Hey there! Just popping up from under my rock for an infrequent check-up from this fragment of me. I see I somehow attracted some new follow requests despite dormancy here. No worries - most looked to be those who follow me elsewhere, too. Just so's ya know, my more blathering personal account […]

Did a quick pop-in on this instance to test a thing. Noticing I'm still seeing follow requests here. I've been set to "approve" as my main mastodon activity has moved to @[email protected] . Now I gotta find the follows I didn't approve because the control looks weird and clicked approve on […]

Greetings from the far side of The Rift, through which I presume I have fallen, into this parallel universe in which I am a Sportzball Mom. send halp.

In 2008, before YouTube had figured out "monetization", an almost accidental content creator lucked into one of the first "viral" successes. THIS video is a "What the hell became of Matt?" followup to that, and it is SO WHOLESOME. A humble hero we need today […]

Ah, I see the "Your account must be verified, click here" scams have spread from Mastodon to PixelFed servers. I'm quite sure they're on Bsky as well, but probably getting squashed quick (that's harder in AP-fediverse space). Please block and ignore!!! Signed, tired community admins.

brb coining neologism disnomer : misnomer :: disinfo : misinfo

Been thinking and learning much lately about networked communications intertwining with community, and hence human, spaces and needs and projects. In trying to characterize a problem I saw with SMEs and community orgs diving into the so-called AI hype about Agentic AI, the metaphor I stumbled to […]

I'm off to Vancouver in a little under 48 hours, heckin' nerves about presenting at https://fedicon.ca, but hoping I can keep calm enough to enjoy the rest of the conference! Later in August, I'm registered for Civic Spark in Toronto, (https://civic-spark.com/#event-overview). Very different […]

Dammit. Diet cat food has worked, the food-anxious hoover cat has discovered she is not so gravity-bound as she was, and the casually snacky emaciated old cat cannot leave his wet food up on the counter for even a second. Guess I'm cleaning kibble crumbs AND mush off the top of the fridge now.

One of the few things I'll take a chance on still existing in the world in 1 year's time is ... next year's @Hillside. Best price you can get on tickets is buying them AT the festival. So see you in 2026 if I don't trip over you this weekend. #happyhillside

I hardly ever play on this hashtag, but #writerscoffeeclub is topical as I need to do some danged (small-time, academic-ish) draft writing .... 1 July: What's your greatest weakness as a writer? "So many thoughts, so few coherent sentences...." 😝

As one of the diabetics on your Wandering.Shop team, just wanna share ... if you are ever feeling sympathy or inclined to consider any of these posts begging you for money because someone needs insulin, and they're showing you their glucometer with some stupidly high number like 589 on it […]

Apparently the #fuckitfriday chaos muppet is ruling again tonight. I'm all out of ML/python/sklearn mojo but 🧶brain was really keen to start ANOTHER sock because finishing ONE #sockdown challenge a month is not challenge enough? ravel.me/johannab/mm

Hey all. I see I've accumulated a backlog of new follow requests. Just a reminder that this account is now on the dormant side. I am still very involved in Wandering.shop admin & management, but personal blather has moved over to my Canadian channel, @[email protected] . I didn't port my […]

Unexpected @gobo_social gobo.social realization - because I can read everything as a unified TL, though not with all tools from every platform - I can get a better view of who I'm following where and who's duplicated. If I unfollow you in the next little while it's because I'm deduplicating or […]

[Test Post, multiplicity, GoBo] Well hello. Inaugural/test post using the multiprotocol Fediverse blaster that is gobo.social. Premiered at this past week's FediForum virtual UnConference, Gobo is another step beyond "protocols not platforms" and into "people not protocols". A (nearly) unified […]

[Test Post, multiplicity, GoBo] Well hello. Inaugural/test post using the multiprotocol Fediverse blaster that is gobo.social. Premiered at this past week's FediForum virtual UnConference, Gobo is another step beyond "protocols not platforms" and into "people not protocols". A (nearly) unified […]

The initial signatory list for this petition is something. Friends I have who rub shoulders with some folks on this list are backing this pledge. The more of us that sign on, the more we have to show up at our rallies and leaders' offices with […]

Hmmm… one of our senators posted this. I know its not on everyone’s list to GTFO, but if you drill down, cybersec, data science, information systems engineering, and related are all on the current priority list […]

Can think this whole mess is gonna do much for my job prospects in the software industry. Knitting 🧶from stash shall continue.

I have been in this irritated state due to low-level pain all day (chronic-recurring unexplained thing that amps up - maybe endo). It might be a #fuckitfriday for a funny gummy and a hot bath. I have SOOOOoooo much schoolwork piled just due to coincident deadlines between unrelated courses […]

Apropos of a bsky thread(click thru & read from top) identifying and educating about how a(mother) click/like/follow-for-hire botnet is situated on bsky. This is related to the so far tiny number of “follow spammers” that try to pull your focus and get you to follow them back. They want to add […]

Very round smol doggo. Perfect.

