ghost [inactive] @ghost@icosahedron.website

Okay here for a bit. I feel a little bad bouncing around. Sorry tooters.

@kevspace hi! I have been a secret fan of your name since I first saw it. Just so you know. :)

I'm thinking I might try out some other instances and see how their local TLs are... It'd be nice to find a niche. Idk if a niche exists for me but maybe.

I have no idea what he's staring at. [image description: very alert gray and white cat with enormous pupils.]

I think Kepler got into the 'nip and his Thundershirt is making him feel extra good right now. [image description: gray and white cat with enormous eyes staring at nothing.]

I'm in pain so I'm trying to finish pre-sleep tasks so I can lay down but I can't finish pre-sleep tasks because I'm in pain. Aquatic physical therapy is tomorrow, which is why I should be sleeping, and having to wait a week between appointments is why I'm in so much pain to move. 🎶🎶 It's the ciiiiiiiircle of suuuuuuuck. 🎶🎶

"Horror of horrors" is a worst case scenario. Someone might get as upset by diet talk as they do about stories of torture. No one really knows what kind of violence another person has experienced or how it affected them. But if you're already kind and thoughtful enough to CW gore, why not got ahead and err on the side of caution and use CW's generously? What's so inconvenient about kindness?

CWs are a fair compromise everyone should adopt. If you're in a semi public place where strangers can hear you, you're probably not gonna loudly announce some horror of horrors you just heard about, shouting gory details in their faces. You'll probably make a quiet segue to only involve to those who seem interested, and a CW isn't much different.

I try to CW the fuck out of everything. I'm open to learning new reasons to CW. But I can't be entirely apolitical anywhere, online or irl. What's happening in the world is affecting me directly, people I love directly, and all my fellow earthlings.

Back to amaroq!

my toot window/column keeps flashing in a terrible awful way, and it's making me sad.

politics and laws aside (but they CERTAINLY deserve to be discussed), the journal deletion thing is kind of depressing. there are friends who are no longer in this world, and livejournal was a documentation of part of their life. for some of us, it's a really important part of their life. i met my husband @Garg0yle on LJ. dreamwidth is a great option for those of us still alive. but for those who aren't... it's a bummer.

someone generously posted a translation of LJ's official Russian TOS.

Highlights include: they can delete your journal after 6 months inactivity, they can ban you if your promote your own work (etsy, gofundme, anything that makes you money), criticizing governments looks to be bannable, being openly queer or trans is bannable, and cops might get access to all your data, even locked and private posts.

goodbye, LJ. thanks for the memories.

https://med-cat.dreamwidth.org/3184400.html

the @wired bot is just spam-tooting the same links seconds apart, but with slightly different hashtags. that's awkward.

A class action suit alleges that Uber's using some seriously corrupt fuckery to maximize profits: the company charges the customer rates based on the longest, slowest route, and pays the driver based on the shortest, fastest route.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/uber-said-to-use-sophisticated-software-to-defraud-drivers-passengers/