Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@yashpheh @KatS

I love this, and it fits so well. But what do you call the long ones used in diagrams? The same thing?

@fondoffawns

And thus the truth comes out!

@not2b

Does facebook indicate when a post has been edited and let you see the previous version?

If not? I'd say that isn't helping them with their many intractable problems.

@SkylarkDuquesne

In NYC it's febber awry

@goaty

uh oh

@picard @miblo @puf

If you mix the "amb bue lense" some of the brits are talking about with the "ball" you get

"am ball linse" which to me sounds VERY brooklyn in a way that would get you a side glance in the bronx. (as in why'd you come up here?)

@Moondancer

I wish the whole industry of content that revolves around "ha ha Trump is an old man struggling to do things all old people find difficult" would just die.

It's bad.

@fondoffawns

I was thinking of the loud and flashy car with the lights on.

@sbourne @eclectech

I love that she has all of those candles behind her throne. It's very elegant, but she does look a little bored so maybe as her staff you could consider some ways to better entertain her?

I have found a neon pink ribbon for Pica today, and have high hopes she will be pleased with it.

@the5thColumnist

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(When you touch type the errors are less frequent but when they happen it's catastrophic.)

@Isurandil

Yes those instructions are based on the keyboards that our students use.

They are surprised to notice the full range of the keyboard ... so it's worth getting them to look at it.

I think "am ball ance" is AAVE maybe? I know it's not standard but "am bue lance" sounds overworked and overproper to me.

How do you say "ambulance" ?

"bue" here rhymes with "hue"

I was very alarmed by the idea that people could edit posts on here when I moved from Twitter. So, in my settings, I put on every single alert. An edit is the *only* thing that makes the mastodon app make noise.

I expected to catch wicked subterfuge, chicanery.

But, I hear the alert sound very rarely.

And? I'm always excited to see what spelling error is corrected.

(Darkly: Posts and their corrected versions would be a killer training set for a nice tame spelling LLM)

@clarablackink @johnzajac

It's different when it's a particular person who is asking you to buy something vs. a company that's just asking everyone.

With a person you matter enough to take a moment of their time. You can respond say "hey that was too pushy" or just enjoy what they are offering.

It's the "mass" individuality stripping nature that's hostile. The Colgate company doesn't care about my teeth. Amazon doesn't care if I have a "warm holiday" but they talk like they do.

It's important to understand the cultural expectations of others. In the geology podcast I just found out that "when you date that rock you are dating the entire strategraphic layer"

No wonder the whole damn mantle expects to come to my Christmas dinner! If only I'd known. But the heart wants what it wants I suppose.

@pikesley

This screenshot made me LOL.

... I mean, why do you need to have a whole fancy conversation about this? Shouldn't they just... know?

@johnzajac

Some artists have done some of the best work of their lives in the context of advertising. Can we tease out and enjoy the art from the commerce? I think of Andy Warhol who started as a commercial illustrator and of course that ended up informing his work as he later made work that was all about 'advertising' and its more pernicious and complex place in our lives.

But drawing on Madison Ave. was how he first made his rent.

@KatS

OK this is a bit new to me I thought that all of these things:

() [] {}

Are brackets.

{} Braces, Fancy Brackets, Curly Brackets
() Parenthesis, Round Brackets
[] Brackets, Square Brackets, Computer brackets

Are there more names?

I tend to think of [] as the "default" but others have suggested that () are the default ...

@wjmaggos @neckspike

Also, and I hope this is clear, but this isn't some call from me to be paid for what I make that passes for content at this moment.

If I decide to sell content I will be very explicit about that. That is, if I ever complete this book.

Mastodon is content too. I think all of us using it who *can* should be supporting servers, that's how social media should work.