I've been a loyal Fitbit user for a decade, but Google's killed all the features that made it good (challenging friends, playing silly games). I'm thinking of picking up a Garmin next
yildo
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OLP is having a leadership contest right now. Federal MP Nathaniel Erskine Smith and Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie are running
ONDP had a leadership contest. Marit Stiles won it by default as the only person that ran
Oh, I forgot about these. These songs are so lovely to catch up on
Why wouldn't people talk about the boring stuff more? You can click through the hashtag to see who's talking about it. The bird site probably blocks #wednesday from trending to avoid the banal stuff
The other issue is that the default is for the instance admins to have to preapprove every tag before it can trend visibly, which makes sense but isn't going to get you by-the-second trends about unscheduled volcanic eruptions
I'm sure I saw an interesting article about it many years ago, but this is the best I can find right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ql0bsd/what_time_signature_is_the_tng_theme/
Fantasy communism: Life of leisure for everyone!
Actual communism: If you don't work, you are a bourgeois breaker and saboteur here to destroy communism! To the hard labour camp with you, bourgeois pigdog!
I also like the Culture novels and Star Trek, but I find the FALC meme an unhelpful way of framing things as that's not a path from here to there
The time signature (I had to Google) starts in the common 4/4 but then switches into 12/8 or 6/8 which has a lot of flavour
I left in November and deleted my account in December. Mastodon/the Fediverse is what I always wanted Twitter to be but it never was