. But I'm at a point where I'm acutely aware of how, even with other factors aside, disability is just a "when" thing for us all.
To my disabled sisters, brothers and others, I see you. I love you. I want to help make the world a little better for you, and all of us. 💜
It's +8C out, and it's trying to snow.
Suddenly had a pang of longing, of memory, of lost love. If only my life had gone just a little differently, we'd still be together.
That purple Game Boy Color was pretty sweet.
GRRR!
Online shopping site (no, not that one). I placed an order a little while ago, it's on it's way to me. They send me an email. Unlike the other five emails a day they send me which are just advertising, this one is about my order.
It's a shipping status, it's cleared customs. Great. There's a Track Package link. Click. Takes me to the website, where I have to log in.
Now, this site doesn't let you have a password. You give them your email address, and they send you a code to enter, every time, like a crappy, failed version of 2FA.
So I click that, and wait for the email with my code. Which is sent to the same email address I'm already looking at, because that's where I clicked the link from. I get the code, enter it, navigate to tracking my package... and it's only the same information that was already in the first email.
Like, what the hell am I busting my ass for, if you have no more info for me anyway?
And what's the deal with sending the code to the same email I just linked in from? Reminds me of the time twenty years ago when I called to get my credit card balance, and all of the verification questions they asked me were things *in my wallet*, where my credit card would be if lost or stolen. That is not security, and I thought we were better than that now.