I was getting a bunch of notifications of new posts, but when I clicked the "network" button, nothing new was popping up.

I realized this evening that I was still on the "Personal" tab, which only shows conversations I'm part of. Clicking on "Latest Activity" brought me back and showed me all the stuff I'd been missing. Somehow, I'd forgotten to check that. It's easy to overlook!

Learning experience!

(And hey, if you're still trying to figure out how to navigate Motley, maybe this work-in-progress guide might help?)

A "close" button that doesn't work on an advertisement that takes up half the screen.

I fucking hate navigating the web in 2020.

I am quite sunburned and bug-bitten and exhausted, but I am back from a weekend backpacking trips in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington!

Pictures to come in a bit.

This is super cool!

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A great read by @Hypolite Petovan on the advantages of the Fediverse.

But fine-grained user-controlled filtering is exactly what makes the Fediverse better than Twitter. We just aren’t meant to receive all the content in the world, some of it is upsetting, for a variety of personal reasons that are specific to each one of us. The people advocating for having unfettered access to all the federated content must necessarily be equally unaffected by all points of view and I for one don’t want to have anything to do with them.

Thankfully, on the Fediverse, I don’t have to.

I really like this criticism of Pokémon's game design, especially regarding typing. There's more in the thread.

Valenoern

2020-06-01 23:35:55

I feel like an important part of how pokémon appeals to kids /is/ the way it became more complicated than it initially intended.
(if you've ever played neopets, there's another good example of how something having a million different facets can keep children interested.)

that said,
i feel like it may have been a mistake for pokémon to not leave room for that complexity at the very beginning.

the types for one are the most arbitrary thing, and yet got applied to ~6x as many mons as "intended"

David Tennant is the type O-negative of people, what my friend Charlie calls the universal boner. He is tall and sort of ginger, always shaved yesterday or the day before and has a very non-actorly habit of never looking directly at his scene partner, perhaps he might just be too rumpled and tired to do so. When he does make eye contact, it is always suddenly, with amber-colored eyes blazing and usually simultaneously yelling some English-adjacent Scottish noises. But when David Tennant finally does make eye contact, it is with an intensity that could be murderous or could be love. Often the scripts he chooses call for both simultaneously. And the whole combination is utterly, disarmingly charming enough to startle one, momentarily, away from whatever sexual preferences existed before and briefly replace them with a sexual preference for David Tennant and David Tennant only.

For one thing, an obsession with contaminated surfaces distracts from more effective ways to combat COVID-19. “People have prevention fatigue,” Goldman told me. “They’re exhausted by all the information we’re throwing at them. We have to communicate priorities clearly; otherwise, they’ll be overloaded.”

Hygiene theater can take limited resources away from more important goals. Goldman shared with me an email he had received from a New Jersey teacher after his Lancet article came out. She said her local schools had considered shutting one day each week for “deep cleaning.” At a time when returning to school will require herculean efforts from teachers and extraordinary ingenuity from administrators to keep kids safely distanced, setting aside entire days to clean surfaces would be a pitiful waste of time and scarce local tax revenue.

#COVID-19

This is super cool.

jom

2020-07-27 12:00:20

Old trains as bridges. ( #Georgia Location: osm.org/go/x_z80mltV?m)

A couple of things:
You can’t hold someone accountable if they aren’t in your community.
Punishment without forgiveness is abuse.
Atonement is an active process.
Forgiveness is not mandatory for justice.