the inverse of "make sure you have working backups of what's important" is "give yourself permission to delete digital detritus that no longer has any value to your life"

you do not need every email you've received for the last decade.

you do not need three copies of every photo you've ever taken with your phone.

you do not need the downloads folder for each of your previous twelve laptops.

you can delete some stuff.

whoa, The WELL set up a mastodon instance?

that's wild.

happy to have The WELL in the fediverse!

from a followers-only post, with permission of the original author:

Itd be so sick to liberate an LRAD from the cops and use it as a speaker for a rave.
Them shits are so loud.

Tiny bells on an overcast day.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence

if we can use normal every day operating systems to virtualize weird operating systems we can use weird operating systems as our daily drivers and virtualize normalcy, just keep it in a little box when we absolutely have to interact with it.

hot take: many of the growing pains the fediverse cyclically deals with stem from the extremely limiting "follow" modelling of human interaction. I feel like addressing this is a foundational issue if we want to encourage actually healthy use of these spaces.

we do with spare change (run hacky flaky social network nodes) what titans of industry require billions of dollars to achieve (run hacky flaky social network nodes).

money is clearly fake as fuck.

tons of new folks on the ‘verse introducing themselves and some of them have some pretty cool feats in their past.

this is me letting you know that we’ll be just as impressed by a story about how you shoplifted seventeen corn dogs and a number ten can of nacho cheese sauce from a matinee showing of Terms of Endearment.

we just really like stories and stuff, ok?

our hacky, low budget hobbyist social network has one billionaire so mad he can't remember how to take a screenshot for his US$44B social network and I think that's beautiful.

keep up the good work, er, hobby.
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@ajroach42 we should come up with a smooth path to get Analog Revolution bands into the fediverse so it’s easier to talk about (and with) them ;)

Good morning!

It might be really dorky but I find myself listening to the new @DoctorDeathray single, "Outrageous Fortune", numerous times a day, and it’s not just because I want to extract micropennies from the capitalist streaming services. This is a fun track! (Okay, I am biased, but y’all dig my biases)

https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/

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Twice today I introduced myself to a visitor to the makerspace and had them reply with "oh, you’re Sundog? I just read about you in a zine!" and folks that’s fun.

my beloved partner has already set our non-internet-connected clocks back one hour to account for the overnight temporal shenanigans and I just about vapor locked trying to figure out how it was so early after such a jam-packed day

gosh I needed today. this community is fab.

heretical take: Good Times by Chic is twice as long as it should be. It's a good lick, Nile, but it's not that good.

But the best thing about a Smash Mouth show is it’s unequaled, across-the-board, universal appeal. More than any other band, Smash Mouth is internationally loved by people of all ages and tastes. The band’s clean and irresistibly catchy songs are delivered with such joy and finesse, Smash Mouth is appropriate for literally any event. Loved globally for it’s fun and positive message, Smash Mouth music is also nearly impossible NOT to dance to.

-- from the Smash Mouth about page