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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I appreciate your point, however - if you wish for this series of communities to succeed, it needs to be welcoming to newcomers. And one of the ways of doing that is allowing for a continuation of conversations that were on the source communities - including, “Oh, we’re getting out”, “Why it’s so bad”, “Where do we go to”, “How do we make the new community look/feel like I’m used to”, etc. etc.

    I’m happy to see this because it means that a corrupt and non-people-focussed environment is losing members. Like anything, it will pass, but please don’t push people away by making them feel unwelcome.






  • I took my daughter to the Manchester Science Museum, and saw a BBC there. That was my first home computer in '86. I’m 42…

    Of course, I still move reasonably well, the tablets keep the depression at bay, the inhalers keep the asthma away and the powerballs keep the RSI away :P My brain is still sharp (And I hope it stays that way as I’m a coder, so I kinda need it), and the glasses keep my eyesight up-to-scratch. Let’s hear it for pharmaceutical or physical solutions to intractible issues ;) I also keep up with modern music. Like some of it, don’t like others - but then, that’s the same as when I was a kid or a teenager. I fight to keep an open mindset, and not slip into the ‘rose coloured glasses’ fallacy… Having a young daughter is a help to this, because she views everything as new, and interesting, and may I never, ever shutter that desire to learn more. I always try to answer her questions if I can…