nicole @nicole@myna.social

Nap time in the sun. 🫏

A little disappointed the armed guards at the ferry terminal didn’t flag me for a bag check.

https://mozilla.social/discover list is just cool thing to go to for the quite time at the end of the day instead of all other places I used to go to ...

Someone was snickering about "pregnant person", and I as like. Dude. We use inclusive language all the time in math. There's literally an infinite number of positive numbers, and yet we still use "non-negatives", because we specifically want to include zero. It's the same fucking thing.

AT&T Long Lines Oak Hill Tower, San Jose, CA 2021.

This unusual Brutalist tower was part of the former AT&T terrestrial microwave network that once carried the bulk of US long distance telephone traffic. The (long since disconnected) horn antennas are too big and heavy to remove.

Too many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51261791084

#photography

@nicole@myna.social It’s funny. I’m one of those people who has incredible difficulty naming their own feelings, but anything involving harm to an animal triggers immediate and overwhelming emotions with perfect clarity.

I have strong anecdotal evidence that the same was true for my maternal uncles and grandfather.

It’s always been like this for me, but I feel like HRT dialed it up another couple of notches to the point of near absurdity.

Is crying on demand a useful party trick?

Here's what I did with my weekend. Still some finishing to do tomorrow, but it's coming together.

I'm really pleased with how the laser etching came out on the sleeves and shoulders (it took a lot of work, please clap).

#StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekCostume #StarTrekCosplay

TIL I need to recalibrate my JPY to USD heuristic. I’ve been using 100:1 for 30 years, but I knew the Japanese economy has been sluggish for at least that long.

The conversion today is 150:1.

Has anyone tried the new Activity Pub plugin for Wordpress?

It’s out of beta now.

I have a Wordpress site (which I need as an author) and a Mastodon instance (which I need because I am a control freak).

If Activity Pub works as it should, I won’t need both — but we can’t get Activity Pub to work on a Wordpress site.

Has anyone tried this?

I will trade legal analysis for technical help. (Fediverse economics)

It’s October, so I’m squirreled up with a small press collection of creepy stories, The Faces at Your Shoulder.

The first story turns out to be an even more-Lovecraftian spin on Campbell’s Who Goes There? (i.e., The Thing). It’s set at the tail end of the Gold Rush, but, other than its setting, it’s derivative as all get-out.

Doesn’t matter: the literary equivalent of a Spooky Sounds CD is exactly what I was looking for. 🎃

Starting to feel the itch to go home again. #fromthearchives #tucson

Thirteen Women (1932)

Myrna Loy portrays Ursula, an embittered woman of Indian/Japanese descent, dead set on the destruction of the members of a sorority who prevented her from gaining acceptance in white society in her youth. She has, as her weapon, the Power of Suggestion.

If it weren’t for Ursula’s ongoing attempts to outright murder one of her tormentor’s children, her actions might be read as comeuppance: childhood alone can not excuse the life-destroying racism of the privileged elite.

Murders in the Zoo (1933).

Sadistic, possessive, wealthy zoo collector delights in ghoulishly dispatching his wife’s paramours.

Hi jinx ensue!

Once the grisly murders have played out, prepare yourself for a history lesson on why the SPCA is a presence on movie sets today.

SwiftUI pros: How do I make a List with style .insetGrouped fit to the device's readableContentGuide?