Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

​ this is perfect

Does anyone in the US have experience or anecdotes regarding removal of those "Neighborhood Watch" signs?

I have one in my front yard, and they're all over on other streets (not all), but are otherwise invisible in the day-to-day because of their omnipresence.

I was just reminded of it the other day, and it seems to give off police-state/sundown vibes to me, and I don't want to participate in that or support it. AFAICT, they're not owned by any government agency?

Grabbed the Digital Atelier brushes and patterns from the Krita store on @ki 's recommendation, saw they had some pastel brushes and a finger smudge brush, so I made a forest in the same way I'd do it physically on paper with oil pastels :)

20 minutes in @Krita

#ArtWithOpenSource

@oliphant 's blocklists just had a pretty high endorsement - it's being bitched about by qoto/freeman

average person starts 3 instances a year actually just statistical error. Jeff Instances,

they say a persons true personality is revealed when they're drunk but i personally think it's with the mastodon instance they choose

There's no such thing as an instance that's 'too big to block' -- don't let FOMO override your values. You can have a great time here on the fedi just hanging out with folks from small instances you really like.

Beware rich people who are rich for no reason.

leftists who think the emotive hairy man cartoon or the nazi frog cartoon is okay when it's saying the things they like

WHY CAN'T THEY ALL BE LIKE THIS

friend i am very sorry to inform you that i can in fact see you behind that branch

#birds #ChippingSparrow

If you’re someone who needs to relocate to a different location within the borders of the US but are not comfortable using ground transportation due to the locales through which you’d need to travel, I am willing to help by meeting you at your current location and driving your possessions to your destination while you travel via faster means. I have four weeks of PTO this calendar year and have yet to use more than a handful of days and I cannot think of a single way I could use them better than this.

If you need a hand with this, or know someone who does, please do slide into my DMs and I’ll give you my Signal contact info.

❤️

learning the deeply "fuck around and find out"-based history of organic chemistry makes a lot of what's happening with AI make sense to me

if massive compute at scale is "the new oil" might be good to spend more time learning about all the insane poisons and shit that were commercialized (with minimal research into health/environmental effects) to justify the waste production that went into refining oil for gasoline

One thing I super didn't realize until reading "An Engine, Not a Camera" was how heavily regulated US markets were in the mid-20th century. Like... after the Great Depression all derivatives were basically outlawed and considered gambling, and it took decades of lobbying (including paying Milton Friedman to write papers saying it was a good idea) to re-legalize highly leveraged speculative assets that had blown up in the 1920s. And the result was: the 1980s.