It’s easy to have inexplicable experiences when you are bad at explanation!

Every once in a while I try to play Dear McCracken and sing through the last part. The way I start ugly crying means I can’t put it on a playlist where I’ll actually pay attention to the song.

I run Ghost on my website (reilaos.com) though I don’t really use it in a “blogging”/journaling style. It’s mostly posts related to writing, computers science, game design.

My eagerness to actually use it will increase once Ghost’s support for ActivityPub spreads to the wider world.

It’s a little bit of a generational/cultural gap, I think! Like how Ok. and Ok... are fully normal to boomers, but anyone millennial and younger are going to read that as being short, or as an ominous trailing off compared to the neutral, no-caps-no-punctuation kk or ok.

I think children up through the younger end of millennials are just more likely to give neutral-to-lightly-positive acknowledgement in other ways, like 🫡or ✅ or 🥰 or 💯. 👍 is reserved by some for lower enthusiasm or even a restrained, mild annoyance.

Depends on who’s saying it and to what, and in what manner (message reaction, its own separate text).

“Hey who wants pizza tonight?” in the group text.

Bunch of👍reactions mixed in with some 🍕 and 🕺

That’s normal and people agreeing with you.

“Hey could you pick up some toilet paper on the way home?”

👍 reaction.

That’s a neutral kind of acknowledgement.

“Hey man, that was pretty fucked what you said back at the party. I think the others want to talk to you about it.”

“👍”

That’s rude and dismissive, and not just an acknowledgement text.

Domesticated microraptor. It would be cool as hell, and also imply that we’ve somehow resurrected a dead species.

No; jealousy paints a target on your back. I’d rather people wish well for me and feel that my victories are at least indirectly theirs.

Failing that, I’d want others to be unaware of my existence.

Link Alligator would actually be a fun name

One site forbidding you from directing traffic to another isn’t disrespecting you. If it’s something so groundbreaking that others need to see it, screenshot it and post it. You don’t need to directly link it.

The ability to shapeshift doesn’t really get affected by this caveat, so that remains about as appealing as it was before.

Taken to an extreme, one can get a controllable/turn-off-able biological immortality and at-will violation of conservation of matter/energy.

1. The legal framework and argumentation used to justify the ban is worrisome and can be applied overbroadly in the suppression of speech.

2. Despite this broad possible argumentation, it has just been, and will likely continue to be, wielded in a way targeted towards suppression of speech in a targeted, nationalistic, and at times overtly racist ways. (See: “Senator, I’m Singaporean, not Chinese.”)

3. Like it or not, it’s become a large repository of internet history and online conversation. The loss of the platform is the loss of that history.

If the government had particular problems with the platform’s practices and behaviors, it would have been able to field an actual lawsuit with real charges, or levy fines. This “sell or be banned” is a clear grab for power more than any actual gesture towards protecting the people.