@babe somehow I had tickets for all 3

@babe wie bitte!

@babe Guten Tag. (:

@babe that is strangely accurate

@babe this is the best goddamn analogy I've ever seen for the vibes here, and it's worth noting that for half the attendees it's very Germanly efficient because they wanted to go to all three conferences in the first place

@babe Also, there’s college professors who signed up for more than one of these events.

@babe And this is why we like it. :)

@babe at the exact same time

@babe communist workers AGM uniting to throw off their chains

... to be swiftly picked up by the BDSM community

@babe That's my spam folder.

@babe You forgot the german furry convention too. They where right next to the bdsm and FSF one.

@babe you're not wrong :kerm:

@babe I'm here for the bdsm convention. Ich habe wie Deutsch gelernen prepariert.

@babe I don't have so much bdsm in my timeline, I think I got the furry convention instead.

@babe

@babe I've only been here since November, but this seems spot-on (in a good way). My feed is absolute chaos, yet I care a lot about all the people posting.

Knowing that it took effort to come over here and make an account, and follow me, and see my posts, makes the interactions more meaningful to me.

@babe Back in the late 80s I went to a small Xwindows conference in Boston. The conference hotel was also hosting a Dental conference.

The sharply dressed East Coast Dental professionals looked askance at the hairy sandal wearing MIT dropout crowd.

Getting in a lift was a source of continuing amusement to me.

@babe I feel very called out by this and I'm not even German.

@babe

There seems to be a cat show on somewhere here as well, but they need better cages as the cats are just wandering around when ever they like.

@babe That's just good, logical, thinking.

Afterwards the feet convention takes place and, obviously, needs all the exhibition space

@babe
Do you, uh, do you still have tickets? Asking for a friend.

@babe There's also a collection of InfoSec people at the nearby town square, handing out brochures about impending Cyberdoom. But everyone ignores them.

@babe this is just hamburg

@babe And here I thought it was only my timeline! 🤣

@babe Bluesky is similar, except fewer software nerds and more furries

@babe All well and good, but it takes a lot to get me out, and without the catcultcon as well, I'd probably have stayed at home

@babe Oh damn, this is an amazingly fit description! Love it! 🤩

@babe and a cyclist enthusiast convention

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnpV6Itw1Q
Link relevant

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"Accidentally"?? 😂

@babe And there are a few here that wondered across from the LGBTQ+ convention next door.

@babe
Luckily fully a third of the attendees had booked tickets for two of the three in the first place

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Holy crap I love this.

@babe The model train people are somewhat irked at not being mentioned, I suspect.

@babe no you must be speeking about ccc camp