So on my third try of selling Vik's comic collection, and this one might happen, yay. That'll make some room, and once @RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist chooses any books he wants, that'll start going, and we'll get some space.
Its a little frustrating how much stuff there is to clear, but there's a story there. We had some low points in Phoenix, I'm undoubtedly somewhat to blame for that, I've never been great at sticking to a job, and I tend to create chaos. That said, I would work more if'n I could, sell off anything I could, I mean I really have never been attached to things, people, etc, particularly things since my bankruptcy, resulting in a house where maybe 20% of the stuff here is mine. Yeah, really, and that was before his mom passed, and he pulled in a lot of her stuff. Need to get someone from the family to come get a lot of this stuff, between just photos, quilts and her birds, I'll prolly have enough to fill a minivan
With that in mind, lots to sell here, and a great desire, a very great desire, to down size. Still considering the future, both location, likely Illinois, though there's a slim chance of Maryland, and likely building a house, maybe a tiny home, I mean I already know I don't need more than 900 sq ft, and could do as little as 600. An estate sale isn't really an option, companies like that really expect volume and/or stuff people want to buy... A few collectibles, no antiques, and Ikea furniture at best isn't really their thing. So, we'll be at the first three flea markets at Sunset Hills community center, those are... March, April and May I think, I've already paid for my spaces, but I do need to touch base as I haven't received an info packet or anything like that, but it might be too soon, we'll see.
So yeah, really clearing a lot out of here, not because I didn't love him, but because I need some space. Honestly, we were two train wrecks holding each other up, I started taking care of the finances because he just basically operated on a make and spend model, I made things work while he did what he wanted, on the other hand, I couldn't be trusted to stay at a job which didn't help, so he was the breadwinner.
I will say I'm loving this day and age, I do the type of work I like, without the constraints of a typical job, which fits my instability well. These days I basically do the same job as UPS, but using my phone, my car, and a gig app, and come and go as I please, if'n I get tired of deliveries, there's plenty of remote work out there. Or I'm thinking of getting a 3D printer and making things, find an artist so I can start a series of cryptid traffic signs, lots of ways to make money out there thanks to tech.
Gotta say that what catches my eye on this one is the QR code on her tit, its not like I haven't seen bar coded slaves in art or even occasionally in real life, but a QR is new, neat and very logical. For those not familiar with QR codes, they're what's know as two directional or 2D bar codes, and they can hold a lot more data than a normal linear bar code, in fact when they came out, it was claimed that a postage stamp sized QR code could hold the entire first paragraph of the US Constitution! Imagine, you could store all the pertinent data for a slave in a QR code or three, no database to be stolen, leaked or seized by the government, all the data you need is right there tattooed on the slave.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded a recall notice for some Pillsbury brand Pizza Pops products that may be contaminated with E. coli O26.
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’ ‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’ -‘email addresses used in the last ten years’ -‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’ -biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris -business telephone numbers used in the last five years -business email addresses used in the last ten years.
We cannot speak for all Africans, but in various countries of Africa, we think it is fine, and we hope Europe copies USA. The reason is that we believe there is a brain drain and capital flight from Africa to the West. So this kind of thing the USA is doing will stop, or at least reduce it.
Moreover, China and South America (Brazil) plus BRICS+ countries are a better association for Africans.
In any case, even if Africans still want to study in USA universities, there is e-learning. That can be the case too for those who want European universities.
But overall, many in Africa think it is good for #Africa.
Gotta say, as I expand into Wafrn... Spread like mold? I keep finding stuff I like, from being able to bite people, after all pokes are boring, or the barking and confetti when I woot, yes, woot not toot, and other cute things, then there's the little details...
Believe strongly in alt text? Its default required in the settings, you have to go and turn it off, or your media posts won't send without having something in there.
Sharing links? Sure, it sucks that you can't see the preview until after you post, but things like GoComics which never shows a thumbnail or synopsis here on Friendica works perfectly.
