B. @bii@toot.cafe
also @bii on twitter and mastodon.social.
"Sir, are you classified as human?"
"Uh, negative -- I am a meat popsicle."
"The most unfortunately-named zord" #PowerRangers
Current mood: reluctantly uninstalling "Miitomo" from my smartphone. (RIP)
Mexican architect Javier Senosiain specialises in sustainable "organic architecture" and it's pretty cool. #solarpunk
Okay, since this is a recurring question (which I should have expected), I've updated sunbeam.city's about page with a link to a short description of what #solarpunk actually is, taking on board suggestions from the Fediverse:
Last night's dream of traveling to an island paradise to stay in a fancy hotel, and meeting a classy & pretty woman on the flight there, was much better than the horror dreams of my previous night. Muchas gracias, subconscious. I needed that one.
Man, zombie dreams. Can I stop having those? That'd be nice, thanks.
Sunday morning meditation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOVsJOybaq4
Theory: You can tell which stage of life you're in by the way you relate to John Mellencamp songs (e.g., "Cherry Bomb", "Jack & Diane", "Small Town", "Authority Song").
#TodayILearned about a Russian meme/conspiracy theory that says U.S. intelligence agencies orchestrated a total undermining of Russian culture. All moral decay in Russia, the theory goes, can therefore be blamed on the Americans. Really, guys?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dulles-plan-conspiracy-theory-russian-election-trolls
Nietzsche: "And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
Mastodon: "Scream into the abyss, have it scream back at you, and make friends."
Don't forget to boost a toot today.
If you're a member of The 501st Legion and your voicemail message doesn't start with "Sorry I missed you", what are you even doing with your life?
Urgency/outrage/drama keep people coming back to Twitter in the same way that sugar and fats keep them coming back to McDonalds. Similarly, you can offer a Diet Coke or a McSalad, but people aren't going to buy those because they taste better than a Coke or a Big Mac. They're going to buy those because they understand the tradeoff of sugary/fatty foods, and because it's a lifestyle choice that projects certain values to themselves and others: temperance, restraint, health-consciousness, etc.
FACT: Knowing the band name and only one word of an overheard song's lyrics *doesn't* make a web search for "barenaked ladies underwear" any less risky.
“Evil has only the power that we give it.
I give you nothing. I take back.
Starve. Starve. Starve.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Note to self, paraphrased from a good thread on the birdsite:
"YSBW ('You Should Be Working') is a very serious condition of the freelancer or self-employed person, wherein they feel perpetual guilt, no matter how much they've actually done that day.
In truth, YSBW only when it doesn't stop you from:
a) eating
b) resting well
c) maintaining personal / environmental hygiene
These are things that cannot be sacrificed for deadlines or for customers."
Thread starts here: https://twitter.com/orbitalnomad/status/958438010466504704
#worldbuilding idea:
This, but with alien cartographers (or chrononaut archaeologists) miscommunicating with us in the present day, so their names for our places and things are like "Watchasain", "Ewan Ugly Mudder", "Ogaad-ogaad", "Pelíz Fríz", "Wataryu", "Knowing Lace", "Gohóm", "Gowannengit", all of which they use naively.
https://toot.cafe/media/V8f5DF31wvYQasAWaR0