@darius basically the whole area where I’m living right now is stroads and its a fucking nightmare
Haven't read the whole thing yet but I appreciated this excerpt from this podcast about the rise in pedestrian deaths. (via gregbrown on Twitter)
https://newrepublic.com/article/165661/rise-traffic-deaths-car-crashes-pandemic-stress
Dissertation defense struggle
@Cyborgneticz I’m trying to extend this metaphor to the rest of the committee now — neighboring lords who can boss you around even tho they don’t own your land??
Dissertation defense struggle
@Cyborgneticz yeah I would hate that part
Dissertation defense struggle
@Cyborgneticz ugh thats the worst
@tek gnomes encouraged tho!
maybe they just dont want to get sued for garlic poisoning?
As a sort of tag to my friending meme promo (which is still going on btw!) Dreamwidth has posted some notes about successfully importing to Dreamwidth from LiveJournal: https://mobile.twitter.com/dreamwidth/status/1501280756068495361
The short version: LJ is intermittently blocking the IP addresses Dreamwidth crawls from, possibly because of people misinputting passwords. There’s not a ton they can do about that unfortunately but trying again later will usually work
If you’re on dreamwidth or want to be on dreamwidth & are looking for accounts to follow, there’s a friending meme going on right now!
Targeted at the current LJ exodus but welcome to all: https://friending-memes.dreamwidth.org/1083.html
@Lady thank you for sharing this experience
@Lady ?
@poem_exe where did the second one come from
@cicatriz_jdr AWS-[place] going down would seem like such a conspiracy theory if it weren’t something that happened on a regular basis
re: there is a dreamwidth friending meme going on and i decided to post my take on it on mastodon lol
@aescling yeah that all makes sense
@ljwrites yeah its definitely not an easy move to make! Hopefully you’re able to back up all the important bits before the site does actually breathe its last on you
there is a dreamwidth friending meme going on and i decided to post my take on it on mastodon lol
@aescling just out of curiosity wheres yr cutoff for small follower count
@Lady yeah and I’m coming up blank on any good zelda coms, or I would have just said ‘subscribe via RSS for a bit and then decide for yourself’
@Lady I think you have much more specific blogging preferences than yr average dw-er?
I mostly use it as my fandom hub, for which it can either be great or a ghost town bc the userbase is small enough that its a roll of the dice whether you find an active community for any particular interest
@ljwrites there was some rumblings before Ukraine bc LJ decided to break all the crossposters (maybe a month ago?) & it turns out the site looks a lot emptier without the ghosts of everyone who left for [insert LJ clone] years ago
But then Ukraine happened, and LJ is owned by Rambler Media Group, who is owned by Sberbank, who is owned by the Russian gov’t. So now everyone wants to get out quick
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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