The worst part of testing the new "Delete everything associated with this account" script for the first time with prod data is that if it fucks up, there goes the prod data.

I tested it a whole bunch in staging and a dev environment though?

Fediverse instance that picks and chooses who it talks to, so only certain people can see its posts, everyone else can't see it, hosted at Polka.Ru

#TVOkids

Indie Press Revolution

2022-11-14 23:52:57

On the left hand side of our home page is a pull down menu of the 180+ publishers whose products we carry, and clicking the logo on their publisher page will take you to their website, where they should have links to places you can find them.

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This weekend I invented a thing, that probably dozens of people have invented

Step 1) Make bread dough
Step 2) proof the dough
Step 3) take a slice of cheese and cut into 3 pieces
Step 4) wrap a little bit of dough around the cheese
Step 5) cook ~20 minutes on ~350F

Becky calls them Cheese Volcano rolls

Ok - everyone - calm down
Mastodon DMs are more secure than twitter DMs.

Also - having a direct message functionality is useful.

If you are so scared of your admin please contact me at silverwizard@convenient.email and I'll help you find an abandoned bomb shelter to live in surrounded by MREs and you can curl up in the fetal position and weep without needing to pollute conversations with people who know the words "threat model".

grep: memory exhausted

Great - glad to find out that we only have a few files

Accidentally tarpitted prof's office hours by asking a question about one of the assignment problems. Turns out the obvious approach gives a non-physical result and he can't figure out why.

This sort of thing just follows me around, I'm not trying to cause trouble, I swear.

Thinking about my middle name, which I passed on to both my kids, since my partner passed on his last name... but it feels really perfect that I have this middle name which can be passed on, used as a backup name or primary or placeholder name if my kids ever decide they hate their (more gendered) first name. I love that it kind of works in all these ways (plus it can make your first name an adverb for better or worse)

My middle name is Leigh

Cw covid19, isolation and other associated costs

The isolation that comes with the pandemic at this point in time is unlike the times before it. I'm not enough to support my partner on my own and vice versa. We're both feeling dejected and trying our best but anyone who might have been safe before to let in our group no longer is, because they've all decided that covid might not be that bad

How did it get so late and why am I so resistant to the idea of laying in bed to sleep where I'm alone with myself to ruminate on my stress points?

(I think this is what kept me up all night in high school)

I did some #Art tonight, and while I feel like I'm no professional, I still like sharing

Dabs of paint in different colours with two flowers and a bird drawn overtop

Dave Vandervies

2022-05-03 01:50:03

I'm now dj3vande@convenient.email on the network named after pleistocene megafauna. If things are configured correctly, things I say there should still show up on twitter and things from twitter should land where I can see them.

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If I want to build a modern day pager - is there a scene doing this?

I just want a 8 character LCD and a cellular modem. Give it some SMSes or whatever.

Some posts recently made me realize not all who are new here know this.

It is important that you're on an instance where you feel you can trust your instance provider to make the right calls for you, especially around blocking other instances. If you don’t trust the admin of the instance you're on, then you should move somewhere else, be that to a smaller instance where you can more easily communicate with the admin or a larger instance where it's less personal and might feel better for whatever reason

As a reminder, you have to trust someone somewhere in the line for social media to work. So please don't come at me saying "trust is a valuable resource I'm keeping to myself". If you'd rather use Twitter, you're putting your trust in their admins all the same

CW: male gaze

I was just thinking about how much I've struggled to find my personal style because my whole life I've been running away from the male gaze. Not because anything happened, but being demi and not really very interested in being viewed from that kind of perspective has made me stressed to wear anything that wasn't thrown together without any thought. In theory, I want to like what I wear and how I look but the idea of drawing any kind of attention to myself, especially male attention, has driven me to this point where only now am I figuring out what I like to look like for myself...

Sorry, your right to vote Republican has been privatized
If you want to vote Republican you now need to pay me $30 per vote

Voting is not a natural monopoly and this will lead to increased competition and innovation in the voting Republican space

I call on the democrats to also agree that you should give me $30 before voting for them since private monopolies are great and definitely don't stifle competition

I lucid dreamed once. It was a nightmare and I, of course, thought "oh, I can control this! I can make anything happen..... oh no, what if we're suddenly driving up a giant hill" and poof, a whole lot of giant hills were formed.

Yes, my in dream nemesis is driving up a giant hill. For some reason I have nightmares about them and so dream me is always afraid of them

Twitter is a medium for socializing
The Fediverse is several media for socializing

Twitter isn't social media, but the Fediverse is