Had to go looking for more of Angine de Poitrine ... Rick Beato's videos are always awesome. One of the few music journos/interviewers who really is all about the music. Bring's a professor's depth to any & every commentary. https://youtu.be/zO8bt94-ybg?si=rRXG5ZlsdyTEt9t_

Is there a fediverse client for a Nintendo Switch yet?

Kid and I did lighten up on the walk home, getting into a set theory and language discussion on the interrelationships of birb, chonk, and borb after passing a dozen or so fat robins having a field day on a wormy lawn in the rain. I was told I have to ask the fediverse: is borb a special case […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/116959871338565909 My recent export-consolidate-import of my previously 3 mastodon following collections has somehow wiped out all lists-but-remove-from-home-TL and that's kinda some fun rediscoveries. Although Plague Poems is a little heavy - it's good.

Kid and I did lighten up on the walk home, getting into a set theory and language discussion on the interrelationships of birb, chonk, and borb after passing a dozen or so fat robins having a field day on a wormy lawn in the rain. I was told I have to ask the fediverse: is borb a special case […]

Lifelabs not in their best game today. First could only find my appt, not my kid’s, so checked her in as a walk-in with a 40 min longer wait than my appt time. Then she showed up on the leaderboard at her original appt time, not checked in. So I had them correct that - just a couple minutes […]

RE: https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/116944127241604271 Everyone is going to call this kid “brilliant” and “a prodigy” and they are not wrong. But I see some finer details here. This young person is incredibly caring towards his fellow creatures and so attentive to their experiences, he noticed a […]

My podcast guilty pleasure of late is “Do As We Say, Not As They Did”, by Dr. Nerdlove and Dr.Liz. The superficial premise of “dating advice by trashing the worst of incel Reddit” should be both cringe and irrelevant to me. Except the two hosts seem to be genuinely skilled humans at being human […]

Totally determined to give new music a fair listen. But what the heck is “math rock” and how do you pronounce “Khn”?

@[email protected] Hello from the home timeline, welcome Bookwyrm

Home now - hope Angine de Poitrine was fun, but when they started telling everyone to get their chairs and blankets off the lawn and out of the way, it was pretty clear it was not for us Olds tonight. Got my tix for next year, though! If you want to get the super-ultra-early-bird deal, July […]

Time for a #hillsidemusicfestival shoutout to #cymru with Gwenifer Raymond over at the Lake Stage.

Assembling a playlist (of Hillside and more) after this smokey, windy, rainy, sunny, cloudy, beautiful, scary, hopeful, sad and blissful weekend. Hopium 4 Apocalypse. #happyhillside #hillsidemusicfestival

Blueberry Jam from Mimi O’Bonsawin #hillsideFestival #happyHillside#hillsideFestival #stompTheLawn!!!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116947550372082893 Hey, I found another fediverse Hillsider! #happyhillside. #hillsidemusicfestival

MIMI O’BONSAWIN #hillsidemusicfestival wow

Sunday morning Gospel session. Thousand or so early-rising Hillsiders joining 5-6 acts on stage for a session. They had to put crowd security on the gate, we maxxed out on the allowed attendance. #hillside

Overheard from the stage “Have you heard of Neil Young?”. #helpless #hillsidemusicfestival

#hillside is fully sold out for the first time in 14 years. We are up and in the island for Gospel Hour, with a thousand or so friends and family at the Chirch of #hillsidefestival. Day starts with the biggest session of the weekend, this year it ends with Angine de Poitrine (and I admit, I […]

Gravity applies extra hard, but with slight delays in activation, to coyotes. #cartooncharactersrules #hashtaggames

RE: https://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/116944071693778196 Blobbity blobby blobs.

Learning some marquetry basics at a #hillside workshop.

BLOCK ROCKIN’ BEATS!!!!! Chemical Bros samples x Colombian funk percussion team Killabeatmaker. The lawn is gettin’ absolutely STOMPED! #hillsidefestival

It’s gotten quite windy, and in typical #hillside fashion, people are teaming up and meeting new friends as we help chase each others’ hats, lightweight chairs and untethered sun shelters as they blow away across lawns and down the pathways. Our shelter is well ballasted by the immovable teen […]

Listening to the Magic Tuber String Band . @shuttermonster says “Appalachian traditional with a side John Cage”. Yep, that sounds about right. Very nice. Some sad, rough stories in the music, even with few lyrics. Sounds from life near former coal-town and nuclear plant wastelands in North […]

We got to Hillside early enough today that I scored the super-secret fresh maize breakfast platter from ChocoSol. It’s not officially “on the menu”, I think they just put up breakfast for their own staff and started selling the leftovers a few years ago, now it’s […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Every year we ask admins, moderators, community builders, to tell us how things are going, what they need, and generally take the pulse of the open social web. So far this year we've had responses from 22 countries. If you're not on the list, nudge your admin to take the 5 minute survey today […]

We are all checked in, and heading for the Island.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116935970994765162 Amazing informative thread - threads, probably, I haven't followed all branches. So much more in human communications than just the text tokens from a select few dominant character sets.

