Notices by Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club), page 31

@thurloat
Yeah, it's not a great article, on the whole, as vaguely comical as the headline is. I mostly just found the headline amusing. And I actually do want more plants in my house...not sure where I'd put them, though.

Y'all, Coke Blak is coming back and I am here for it.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/business/coca-cola-to-release-coke-and-coffee-hybrid-drink-this-year-1.4396995

@tom79
Oh, that's cool. I probably access my account more via the web interface, but good to know that I can do this when using Fedilab, at least.
@freakazoid

Finally, an industry millennials aren't killing.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-houseplant-industry-is-thriving-thanks-to-millennials-and-their-plant-babies

@Red_
Self-hatred, mostly.

@freakazoid Haha, man, the instance I'm on is running 1.4.1 (because it's forked and has some custom stuff). So far, this hasn't really been a problem.

@BrokenBiscuit Not sure. That might work. I don't actually have a need to do this right now, but just thought of it and reasons why I might want to do it.

A good feature (which maybe exists in mainline Mastodon; I have no idea): the ability to specify how long you want to mute a person, so that I don't have to remember to go back and unmute them.

@mpjgregoire @keithzg Indeed. I wasn't really referring to him as a tory. Small-c conservatives, these days, are essentially classical liberals, regardless of which political party they might support. Big-c Conservatives, less and less so, it seems. (Michael Chong being a notable exception, seeming to be one of the few red tories still at home in the CPC.)

So DuckDuckGo has a !bang to search Startpage via DDG (!sp). But Startpage uses Google results, so why not just search !g via DDG? Do the two layers of separation make you more anonymous?

@morganth Taking the "this entire series was just a dream" thing to a new level. I like it.

Whatever characters left alive at the end of the series are the player characters. Everyone else is or was an NPC?

Broke: Sharing memes.

Woke: Creating memes.

Bespoke: Creating memes and sharing them via snail mail.

@pinkprius Well, at least you're doing your part. As a customer, I would always say yes to that, especially for baby clothes because tiny baby hangers are actually kind of hard to find.

@pinkprius In fact, I know for sure that some stores *do* reuse their hangers (I used to work at one), so it's just mind-boggling to me that some places just throw them away.

@pinkprius Wow, really? I always assumed stores kept the hangers to reuse them...that would make sense from a purely economic sense, never mind avoiding waste and environmental degradation.

@nyquildotorg This is bizarre. I thought Luminary was blocking Gimlet, Anchor, etc. because of reasons. But, actually, Gimlet and the NYT asked not to be included in Luminary's directory. Why? That makes no sense. They make money from ads, so wider distribution = better.

On the other hand, the proprietary shows on things like Luminary and Spotify do seem to break the norm of what a podcast is, so the (admittedly awkward) distinction between "show" and "podcast" makes sense.

@opendork Same. Going into a movie or TV show spoiler-free is nice, but generally even if I know major plot points, or even the ending, I usually don't feel it's ruined the experience as a whole (exceptions for things like M. Night Shyamalan movies, where enjoyment of the plot often requires no prior knowledge of "the twist").

My weight is creeping back up. I weighed in at exactly 199 lbs this morning. 200 lbs is a mental threshold for me. When I got under that point, things were great and I was much more energetic and had less back pain. As I creep back up on that number, energy is down (pain has mostly not come back, luckily). I need to get out of this funk...time to start running stairs, or something, now that the snow has melted, I think. Maybe I need to join a summer rec league?

@GreenandBlack I was going to add that large machinery is just cool and probably kinda fun to mess around with (especially if it's not your actual job), but then I realized this was in the context of Corbyn driving a bus and...I dunno. Public transit is good so at least that's good?

Having been a frequent bus passenger, I think being a bus driver would be a crap job, but it's unionized and has a pension, so it's among the better crap jobs.