Wandering Adventure Party

@niko@gts.niko.lgbt

Zawinski's Law, but with TCP/IP stacks instead of email…

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe @Bard@transfem.social Com’on, it’ll be fun!… (for me)

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe @Bard@transfem.social 8 years is a long time to work at one place. Are you even sure they are still there?

@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social in fairness I think the long term health and disposition of the people who buy into his shit would be heartily improved by having them insert a pineapple up their asses. ​​

@blush@urusai.social welcome back. I hope you are recharged and feeling well. ​​

And a reminder; I told them that getting this cat was a bad idea in the first place. ​​

Time for me to be mad.

A while ago I helped a family member pay a vet bill on their kids cat. Now they want me to adopt the cat because he might need more, and he’s “a lot”

I do want another cat, but if I do that he won’t be my cat; he’ll be the kids cat who just lives at my place. I do not want to play custody bullshit with a cat. I’m kinda mad that they also want to dump their cat problems on me.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I split them before I put them in and then give them a shake every other day for a ~year, but yeah pretty much!

It's extremely simple. I am surprised more home bakers do not do it. Granted, as mentioned it does require quite a bit of forethought and an initial investment of vanilla beans and alcohol (though there is no reason to go expensive on the booze. I went midgrade).

Just be careful about it. I can tell you one year I was extremely mad when a full jar of nearly done extract I had got knocked off into the sink and shattered ​​

Two pints of vanilla extract seems like a lot (and is), but the stuff takes literally 6-12 months to make and if you make too much, it's pretty easy to give away given how much better it is than most of the store stuff.

It's best to make a lot of it since it's not like you can just have some ready over the weekend. ​​

I was running "low" on vanilla extract (about half a cup) after I gave most of it away. So I've started two new batches.

Last time I did my standard bourbon base. That's my personal favorite, but its not for everyone. This time someone wanted a standard vodka, so I started a pint of that. But I wanted something different, so I'm making a batch in a pint of white rum as well.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems Valentine’s Day is a day of (for nonromantic reasons) tragedy for me. I would much rather it just be your birthday.

So happy birthday. ​​ I hope you manage to have a good day celebrating.

@kichae@wanderingadventure.party That's usually what happens when I get in the mood. But I fear the financials are not sustainable for that many domains.

I want to blog again, but finding a good domain is always a pain... ​​

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe as others mention; many people take existence of different position as a criticism of their own, because they assume the same path, values, and context, so if you made a different choice, you must be saying they were “wrong”.

That said; I think it’s fine to talk about what you like and dislike and why, and if you do so in a public space, you should have some expectation of people entering into discourse, even to assert this own position especially if you try to make a point under a objective banner. I wish one side would remember the context of subjectivity and differing values, and I wish another side would remember that the audience of a public forum are active participants who are not obligated to silence or agreement.

I went to the store at 2AM last night. Because it’s a quiet time to shop, I’d forgotten to earlier, and I couldn’t sleep.

… and I met a family member there. Apparently they just got off work. So much for my quiet shopping hour.

We are not always here to make sense. To always make sense to others is essentially to live in their heads full time at the neglect of our own.

We don’t even need to always make sense to ourselves. That’s just choosing to live within your own discovered bounds and nowhere else you might grow to once you have the roots.

I have talked to enough “I have hundreds, even thousands of browser tabs open at any given time” people to conclude that most of them are basically hoarders without the checkbook to collect the same number of Disney figurines and live cats. It’s always the same language and arguments.

@mikoto@urusai.social

I fear there is no way to make an institutional guard against people who do not care. You cannot use bureaucracy, constitutions, and rules to road block people who do not care. The modern conservative populist is basically a misanthropic opportunist who does not care.

Solidarity and organized blocs who can make people care are the only real balms for this. I think things get worse before they get better.

This is going to sound weird, but one of the things I don't really care about wrt to a discord replacement is the whole 'wide community' aspect. I want something cheap to host, can do calls of ~5-10 people, and can keep up with the text chats of ~30 users Max, and do some DMs.

Cost and quality is way more important to me than federation and networking. Easy onboarding would be nice but my friends are mostly sick of enshittification and we'd sacrifice a lot for chat sovereignty at a manageable hosting price.