Atanas Entchev @atanas@mastodon.cloud
I left all my snark on Twitter http://mostlysubjective.com
"Thirteen years on social media is enough"
Social media has given me countless hours of enjoyment, broadened my horizons, helped me make many new friends. For all this I am grateful. Yet, after thirteen years of very active (excessive, according to family and friends) participation, I am ready to scale back. I am ready to reenter the analog world, eager to rediscover its beauty.
https://mostlysubjective.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/thirteen-years-on-social-media-is-enough/
There'll be less tweeting and tooting from me in the next 10 days.
@geobabbler Kindness propagates. I was lost as a kid and a friend's family took me in and treated me as one of their own. Today we let people who need a place to reset and breathe stay in our garage apartment for free. We've graduated engineers, ministers and healthcare workers. People go back to school to finish degrees. It's a small thing but it gives the stability they need to move forward.
I learned that mastodon has RSS/Atom feeds. I hope they do make a comeback. Having an RSS feed means control of your content remains with you.
don't take yourself too seriously. You'll thank me later.
Showing my trainer what Mastodon is all about
https://mastodon.xyz/media/UZlYKqfe4sagEMnNads
is it corny to like Lana Del Rey? Asking for a friend.
What I need is an app that registers my social media contacts to their email addresses. Then, when I get a social media PM from a contact, it sends it as an email to me from them. Then I can respond via email like a civilized person.
Last major update to the HexBinStates project for a while.
Most formats are posted in WGS84, Web Mercator, and National Atlas SRS.
Attribute tables include State name, postal abbreviation, and FIPS code.
Formats include:
Shapefile
File Geodatabase
KML
SpatialLite
GeoPackage
GeoJSON (now in the correct WGS84 SRS)
and GML
https://github.com/donmeltz/US-States---Hexbins https://mastodon.cloud/media/JKwHNbFTXvtNCXzQ_jU
so this happened on my morning drive to work. That aren't all mine but I can claim at least half
friend: hey, what time is it? os geoperson: let me show you how to make your own watch. friend: no, just tell me what time it is. osgp: it's easy! It's fun! it's exciting! first, you must determine the proper escapement for your needs... friend runs away.
spatial distribution of geohipsters @DonMeltz @geobabbler @spara
US States as Hexbins
https://github.com/donmeltz/US-States---Hexbins
Anybody have a use for this? I can provide in multiple formats.
Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88
"“The Buddha, the Godhead,” he writes, “resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.”"
Mike Ehrmantraut drinks PBR.
like that was a serious question b/c there's this particular vibe to Old Guard masto users who've stuck to .social/ico/awoo accounts they made in December
that like "things have to go back to the way they were"
and it's like
i can't help but feel like they're lamenting the changing social character of the fediverse while refusing to explore the wider fediverse
Mastodon-to-Twitter with IFTTT (not by me): https://medium.com/@pimterry/sync-your-mastodon-back-to-twitter-3c72f2bc8626
