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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 09:06:37 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   An internet:

   "Tom Holland and Zendaya are considering marriage"

   "They will take her last name. So he will be just Tom."
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:54:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   A pet peeve of mine is when someone says "be careful" after something happened. It is extremely common in Hong Kong culture, it is basically the rule that someone will say this if someone else has some minor misfortune like stumbling, dropping something etc.

   People say this out of the goodness of their hearts and as a form of comforting word, and I should get over it, but no matter how long I've lived here, it really gets on my nerves.

   To me, it hits as arrogance, nosiness, fake concern and a waste of breath. People don't mean it as any of those things, but I cannot make myself appreciate it, I can only bite my tongue.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 02:05:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     1. You don't know if the receiver took insufficent care according to their view. Maybe they consciously accepted a tradeoff because they directed their attention on something else.

     2. Maybe a reasonable observer before the fact would have said they were taking the appropriate level of care, but shit just happened.

     3. Maybe they don't consider whatever happened a problem. Maybe they don't want to draw attention to it and just want to move on.

     4. As advice, it's 100% based on hindsight. Where were you when the person made the decision to take whatever level of care they took? Where was your advice as they were taking whatever action they took?

     5. It's unsolicited, extremely unspecific advice and offers zero insight. What other thing should they have taken less care with?

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 02:07:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     I'm being unfair, it's 100% cultural clash over a simple friendly social glue filler word, but I can't help that it makes my skin crawl, it's visceral. Not just when said to me, when said to anyone.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 02:12:03 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     Hopefully overanalyzing my reaction to it and ranting here might help me shake it off better next time.

     It's not prompted by anything, I didn't hear anyone say it today, this simmering resentment for it just randomly came to the surface as I was thinking of the rain or something.

3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:28:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   I'm receiving anti-trans propaganda in my email inbox, "Paid for by official funds authorized by the House of Representatives".
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 10:16:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} It was organized as a "survey" from iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet… defined by a member of congress, a long introduction complaining about Biden and gender and then a yes/no question "Should government documents reflect your biological sex?".
4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 08:26:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   yesterday I got the “are you a boy or are you a girl” question from a six-year-old, and I told her that some people aren’t boys or girls (like me!) I was expecting her to be a little confused, but she nodded thoughtfully and said, “wow, just like snails.”

   
   tumblr.com/adventures-in-poor-…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 10:11:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @chiasm Kids aren't the ones who have trouble understanding and relating. 🥰

     Not until they're trained. 😔

5. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 08:06:13 EDT Brian Ó

   I updated to Fedora 40, which now includes KDE 6 and along with it a native Matrix client called NeoChat. I played with it for a bit, and it seems to have most of the features I'm used to from Element (including some cool extras like user-defined emoji). However, it won't decrypt any messages in rooms from before I first signed in with it, which kind of sucks. I guess I'll check back on it in a few months and see how it's progressed.

   #fedora #fedoralinux #linux #kde #kde6 #matrix #element #neochat
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 05:58:51 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   There, ok. *breathe*

   Now my todo list at work is finally down to the same items it was at two weeks ago.
7. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 13:33:11 EDT Hypolite Petovan
   @A Sweet Gentleman Honestly that's how it felt on the moment, and it quickly rebooted in shame to cover its tracks.
   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 11:52:22 EDT Hypolite Petovan

     • Michael Vogel
     • Carlos Solís
     @Carlos Solís Not sure how much it contributed, @Michael Vogel is the main contributor and his absences are more felt than mine for sure. I appreciate the well wish though!
8. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 21:13:17 EDT Michael Vogel

   • Michael Vogel
   Wenn Du unter 18 bist und sehr gut Handball spielen kannst, hast Du eine Chance 😀
9. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 08:03:29 EDT Michael Vogel
   Ein Hauch von New York: Die "Brooklyn Bridge Fries" von Frittenwerk.
   pirati.ca/photo/17416608976626…
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 08:17:47 EDT Michael Vogel
     Leider ja!
10. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 13:45:46 EDT Michael Vogel
    Die Deutsche Forschung hat ein Problem mit dem Namen #Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. Es sorgt dafür, dass Menschen von Zeitvertrag zu Zeitvertrag hecheln, dadurch keine Planungssicherheit zum Aufbau von Familien haben und ständig am Rande des Burnout stehen.
    Verträge an Unis: "Wie soll ich das schaffen ohne Burnout?" zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deu…
11. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 14:05:35 EDT Michael Vogel
    Ich hab dann mal mein Portemonnaie verschlankt.
    pirati.ca/photo/68619734156626…
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 14:10:12 EDT Michael Vogel
      Das Rechte ist eine sogenannte "Wallet". D.h. da passen nur ein paar Karten und Geldscheine rein.
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 14:11:56 EDT Michael Vogel
      Beim Umpacken habe ich gerade festgestellt, dass nicht alle meine Karten reinpassen - und vor allem passt der Blutspendeausweis nicht rein.
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 16:07:05 EDT Michael Vogel
      Naja, sollte ich mal einen Unfall haben, stehen dort alle wichtigen Daten drin.
12. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 02:47:57 EDT Michael Vogel
    Das EU-Parlament hat das "Recht auf Reparatur" beschlossen. Der Beschluss durch die einzelnen EU-Staaten gilt als Formsache, da sie am Entwurf beteiligt waren. Es ist also absehbar, dass sich die FDP quer stellen wird.
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 21:26:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    I'm a bit upset about the things I didn't achieve yesterday, but I'm pepped that today I have no meetings, I've had my milk tea and I'm going to hunker down and get them done today!
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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:09:41 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Thorwegian ❄️ morning was not terrible, but after lunch, everything Microsoft stopped working

