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@lunarpollen.bsky.social
Victim of the Meta banwave of 2025 in April (millions of accounts being randomly suspended by Meta's moronic AI for bogus reasons). Mewe.com is the "anti-Meta" platform with long-form posting, groups, event listings, etc. FB friends join and add me there!
brown paraffin day #1
January 24, 2026 at 6:11 AM
brown paraffin day #1
John Carpenter's THE MUPPET
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 PM
John Carpenter's THE MUPPET
i wish this sort of shit was made illegal years ago
January 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM
i wish this sort of shit was made illegal years ago
i only use following too... it used to be chrono but this morning suddenly it wasnt anymore... i haven't checked since then, so maybe it's fixed itself....
January 20, 2026 at 11:46 PM
i only use following too... it used to be chrono but this morning suddenly it wasnt anymore... i haven't checked since then, so maybe it's fixed itself....
there is no setting for this, at least in the BlueSky phone app
January 20, 2026 at 6:25 PM
there is no setting for this, at least in the BlueSky phone app
At first glance while scrolling I thought that was Andy McCluskey
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
At first glance while scrolling I thought that was Andy McCluskey
the most common thickness i use is 0.73 mm, but that would be too heavy for my acoustic guitar and my 12-string imitation rickenbacker, and too feeble for my hollowbody bass with its massive bavarian flatwound strings.
January 18, 2026 at 9:50 PM
the most common thickness i use is 0.73 mm, but that would be too heavy for my acoustic guitar and my 12-string imitation rickenbacker, and too feeble for my hollowbody bass with its massive bavarian flatwound strings.
it depends on which guitar i am playing
January 18, 2026 at 6:48 AM
it depends on which guitar i am playing
OH MY GOD, THIS IS PISS hahahahahaaa
January 15, 2026 at 9:29 PM
OH MY GOD, THIS IS PISS hahahahahaaa
and i have a 500+ Gb microSD card in my phone to take a good sized chunk of my music collection around with me wherever I go, no need for a cell signal or w-ifi if i want to listen to music :P
January 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
and i have a 500+ Gb microSD card in my phone to take a good sized chunk of my music collection around with me wherever I go, no need for a cell signal or w-ifi if i want to listen to music :P
hehehe i've always loathed Spotify, they are a diarrhea dumpster fire corporation. i've pretty much already heard everything that i might want to hear that Spotify has in their catalog, and I've always filtered my collection of songfiles to get rid of stuff i don't want. :P
January 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
hehehe i've always loathed Spotify, they are a diarrhea dumpster fire corporation. i've pretty much already heard everything that i might want to hear that Spotify has in their catalog, and I've always filtered my collection of songfiles to get rid of stuff i don't want. :P
I get "Error 404 - Oops, the page you're looking for is no longer here" when I click on the link
January 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I get "Error 404 - Oops, the page you're looking for is no longer here" when I click on the link
It's a waste of time for me to try to put my top 25 in order by preference. And what useful purpose would that serve anyway, really? I won't comment on any or provide links, as virtually no one really follows my account anyway. I'd gladly answer any questions though. OK, I need to get to bed now...
January 8, 2026 at 7:12 AM
It's a waste of time for me to try to put my top 25 in order by preference. And what useful purpose would that serve anyway, really? I won't comment on any or provide links, as virtually no one really follows my account anyway. I'd gladly answer any questions though. OK, I need to get to bed now...
A rough estimate of how much less new music I was exposed to--maybe 75% less... Anyway, it took a lot more time and effort to find out about the good stuff I heard last year, but the quality made up for the lesser quantity. I still haven't decided on my top album of the year...
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 AM
A rough estimate of how much less new music I was exposed to--maybe 75% less... Anyway, it took a lot more time and effort to find out about the good stuff I heard last year, but the quality made up for the lesser quantity. I still haven't decided on my top album of the year...
[2/2] It turns out one of the PCHG admins is a member and she messaged me. I told her all about what my cat was dealing with and she gave me some good suggestions. She also contacted the owner/chief admin of the group and got some advice to pass along to me. I am so grateful and feel a bit better...
January 4, 2026 at 6:59 AM
[2/2] It turns out one of the PCHG admins is a member and she messaged me. I told her all about what my cat was dealing with and she gave me some good suggestions. She also contacted the owner/chief admin of the group and got some advice to pass along to me. I am so grateful and feel a bit better...
I don't really know anything about url loading/embedding on BlueSky. Sharing links to articles etc. is easy enough though.
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I don't really know anything about url loading/embedding on BlueSky. Sharing links to articles etc. is easy enough though.
I'm still old-school in that social networking for me is primarily journaling + groups + events + following friends and pages. I have no interest in short-attention-span trash, what is "trending" online, the dumbing down of stuff to fit character limits. Fuck all algorithms and botslop spammers.
January 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I'm still old-school in that social networking for me is primarily journaling + groups + events + following friends and pages. I have no interest in short-attention-span trash, what is "trending" online, the dumbing down of stuff to fit character limits. Fuck all algorithms and botslop spammers.
I still remember the days of mocking mud hippies in the anti-BM groups on Tribe... fun times...
I'm also on MeWe, I just wish anyone else I knew was on there too, as its been lonely... It's sort of like the anti-FB... privacy-oriented, no selling of your data, no botspam, no algorthim fuckery...
I'm also on MeWe, I just wish anyone else I knew was on there too, as its been lonely... It's sort of like the anti-FB... privacy-oriented, no selling of your data, no botspam, no algorthim fuckery...
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I still remember the days of mocking mud hippies in the anti-BM groups on Tribe... fun times...
I'm also on MeWe, I just wish anyone else I knew was on there too, as its been lonely... It's sort of like the anti-FB... privacy-oriented, no selling of your data, no botspam, no algorthim fuckery...
I'm also on MeWe, I just wish anyone else I knew was on there too, as its been lonely... It's sort of like the anti-FB... privacy-oriented, no selling of your data, no botspam, no algorthim fuckery...
[3/3] (D) then add the rest as individual replies/comments of 300 characters or less, prefaced with [2/x], [3/x] etc.
Short-form limits suck, and are a major contributor to the enshittification of social networking, but there are workarounds for those of us who refuse to be stifled.
Short-form limits suck, and are a major contributor to the enshittification of social networking, but there are workarounds for those of us who refuse to be stifled.
January 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
[3/3] (D) then add the rest as individual replies/comments of 300 characters or less, prefaced with [2/x], [3/x] etc.
Short-form limits suck, and are a major contributor to the enshittification of social networking, but there are workarounds for those of us who refuse to be stifled.
Short-form limits suck, and are a major contributor to the enshittification of social networking, but there are workarounds for those of us who refuse to be stifled.
[2/3] (C) note how many characters your post is over the limit, then calculate how many posts it would take to fit what you are trying to say, then add [1/X] to the beginning of your post (X = the amount of posts it will take), trim your initial post to make it fit, and post it;
January 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
[2/3] (C) note how many characters your post is over the limit, then calculate how many posts it would take to fit what you are trying to say, then add [1/X] to the beginning of your post (X = the amount of posts it will take), trim your initial post to make it fit, and post it;