Polymaths.social

@stefano @gabe_saltar @lcruggeri @as400 @justine

Now I'm pondering the alternate reality where I didn't spill tea all over my beloved MacBook Air in 2019. I wonder how long I would've continued daily driving MacOS. The hardware would've been supported by Apple until 2021, but I wouldn't have been motivated to buy a new one at that point.

I guess I'm glad the events worked out the way they did.

I have a hard time relating too much to me-from-ten-years-ago that happily used Google Chrome, Google Drive, and typed all his notes in Microsoft Word. 😝

• Loads #Fediverse notifications
• @Tusky whimpers
• Phone bursts into flames
• Spacetime folds in on itself
• I'm playing Pasur with Dave Bowman in the hotel room at the end of time
• The unnerving space fetus is keeping score
• Captain Picard's 42 palms are simultaneously placed on his forehead
• The universe is singing its song to me:
  "Oooolwayyyz look on the broight soide of loife....!"

#Hellthreadia

@twizzay, I feel this toot was worthy of you.

@nonehitwonder

P.S., You know, I think I'll make a point of posting random #doodles from now on!

As it is also his birthday, I cannot let it pass without also honoring his memory. He would have been 18 today. (Ok, that breaks my brain a little 😅)

To my dear #FloofSon Hobbes. My very own Puss in Boots. 😸💗

Gen Alpha musicians be like,

🎼 "It don't mean a SHIZ if it ain't got that RIZZ! SKIBIDISKIBIDISKIBIDISKIBIDISKIBIDI!!" 🎶🎶🎶

@briankrebs

"Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve"

*blink* *blink* *blink*

I... Um...

It's like my soul is segfaulting when I read that.

"Ok, roll."
"What am I rolling for?"
"A spell."
"But I'm not trying to cast a spell."
"I know. Roll anyway."
"Ok, there."
"Excellent! You cast UNCONTROLLABLE CRYING."
"WHAT?!? Why in the world would I cast that? I mean, I know how I'm feeling right now, I want to cast CONQUER FOES, DESTROY EVIL, END INJUSTICE, or heck, UNLIMITED BOON AT RANGE. I mean, if I'm casting anything right now, it should be BERSERKER RAGE AT SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE!!"
"Sorry, but you cast UNCONTROLLABLE CRYING."
"WHY!??"
"Give me another roll."
"FINE. There."
"You look it up your spell book, and apparently, UNCONTROLLABLE CRYING is the normal response to really awful world events when you still have a heart and soul."
"Huh. Dang. So... no BERSERKER RAGE AT SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE?"
"Not without trading in your soul."
"Ok, I guess I'll keep it."

#ShortStory #FediShortStory #ThisIsWhy500CharactersIsntEnough #StoryTime #StoryTellers #DND #D&D #RPG #TTRPG

Hey all #polymaths / #hellthreadists,

I've got a bash one-liner (should probably work in ksh and possibly zsh) for importing lists.csv into your polymaths account.

It requires toot (can be had from your rolling release distro's repo, or pipx install toot), and for toot to be logged into your (not alpha) polymaths account.

Export your lists.csv from polymaths alpha and run this in the same directory.

Check the error messages carefully. Just FYI, it will create any list found in your lists.csv, so if you run it more than once, it'll try to re-create the same list and generate an error, but it's not catastrophic.

It will also follow each account in the list, just in case, and it also converts @alpha.polymaths.social accounts to @polymaths.social, so if the account hasn't been created yet, or has a different name (*COUGH* @joel), you'll have to fix that manually.

It's far from foolproof, and not even in the same parsec as FAST, but hey, it's something. XD

IFS=$'\n'; for list in $(grep , lists.csv |cut -f1 -d, |sort -u); do echo "::: ::: -> $list"; toot lists create $list; for user in $(grep "^$list," lists.csv |cut -f2 -d, |sed 's/alpha\.\(polymaths\.social\)/\1/'); do echo "::: $user -> $list"; toot follow $user; toot lists add $list $user; done; done

Let me know if it works for you.

cc: @amin