Keeble

"the bird"

left wing bird, online and trying this " alternative social media" thing again. recently unionized barista. Weekly wikipedia streamer. ❤ @proxy ❤30. Avi: me!

last.fm listening


Today on the phone I told my mom about my time/date: shape related synthesisia (months of the year go clockwise around the perimeter of a rectangle) and it turns out that she has very similar synthesesia!



well, i have a ceiling again. A normal one. Drywall, not papier-mâché; thank god for that. room reeks of paint fumes now though, but ill take having actual structural support any day



arachnixe
@arachnixe

I'm sorry, but if your response to people complaining about your favorite platform is "ah, you don't understand the vision, you're missing the point, you're just confused, your expectations are wrong, let me help educate you," this is not a very compassionate or helpful attitude!

It is entirely possible that some folks have needs that you don't consider. Maybe some people understand perfectly and just disagree! If you treat folks like their stance—on something as personal as how they connect socially—must necessarily be the result of ignorance, don't be surprised when they feel insulted and trash talk you elsewhere.


Keeble
@Keeble

this on top of the fact that bluesky and even twitter are already relatively niche compared to what most people use to communicate with others (instagram in particular, but also tiktok, fb messenger, whatsapp, discord to a certain extent, etc). Twitter already felt like a combo of the Place Where Everyone Is and the Niche Hidden Secret of The Internet to, like, most people.

this isn't even getting into stuff like userscripts. if you even know what that is, you are in a minority of minorities. CSS crimes posts are cool but a) they're an extreme minority of posts here and b) are not easily user replicable.

social media, even this, is a time waste and time sink. it is not anything else but a holding pattern that can be done creatively. as ive said before: most people's average time on any social media site is scroll, scroll, scroll, and don't post. Social media is media and any sort of way of marketing a platform where the empasis is placed on, like, "doing posts" rather than "seeing posts made by others" misses the point of why people use these things

And, yes, most of the time i go on cohost i don't post either. i scroll, and look, and laugh at some stuff, and log off. it works for me, but it works for me in merely the same ways that other social media time sinks do, in the way that my algorithmically generated YouTube Content Mush™ does, in the same way that a tv station you're too lazy to get up and grab the remote does



Keeble
@Keeble

So I’m fine but uhhh like half the ceiling in my room collapsed tonight

Thankfully I caught that structural failure was imminent like an hour before it happened and got my furniture and myself out of the way. Still kind of numb


Keeble
@Keeble

Yeah folks: don’t do papier-mâché on your ceiling for decoration! As far as I understand? This was done by a previous tenant in like 2017 or 2018 without the landlords permission only took that long for the week of the paper to start to pour on the sheet rock, and since Elmers glue and paint less than 10 years old has a much stronger bond to itself than 50-100 year old glue and nails, once one section of old glue started to fail the ceiling itself stayed intact as it fell, slowly taking more with it