I feel like Keanu Reeves and Nic Cage are opposite ends of a spectrum, both illustrating how narrow our definition of "acting" is.

Jesse Crall🕊

2021-04-28 22:51:35

Twitter

I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded.

sarah zedig! (@hmsnofun) on Twitter wrote:

cryptocurrency exists because capitalism has failed to provide for everyone's basic needs, making many people desperate and primed to get caught up in whatever grift promises to pay the next month's rent. crypto exists because everything that can be exploited must be.

Mx. Maxwell (@MxMaxwellmusic) on Twitter wrote:

It's a product whose production burns as much power as a small country each day but whose value is completely divorced from labor, instead entirely generated via speculation.

It is the final and most destructive form of Capital.

Part of me wants to use the Twitter connector to natively view my Twitter thread in Friendica, because that would make tweets a lot easier to share. Especially since the alternative, manually linking to tweets, is much less satisfying than seeing the actual tweet content in the feed.

Another part of me, however, is loathe to connect Friendica to Twitter, because I have so many negative, stressful associations with Twitter and I rather like how my Friendica feed can be a haven from that. 😕

I want little more than to tear my house's walls open to the studs, completely rewire it and add Ethernet and coaxial cables, and replace all the plaster walls with drywall.

Alas, projects like that are "expensive".

When the weather was still grey and chilly, I pruned our shrubs. The roses, the blueberries, and the butterfly bushes; with blades in hand, their steel harder than my resolve, I severed limbs and hoped the plants would forgive me.

Today, the spring sun shines on new growth everywhere I look.

There are new #Netrunner cards coming at the end of the month, so I'm sorting my collection in preparation.

God, I love this game.

Echoing what @Local Dad, Ben Hamill said here! I'm part of NISEI, the fan project providing ongoing support for the game, so please feel free to ask me questions as well—I love talking about Netrunner.

Local Dad, Ben Hamill

2021-03-05 18:14:03

If you’ve ever been curious about the card game #Netrunner but never jumped in now is a great time to check it out. There’s a new-player-focused set coming out on the 28th and some other stuff. NISEI is releasing sneak peeks all month as that date approaches. The Green Level Clearance Discord is super friendly to new folks (like me). It’s never been less expensive to get into it, either, because proxies are tournament legal. AMA.

[heads up: lewd joke in photo]

Whoever painted this door at my veterinarian's office did not think it through all the way.

Under most circumstances, civilians are legally permitted to openly film on-duty police officers under the First Amendment. And while the interaction between Devermont and Fair is pretty benign, BHPD’s recent behavior suggests that at least some cops believe they can prevent themselves from being filmed or livestreamed by playing copyrighted music, which would have serious implications for more serious incidents of police misconduct.

[heads-up: description of injury]

Everyone please join me in shaming my cat, who clawed an inch-long (surface-level) scratch into my index finger during playtime this morning.

The idea of giving my cat access to the dark web is... concerning. 😆

Alex

2021-01-21 23:34:16

if your cat often bothers you at your computer and walks all over your keyboard, it's because they're trying to join you and do what you're doing. It's a sign of affection! One way to mitigate disruption without pushing away your cat is by buying your cat their own laptop and plugging it in next to yours. make sure the laptop has wifi, a VPN, and access to the darkweb

Average annual returns for Lego sets are comparable to those of fine art, wine and stamps, according to a group of U.K. researchers, potentially making the multigenerational construction toys a relatively safe alternative asset class for investors.

@Hypolite Petovan, look at you with your fancy "safe alternative asset class"! 😉

This is cool. I have a soft spot for Markdown, and it's nice to see an attempt made at standardizing it.

kravietz 🦇

2021-01-13 20:09:22

There's actually upcoming #markdown specification, and it's much more useful as a cheat-sheet than any other documents I've seen so far:

spec.commonmark.org/0.29/

The sea shanty seems like the strangest possible pick for this year’s new, hot music trend, but as a longtime sea-shanty fan (what can I say, I’m the type who read Horatio Hornblower novels in high school), I’m here to tell you that sea shanties make so much sense for this moment, right now. They’re songs with simple, blunt rhythms, meant to be easy to learn and easy to sing along with while doing the hard physical work of sailing a large fishing vessel. One person is the song leader, setting the pace and singing the verses, but the engine of the song is in the repeating chorus that everyone sings together over and over again. They are unifying, survivalist songs, designed to transform a huge group of people into one collective body, all working together to keep the ship afloat.

Mark Rosewater, head designer for Magic: The Gathering, has often said on social media that one of the hardest parts of the job is knowing things that are in the pipeline for the game, but will not be public for a year or two yet.

I am now familiar with that feeling.

[heads up: alc]

From a couple nights ago: Picture's nothing special, but I made a pandan old-fashioned. It was really tasty; simple, nutty, and sweet, with a slightly creamy mouthfeel.

@Laury Plant, this may be of interest to you. 😉

Here's to enduring.

Here's to laying deep roots.

Here's to what we build with our hands for each other, and to the loving connections that sustain us.