Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 104

if the ocean can be heard inside a shell, does that mean that the ghost in the shell is also in the ocean?

the ideal of getting up at 0930 when you didn't fall asleep until 0500 is that you'll only be a little bit sleepy but you'll have plenty of time to do fun things and may even fix your sleep schedule a little.

the reality is that you spend most of your time awake zoned out, feeling sickly and strained, and doing nothing but laying in bed staring at social media until you accidentally nap for several hours

like...something similar to copy/pasting each post from a thread into a pastebin and then sharing the pastebin link, except with images and emotes still intact, and content warnings listed at the top

it may sound like a minor change from just reading the thread on its own, but let's face it, reading an article on a news site is easier than reading a 10-post thread in a tiny column on social media

if we had a quick, easy way to turn a thread into a shareable article, i bet it'd be useful af

would there be a way to add functionality/a plugin to mastodon that allows users to take a thread of posts, automatically combine them all into one large "article", with a link that can easily be shared with folks on other platforms including links to the original thread and author

@frostotron yeah, makes sense. but it's also extremely difficult to condense something that i feel is important and nuanced, and has a lot to say about it, into something that could end up being reductive.

at which point i might end up having to repeat the stuff i initially took out anyway. but i guess that's one way to learn the process of finding what is and isn't important to say.

tbh you don't need any stronger reason than "i don't want to see ads" to use an adblocker. you don't have to make up excuses, or feel the least bit guilty about it. ads are horrible.

don't let anyone ever tell you that you have to put up with that shit so that people have a slim chance at siphoning an income from you at your own expense

why is it that few people care when i talk about things i personally care about, but then i make a tired low-effort post and it blows up

i've been messing up tenses a lot lately, as well as accidentally swapping plural and singular wording in the wrong contexts. oops

@frostotron i believe that smbc already has a patreon and has had one for a while? so these popups bugging about adblockers is especially unwarranted

advertising is predatory. if i opt out of being guilt tripped and harassed by ads, only to be guilt tripped and harassed over my decision to opt out, what makes you think i'm gonna regret my initial decision? you're doing the same shit i'm trying to avoid by asking me to disable my adblocker

i thought you were better than this smbc

don't get me wrong i love voice chat but it is an ordeal

i'm very good at doing voice chat and by that i mean i'm shaking and anxious the entire time hoping nobody can tell that i'm panicking, and by the end i'm like "that was fun let's do this again" and for some reason whoever's on the other end usually agrees

@BearishMushroom @monorail me too. that's why i hang around aminals on the internet

personally i prefer the king james version of the original trilogy, like a true star wars fan

@Sir_Boops always

@USBloveDog you are USB Love Dog, of course it's the story of your life

"you can't think about stressful things if you're thinking about horny shit every damned second of the day outside of playing video games"

what an excellent coping mechanism though

cannot stop the lewd thoughts lately and it's probably a coping mechanism but it's still just. a lot

too sore, sapped of energy, and feeling too insecure to do any kink stuff, so i'd rather be ignoring it right now.

on the other paw, at least it kinda instills a little bit of confidence in some way to be so focused on this stuff.

guess it's like, a reminder that "hey, this part of you still exists, it still makes you happy. do something about it!"

also a distraction from depressing stuff

so i've been getting big lumps in my armpits for a couple years now, but lately they've been worse than usual. extremely painful and hard to get rid of. i used to be able to pop them like pimples, but not anymore. they're relatively soft, so i don't think they're a huge problem, but they're certainly causing me trouble

anyone have any tips on how to prevent/treat this? i'm thinking of switching from stick antiperspirant to roll-on deodorant, not sure if it'll help