Dan Jones shared 6 months ago
If you rush headlong toward the future, you may despair when your path veers away, even for a short time, from your goals. Be patient. It takes time for you to become who you will be.
I thought #CastawayDiva was going to be a cute, funny #KDrama.
I did not expect it to be so heart-wrenching, especially in just the first episode.
Dan Jones shared 6 months ago
'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to be slowly eaten while still alive. There are, on the whole, many things worse than having loved and lost.
Welcome... to Night Vale.
Dan Jones shared 6 months ago
📚❤️ PLEASE BOOST. Would you buy a book written by a favorite social media poster? Platform doesn’t matter—any & all. Let’s say you follow someone because a certain subject is of critical interest, & this person’s input has been extremely high value. Said poster, w/thousands or millions of followers, publishes a book that’s mostly a compilation of post content. Are you likely to buy?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #books #bookstodon #reading #read #writinglife #bibliophile #bookworm #bookbuying
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Yes, for myself you voted for this answer 42% (51 votes)
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Maybe to give to someone else who doesn’t follow t 10% (13 votes)
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Nope 36% (44 votes)
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Other (explanations very welcome in post comments) 10% (12 votes)
I was watching #StarTrek #VoyageHome yesterday, and got a new theory.
If the events of Voyage Home had never happened, there never would've been Cetacean Ops in 24th century starships.
My theory goes that when George and Gracie were brought to the 23rd century and saved Earth from the whale probe, humans realized that cetaceans were more intelligent than we'd previously thought.
Maybe Uhura and Dr. Taylor worked together to get the universal translator to work on whale and dolphin languages, and because of Scotty's clever modifications to the Klingon Bird of Prey they'd borrowed, they were able to start fitting Federation ships with similar tanks so that cetaceans could start joining Starfleet and serving on starships.
Without those events, Leiutenants Kimolu and Matt never would've gotten the opportunity to serve aboard the Cerritos. #LowerDecks
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE Showrunner Details William Shatner's Scrapped Return As Villainous Captain Kirk
Apparently Shatner's ego spared us from an awful planned plotline with Mirror Kirk stuck in the Phantom Zone escaping and battling Prime Archer.
Dan Jones shared 6 months ago
Nice thing about working from home?
I took a little video game break with my kids in the middle of the day, instead of a lunch break.
We don’t have a modern system, but ToeJam and Earl (Sega Genesis) on RetroArch is great, and my sons really enjoyed it.
#WFH #WorkFromHome #Parenting #VideoGames #RetroGaming #SegaGenesis
There are six different QR codes in the church program today.
At this point, they should just have one QR code at the entrance to the chapel which links to a PDF of the program, which should have regular links.
My three-year-old had a meltdown when I put Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the TV, when she actually wanted to watch Mickey Mouse Funhouse.
How dare I commit such a grievous faux pas.
When you have a mustache, blowing your nose is messy business.
Name your favorites from #StarTrek:
- Uniform: Lower Decks
- Spock: Nimoy, starting with Voyage Home. After his rebirth, Spock gained a lot of emotional intelligence that he didn't have before, and Leonard did a great job of incorporating that growth into the character.
- Couple: Worf and K'Ehleyer
- Character: Data
- Starship: Enterprise-E
- Villain: Kahn
- Series: #TNG
- Captain: Picard
- Movie: First Contact
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
"How the ‘laws of war’ apply to the conflict between Israel and Hamas"
#EU #Pentagon #Military #War #NATO #Weapons #US #NAFO #Hamas #Palestine #Israel #Syria #Iran #Russia #Lebanon #News #Gaza #Putin #Hezbollah #Ukraine #Zelensky
I told my three-year-old, "It's time to take a bath!"
She replied, "No, Daddy. That's not a thing."
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
If in a few days you stop seeing any news from Israel criticizing the government, know that this is because the government is now pushing regulations to heavily punish anyone who dares criticize the government online or in the media.
Using the war as a cover for enacting a full on fascist dictatorship
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
This week, WordPress.com announced that all of their blogs would now have the option to join the Fediverse. The announcement included instructions on how to enable it.
As Twitter, now X, has become increasingly less usable, a number of other platforms have been vying to be its replacement: Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and several others. Unfortunately, choosing a social media platform has historically been more about who was on that platform than its feature set.
But one trend offers the chance of upending that calculation: interoperability. If someone on service A can follow and interact with people on service B or any other service, then, similar to using email or the straight web, everyone can be free to choose the platform of their choice. The biggest new factor in the calculation might be whether a particular service participates in that interoperability.
