When I got my first phone with GPS and I think I just discovered IFTTT, I wanted to write a script that would detect via location when you walked through certain doors and do something like play the Imperial Death March. Never got around to doing it though since I keep location off.
I also like to maintain balance in containers as well for just these reasons, but after years of living with people who didn't share that preference, I learned to lift a container in place, then pull it out. That way I am cognizant of its balance before taking significant risk.
You should read Sourdough.
It is indeed. It's fun that Lemmy is still that small. Besides his interest in chickens, he also has a very recognizable tone - I've seen him talk about comics, for example, and realized it was him before I looked at the username.
I have no advice about raccoons, but I wish I did.
That's a fair interpretation, I suppose.
Still, I think the only thing I would be thinking there would be some variation of "why the hell did I come up here and how soon can I be safely back aground!"
I misread that as "self-loathing" and the answer was obvious.
I have a fear of heights.
I broke my ankle in a life altering way falling down two stairs unto a sidewalk. That, to me, justified my already reasonable fear of heights.
I don't understand why this is the "Thank God" ledge rather than the "Oh My God!" or similar ledge.
Lies! Lies and slander! Accusing gentle Bender Tamago of a misdeed?!
Or just look at the thumbnail in your mobile app. That's what worked for me.
It likely would not have occurred to me, either, but I have recently befriended another Lemmy user who has pet chickens. He has considerably expanded my perspective on my matter.
I'm actually a bit surprised he hasn't made an appearance in this thread (that I've seen, anyway).
Not OP, but I suspect the aforementioned chickens might have been rescued.
And my Lemmy comments.
I wonder what you would call it if they were in a blue phone box.
I tore mine around age fifteen. I was kneeling in a garden helping a senior lady garden. Felt a weird pop when standing up. Didn't even realize anything was particularly wrong until my knee stopped supporting me later in the day.
36 now. I don't remember my exact age at the time, but at approximately eighteen I dislocated my shoulder turning over in bed.
Hello, fellow old nerd.
Apparently,
The name derives from the Ministry of Transport,[5] a defunct government department, which was one of several ancestors of the current Department for Transport, but is still officially used.
I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes them taste quite funny, but it keeps them on my knife.
DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says.
So far, the feeling is mutual.
I woke up today deeply missing my dog Newbie, so I figured I'd share
Newbie was a rescue from a dog fighting house. According to the shelter from which we got her, they couldn't get her to fight, so they used her for breeding. For her entire life with us, she had scars from where they tied her down for breeding... But despite coming from the most abusive background imaginable, she was the absolute sweetest dog. She was in my life for about a decade and, other than in her sleep, I never once heard her make an aggressive sound.
Unfortunately, she died a few years ago from a failing pancreas. She's the only dog I ever had to choose to let die. I wish she were still here.
edit: She was really stinky, though.
My kid told me another knock-knock joke
Them: Knock knock!
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Me: Who's there?
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Them: Boo!
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Me: Boo who?
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Them: Boo! I'm a ghost!
A while ago, Maze hurt her ear. Since then we've been giving her all kinds of medication. Obviously things aren't pristine, but she's doing way better and her wheezing has nearly disappeared!
My cat fell asleep in my wife's lap and is so out that her foot is just hanging out above her head
How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?
My wife pronounces it three different ways, each of which she can support. I pronounce it one, but other than that it's the way I've heard it I can't support my pronunciation even after some searches. What's yours and why?
A follow-up to my backyard Eldritch horror
Last week, I made a post about a demon in my backyard at 4am.
For anyone curious, this is how it disguises its form during daylight. Pretty convincing and a lot less unsettling.
Genuinely unsettling to see in my kitchen window at 4am
My 5-year-old has set up a selection of large rocks on the railing of my back porch, which my kitchen faces.
In the kitchen, there is a small TV with a red status LED, which due to the window construction reflects twice.
As I naively walked into my kitchen, the only person in my house awake in the early morning, the rocks and lights lined up in an alarming way. I got quite a start.
(I know the picture isn't great quality ... I think the phone camera didn't want to focus on reflections. Also I zoomed in to hide my kitchen clutter.)
edit: Clarifications.
Where do you want to live?
Do you want to live in the city or country? Either way, why? Is there a specific place you'd like to live?
I built a table with my late dad; the cats love the brace across the bottom
edit: It's not a great picture, but I was trying to remove anything that could be used to doxx.
The cat pictured is Ripley. Don't tell her I told you.
Maze hurt her ear!
According to the vet, she probably scratched her ear and nicked a blood vessel, causing a hematoma. They drained her ear, but it seems to be (fortunately slowly) refilling. We're planning to schedule another appointment for Monday, when they said they could basically sew her ear together to prevent it from happening again. I would have guessed they would go for cauterization, but apparently not.
edit; She's also quite underweight (apparently she's six pounds). I thought that was because she's getting old (she's approaching fifteen years) but the vet says she just needs to eat more. We got her some wet food to entice her appetite.
Remi is needy
He's a good boy, though.
I put this up in my first house, but have lost it since then and can't find a replacement!
Either it was a local thing (I originally got the picture at Good Will) or my search skills are lacking. My wife loved it so I wish I could get her a reproduction.
I accidentally blocked a user
Like the title says, I accidentally blocked someone. I tapped the three dots under someone's post and then accidentally tapped again as "block user" fell under my thumb. This user doesn't seem like someone I want to block, so I would like to unblock them. I found the "blocklist" under my profile, which says it lists blocked instances, communities and users; but (while I haven't blocked any instances), I only see communities. That said, it's not allowing me to scroll through the blocked list, so possibly the blocked user is lower in the list. If I navigate to the user in question, I see how to block them again, but no option to unblock them.
How do I find a blocked user and how do I unblock them? Thanks in advance.
Recently, I was shopping for a hard drive at a big box store and tried to filter by capacity ...
I'm not even sure how many chickens I can fit on my current hard drive, but it's probably more than the number of persons I can fit.
SOFI TUKKER x Amadou & Mariam - Mon Cheri
I've loved this song since I heard it on American Dad! It took me an embarrassing number of views to realize that the older and younger couple are supposed to be the same people, though. (Knowing Portuguese might have helped.)
She doesn't care about the TV ... unless there are raccoons, then she's obsessed
I don't know why she cares. She's chill about everything else. She's never met a raccoon. She's never met any wild animal other than a praying mantis. Still, when my TV wasn't wall mounted, we had to make sure not to put on anything raccoon related or she'd try to jump into the TV, Super Mario style.
I shared my sister's artwork elsewhere, it was suggested that I post some here
Before last night I didn't even know my sister still painted. It's great that she does.