Darren

It’s almost certainly never the first two.

When HR calls and asks if you can pop into his office and you’re convinced you’re about to get sacked because they’ve finally caught up with your bullshit, but he just wants to ask if you can do something for him.

It’s posting this reply 👆🏼 because it sprang into your brane then hitting post and realising that it’s basically the same as the other reply that the comment got and feeling guilty for wasting everyone’s time.

It’s wanting to listen to music but installing Linux on an old computer instead because the thing you wanted to listen to is by a band who you saw live and they were great and you want to listen to a specific live version so you go to YouTube where your feed has an Action Retro video where he’s putting Linux on some shitty old hardware again and you’re like ‘that looks fun’ and you end up not listening to music and still managing to fuck up the installation.

Thank you for explaining this. As a non-USian I had no idea what was going on.

The Hobbit is one well crafted movie. Two if you want to hang out the story a little.

The Hobbit is not three fucking movies.

JD walks down the corridor to Peter Gabriel singing The Book of Love while I’m weeping like a baby.

And that’s that. There was no more Scrubs.

As a kid I guess I did, because I was borderline libertarian and something of a prick. But these days I’m older and a little more aware of people who aren’t me, so these days I don’t think about it at all.

I would prefer if rich people paid more, but that has no real bearing on how much I pay.

My wife occasionally sends me TikTok videos she finds interesting. I don’t have the app installed because I can’t be trusted to not end up scrolling for hours, and TikTok’s website is pure dog shit. Because they want you using the app.

Anyway, turns out yt-dlp works perfectly with TikTok 👍🏽

A nice beef gravy. Delicious.

Same goes for sexual abusers too.

Doesn’t matter how good that first Lostprophets album is, I just can’t listen to it knowing what Watkins got up to, so I’ll listen to music by people who didn’t fuck a literal baby.

I periodically delete my Metallica collection so I can re-download it for no other reason than fuck Lars.

Over on Twitter I was keen to chat to people with large follower bases in order to perhaps hook in to some of that. On Mastodon I generally have no idea how many followers people have because it really isn’t important to me any more.

If someone is interesting, and their engagement good, then I’m happy to be a follower.

I’ve found almost the exact opposite.

Engagement on Lemmy is mostly fine, but I chat with people all the time on Mastodon

I think the key is to meet people on their level, to find people who share your interests and sensibilities. Follow plenty of folks and chat to them and before long you’ll have a grand little community.

I would make radio. I do one show a week and I sometimes struggle to find time to even prepare for that, so if time weren’t an issue I’d probably end up just doing a load more.

I always undo my laces before taking off my trainers.

No matter how tired I am, I always take a few seconds to untie my laces, because if I don’t I’ll wear through the heels and then I’ll need new trainers.

They’d be better off delivering a warm turd through your open window.

My old cat Benji was the sweetest boy. We had him for his nine last years before he died at almost 17.

One of the things he’d do was sit on my chest, purring like a lunatic at bedtime. I’d read my book while he got as close to my face as he could, damn near drooling he was so happy. We called that Belly Time, and it was a genuine high point of my day.

We’ve had our current cats for two years, and neither of them have any interest in doing that. It’s been four years since we lost Benji, but I still miss it almost every night.

I don’t really mind clickbaity headlines, but I’m getting real tired of LIVE headlines, where instead of writing a story they just do Mastodon-style live reactions, like me getting pissed and watching Eurovision.

This is kinda like a thing my wife and I do. She’ll play a game and if she loves it, she’ll ask if I want to play it too so she can watch.

I’m currently playing South of Midnight and it’s wonderful.