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 Spotted this beautiful little feline at #DynamoDonuts yesterday. At first, I thought it was Odin, the black and white cat that hangs out at Haus Coffee, but this cat was much friendlier and larger. He also wore a "do not feed" collar, something I had never seen before. I am starting to think there are three different, but similar-looking, outdoor cats that hang out at the cafés on 24th Street in SF. #CatsOfMastodon I drew Marvel characters as cats. https://docpop.org/2010/09/mrvlcats/ (CC-BY-NC Doc Pop) #Marvel #cats Today’s #SidewalkFriends sketch was inspired by some covered up graffiti on a nearby wall. I think I started off seeing Princess Bubblegum in my head, but it turned into another character. I can’t tell you how happy I am to get texts like these from friends. I’m so optimistic about the future of the #fediverse and always excited to talk about it. The fediverse is still a tricky concept to explain though. I’d love to hear how you like to describe this *gestures wildly at ActivityPub/Federation/Mastodon/Threads/AT Protocol/PeerTube* to a friend.
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@docpop@mastodon.social The simplest way I would describe it is that it is similar to how email works. You can make an account at a host and can interact with others that are using different hosts. I'm a sucker for weird and esoteric tags, like these word squares someone has been writing in our neighborhood lately. Each square is a type of acrostic that can be read horizontally or vertically. For example: T R U S T
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 @docpop interesting, the heart-trend square is on wikipedia, but the rest are not. I wonder if the tagger came up with them on their own.
Did you find the sator-rotas square yet? It would fit on a building wall.
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I just received #TristanPerich’s newest circuit album, “Composition for Three Small Speakers”. This is part of Tristan’s 1-bit music series. https://tristanperich.bandcamp.com/album/composition-for-three-small-speakers  It's been 14 years since I drew this "Reverse-Trick-Or-Treating" comic. Have you ever noticed that most self-driving cars don't have any passengers? "Deadheading" is an industry term for keeping driverless cars in constant motion, even when they have neither a passenger nor a destination. Waymo & Cruise rely on deadheading to avoid paying for parking. Why pay the city for public parking when you can store your car on the road for free (as long as it's moving)? Since I've started keeping track, I've noticed that over 90% of the self-driving cars I see are empty...
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 @docpop This is hilarious!🤡 In Europe we move in the direction of being charged for even entering some parts of the city. Then people that don’t need to go there with a car won’t go there. But then, Europe is not designed with car first mentality…🤷🏻♂️  @docpop With an additional advantage that the system keeps learning from newly encountered situations? Automattic has acquired the popular ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. @pfefferle, the plugin's creator, will be joining Automattic to work on ActivityPub integrations full time. https://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-activitypub-plugin-for-wordpress Here's an interview I shot with @pfefferle and @tim about the ActivityPub and Webmentions plugins, and how #WordPress and the #fediverse can be used together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2Bksfof0U  Wake up, babe. New @felixcolgrave animation just dropped. https://youtu.be/4gvSYEqOMn8 "There are never purely technological solutions to societal problems." Not sure why that particular quote has been on my mind today, but I ended up mocking it up in the style of some motivational posters. I first heard the quote in @molly0xfff's "Blockchain solutionism" talk at the University of Texas in Austin, but I've seen other variations of it since then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k_GjxuJDM |
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