WordPress.com’s announcement means they’ll be part of that broad federation. For now, turning it on just means a couple of million Mastodon users, as well as users of a few other Fediverse services, can subscribe directly to your blog. However, both Tumblr and Threads have announced plans to join the Fediverse, so eventually this could dramatically increase the reach of anyone participating in these services by hundreds of millions of users.
Hopefully critical mass will incentivize other services to join. Bluesky, with its own federation protocol, might eventually be brought into the fold. And even the old legacy social networks may find it worth their while. It’s a future which could marry the benefits of the old open web with the conveniences of social networks.
So this blog is now on the Fediverse. The purpose of this post is to announce that, and to note that the current implementation has some rough edges.
The biggest I’ve noticed so far is that while the blog posts themselves federate out to other services, comments currently don’t. A direct reply to the post on another service does show in WordPress as a comment, which is cool, but it appears to be one way. Replies to that comment do not currently go back to the other service. Which means if you reply to a comment from Mastodon here in WordPress, the Mastodon person won’t see it.
In the short term, I’m not sure how many of these there will actually be. (So far I’m the only Fediverse follower of my blog.) But you can recognize a Fediverse comment because it will have “@blog-account-name” in it (“@selfawarepatterns.com” for this blog). You can see the reply in its native service, along with any subsequent replies, by clicking on the comment timestamp.
Hopefully this is something that will be fixed soon. I checked with the developers on their Github, and it’s slated to be included “in the next iteration”. Hopefully that means the next version release which is quickly incorporated by WordPress.com. Until then, if it becomes an issue here, I’ll do my best to bridge any conversations.
There are other issues, such as the post title not being included in the federated version, as well as the Fediverse profile looking a bit rough. And I’m sure others will come out with usage. But overall it’s progress.
Anyway, if you’d like to subscribe to this blog in the Fediverse, it’s address is selfawarepatterns.com@selfawarepatterns.com.
Do you plan to put your blog in the Fediverse? Or wait until the kinks are worked out?
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A view into the Fediverse, showing various sevices in an interconnected web.
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
Pete Davidson hosted Saturday Night Live last night and somehow said exactly the right thing to open a comedic television program after an unspeakably tragic week. https://kottke.org/23/10/comedy-and-tragedy
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
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Gardener digging in the dirt with Garak’s head pasted on and the text: Remember: When you bury a body cover it with endangered plants so it's illegal to dig it up. Follow Me For More Gardening Tips
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
Beep boop. #VideoGames #dogs #funny
![[A pixelated video game screen shows an empty living room with a dog and a couch.]
[At the top of the screen, it says “The humans are at work!”]
[A menu appears with 3 options:
1. Sniff floor.
2. Look out window.
3. Jump on couch.]
[“Jump on couch” is selected and the dog hops up from the living room floor onto the couch.]
[we now see a real life dog in front of a computer.]
Dog: This is so exciting!](https://microwords.goodevilgenius.org/proxy/media/19869/lFe-bQhF_3zrRg2UycdJDlthvyIkSF9pxSzOPpIfg8E=/aHR0cHM6Ly9maWxlcy5tYXN0b2Rvbi5zb2NpYWwvbWVkaWFfYXR0YWNobWVudHMvZmlsZXMvMTExLzIzNS8wMTAvNDMwLzk4MC80NDIvb3JpZ2luYWwvOGJiZTllYzA2YWIzZjkyYi5wbmc=/740 "[A pixelated video game screen shows an empty living room with a dog and a couch.]
[At the top of the screen, it says “The humans are at work!”]
[A menu appears with 3 options:
1. Sniff floor.
2. Look out window.
3. Jump on couch.]
[“Jump on couch” is selected and the dog hops up from the living room floor onto the couch.]
[we now see a real life dog in front of a computer.]
Dog: This is so exciting!")
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[A pixelated video game screen shows an empty living room with a dog and a couch.] [At the top of the screen, it says “The humans are at work!”] [A menu appears with 3 options: 1. Sniff floor. 2. Look out window. 3. Jump on couch.] [“Jump on couch” is selected and the dog hops up from the living room floor onto the couch.] [we now see a real life dog in front of a computer.] Dog: This is so exciting!
Dan Jones shared 7 months ago
#TheOnion absolutely knocking their coverage of #IsraelPalestineconflict out of the park, as usual, and skewering the broadsheets in the process: https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505
A satirical comedy site provides better balance than most newspapers. That's the universe we're in. We'll be wearing our shoes on our heads before long.
