yep they’re all in bed together and so shady! have you been by the “dog park”? what a joke. also did you hear the city manager is claiming he didn’t see the email warning them they need to use the 1 mil in homeless funding or lose it? he had responded to it the same day. they have no intention of actually helping the unhoused, clearly.

oh ya I voted for Teresa. anyway, cool to see a neighbor on here!

I think we live in the same city, one that recently awarded 40k a nonprofit who in turn is giving it to a shady org to sweep the camps. This is the first local election where I feel super strongly about the candidates, mostly because of the cartoonish hijinks going on.

just turned in a month long freelance project! looking forward to having my free time back.

something really satisfying about the thought of de-googling a google phone lol. I wish I had thought to do this with my old pixel. it was giving me problems but the T-Mobile guy said google just stops supporting them after a while.

ye I know how to configure my notifs settings. my issue is wanting novel information all the time so I pick up the phone and start scrolling

oh wow that is wild about your bank. reminds me that some stuff at my work requires 2FA via app so idk how I’d get around that

woke up to a sick dog this morning AND I had to go into the office today :(

this is why diversity initiatives are important. a team of all white dudes is gonna have some blind spots

was this your 10- year reunion? I’m gen-x and graduated with a class of 100. we have not had any reunions at all. I feel like I’m missing out on this American experience.

I finished a meeting that I was dreading for WEEKS. It went ok.

I live in a similar climate but it’s a little warmer than where you’re at now. Actually summers are the only time I don’t feel like I’m suffering, since as I’ve grown older I’m cold all of the time. I was just in Alaska last weekend and it was chilly and rainy. Perhaps that’s more your speed, though it does stay light pretty late.

I have a Samsung as well. It’s quite old and in order to print I have to:

1. press print
2. wait for it to try and fail
3. turn it off and then on
4. press print again
5. push the paper in right as it’s trying to grab (otherwise it won’t grab any).

If I don’t follow all these steps it won’t print. I bought a 2 pack of toner, though, so I am not allowed to get a new one until I use it all, which will take forever since I rarely print because it’s such a pain.

I wish I had one of these to cancel the fireworks in my neighborhood that have been going off all week into the night

Oh yea I remember looking at some sort of spreadsheet of instances that had stats like users and uptime and stuff to pick one.

“Well, even if Threads abandoned ActivityPub down the line, where we would end up is exactly where we are now. XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon”

Didn’t all those pundits say only tech nerds can figure Mastodon out?

Threads got 2 mil signups in 2 hours…

I got downvoted to oblivion for providing the same (right) answer to a what is that song question as someone else. We posted at the same time but people saw the other one first and downvoted mine. Like my answer wasn’t even wrong or unhelpful why the downvotes lol

I’m driving home to the beach to visit my parents. hoping to avoid the onslaught of fireworks this weekend since they’re illegal at the beach, tho I will be driving home on Independence Day. I always thought they should give us the next day off to recover from lack of sleep.

when I was 14 I spent the night at my bff’s house and snuck out with her. took a taxi to the next town over to this guy’s house (he was probably in his 20s) to smoke weed. this was back before it was legal and he answered the door with a gun. neither of us knew him at all but despite all this we went in and partied with him without incident. dude was paranoid as hell tho

no way, I have never seen the merch!