Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek@v.st

Today we had a new one. Riding on a rural road a driver overtook us. He then rode, at speed, with 2 wheels in the water saturated shoulder of the road. Splashing slippery mud onto the road. Long patches of over 1.5 m wide.

He repeated this process a couple of times. For cyclists the road now is significantly reduced in with as the mud is simply too dangerous to ride through. Avoiding the mud will get you into conflict with other drivers.

Why would he do this? Why make it dangours for others?

okay fine i did one

Thinking about that time I ran across a video titled "why I'm never buying another disposable camera" or something, thinking it was someone who found a cheap point-and-shoot that had a crappy lens and recreated "that look"

But no. It was like a 20 year old who had just discovered *cameras*

The normal kind. That you reload with film.

He didn't know they existed.

whenever people give me shit about my cat owning a busted old ipad carefully firewalled from the Internet, I show them this

"Everyone is posting nudes" and all I got was this pic of an unusual hotdog container

Noticing a lot of weekend chatter about helping new people onboard and I literally cannot stress the enough - the experience changes entirely once you follow about 200 people.

Then your home timeline fills up, and you find more people to follow/weed out some of the randos you followed at first.

This place is NOT going to get "busier" if you do not follow people; there are so many posts going on that you are not seeing.

Use "Federated" and "Local" find ppl; follow liberally. It works.

Have you noticed how Godwin’s Law has become redundant now so many internet discussions start out talking about actual nazis?

[this actually happened to me, in 2019]

Cute girl: So. Before we proceed. How do you feel about Marx?
Me (nervous): Umm look I guess I'm a socialist but I don't really know enough about the political theory behind it
Her: ...
Me: I'm sorry
Her: ...
Her: Marks. Can I leave marks on your skin

Little Owl.

Just before I relocated to the Isle Of Mull, during the winter CV19 lockdown, I spent a few sessions late in the day at the little owl site in Worcestershire.

Each time I stayed until dusk hoping to capture images of the adult female backlit against the setting sun.

Took a few visits, but I was rewarded eventually.

#LittleOwl #owl #worcestershire #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfPrey #BirdPhotography #BirdsInFlight

Email translations:

“I was under the impression”
Translation: I’m furious

“As per my email”
Translation: I’m furious

“With respect”
Translation: I’m furious

“Whilst I appreciate”
Translation: I’m furious

“As I’m sure you’re aware”
Translation: I’m furious

The Milwaukee airport has my favorite airport sign in the country, hands down.

This is absolutely wild: a Nepali student who flew to the UK to take up a university scholarship with a valid visa and proof of his uni place was detained at the border and held in custody for 12 days, leading to him losing his place.

Adding insult to injury, while a spelling mistake in his bank letter was part of the reason for disbelieving him, the Border Force's letter to him made several spelling mistakes https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/26/treated-like-a-criminal-nepali-student-wrongly-detained-at-uk-border-loses-uni-place

Me: the kids haven't eaten their sandwiches
Wife: ok just throw them out

[Later]
Me *helping the kids pack a suitcase* look I'm as surprised as you are

is there a greek instance called the fetaverse or are they all just sleeping on this pile of gold

I updated the meme for you.