Mike Stevens

Holy shit this is life changing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116246407625430293 Honestly @kagihq@mastodon.social is the single best thing I pay for on the internet. I can't possibly overstate what it's done to improve my search experience.

@futtta@mastodon.social I'm using Octopi Launcher Pro. Still pretty new, but a good batch of features now and super stable. I imagine Nova was their inspiration. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopilauncher

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz hey, it's been pointed out to me that my use of 'dude' was inappropriate, for reasons that are now very obvious to me. So I apologise for that! 🙏

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @badgergravling@mastodon.social @captainborracho@mastodon.world @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk yep, heard you the first 41 times you bleeted unrealistic, non-inclusive, convenient 'this suits my lifestyle and economic rank' exhortations under the guise of "but my security!" Just like every other revolutionary who failed to grasp the human condition and anticipate enough outcomes to not just land us in some other shit future.

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @badgergravling@mastodon.social @captainborracho@mastodon.world @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk crawled. Cute. Your one-liner revolution got me crawling. You're right, champ, sport, I couldn't resist reminding you that we're not all living in your little bubble of a career unaffected by the life and death of advertising. That's on me. Got me a good one there. Sadly, most of us, if you flip the blinkers down and scan broadly enough, do not live a life that would so easily survive an end to advertising — and for most of us, being told to "diversify your business model" is the same insulting shit hurled at people trying to buy a home or merely afford rent. "If you just stopped buying avocados..." Anyway, 43: "I don't owe you..."

@lolennui@mstdn.social before striding into the nearest bar, declaring "I need your boots, your clothes and your motorcycle."

@aurynn @badgergravling @captainborracho @Daveosaurus @Geoff_Campbell this is an utterly tiresome line you're repeating. It is beyond pointless if you aren't also going to present a workable and widely embraceable alternative that doesn't leave people by the wayside. Small-time creators, local / small-town journalists, journalists already working and supporting a family under the model you so deplore (👋), people who can't afford the cost of subscriptions that would actually support the business, etc. Quit your job and make it happen. But no, no, we get it, you don't owe anybody anything — sadly you also seem content with bleeting the same line without offering any ideas beyond the sorts of idealistic, blinkered solutions that would require massive social upheaval (because UBI ain't coming without a revolution or a very, very long generational change in voting patterns). But hey, I hear you: you're totally here for a real, literal revolution. Forgive me if I'm not ready to throw my actual living children into the destruction of this completely inequitable society that I've managed to carve out a little corner of like so many other privileged white men (and I am absolutely not being sarcastic there, I know how easy I've had it compared to so many others even despite my welfare-funded and broken family upbringing). And, yep, there's a contradiction in what I'm saying, but that is the terrifying and gut-wrenching reality of being a parent. So you can advocate for burning it all down, but there will be millions who simultaneously agree with you in principle while also fighting you because even though they want a better future for their children, they also have to keep them alive in the here and now. I'm selfish enough, and realistic enough, to say I don't want a "better internet for everyone" at the expense of my children's last breaths. I will go through life helping in the small ways I can without also destroying my career, because that's the daily reality of parenting. I can hate the economy we tolerate and still not do anything radical about it, because I have a career that supports my children in the here and now, even despite the uncertain (or rather quite certain) future all of these careers are creating. But yep, you don't owe me a working business model. I heard you the first 40 useless times. I'm the selfish one.

@ejstacey I'm up for it tbh. Will be hitting Coles bright and late tonight for the 10-bucks-off markdown

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @badgergravling@mastodon.social @captainborracho@mastodon.world @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk 42 times. I reject your privileged, unrealistic concept of my privileged, realistic reality. Woopty do. We reject each other, look at us go! Doesn't get anything done, does it? I'll look forward to you coming up with solutions to the end of capitalism and the institution of UBI that can actually be done and not just form the body of a lovely utopian thesis. Except that what'll actually happen is we'll both die angry and unaccomplished, because gosh darn it, the world just didn't get it.

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @badgergravling@mastodon.social @captainborracho@mastodon.world @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk cool, I guess we're done. It's important to remember that if you build an argument around ideas that require upheaval, you either won't get anywhere, or you'll have to build an army to make it happen. Is that you? Or are you ultimately just a commentator on the sidelines, like me?

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz @badgergravling@mastodon.social @captainborracho@mastodon.world @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @Geoff_Campbell@hobbs-end.uk it do be like that. And alas now I need to get on with the parenting, so I'll leave it there. Thanks for talking instead of blocking. I wish you well. I'm not opposed to being forced into a new approach to life by way of new laws and market forces, but like billions of others parents, I confess I lack the strength and conducive circumstances to bring it about. Revolutions do happen! I'm not sure how many people who live through them are ever satisfied with the results, but I know it's hard to resist trying. The cause is always good, if not the motives and moral fortitude of those who end up becoming the leaders. 🤷‍♂️