I think @gabboman the wafrn dev could prolly use some help on the project, but so far, what it does have works really nicely.
So, I've started migrating the people I follow over to my Wafrn account, @Chuff , following them there and unfollowing them here... And got into the B's and realized something, Wafrn doesn't give me any way to see my followers list nor migrate it far as I know which means I have no idea who I'm following over there.
Eh heh, heh, oops.
Well, no problem, just downloaded the list here, so at least I'll be able to recover the rest of them if needed, I do expect to switch to my own hosted Wafrn in the future if'n I'm lucky, poked one hosting service abotu it already even though I'm not remotely ready to do it.
Why my own? To avoid some of the stupidities I've had to deal with on other people's instances, once got warned about not CW'd a picture of a cowtaur (cow person upper body, cow lower body), not because of sex, not because she was topless, but because you could see her udder. Yeah, that was the straw that broke my back and why I just have my own instance. Currently here I have... 5 accounts? Not sock puppets, this one, Admin, Recalls, Taurs and the newest, my porn account. Yeah, that's enough to justify my own instance.
EDIT Eww, that is one ugly and barely useful CSV file, only exports two things, user account names and whether I can see their posts or not. Following, follower or mutual status not included, nor is the profile name. Bleah.
We the People demand Justice for cold-blooded murders & executions of Alex Pretti, Renee Good & every single person & child harmed by the #TrumpRegime ABOLISH ICE DEFUND DHS IMPEACH NOEM #REMOVE TRUMP open.substack.com/pub/america/… #RIPAlexPretti
Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations
democracydocket.com/news-alert… The fascists have limited resources to consolidate power in the remaining free US states right now. They want states to make it easy for them to kick down doors and continue terrorizing, disappearing, and murdering good Minnesotan citizens for no reason other than to act on their indoctrination and training over 12 years of public education to remain loyal to the nation and continue to vote their conscience in free elections.
The fascists aren't fucking around. Lots of Minnesota soccer moms, my fellow good citizens bless them, are learning this right now in their volunteer civic training and on the street.
The Big Beautiful Bill provides the funds and institutions for the fascists to build the necessary human transportation networks, the slums to concentrate the overflow of good, decent, everyday folks who voted a certain way, and the work camps, death camps, and battlefields where they will be transported to and exterminated.
The fascists will use voter rolls obtained via violent coercion or flat out theft to decide who best to terrorize, who to disappear, who to murder first. Once the people on the list are taken care of the fascists will continue to terrorize, disappear, and murder us - at will, without provocation, without justification.
Regardless of whether it stays non-violent or turns into a pointless war of attrition (that no one except the very few fascists in power want) plan for terror, plan for detention, plan for death, in fact, expect it. When it happens to one of yours you will be as ready as you can be to set aside emotional paralysis, follow your training to do the right thing which includes setting aside time to morn.
And that my fellow humans of the world, is this tiny insignificant laborer and Minnesotan nobody's current take on what's going on outside, right now.
This cartoon is by me and new guest artist Mike Lawrence. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows a frizzy-haired guy, and in each panel he’s in a different setti…
Starting today I'm using my Wafrn more, but it won't completely replace this place. At the very least, this will still be my blog, at least unless I find a better platform for that. Oh, and following pod people (Disapora users), at least until they move to something ActivityPub. And RSS feeds.
So, what does Wafrn lack that Friendica has? Categories, useful as I can share links to just part of my blog here Diaspora compatibility Feed reader, this is one of the neatest features here, they show up in your timeline just like anyone else you follow Hashtag auto complete/suggestion, kinda useful so we don't wind up with a thousand variations on the same thing Link display in post creation window, if you paste a link into the creation box on Friendica or Mastodon, it displays the summary so you can see what the post will look like, Wafrn, you have to wait until your post is on your dashboard No following or followers list
What's it missing that I want? Queue function like Tumblr, something that Friendica has made clear they see no point in An easy way to share internet links. This one isn't on Wafrn, for Friendica and Mastodon I use an extension on Firefox, I think this is a fork, of the older FediShare extension, and this one I don't think is supported as it seems to be a bit out of date on what services it supports. It'd be nice to see someone take over it and maintain it as its useful for sharing things.
