I wish I could channel this in some kind of liberation, but ultimately, it's simply a tough realisation that after more than seven years in this space – almost three of which supporting and serving a community – no one cares or even notices whether I'm around or not.

The beauty of human connection stems from the things that have and haven't been communicated. From appreciation, anticipation and taking action. From understanding the meaning of words and actions beyond the superficial. From love, compassion and genuine care.

Clicked nine different sorts of FlavDrops because they were ridiculously cheap during a clearance sale. Should last a while. 😅

I think my therapist called me a brainiac today. 😅

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours. - Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusing between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' […]

So...Ghost (as in the CMS) and the great band). Could do as a personal blog (self-hosted of course)? And what about working as multiple blog tenant (as in different users having different blogs on the same platform)? Self hosters, assemble! #selfhosting #ghost #cms #blog

When I was sick recently, I noted down a question I wanted to research later and then realised that it might be an interesting test case for an LLM search. And sure enough, the answer to the exact same question went from "drug might be harmful" to "drug might be […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

It's been a while since I posted some food, but I found my small dessert visually pleasing. :) #food

Who's sparking joy in your timeline? #followfriday

Waiting for a parcel that seems to be stuck somewhere and asked the seller to investigate. Little did I know that they'd base a (correct) psychoanalysis on my inquiry.

Read some good news in a Reddit post and the top up-voted comment is: "Suck on that, $person." I feel like that's most of "social" platforms now: Everything is rivalry. To gain the most traction, there needs to be an enemy. Good news therefore isn't just something to celebrate by itself within a […]

[Living with ME/CFS, Severe ME/CFS Awareness Day] Phew, that's a tough read. I can relate to this text a lot more than I wish I could. Honestly, I don't like sharing links that make people feel worse, but if you want a glimpse of what living with ME/CFS feels like, here you go […]

I wonder if conversational podcasts have – in part – become more popular because people have less long and meaningful conversations in their life. At least for me, I'm pretty sure I'd feel even more lonely without being able to passively "participate" in conversations this way. #podcasts

On the Fediverse, no one knows you're a dog.

Is it just me or has reliability taken a huge hit in the last couple of years? Like, whenever someone says "I'll call you back until the end of the week" I find that I have to ask back: "Okay, but when would be the time to call back myself if I didn't hear from you?" And more often than not […]

[Health (-)] First infection ever since the infamous one that made me chronically ill more than two years ago. Well, let's see how this goes. 🫠 For now: rest and tea it is.

Watching a few games of a 3x3 U21 tournament on YouTube. The live chat has a few people exchanging their bets. - "What are the odds for a Greece victory?" - "Do you think the game will go under 27.5?" "Not sure, I chose under 30.5" - "Won all my bets today. :-)" Not sure if these are fans of […]

Reverse Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce in »Memento«): I remember almost everything, but only live in the short-term memory of other people.

Every day, you get another chance to unsubscribe from outrage and emotional burnout. #lastboost

The last time that we set foot on our moon was 1972. The main reason we stopped: money. It costs a lot of money and effort to send people to the moon and bring them back. It obviously cost even more when they started, as no one had done it before. Still, when political leaders made it a […]

I want the EU to finally step up and make queue position and/or average waiting time a mandatory up-front information in call queues. There's no reason to have queues without this "feature" in 2025. 😄

One of the things that I feel don't have an obvious online etiquette is unsolicited feedback. A simple "I think this video would be (even) better with an instructive voice-over" can basically elicit every reaction from "Oh, that's a great idea! Thank you so much! 🥰" to "Nobody asked you, so […]

Hey tech-savvy people, does anyone know if there's a good way to turn any YouTube video into a podcast (episode)? For a time, I used Listenbox, which extracted the audio and put it into a RSS feed so I could just put it into my podcatcher. It's not around anymore though. The best way I could […]

The in-laws are in town for a few days and truth be told: This has been exhausting for everyone even in times when I was healthy. 😅 Hopefully, we'll all get well through this week. 🙏

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but one of the things that worry me is the fact that many private services on the internet feel like infrastructure or a public good at this point. If I make a stupid reference that my wife doesn't relate to, I can open YouTube and show her a 13-year-old […]

One of the most interesting things about social networks for me is that people choose widely different parts of themselves to base their (online) identify on. Like, you can follow two parents and one will metaphorically start every posting with "as a parent ..." while the other will just […]