      and that's where everything is

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 12:05:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Thorwegian ❄️ yeah?
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 22:39:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Thorwegian ❄️ Yes.

      Unless all your work tools are down. 😅

      They started working again later in the evening and today I'm in the physical office. Time to catch up on All The Things. I have a List.

14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 22:33:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Oh gnnng, we're almost in May and then we're soon halfway through May and that means halfway through Q2 and aaaaa so many things I was hoping to finish in Q2 and
15. Ute Hauth (miradlo@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 12:15:39 EDT Ute Hauth

    Uffputzt:
    Meine Seite mit Infos zu Blogs, neuen Blogbeiträgen und diversen Kanälen und Plattformen sieht seit vorhin so aus, wie ich es schon länger plante.

    ute-hauth.de/
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:34:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    HP = Hewlett-Packard
    HP = hitpoints or health points
    HP = Harry Potter

    Recently I learned that among AA people:

    HP = higher power

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 23:45:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Hypolite Petovan

      @Hypolite Petovan No, Alcoholics Anonymous have as one of their rules that nobody can recover without the help of a higher power.

      I think the idea is you need to leverage some kind of external pressure to yourself, to hack your peer pressure circuitry as a force to help you do the right thing.

      For some people it's a simple as their God, Christian or otherwise. For atheists, they may use something more abstract like the ideals of Starfleet or whatever.

      Disclaimer: There is a lot of legitimate criticism against AA, ideological and in terms of outcome, I'm just explaining what I've learned of their higher power concept.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 00:21:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Hypolite Petovan
      • Abhijith Balan

      @Abhijith Balan It's an originally Christian framework, so people do what they can to make it work, and they redefine the terms as a workaround.

      If you say "I interpret the 'higher power' of this framework to be my loyalty to my family" it doesn't suddenly make you believe in miracles, an afterlife and an omniscient Creator.

      @Hypolite Petovan

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2024 03:08:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Abhijith Balan
      @Abhijith Balan Ah, sorry, I mistook which comment you were replying to.
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:32:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    An internet spotted this bumper sticker:

    "Midwives help people out"
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 22:00:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Green Raytheon: Because killing people doesn't have to mean killing the environment.
19. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 21:08:48 EDT Brian Ó

    https://youtu.be/5h4P-26kHAw

    This looks like something.

    #film #movies #comedy #slapstick #blackandwhite
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 13:58:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I understand why, Roomie is in the music industry and as a youtuber he is even more in the business of knowing what's hot and commenting on it, whereas I'm your typical "stopped listening to new music after college unless a song really forces itself into the zeitgeist", but it's still amazing to me that I have heard less than maybe 25 of these top 100 streamed songs before, and several of the top artists are complete blanks to me, but he has heard 99 of the songs, relates them to other works by the same artist, accurately predicts which artists will show up again closer to the top etc.

    Such different bubbles! He's Swedish, but he's also ten years younger than me, but that's likely not what really puts us apart, it's our interests and especially his professional interest.

    RoomieOfficial: "Top 100 MOST STREAMED Songs of All Time (Updated 2024)" (21:46)

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=Z1saPUw-PL…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 20:23:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @C++ Guy That's what the stats say!
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 20:33:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @C++ Guy I know Dua Lipa because she was on Barbie. I know Billie Eilish because kid liked one of her songs and because people made parody memes.

      Ava Max was in Barbie too (and so was Eilish, but I had already heard her), but she wasn't on this top list.

      They're all great, and I've listened to them more since, but I wouldn't have known of them if they didn't reach me in some incidental way.

      Taylor Swift is everywhere and impossible to have not heard about. She's even in the news, because men older than me aggressively don't like her for angry old man reasons.

      But what I listen to most is Queen, Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk.