adam king

master webmaster • designer/developer/dad • jack of fair trades

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2024-05-25 19:38:42

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@npub1sen…ycjl i often pitch friends and family on signal for messaging! mixed results.

2024-05-22 15:09:09

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@npub1axm…dsle neat! what part of the world are you in? did you build the greenhouse? have been thinking about doing one as part of a shed project

2024-05-21 22:26:37

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@npub1axm…dsle sounds neat, if a bit hard to picture! you should post some photos!

2024-05-21 16:35:20

haha wow — the ivy that covers the wall outside is making its way inside!
https://media.social.qoto.org/media_attachments/files/112/479/570/637/492/862/original/7cedcd09e1df2c25.jpeg

2024-05-06 21:16:41

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@npub1sen…ycjl asana’s not great, but it’s far from the worst! i speak as someone who has been on teams using everything from wrike to teamwork projects to jira to airtable

2024-04-15 17:53:42

TBT to when the very idea of ONLY A SINGLE MAPLE LEAF on the canadian flag was a front page shocker. (found this newspaper from 1964 stuffed in our old chimney flue)
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2024-04-11 22:08:31

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@npub1sen…ycjl hah! what’s that from?

2024-04-11 22:07:45

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@npub1qqq…eecw i did not!

2024-04-09 21:34:48

i'm a multi-millionaire!
(zimbabwean)
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2024-03-23 23:47:49

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@npub1axm…dsle @npub1hkd…qplv it has surprisingly good traction in the snow, but i should try some donuts next time there’s a good snowfall!

2024-02-24 23:08:36

let my ivory subscription lapse to see if i could get used to using ice cubes all the time. made ice cubes feel quite a bit better by tweaking settings, but something just feels right about ivory that i miss! not sure it feels $20 good though. trying to pinpoint what the things are in ice cubes that make its UX inferior, but it does. the icon set and typographical things are part of it, i think.
anyone else get what i’m talking about?
what’re y’all using for mastodon clients these days?

2024-02-08 04:42:20

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 oh for sure — i’m not discontented at all. i just have an inkling of how much effort can be involved in this stuff and so wanted to express my appreciation 🙂

2024-02-08 04:37:44

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 thanks for the work on this. looking forward to seeing what’s on its way!

2023-12-10 19:25:12

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@npub12k7…tvsy @npub1744…ehw8 is it possible that could eventually happen, or that some doctors overdiagnose? for sure. but overall i think the removal of stigma is helpful, and the direction is towards helping more people live their lives more fully. i was diagnosed with adhd ~15yr ago, and regret not taking it seriously then. around 5yr ago i started learning how adhd works and using targeted strategies to better deal with it, and that has improved my life immensely.

2023-12-10 19:08:01

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@npub12k7…tvsy @npub1744…ehw8 well it def has changed, in that asperger’s (and now adhd) are increasingly seen as part of the same “spectrum” of neurological conditions. and of course there’s the pop understanding of the conditions too which is often nonsense. but i don’t think it’s a conspiracy to try to medicalize everything. we’ve seen demedicalization of it too — seeing them as neurotypes that can exist without needing treatment rather than as just disorders

2023-12-10 18:55:05

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@npub1744…ehw8 oh that’s funny!

2023-12-09 20:43:13

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 thanks 😘

2023-12-09 19:51:31

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@npub1744…ehw8 this is the type of observation i find useful but that also makes me feel like maybe i am autistic because i find it useful

2023-12-09 19:37:24

buried my friend and former bandmate michael nicholson on thursday. he had cancer back when we recorded the salvation navy, and was clear of it a decade ago. but it came back with a vengeance.
died last friday at hospice in brantford. left behind a wife and 9 year old child. brutal stuff.
here’s some old photos with both of us! (he’s in the red toque, hugging me from behind in the first one)
https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/111/551/907/924/293/246/original/eb88b2aaa885a7bd.jpeg
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2023-12-02 04:45:34

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@npub1vrv…97jm because she doesn’t want to disrespect their flag by walking across it?