Often times when I think about large-scale solutions, co-ops come to mind. Imagine if some/many administrations in Europe had invested all their Microsoft licensing fees to fund a co-op that provides Office-like software for administrations. We would have invested the same amount of money, but […]

I receive a newsletter by comedian Alex Falcone, in which he shares a fun fact once a week. And I really appreciate the fact that he has respect for his audience. 😄

My one-ingredient, no-bake zucchini bread is an easy and delicious way to get in more veggies. It comes together in no time, is as versatile as regular bread and can be combined with toppings like cottage cheese to meet your protein goals! 💪 Recipe in the caption. #food

I sometimes forget that there are people with a very limited relationship to curiosity. 😄

It might've always been like this one way or another, but the disparity in modern medicine is really buffling. 😄 One the one end of the spectrum, there is: "We decoded your DNA and realised that your body is building certain genes wrong, so we took your DNA, fixed the erroneous part and […]

[Sports, 3x3 Basketball] Next Monday, the 3x3 World Cup starts. If I'm not mistaken, all games can be streamed live and watched re-live on YouTube. Event overview: https://fiba3x3.basketball/2025/worldcup/games #3x3 #3x3basketball #3x3wc

[-] Second ridiculous bad night in a row and a therapy appointment today. Looks like this week is already done for.

I saw a video where one kid just asked a random other kid if they want to go to the slides. And I think adults should be more like that, too.

I've been on sick leave for more than two years now and not a single c̶o̶l̶l̶e̶a̶g̶u̶e̶ coworker has reached out to me in any way. But! I now got an automated e-mail for my birthday, congratulating me to "show how much I am appreciated". Truly feels like genuine appreciation. 😅

I recently started playing Fallout Shelter again. Just jumped right in with a Survival Bunker (basically hard mode) and I have to say ... it's a lot easier than I remembered. 😅 With the knowledge I still have from playing two years ago, I've managed pretty well […] [Original post on mstdn.games]

I arrived at season 7 of »Taskmaster« and while many of the UK comedians on the show have been weird before, I feel like no one in this particular group of contestants is sober. 😂 Don't know enough about drugs, but they're all on their own special one. 😄 #taskmaster #taskmasteruk #gameshows

Not that I would've bought one, but I totally missed the start of the Switch 2. Don't even know any launch titles. It's sad to realise time and again how distant hobbies and interests can become once they aren't really available anymore. I still have a soft spot for Nintendo games, though, so […]

Bought a fancy chocolate bar besides the regular ones that we have in the pantry anyway. Thought that the occasional(!) additional(!) snack would probably last about a week. 48 hours later, I was able to secure my first and overall last piece. 😂

Signs that we are approaching summer: - All birds are back - Insects are buzzing around - The neighbour from downstairs is having his parents over so they can all scream at each other for an entire afternoon 🥰

Nature is busy around here this year. Two temporarily abandoned flower pots have been separately occupied by two solitary bees. Given the state of the economy, I can totally respect that. Full solidarity, sisters! ✊

Hot take: We can now stop calling every basic, obvious, self-evident and common-sense statement a "hot take", "life hack" or "unpopular opinion". Which, I know, is a very unpopular opinion.

Switching podcast speed to 1.0x and suddenly everybody seems to be tipsy.

Maybe humans work like scared dogs? You bring them into your home, give them some space and after up to a month they start befriending you? Might be worth a try.

Looking for recommendations of chill people to follow. #followfriday

Has anyone heard from Nicole lately? Is the Fediverse Chick okay? I'd send her a message myself, but with all her account migrations, it was hard to keep track of her. I might ask John Mastodon about her later. #fediversechick

Is the chirping of crickets a symbol for awkward silence in other cultures, too?

Who is pushing digital design trends to make everything bigger with more margins? And why? 😅 Who benefits from bigger buttons, more empty space and less compactness/efficiency?

Occasionally, I'll read a post calling TikTok a propaganda machine. And I have to admit that even I have totally fallen for the Chinese propaganda of introducing more baby donkeys into my life. #curateyouralgorithms #socialmedia #socialnetworks #tiktok

I don't really get why names get "translated" (localised?). Like, the last pope's name was Franciscus. Why is there a need to make this Franziskus (German, basically same pronunciation) or even Francis (English) / François (French) as if he was one's next-door neighbour? 😅 It's probably a bit […]