Notices by Skiring (skiring@mastodon.host)

I have enough oregano, but I let the plant spread anyway because the bees love it so much.

#bees #oregano #flower #gardening

Wow, this airline privacy site is handy: https://www.airlineprivacy.com/

I'm planning a trip, and I was going to fly British Airlines, but it seems they use facial recognition software now. How crazy as that? So 'll pick another airline instead.

#travel #privacy #FacialRecognition #surveillance #BritishAirways

They gave him a chocolate Easter bunny. He said this would cause a bit of a problem: how to split the bunny between his three children.

No problem at all, I thought. Eat the whole bunny on the way home, problem solved.

#chocolate #easter #gluttony

@tellio
Thank you for this. And what a magical photo!

There's a park here where people who drink a lot hang out. I was there yesterday afternoon, because I happened to be passing by, and there were lots of ripe blackberries over by the pond. So I was picking and eating those berries.

Along came a man who chatted for a while. He was young, and handsome, and smelled of alcohol. He asked "do you have a family?" and then went on to say "I don't. I have nobody. I am all alone. It is my choice. It will always be this way." And then: "I hurt a lot."

I wish I had better words for times like this. The conversation haunts me.

#smallstories

Last year, he said: I joined Mastodon, but none of my friends are there.

Last week, he said: Hey! Look! All these people I know joined Mastodon!

Today, he said: We've started our own instance.

Take that, bad social media sites.

#mastodon

We've had quite the influx of new users on Mastodon recently. Welcome to you all! Here are some links that you might like to explore if you're new here, or if just want to know more about how Mastodon works.

1. Resources for Mastodon newbies:

https://github.com/nolanlawson/resources-for-mastodon-newbies

2. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon:

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

3. Mastodon User's Guide

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md

4. How does Mastodon work?
https://kevq.uk/how-does-mastodon-work/

#Mastodon #Mastotips #tootorial

The road is on the map. What a nice lookout spot that must be, I think. A perfect resting-spot for hikers, and with a view!

So I go there. No road. It's because the neighbours on each side have just kind of swallowed it up between them. So they get free land, we get no lookout spot, no public access.

So annoying.

I am ready for it to be March now. Troubling that it is almost May instead.