David Baer @david@arktos.social

When Highlights Magazine is coming off the sidelines against you, you ought to know you’ve done something really, really bad.

https://www.cbr.com/highlights-magazine-statement-trump-detention-centers/

@sng
"I can understand the line of reasoning which gives rise to this notion of yours, but it is incorrect."

The dog, hanging out on a lazy Saturday morning.

@mindnmotion
You might also want to check out these notes: https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Development-guide.md#openbsd

@mindnmotion
I also use ruby24 and ruby24-bundler from packages, rather than building them like the Mastodon installation instructions say to do.

@mindnmotion
I found I couldn't make it work with ruby 2.5--I had to use 2.4.

@mindnmotion
The node dependencies are a PITA, but it can be done. Where are you getting stuck?

@1stvamp
Did you click? 😉

“Study: Hate Clicks Are A Major Source Of Web Traffic And Also 'The Princess Bride' Is A Trash Movie That Only Stupid People Like”

https://babylonbee.com/news/study-hate-clicks-are-a-major-source-of-web-traffic-and-also-princess-bride-is-a-trash-movie-that-only-stupid-people-like

My mouth is still agape from the awesomeness of this rant: “subject-specific expertise built up through a lifetime of education and research doesn’t mean much unless you are also able to make exaggerated claims that stoke fear and resentment, ideally combined with a kind of faux-folksiness that harkens back to an age that never existed.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/every-nimbys-speech-at-a-public-hearing

Jury can’t decide on charges against Arizona border activist: “A U.S. jury could not reach a verdict Tuesday against a border activist charged with conspiracy to transport and harbor migrants in a trial that humanitarian aid groups said would have wide implications on their work.”

Good. A conviction in this case would have been a monstrous outcome.

https://apnews.com/2fe6f48dc23c4a6887a6620a100aeba1?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

Lolwut? Robo-scam call threatening me with prosecution ends with, "Have a blessed day!"

When my kid steps up to the plate, the opposing team's coaches frantically gesture at their outfielders to back up. I confess it gives me a great deal of pride to have a child who is feared in this way. 🙂

This is exhibit A for the case that if Jesus were to return today, they'd crucify him all over again.

No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths@twitter.com): "“He gave them food, he gave them water, he gave them a place to stay...He did a bad thing.” -- Anna Wright, @USAO_AZ@twitter.com in her closing argument that #ScottWarren should be convicted. https://t.co/jm67RYlzX1"

I've read that working parents today spend as much time in hands-on parenting as stay-at-home moms did in the 1970s. Sometimes I experience this as burdensome. This week I'm experiencing it as especially joyous and lifegiving, and I find myself wishing I could ditch work more than I already do.

My kid’s school sends out e-mails where the text is rendered as a CDN-linked image in the text/html part of the message. The text/plain alternative part of the message is an incomprehensible list of long URLs to their CDN, though an "unsubscribe" link is also provided. I can view the images, but this is clearly an accessibility fail. And really, is it too much to ask people to send the text of their e-mails *as* text?

The fallible official giveth, and the fallible official taketh away. Blessed be the fallible official.

- Coaches' Proverbs 22:12

@sullybiker
Every now and then I think it might be nice to have some basic formatting, and I look at wrapper scripts that pipe your outgoing messages through some kind of markdown parser, but these always seem to cause one form of trouble or other.

@sullybiker
I find I can read HTML emails all right: I have an entry in my mailcap to have w3m turn them into plain text, and if that fails (or if the images become relevant), I can open them with Firefox.

For sending, I use plain text with format=flowed, which seems to render my paragraphs in the way people expect in most clients (though not the Gmail Android app 🙁).