It’s #hillsidefestival weekend!!! See you on the island in a few hours .

Ooh, the hillside food menu includes a pupusaria! I thing that’s new this year? Show up hungry!

Automatic account suspension from home instance, no appeals, of any account generating a post with more than 5 hashtags at once send toot.

Hey, #fedi and #mastodon folks: is there anyone out there who's written a guide to pulling out Mastodon About pages via the API? What I'm interested in doing is gathering About pages (including server rules). I can do this by hand (indeed, I've done this many times before!) but maybe it's time […]

Meanwhile on bluesky...

https://weather.gc.ca/airquality/pages/provincial_summary/on_e.html The observed AQI across most of Ontario , as of 8 am, has already exceeded the day’s forecast AQI, which was already topping or exceeding the damn chart. Kingston, Ottawa and Cornwall are the only regions not at 10 or 10+ and […]

Going to add to this my periodic reminder about “follows” vs. “Engagement” on the fediverse and why I might not follow you back … If we share an instance, you may almost always presume I “follow” you because I keep my Local feed pinned in a multi-column client. Please don’t be offended at not […]

RE: https://lile.cl/@capibarabot/116926769705659558 consolidating my follows from my past mastodon/pixelfed/etc accounts ... may have been a mistake. Not sure. But the capybaras are back in my home feed. I may need to turn old lists into "Collections" then figure out how to […]

RE: https://mastodon.world/@davidho/116924556870398714 Why are so many of us so certain that it is possible to unscramble the cooked eggs? Carbon Capture, nuclear fusion, fucking AI slop ... perpetual motion! - there is a fundamental of thermodynamics that just says "nope".

RE: https://corteximplant.com/@T_TR0N/116917895306464747 *sigh* .... every damn time ....

the sky is a horrifying shade of yellow-orange because of devastating fires linked to climate change and the Prime Minister of Canada is posting "here's how we're funnelling more taxpayer money to the Fossil Fuel Industry" can't make this shit up

RE: https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116924756400182803 the signals in this digital landscape are always fascinating ... I just wish they weren't so frequently deeply concerning.

RE: https://mas.to/@RikerGoogling/116925547957275734 I had somehow unfollowed (or been soft-blocked?) from Riker Googling and the other Star Trek accounts from the ded birb diaspora. Glad to reconnect, I need the laughs.

Further UX delights I am finding in @phanpy : in the mobile client, I have to tap on (open) an individual post to do something about it, including like or boost. Is that on purpose? If so, there is a very canny design mind at work here, with some great wetware engineering know-how. If it’s by […]

RE: https://spore.social/@samnabi/116909155913344107 Kay-Dub, I will be forever disappoint if Sam does not earn his seat on Kitchener City Council this fall. It's not my ward so I don't get to vote, but there is no other candidate in the entirety of Waterloo Region who is this engaged in what […]

RE: https://birdbutt.com/@colinstu/116899845790924753 Hungry Bun has discovered teleporting short distances.

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo/116912500970035250 Earlier this year I was introduced to the term "stationarity". Via the phrase "stationarity is dead". I believe this is an illustration of exactly what that means. Stationarity is the idea that climate services cycle and oscillate […]

In other news ... went for a walk to an errand, and first my stupid calf muscle then my hamstring decided to develop charlie-horse cramps WHILE I was walking. That's new, usually those are overnight things, and pretty rare for me. Argh. hour and a half later and I'm still trying to get it to […]

I have convinced a friend to join @johanna in sandboxing around with some more-than-mastodon tools I've been mucking with. It'll be a slow re-introduction to fedi-space for @alikufogo, I think we weren't all that great back in the day I first got him onto a Mastodon host. Say hi, give him […]

One way in which I am apparently out of step with the zeitgeist on this social network is that I flat out cannot wrap my head around the idea of considering a "boost" to be an "attack" or "aggro" or the like. People on the fedi are just profoundly weird about the idea of being seen by the […]

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timdesjardins/116903634530246503 Someone on the Internet has cookies and now I need cookies. BRB.