Someone casually mentioned radio at the bar and i literally could not shut up about meshtastic until they walked away.
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Man, I actually thought I didn't have much to say until I made an account here on Lemmy. Which is interesting, because I had been on Reddit for a little over a decade. I really only lurked there, though. Turns out it was just a garbage site.
I keep writing comments on Lemmy that really should just be standalone posts. Some of them would still be considered long, even for a whole post. Some of them are kept as drafts, with the intention of turning into a post, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. If you look at the few actual posts I've made so far it's just silly shit to test the waters from several months back.
Reminds me a bit of the blog days. I'd start a whole blog, buy a domain and everything, make a handful of posts in a short period, then completely lose interest. By the time I wanted to write like that again, it didn't feel right to put it there. It just wouldn't feel like me anymore and I was usually onto a completely different topic, and the cycle restarted.
Ah well, at least here you can do whatever, post whenever. I'm a big believer in "strike while the iron's hot". (Of course I am, because that's the only way things actually get done!) Idk why else, but it seems to be the right amount of people here right now, with not too many assholes and few bots. Oh and it seems like it's harder for comments to get buried, so things actually do get read. A well-made comment, regardless of where it is in the thread, will eventually get surfaced, sometimes even days later. Reddit felt more like screaming into the void. If you weren't terminally online, and extremely quick on the draw, no one read it (heh).
Whatever it is, I feel more comfortable expressing myself here more often, and it's a good environment to flex the exposition muscles and not lose that skill. It does come in handy sometimes.
you are the opposite of me kinda! I'll start a comment, get frustrated with my phone keyboard and most of time not even
Being a 40 year old woman who wants to talk to anyone I can about Hannibal Barca is embarrassing 😅 thankfully my daughter and I can nerd out about him together
Here's a detailed breakdown of the causes leading up to and continuing ramifications of the Opium wars , part ONE MOTHERFUCKER YES THERE ARE 8 PARTS
I have an autistic coworker who's really into My little pony. I know SO MUCH about MLP now.
So a brony...
Can I have your co-workers?
I'm all ears
No fair, that's Dartmouth's favourite son listening to Kingston's favourite sons!
Lol me too
Certified weed autist
I mean, if you want to talk about The Tragically Hip I will listen!
Not that I would ever challenge someone on whether they have a condition.
It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations
Reveal themselves one star at a time
Pure unadulterated poetry.
It doesn't get much better than that...
I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above
And said "hey man, thanks"
Sometimes I remember Gord's not with us anymore and I get so sad.
Me too.
I spent some formative years in Canada (as an American child/teen) and when I was 17 back in the US for high school, I put a “The Tragically Hip” decal on my locker (free sticker w new album purchase) and a few days later someone had tagged over it / my locker with the word “FAG”
My friends were worried because they saw it before me so they were trying to cover it before I arrived that morning (very sweet). But I was less annoyed about the “fag” tag than just, like, really annoyed bc that the tagger just thought I was trying to call myself hip/cool and didn’t even KNOW the Hip were a band!!!! Obviously!!!! Otherwise they’d get it!!!!!!!!
My hip hurts, does that qualify?
What is it?
A Shibboleth that allows you to distinguish between Canadians and Americans.
Virtually any Canadian over age 30 or so will know the band, almost no Americans will have heard of it.
A really great Canadian rock band.
Fuck cancer
Watching that final live performance of "Ahead By a Century" always makes me cry. A lot.
I thought I wasn’t good at monologuing until I had to do a 10 minute speech for a class and in my practice runs I had to keep cutting content I wanted to talk about to finally get to the 10 minute mark.
[me flashing back to struggling to cut enough content to make a time or number of pages cutoff for school projects]
ohhhhhh that was a sign
I thought I wasn’t good at monologuing until
And when did you turn into a supervillain?
Bit idea: Supervillain who never gets to revealling their plan, because every time they get halfway through an idea they realize they have to explain something else first. The hero then has to piece together what the plan was that related magnetism, geologic history of China and Germany, silica chemistries, Ronald Reagan, and the nuances of radio station licensing in America.
ADHDispicable Me?
Yeah once I get into hour three of ranting about the erasure of traditional animation in mainstream media anyone who assumes I'm not autistic based on what they believe is autism will realize they done fucked up
Little reminder: autism is a spectrum, and not every person who is autistic necessarily has special interests. :)
Source: https://psychologie-to-go.podigee.io/202-autismus (German)
I go in the opposite direction, I'm more likely to think lots of people have a touch of the tism
I thought I was. Maybe I'm not.