Other bugs/glitches? Relatively minor stuff, tried to upload a video that was possibly too big and got no error, just no video attached to the post. If you search for someone then follow them, the page doesn't refresh the button status, the follow button doesn't become an unfollow, rather it stays a follow button
Seriously, that's a long list of nitpicks really, and like stuff @gabboman the wafrn dev will likely fix as time goes on since Wafrn is young, and none are a deal breaker. I'll prolly switch to hosted Wafrn instant at some point in the future, just have to figure out costs and what I want to do with this place.
@gabboman the wafrn dev I can imagine, not even to a full version yet, right? I figured none of that stuff has any chance of happening any time soon, but hey, a pup can wish, right? And the Fedishare extension thing is kinda unrelated, though it does annoy me that that extension isn't maintained considering how little maintenance it'd need.
Not sure if'n it'd help with either the Diaspora or the RSS feed thing, but IIRC, the original developer of Friendica created a library of modules to be used in Fediverse apps on GitHub, SocialHome and one other use some of the bits.
As to the list, I think it depends on goals, want to stand out, consider the queue function, prolly fairly easy thing to add, and useful as its main purpose is flood control. Bring it up to Mastodon/et al features, add some manner of follower/followers management and/or fix the hashtag thing. Want to kill Diaspora? Add compatibility.
Really this is a wish list, and if'n any of it happens, cool, if not, oh well, just impacts what will be my main Fediverse app
Yep, another idiotic meltdown, even dumber because as commenters point out, Smithfield has controlled the Nathans brand for over a decade, they're simply shifting from licensing to owning.
Saturday morning marked the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. “How many more Americans need to die for this operation to end?” said Mayor Jacob Frey.
Yeah, I know, seems to be every day I post about my misadventures with Fediverse software, right? Seriously though, somethings are moving really fast...
#holos just released 17-1, that's like five versions in less than a month, and Federation finally works, yay... And we seem to have a new problem, I seem to have followed a few new people without following them, that's a weird new glitch @Holos Social Still, it otherwise works great, extremely fast to update, in fact the biggest problem is with my phone which seems to go to sleep when the screen goes off, and all notifications stop, obviously a problem here. Beyond that, its really me, while I do the occasional message from my phone, I'm an old grey muzzle, and prefer to leave the net on my computer, so I don't think I'll be sticking around, maybe to the end of the month, maybe less, but if'n you're the type that does most things from your phone, give this one a look, its a really neat project, a really good alternative to Mastodon.
#Loops , maybe it'll work, I really wish it would.
#wafrn now this one, this one I'm really in love with. Sure, there's a few features I wish it had, and unless I can find a way other than hashtags to sort my content, it won't replace this place completely, but it could very easily become my main and replace my #Mastodon . Honestly I think it might kill #diaspora , don't get me wrong, I love Diaspora, but I think the lack of #ActivityPub has done it no favors, and Wafrn may be the first viable replacement for it. Either way, for those not familiar with it, its basically the Fediverse's answer to Tumblr, and while it doesn't look quite the same, it looks quite nice, and has some fun features including the ability to bite people.
I looked at #Wafrn and am not quite a fan of them trying to block VPNs or them storing IPs for when you register, send an image, or when you last logged in, presumably to punish VPN users.
Just not crazy about that because using a VPN has become more important than ever.
@Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) Is that Wafrn the software, or the site? I'm on bark.wolp.chat rather than the original and would switch to my own hosted instance if I decide to move mostly over there.
We only block registration from VPNs because of safety purposes (we have seen so many times that spambots and stuff wants to get in with a VPN), but if you use a VPN after registration (e.g. for posting or viewing posts), it is fine
well, thats for waf.moe, going to cc @admin for this
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