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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

Notebook/tablet people, do I *really* want to switch from a reMarkable to a Supernote?

Imagine that I am somehow who hates change and also hates spending money, but also someone who writes and annotates an enormous number of words by hand and finds the reMarkable stuff difficult to keep organized.

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 3d

over on Mastodon:

a fruit poll social.coop/@brainwane/1...

and an innovative and terrible product idea for a mouth implant social.coop/@brainwane/1...

Sumana Harihareswara (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Blueberries exist. Some other berries are called orangeberry, redberry, yellowberry -- but there's no greenberry. If you could wave a magic wand, or commission a team of scientists...

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 4d

"transparent apples" - today I learned!

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 4d

What a lovely plan!

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Cepheid @wrdnrd.bsky.social · 20d

If folks could share this, i'd appreciate it! We inherited a small collection of photo and video cameras from spouse's family, and i'd love to know more about them — the top shelf in particular. (Bottom shelf are our current-ish cameras, so we know them.) I'll slowly add close-ups....
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Two wooden shelves mounted on a grey wall. The shelves are filled with various types of cameras and video cameras from early 2000s to early 1900s.

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Cepheid @wrdnrd.bsky.social · 4d

With autumn settling in, there's very little left for us to set up as far as our wine/liqueur projects for the year. So here's a quick overview of The Year in Concoctions.

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 4d

I did really innovative work on a physics problem set in 2003. Got an answer that nobody expected. Some called it "completely wrong." Nobody says that anymore. Maybe they forgot. But maybe history has vindicated me. I'll sleep with my phone next to me tonight, just in case.

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 6d

instead of a walk-and-talk

a walk-and-stalk-and-shock

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 6d

I originally misread this as "or any OTHER M. Night" which was very confusing for a moment. Like, imagining the world in which The West Wing was primarily a psychological suspense/horror series

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 7d

Alt text:

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You now have ***less than 48 hours*** to take advantage of Hell Gate's Biggest Year Ever, Biggest Sale Ever! 34 percent off all annual subscriptions until the end of the day. Do NOT miss it! hellgatenyc.com/membership/

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 8d

Folks in digital preservation looking for a chill place to hang out off here - I run a digipres mastodon instance, digipres.club. I try to keep it running well and low stress. All are welcome.

digipres.club

Hometown is adapted from Mastodon, a decentralized social network with no ads, no corporate surveillance, and ethical design.

digipres.club

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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · 8d

We:

Announce the Otherwise Awards 2025 jury

Remind you to submit recommendations by Nov. 14th

Thank our past Treasurer, Jim Hudson, and welcome our new Treasurer, Rachel Kadel

Announce our new Motherboard member, Nick Murphy

otherwiseaward.org/2025/09/four...

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 9d

Hey pals, I know an accomplished engineering manager in DC who's starting to look around for their next challenge. Experience with government, security, open source.

Happy to make intros.

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 10d

:D

brainwane @harihareswara.net · 10d

toward the end of harihareswara.net/posts/2024/t... I mention a few things I am glad I did the time I caught it

Things I Wish I'd Done Before Catching COVID

In mid-June I caught COVID-19 for, I'm pretty sure, the first time. The current dominant variants are transmissible enough that they got past my defenses. I believe I caught the virus either whil...

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 10d

want any advice?

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 10d

bummer!!!

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Cameo Wood 🔛 Pagecraft 🔛 Stowe Story Lab @cameowood.com · 10d

Looking for an SF Bay person available for a short-term job cataloguing a large collection of immersive/ARG materials for donation to a museum. You’d be paid as a contractor, expected to take a couple weeks. You’d be working out of my home, so not being allergic to cats would be ideal.

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John Harris @rodneylives.mefi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

This is extremely short notice, granted, but a Metafilter member has written code to help you save your Typepad blog before service shutdown (looks at calendar) TOMORROW. I just got the permission to share it yesterday, and it didn't sink in how close it was until just now

Honestly I don't know […]

Original post on mefi.social

mefi.social

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gregorg @greg.org · 11d

last day to grab your typepad hosted blog btw

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WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 11d

SF3 (The Society of the Furtherance and Study of Fantasy and Science Fiction) is hosting our annual meeting on October 12th, 2025, at 2PM CT. This is the last day to register!
Join here: sf3.org/join/

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 13d

PSA: don't trust google docs with your grammar corrections without consulting a human. I am now at 5 instances of it trying to insert past tense verbs into present tense sentences in this document. And the dirty clothes in the corner are "rank" not "ranked".

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 13d

My ostensible bus driver just went rogue, took the highway up the coast and skipped the first several miles of the route, including my stop. Good job, Oakland AC Transit.

A map showing a bus in very much the wrong place

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WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 13d

WisCon is looking for volunteers:
Blog writers, volunteers for Marketing team, Script Writers,
Tech and IT, Programming coordination, Accessibility and logistics.
No experience needed. Just curiosity, collaboration, and a belief in feminist speculative fiction. Learn more at wiscon.net

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Emilia (halloween name) @lazerwalker.com · 13d

The flip side of this is, as a member of a few communities who use Discourse, and as much as I think the internet in 2025 would benefit from more forums, I desperately wish there was an easy-to-run piece of forum software whose consumer-facing UX was not notably worse than phpMyBB or vBulletin

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