miramarco @miramarco@blob.coffee

@ondiz

Oh, today is also my last day in the office for this year. I will be on a business trip next week and then I’ll be on holiday until January 6th

@Juju Wow, you’re great

@Juju

@zigg Same

@ondiz Oooh, that sounds exhausting. I hope it won’t be a stressful day to you

I finally sorted the custom emoji of this instance by mood (more or less).

Wow. I learned about Asexual Awareness Week last year, when someone on Fedi posted a toot *after* the week was over.

I felt a bit disappointed: It would have interested me a lot, and somehow I had missed all the posts‽ Did anyone actually talk about it?

But this year I’m seeing many more posts about Ace Week on my home timeline and it makes me so happy

My initial strategy – going to the swimming pool at lunchtime on Saturdays, hoping to find fewer people – was not as effective as I thought. So now I'm going to the pool after lunchtime, which means I'm having lunch after the period after lunchtime…

Yes, the project is still in a very bad shape, but at least the task I have been assigned now involves quite a bit of problem solving, which makes this job more engaging, rewarding, and bearable than usual

A special thank you to all my lovely mutuals who are putting up with my complaining and who are helping me through this tough time. You are precious and wonderful and amazing

For the records, I rewrote the code of conduct of this instance (in the ‘about’ page), so now it goes more in detail about what the general principles of moderation are.

(I wasn't intending to publish it today, but I could not change the instance settings because the previous CoC had an invalid html tag – I don't know how that happened – so I took the new CoC from my drawer, formatted it, and published it )

Omg

The custom emoji categories show up in the latest version of the Mastodon emoji picker

This means I can divide the blob emojos by mood

This changes ev-ery-thing

@Juju I think that someone would notice it, so you don’t have to worry. I remember one time that I noticed your absence on here and was about to check out on you, but then you started posting again. And I feel like I wasn’t the only one to notice that…

@Juju That’s a fear of mine as well. I get worried every time I hear about her story. I hope you and I will find ourselves in a less lonely place

@AbbieNormal Yes, for now blob.coffee is a space of my ooooooooown

(Well, it’s hosted and updated by masto.host, but I am the only admin and mod here.)

Why do I even write things in emails if the recipients are not going to read them?

At this point, explaining stuff feels less like “here’s what you need to know” and more like “I’m telling you this, because I know you’re going to complain anyway, but at least I will be able to reply with ‘I have already told you’”

@Juju This is so true

I just learned that, when one of our customers tried to call me on a Saturday morning, they also called one of our project managers.

Who was on vacation.

And it wasn’t even 7am when they called him.

But the weirdest thing is that he answered the call