unfortunately some of the effect will be lost because the families in this neighborhood start trick-or-treating at 5pm 🤦‍♀️

I just had an evil idea lol. so I live in a white suburban American neighborhood which is full of deeply suspicious Christians. it’s even a “gated community”

so for Halloween this year I’m going to find an ornate glass bowl (I’m sure there’s one somewhere in this hoarder house) and put it on this altar cloth that I just ordered

and then I’m going to decorate the whole thing with (fake, electric) candles, fill the bowl with candy, and put it all outside for trick-or-treaters

I have mostly kept my two twitter accounts alive out of some kind of morbid curiosity; watching something that belonged to all of us dismantled and destroyed by ONE idiotic male. But these new changes break the model completely.
➡️ Fediverse, brace for another migration.

I want to get a big tattoo of a demon binding sigil, so if anyone asks me about it I can be like “yeah this isn’t my body. I was possessing it and some fucker trapped me here so now I’m just stuck looking for a way to escape” which is honestly not far from the truth

I've thought about this video at least once a week since I saw it

https://youtube.com/shorts/D6NhvJ406vc

Something in my house is sucking a *lot* of power and I would like to find it and make it stop doing that. Anyone have specific recommendations for multi-circuit power-usage-tracking devices? (I have 13 240V and 18 120V circuits across three panels, suggesting I will probably need three such devices; the most populated panel has 10 120V and 2 240V.)

Other requirements: ideally #homeassistant compatible, not internet based (currently have devices on zwave and non-internet-facing wifi, adding zigbee soon for unrelated reasons), works with normal US split phase power. Assume I am a reasonably competent electrician and am comfortable putting a current transformer around a wire.

#homeautomation

hey!! reminder to back up your drm-free media!! bought something on GOG? cool, download the installer!!! bought some music?? save it locally!!

just because it’s drm-free doesn’t mean the download can’t be revoked!!!!!

@Undead_Zeratul omg interesting - I might watch this later because that’s definitely a concept that I care a lot about

@reallylazybear

I think this has a decent impact on the whole thing, too. Streaming has grown widely popular over the last decade, and plenty of newcomers have gotten started, and plenty of niches have developed. Where there was once the big names like PewDiePie, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, Game Grumps; now are filled with Vtubers, small creators, and indie devs streaming for hours at a time.

We've gone nearly an entire generation now growing up with gaming content having already been a thing, and the younger viewers just aren't going to watch the big names anymore, they're going to discover new creators on their own or from their friends.

What was once a novel avenue to create content, which evolved into fulltime jobs for those that could afford it, now seems to be so oversaturated the medium has nowhere else to go but to spread out and develop smaller communities and niches.

I don't think LPs are dead, but I have noticed that the "barrier to entry" has been raised by the incredible talent over the last decade, whereas the streaming landscape still feels quite varied and charmingly rough around the edges. Viewers stick with a streamer because they enjoy the engagement, not because of how polished their editing is.

actually you know what? let’s make the perfect partner step by step. I’m going to have a series of polls and we’ll see what Fedi thinks would make the best possible partner

I’m not going to do gender this time (unless y’all want me to!) so imagine that this hypothetical partner is whatever gender would make them best for your specific taste

so to start with, which of these categories should they fall into?

after this poll is over, I’ll make a follow-up poll to narrow things down more, and I’ll keep going until we’ve made a whole character

@pharmafemboy you’re cute and hot and I’d like if you flirted with me 💙 I don’t mind your age at all

basically as far-removed from emotions as you can make the scifi, that’s what I like. I want it conceptual and cerebral and not dramatic or emotional unless it’s doing a bad job of being those things

even within the concept of “hard scifi” there’s the kind that glosses over the science, where it’s only hard scifi for bragging rights lol (Lilith’s Brood is a great example). and then there’s the kind that is about the science, which is what I like (Dragon’s Egg and Rendezvous with Rama come to mind)