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You’ll still see them there, yes. But anything posted by a dubvee user (or lemm.ee or any instance that’s shut down) won’t have working images (the community icon/banner also won’t work). SDF may have local thumbnails for some posts, but there’s no guarantee I can make. Posts you’ve made should be fine since the images are not hosted on my instance (e.g. you should be able to crosspost them just fine).

Any new posts made to this community from there would only show up locally on sdf.org’s instance (since dubvee won’t be online to federate them out), but I’ve locked the community to prevent that kind of “islanding”

Jen’s not available, but I will say this from us both since I’m sure she shares the same sentiment: Thank you for helping to grow this community and the funny, insightful, and sometimes just silly contributions you’ve made. I also hope someone picks up the reigns and creates a replacement, but that’s not something I’ll be involved with (unless they would like to transfer the contents of this community over in which case I am willing to assist).

Lemmy and the fediverse entirely. I guess you could also say social media entirely as this was my last vestige of it.

Planning to re-join the real world and put my energy into actual positive things.

Thanks. I just can’t run this place alone; not without someone else sharing the same vision/mission I’m trying to achieve. There’s too much toxicity that I don’t want to platform and not enough me or fucks-to-give to handle it all. This was a long time coming, honestly, and I regret not doing this sooner.

Beehaw was always my guiding light in many ways for what I wanted to do here (plus or minus a few things), so I may pop up there later on down the line as someone with no responsibilities. But for now, I want to part ways with this place entirely and spend more time in the real world (time I’ve denied myself having to be responsible for this dumpster fire lol).

I’ll still be on Matrix, so feel free to give a shout once in a while and let me know what’s currently bugging you.

Thanks. And yep. This started as a fun project 2 years ago and it turned into a nightmare. Best thing I can do is leave.

Thanks for being one of the sane ones lol.

Who has two thumbs and is excited?

Bob Kelso Admiral Patrick

Yep. Progress has been slow, but steady. We’ve got a group chat going with a bunch of her friends and family (her husband and sister take turns giving us updates), and she’s got a lot of support.

As of early last week, she underwent a tracheotomy procedure (replacing the intubation tube from the ventilator) and was moved out of intensive care into a longer-term care facility. Before that, every time they tried to take her off of the sedatives, she would get agitated and uncomfortable because of being intubated and have to be re-sedated.

As of Sunday, she’s now fully off the sedatives and has been awake and lucid which was a huge relief to hear. She’s still weaning off of the ventilator, though, and there are a few other secondary complications remaining.

She’s not out of the woods, but she’s no longer hour-by-hour.

I like to joke that it takes me 3 hours to watch “60 Minutes” because I just keep pausing/rewinding because I’ve zoned out and have to go back and catch up.

I like the length, especially when not constrained by broadcast TV time slots (e.g. you can get a few extra-long episodes for finales and such). I think my biggest gripe is the hyper-serialized format making every season a 10 hour movie.

Getting back to the episode length, then I guess some series could benefit from being twenty, 30-minute episodes as opposed to ten 1-hour ones. Never thought I’d say this, but sometimes you just need a “filler” episode.

Edit: Gonna tack on my second gripe. You only get ten episodes and then it’s nearly two years between seasons for some shows. By the time the next season rolls around, I’ve completely forgotten the prior one and have to re-watch it to have any idea what’s happening.

One particular spite house in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinny_House_(Boston)#History

According to local legend, the structure was built as a “spite house” shortly after the Civil War:

… two brothers inherited land from their deceased father. While one brother was away serving in the military, the other built a large home, leaving the soldier only a shred of property that he felt certain was too tiny to build on. When the soldier returned, he found his inheritance depleted and built the narrow house to spite his brother by blocking the sunlight and ruining his view.

Another source states:

Not much is known about the city’s narrowest house. Legend has it that … its unnamed builder erected it to shut off air and light from the home of a hostile neighbor (also nameless) with whom he had a dispute. … Believed to have been built after 1874

For sure. It’s crazy popular here, but I never much cared for it.

Sadly never came up.

Haven’t been to Harper’s Ferry in forever. It’s beautiful. I should probably take a day trip up this fall.

There’s good ones, and there’s the ones you can buy at the gas station, lol. If you’re ever in the area, I can recommend some good ones.

A couple weeks ago a bunch of friends from college came in for a semi-annual get together. The ones from out of state were all craving pepperoni rolls. I begged them not to buy anything from a gas station / convenience store and to let me hook them up.

I showed up the next day with $100 worth of these super bougie artisanal rolls from a local place. They were a hit.

One of the few places I’m proud to represent my home state: Pepperoni rolls.

I generally dislike editorialized headlines (when used as post titles) but this is the exception. Nicely played.

That’s actually closer to real poor than I thought, but I know people who live comfortably on way less. Guess he’s just gonna have to give up the avocado toast until he pulls himself up by his bootstraps.

I’m largely guessing here, but I’d venture he’s just “rich person broke” which is still wealthier than most people will ever be. Again, just a guess.