Notices by Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ (gamehawk@mastodon.social), page 15

Turns out the planner/journaling thing was invented by a DoD employee during the Cold War: https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/1980s-illustrated-cold-war-calendars/

I haven't been dumping #wirebird updates here, but I've been making them. Not-really-daily commits, because some of what I'm doing is reading up on stuff, but daily blogging. I did a one-month-in recap earlier this week: http://wirebird.com/2018-06-12-recap-building-a-foundation.html

David Farenthold's yellow legal pad (on which he kept a handwritten checklist of places that had supposedly received money from the Trump Foundation) belongs in the Smithsonian or something.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-files-suit-against-president-trump-alleging-his-charity-engaged-in-illegal-conduct/2018/06/14/c3cbf71e-6fc9-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html

I took some pictures before I ended up with a sign. Here's the only remotely straight/focused one. We'll pretend that was another sign and not my finger in the upper left, okay?

It me.

@cwebber Carl and I have been known to go off on extended :oldmanyellsatcloud: rants about how dial-up BBS software had better thread handling than modern forums and such.

I have occasionally debated about just writing something that will shove everything into QWK packets. Long live yarn: http://www.vex.net/~x/yirx/

^^ probably something relevant to #forkofftogether especially

"No matter how they handle content moderation, what their politics and premises are, or what tactics they choose, platforms must work at an impersonal scale: the scale of data." https://logicmag.io/04-the-scale-is-just-unfathomable/

Done right, #federation can scale down moderation into not-impersonal range.

@theoutrider My husband is the opposite: he was engaged (not to me, obvs) in his senior year of high school, and soon as he turned 18 that August he got married and moved off to The Big City. So he's way more accepting of son's dreams of moving out soonish where I'm more like "eh, give him five or ten years, he'll make it."

Because #familiesbelongtogether, our family is gonna protest together. ✊ https://familiesbelong.org/

Update: blew son's mind with this today and now he's shared it with his Discord friends. I look forward to truck/chruck being the new yanny/laurel. https://mastodon.social/@gamehawk/100192635623685281

@nicknicknicknick Me: "Poor kid has a summer birthday, I should celebrate his half-birthday instead so he can have a classroom party. Let's see, that would make it <does the math> ... the middle of Christmas break. DANGIT"

Confirmed: house wren. Getting pictures is going to be challenging, though. She zoomed in to feed them while I was filling the birdfeeder and didn't seem bothered by me then, but she is now very suspicious of me at the window. (Which admittedly is somewhat closer to the birdhouse than the feeder.)

I'm sure there are guides on how to get a good picture using your camera with your binoculars, but I kind of like the weird effect it gives here.

Naturally I came up to the window just as mama bird *left* and she didn't show back up while I was futzing around, and then my arms were tired. But here's the birdhouse - it came with the house, has probably been up for at least ten years.

Lifehack: if you don't enable DRM on your browser, you can browse Netflix without the SUPER ANNOYING auto-play preview stuff.

Sis seems to have double-renewed the snack crate subscription she got for son.

Also now I have Johnny Cash in my head, thanks sis.

@mogwai_poet https://twitter.com/Yanni/status/996876879922679813