I am increasingly in awe of all of you in this lovely community here who turn a galaxy full of diverse interests and ideas into coherent thoughts and then in to persuasive words, and then convince people to give you (at least some) money with those. Yes, I am staring hopelessly at postings for […]

AND, well, on top of everything else, fuck cancer all over again, please. 😖 😡 😭

Realizing I may just have to accept that there are days, or times of day, when the only thing my brain is able to face is digital busy-work. Sorting, filing, and trashing the downloads folder it is. (Interspersed with ... laundry).

Seen on Diane Duane's Tumblr: "You do not have to force yourself to witness horrors as an act of activism. It is not a form of activism. ^^^ remember this. do not exhaust yourself into hopelessness. take care of yourself and stay strong."

A riff on what our Proprietor posted yesterday: Content Warnings/"Consent Widgets" on your posts right now are a very good and much appreciated thing. As is accurate and judicious use of hashtags. NO, they're not mandatory, we do not enforce them by rule (other than the "cover up yer […]

https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/tool/reduce-online-tracking If anyone knows of a complete guide to removing accounts please let me know. I'm looking for a guide that explains what you'll lose (third party logins, history etc), archival/backup options, step by step account deletion […]

[#uspol #uspoli No links, no pics, just a subtoot] A'ight, I'm trying to avoid the world today but some is still sneaking through. I gotta say, daaaaang Rolling Stone, that's a heck of a headline, way to declare for the right side of whatever's to come. Thanks and good luck.

I am definitely late to the end of #fuckitfriday ... over'n'out, skeeters, see a few of you at sock knitters anonymous, heels edition, t'morrow.

This list of sites closing down is a travesty. https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/ We will all be slowly dragged under the roof of those who can afford to comply -which is not what I think the regulator wants. The answer to shitty social is not making everyone use it. The answer is […]

Seeee!!?!?

My daily routine now includes multiple go-rounds with this thieving beast, either blocking her from getting my yarn 🧶 or retrieving it from her. She can smell it in a closed bag, which she can open. She opens closets. She grabs it out of my hands WHILE I’M […] [Original post on pixelfed.social]

Now that I'm bridging both my most active Mastodon account + PixelFed with Bluesky and back again ... I'm getting a bit worried I'm going to recurse myself into a mess by boosting a boost of me boosting myself. Did someone build in guardrails for that? I should probably get a couple new, and […]

Oh I DO like a tidy Eye of Partridge stitch when I don’t mess it up!

My kid (11) has come home from 6th grade today pondering encryption and is working out how she can use the fibonnaci sequence layered over both Caesar and Pigpen substitution ciphers. I prefer this to the morose and stubborn "I'm bored" refusals to engage in anything at all when she gets home […]

It occurs to me we need more boots-on-ground, eye-contact, generic-human-to-generic-human, activism around public health. I read once about a program in (my recall may be vague) Pakistan where doctors and public health officials trained women to go directly to other women in their community […]

Alright, I dun some learnin' today though mostly by watching/listening to luminaries in my field(s) of interest. Feels like I covered a lot. Buuuutttt..... Didn't get any SQL or Python assignments done and haven't yet read any of the remaining papers for my grad course. Nice to drop in […]

Oh, ooohhhh... this is a very interesting move. I approve! There will no doubt be wobbles as this transition goes ahead, but in general, moving ownership, and by extension, mgmt/governance, into a public, NFP realm is excellent. This is a leverage point, this is how you shift a system, even […]

One of my favourite covers that @pearljam plays. Also makes my list of "covers I prefer to the original" which is a rare thing. Must've been a treat for the NZ audience to get this with Neil Finn at that show. https://youtu.be/PI3IiEjSzO0

One more resume flung out into the void. I wish I had a sense of where I stand in this situation. My brain has been completely crisped by the past few years and I'm mired in imposter anxiety. Every qualification and XP I've had just crumbles and blows away when I try to write it out. I don't […]

I made more sock knitters today! We still have homework and practicing to get through but it was fun and the team got started well. 9 ppl in an intro class is a good number for a new-to-here teacher & venue.

This kind of stuff is something I really worry about, though I may be able to have more confidence than I do in diagnostic “AI” - I don’t know enough about the development under the hood. Radiology has used augmented diagnostics for at least a decade. It’s effective, but inadequate alone, and […]

Worthwhile read. It’s us, y’all, we are the social in social media.

For those who would like to see less Meta meta distracting us from all the good stuff in the Fediverse, but who still follow high-output, one-way accounts like journos, politicians, or celebs ... Review who you're following, and figure out if they have a non-meta Fedi account, or at least if […]

Tonight's #fuckitfriday procrastination seems to have been the whole Meta business. I should probably eat. Then finish today's SQL, and read some of this virtual library that dropped for the grad course this week. I think my prof assumed because he started posting course material on Jan 2nd […]

I swear the temperature dropped another 5 degrees while I was out walking. Fortunately for my toes - wool socks. Hands, not so much, the gloves I wear to have use of my fingers are too thin to do much.

Madam has deconstructed her current Cat Trap. #caturday is any day. #catsky