DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Long ago, I thought I was special, different than everyone else, and I was surrounded by adults who reinforced that thought daily.

Eventually, I realized that I was special, different than everyone else, and so was every other person in the world.

They left out the important bit. We're each special and different and that's what makes us awesome.

I celebrate your special difference, friends, each of you. May it bring you the joy in the coming years that it has brought me getting to know each of you during the last few.

I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.

There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.

I was pretty sure I was destined to be consumed [5] by those who had arrived before my cohort.

In a way, I was. I am no longer the person I was when I arrived here. I have been changed by this place. I have been changed by this ever-changing group of groups of people. I have been changed by you. [6]

Fierce storms will batter these little islands. Battles will arise. Pain and grief are by-products of interaction.

But so are laughter and cheer and warmth and contentedness.

And love.

My neighbors, the very least that I wish for each and every one of you is to find days so filled with love that there's no time for hate and nights so restful that you rise burning with the force of the sun within you.

Mend what is broken. Build shelters you need. Make mistakes and make them count. This is your world and mine and it will be exactly what we make it, but the sky is the limit if we keep looking up instead of bringing ourselves down.

Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, and thanks for listening to the rambling of a silly old dog.

[1] unbeknownst to many, stale infosec memes are extremely buoyant
[2] assuming the raccoon consented to be swung such
[3] assuming someone wasn't throwing their face at the nearest bit of fur
[4] h/t to @priryo for https://linernotes.club/@priryo/100565446740959131 and @sydneyfalk for https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/sydneyfalk/updates/85279
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[6] assuming I consented to be changed such [7]
[7] I did

achievement heckin GET

mastodon streaming on a #Kaypro 2-83 #retrocomputing

this is my semi-regular yet aperiodic reminder that this place here is a distributed federated version of Callahan's as far as I can tell and that is one of the most bestest things that can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon

Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.

Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.

Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.

I hope all y'all @mspsocialusers are safe and well and that your local cops continue to get rekt.

#FuckBroadcom

remember when you were young
you shone like the sun

shine on, you crazy diamonds

two and a half year old subtoots have absolutely no context left in 'em. completely spent. set adrift on the sea of semantics.

an almost respectable cover of "I Would Die 4 U" by Prince, were it not for the "Nobody Can Cover Prince Without Sounding Like A Drunk At Karaoke" law of the universe.

Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs singing "Train in Vain" by The Clash, in unison, with him panned right and her panned left, ends up sounding like the weirdest audio signal processing effect ever.

I kinda love that Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs ended up making albums full of covers together.

So, #pinephone running mobian automatically switched audio over to the headphone jack when I plugged in my headphones.

Testing sound using "Bell Bottom Blues" as recorded by Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs

The DAC on the Allwinner A64 isn't going to win any awards with audiophiles, but if you have complaints with how audio sounds coming out of this headphone jack, you should probably be investing in a dedicated portable audio device.

The phone sounds better than a $150 phone should tbh. I could listen to this for most of the day.

Transferring some FLAC from the pinebook pro to the pinephone via kde connect

got kdeconnect installed on my pinephone so now my pinebookpro notifications show up on the pinephone and vice versa, for maximum notification

the toot-lab is hosted in sundogistan, obviously, and I dare those imperialist swine to send their operatives to try and penetrate our borders

Ooh, mail!

looks like mastodon dot cloud and mstdn dot jp, both currently hosted and administered by DSNO, will either be operating under new management soon or shutting down entirely, due to increasing regulation against online defamation and a lack of resources to deal with the additional administrative overhead

https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/104227496654670309

https://mastodon.cloud/@dsno

brain over: very yes

not a lot making me laugh out loud suddenly lately, but this did.

News In Brief
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First

https://www.theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351