Hey I'm Alicia, an artist who really hasn't been feeling social media lately (especially IG and FB) so I thought I'd try Mastodon out and see if I like the simplicity of it more. I think I picked the perfect server, since I'm much more likely to be in my sunny garden than anywhere else. 🌞

My interests include
#art #fiberart #wool #dyeing #watercolor #flowarts #music #gardening #cats #dogs #reptiles #languagelearning #writing #reading and #mandala making.

I have a family business called Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of fibre, yarn, and fabric and I want to get into #upcycling clothes some more!

Hope I get to meet some cool people the algorithm would drown out on other apps.

#introduction

OK, finally got the donut order in .. whew!

It seems to me that the Talabat app opens order every half hour when they run out of delivery capacity or have too many orders? I had been trying every few minutes since like 6:35 but it wouldn’t go through but once I got to 7:00am it went through fine …

Once might have been accidental, but this is the second time that this has happened.

On the other hand, according to Ian Fleming, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times it’s enemy action.” 😛

#Donuts

Oh look, it's exactly what happens when someone sets up a brand new fediverse server.

All the fuckin' toddlers get together and go, "Can we make some people cry?"

https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

I like this quote:

“The problem is that electric cars are popular with politicians precisely because they provide an excuse to avoid doing harder things, like rebuilding our cities, or changing the habits of lifetimes. Persuading people to switch from their old gasoline car to a shiny Tesla is much easier than persuading them that they can live without a car. Hence governments are pushing electric cars, often with incentives that make no sense.” - Daniel Knowles, author of Carmageddon

It can be argued that electric vehicles are an improvement when replacing ICE vehicles.

But that misses a much bigger point — which is that the very best car is *not* an electric car. The very best car is no car at all!

Building electric cars requires massive use of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. In addition, mining of lithium for batteries as well as trawling for other minerals in the deep ocean is environmentally disastrous, killing biodiversity while polluting our water, soil, and air.

LITHIUM EXTRACTION — https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future

DEEP-SEA MINING — https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/109814016209990908

The kind of “Green Growth” championed by capitalists and politicians, which features more electric cars, a bit of solar, and a few wind farms — along with continued use of fossil fuels — is not a good answer. It does not solve any of our problems, and in fact only makes them worse.

Say NO to more cars, of any kind. Push instead for active transportation and for improved public transit.

Continued economic growth is unsustainable. Period. The only logical choice for us and for the biosphere is de-growth.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth #WarOnCars #BanCars

Where are the Swift/SwiftUI developers at? 🙂

This is something interesting I saw over on Threads — people asking for Swift developers so that they can connect. I should have thought of that myself over here 😛

I would like to connect with other developers — if you do Swift, much better since I can talk at least halfway intelligently about that, but I’ve done development in a bunch of other languages including Python, Kotlin, Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal, xBase (if you really want to dig deep …).

But I’m looking for people who post about their current development journey — what you are working on, what issues you’re running into, what interests you etc. Doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, expert, or somewhere in-between, I’m just interested in people who post and who want to have a conversation …

If you do post about this stuff regularly, ping me. I’m interested in following you 🙂

#Swift #SwiftUI #Mobile #iOS #macOS #FindingPeople #Coding

The wife wanted donuts for breakfast and I was supposed to order them since I get up early. I forgot all about it since I was busy going through the profiles of Swift devs and following them on here …

Now the delivery app says that there are too many deliveries in my area and I should try in half an hour 😛 The perils of distraction ...

#Life #Donuts #FindingPeople

Portrait drawing done in Procreate. #art #procreate #drawing #digitalart

Photo by Avery Nielsen-Webb

#photo #photography #flowers #nature #landscape

#Caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

#Caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

#Caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

#Caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #art

#trees #tree #treesofmastodon #photo #nature #naturepic #photography #photos #Photomonday #foto #fotos #Fotomontag #fotografie #fotograf #fotographie #pic #pics #picture #pictures

@f @Her_Doing @Texan_Reverend but you were my tech support already, so there's that. And that was why I married you. 😛

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

Soon...

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #caturday #caturdayeve #humor #humour #funny

Always a gentle reminder to say that creatives like writers and artists like having fan mail or nice things in their inbox.

A good review or fan art will make their day.

@tamsinsays @Terra @HolyMachina I'm all for minions, but yeah, same.

I mentioned to my girlfriend that I needed to stop at a used bookstore. She asked why I couldn’t just read one of the hundreds of unread books already on my shelves. She’s a very nice person and we’ve managed to stay together despite her blurting out bat shit crazy stuff like this on occasion. I imagine I have my issues, too.