Notices by Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz)

I wanted to try Godot for game development but for some reason the download just never started. I'm still waiting.

Today I learned that sea urchins like wearing hats. Yes, literal hats. https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/620824612057579520 :weirdfish:

Eric Trump is upset that people are now protesting "Paw Patrol".

And I get it.

It's hard when someone threatens to cancel your favorite TV show.

For the last few weeks @Crash has been working on a quickplay RPG called Kobolds In Space!.

I've put together and have been tinkering with a Python script that automatically generates a ship, plot, and adversary for a Kobolds In Space! game, along with a bunch of pre-generated kobolds for players to play.

(The very quick rules: you add two stats depending on what you're doing, and roll 2d6 against the total. Roll lower, you succeed; higher, you fail; get it exactly, you're somewhat successful.)

Reload the page to get a new campaign with new kobolds: http://node.noelle.codes/kobold

@troubleMoney @mavica PowerGlorg™️ Refreshes Like Ninglorgdon't

LB: Please go commission @scoots ! Their art is excellent and they're a good person in a difficult circumstance. I'm attaching some of their art so you can see what they're capable of, and there's more through the link in their toot: https://mastodon.art/@scoots/104133776229625672

(Images hidden for eye contact)

an all-black GeForce that serially outputs to a poster-sized teleprinter

or, a big-TTY goth GF

If you're new to Mastodon, please visit -

or if you'd like to invite new people to Mastodon, please ask them to visit -

my Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon, which (in addition to being a Hitchhiker's Guide reference) will tell you many things that are useful to know about Mastodon, and also some other things:

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

My bank account was eaten alive today by an unexpectedly-enormous vet bill, and I could use a hand buying stuff like food and medication. Anything helps, including boosts. Thank you. 💜

https://paypal.me/joyeusenoelle
https://www.liberapay.com/joyeusenoelle

Chuck Tingle is pretty great

"This is why if you go hiking in the woods or anyplace you might get lost or stranded, it's a smart idea to bring along a short length of fiber optic cable. If you get into trouble, just bury the cable. A backhoe will be along in a few minutes to dig it up, and you can just ask the driver for a ride back to civilization."

It's fun and exciting that Facebook told everybody that videos got a huge amount of engagement and everybody switched to video to communicate on the web so they'd get more engagement, and then when it came out that Facebook had straight-up lied about that to get people to use their new video-embedding feature, everybody just kept using video even though it has a *lower* engagement rate, because That's How The Web Is Now.

It's about that time of year when people start wondering things like "hey, why isn't DECEMber the tenth month of the year?"

So it's time for my little lecture on Romans, calendars, and our friend Gaius Julius Caesar.

I'll be posting it as a tootchain replying to this one, but if you're impatient, here's the whole thing: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce

So: “Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”

The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.

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@troubleMoney it wasn't even called mining back then, but "grinding", hence the little handle on top

@nev It's literally "Emoji" - and yes, "McEmoji". https://www.facebook.com/WisconsinHolsteinAssociation/posts/winning-the-2019-wha-all-breeds-futurity-is-floydholm-mc-emoji-et-exhibited-by-s/10157128675660791/

:D :D :D #sttng

via @Crash, via dm_cross on :birdsite:

Hey if you think Mastodon 3.0.1 should not display unread notifications in the title bar by default, go here and give the issue your 👍 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12211

It is important to me to note that early in Mastodon's life, showing the number of unread notifications was considered an antipattern and users were vocally pleased that Mastodon DIDN'T do this.

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