2023-11-30 04:10:00

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@npub1sen…ycjl well they don’t support disney or warner bros content “due to an agreement with the studios” so that makes sense. thought that wording seemed odd. boy, am i the only one who didn’t know about these guys? hah

2023-11-30 03:58:46

apparently there is something trying to do just this! https://www.vidangel.com/
haven’t tried it, and they don’t support all the streaming services right now, but seems promising!
From: @npub1qmh…xh88
https://qoto.org/@sabbatical/111485801640689194

2023-11-30 03:53:49

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@npub1744…ehw8 yeah, suppose so. they used to make clean versions of movies so they could be shown on planes or certain TV stations, that sort of thing. but a lot more radio

2023-11-28 03:27:03

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some of the music streaming services do have clean versions of albums, which i appreciate. but no video streaming services? i know multiple people whose dads hand-censored their VHS movies so the kids could watch too, and dads are still dads, so seems like there'd be demand

2023-11-28 03:25:30

remember how in the 90s they had "clean" versions of movies with the sex scenes and/or worst swears taken out? i actually wish that still existed.
also seems like a service current AI could cheaply provide en masse (though the legal barriers would be large, i expect)

2023-11-26 03:52:25

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@npub1744…ehw8 ah maybe that’s why i had that impression — one of my best friends from university is frisian, so no actual hate here

2023-11-18 04:39:10

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@npub12k7…tvsy hopefully! illegal to have backyard canpfires here anymore, so am aiming to get around it with an indoor wood stove that’s open to the outdoors by having one of the walls open up

2023-11-18 04:32:21

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@npub12k7…tvsy and that scrap i just added — hoping to build a shack in our lil backyard with a wood stove

2023-11-18 04:15:56

project: clean up this basement
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2023-11-02 04:43:01

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@npub12k7…tvsy not sure! haven’t been since i was a teen, but we are planning to hit it up this winter

2023-11-02 04:35:06

the gang got on the train to toronto and hit the ROM today
https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/111/338/854/958/910/153/original/bdf7808b146335a9.jpeg

2023-09-28 01:22:02

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 do other instances not have this issue? i don’t hear about others having to do this, but even before joining qoto heard about y’all having to

2023-09-21 16:01:03

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@npub12k7…tvsy easily in my top 5 books ever. so good. don’t recognize this particular map though! is it a fan creation?

2023-09-12 20:01:18

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@npub1sen…ycjl that was one — bc it was thin thin thin. also, not the whole body was metal, and the plastic parts would eventually lose their metallic coating. the real gamechanger with aluminum was being able to use that machined unibody construction where the whole thing was one piece.

2023-08-18 21:45:00

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@npub1va0…79tk @npub1hyk…3p33 walkaway is a great story, and the setting changed how i think about the future! it’s like if ayn
rand was less problematic and longwinded

2023-07-12 23:41:24

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn @npub1gx9…d0tk @npub1dxs…qqxk hah, i mean, i'm not an extremist on either end — i wouldnt want to live in an empty box OR with clutter. maybe a theme could work? am trying some but not keen on any so far. (and a couple seemed sorta broken?) didnt see any actually dark (or at least grey instead of blue) dark themes as well.

2023-07-12 23:29:47

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1gx9…d0tk @npub1ukc…40jn @npub1dxs…qqxk ahh, i prefer less features to be honest (at least visually.) i like my interfaces clean and lean :) same with twitter — i couldnt use it without something like the "minimal twitter" extension.

2023-07-12 23:26:10

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1gx9…d0tk @npub1ukc…40jn @npub1dxs…qqxk oh really? @npub1vl7…2stc is probably the client i've heard folks talk about and talk about using most! prob even more than @npub1rky…0xq2 and @npub1rk3…43sg

2023-07-12 23:23:16

@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1gx9…d0tk @npub1ukc…40jn
@npub1dxs…qqxk hey, wasn't sure where to send this, so apologies if this isn't the place... but does qoto.org not support the elk.zone client? elk is (was) my go-to desktop client for mastodon, but now that i've switched to this instance i can't log in to it. (either says "Can't connect" on the domain autofill UI, or "ERROR: TypeError: Failed to fetch" after. doesn't happen with any of my other instance tester accounts!