i can't even use most social media without some kind of extension to make them tolerable, not even counting hiding elements with adblock. i need 2 for tumblr. it is like putting a hazmat suit on. i hope i will not have to do that on this site for a long time

Hi I'm spider!

They won't tell you this in government school but ParaNorman, Frankenweenie, and Hotel Transylvania are all the same thing

I'm SURE you were one of the people I talked to in the past about the "Group TF Vending Machine" TF, cause that's when I first started thinking about screw TF, plastic button TF, lil spring TF.... That's like 2013 vintage Erakir. M.2 would be perfect! So would a single vacuum tube.

pwoof magic spell that turns you into a single capacitor on an outdated motherboard

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences today announced the nominations for the 3rd Children's & Family Emmys, honoring the year's outstanding young audiences television content in a stand-alone competition. The winners will be revealed at a March 15 ceremony in Los Angeles.

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/childrens-family-emmys-nominees-announced/

I can actually read Linear A but most of it sucks. It’s all just olive oil ads and bad takes about phoenicians

I dreamed there was a historical term “Fälsatnama” meaning “failed son’s name” which certain kings and emperors used instead of uttering the names of their least favorite sons

The Secret of Orange Cats Finally Uncovered After 60-Year Search
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-of-orange-cats-finally-uncovered-after-60-year-search?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Nature @nature-ScienceAlert

A product I'd like to buy is a big portable electric heater which has a J1772 (or J3400) EV charging connector as its input. If it pretended to be a car, then I could plug my car charging cable into it and have a 7 kW heater for the garage when I feel like heating it up real quick.

I think there should be infinite pumpkin pie

If your bumper sticker has so many words that I have to tailgate to read it…

…you know what, good on you. I generally have more respect for opinions that can’t be reduced to five or so words.

Dungeons & Dragons: A Star Wars Story

some open web and fediverse thoughts

Trying to pitch the Fediverse on its technology backend to non-technical people is a bad approach, but so is trying to pitch it in terms of digital detox or “better” culture.

The backend is for the tech people, and the rest is your regular messy people. There are as many good pockets of the Fediverse as bad, because that’s the internet.

In light of that, it’s questionable to what extent the Fediverse should be pitched as a distinct thing in a similar vein as those platforms some Fediverse software emulates. Fediverse, open social web, whatever you want to call it is of main relevance more to those working on it and trying to promote it among developers.

To those of us using these platforms, it’s probably better to simply invite those to our respective instances/sites as simply another site/app without all the jargon and background.

Forget Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. except insofar as it’s in the URL or needed to search apps. Ultimately they’re backends, and many weren’t going around inviting people to their sites or enthusiast forums talking up apache or phpbb or the like.

The Fediverse is an emerging subset of the open web with improved interconnectedness, and so what’s more important than it is reinvigorating the spirit of the open web by reminding people there’s more beyond the closed web by inviting and encouraging them to visit our open spaces alongside their own. It’s closed web/walled garden thinking to discourage visiting a variety of sites and using a variety of apps.

The open web thrives, enduring, enveloping and eroding the enclosures despite their efforts to ward off its persistent being.

please do not attack me when i am flashing red and exposing my weakpoint. any other time is ok though