CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@spocko I need to blow this up, frame it, and put it over my bed.

RoboCop and Inspector Gadget are the same movie.

#fightme

My girlfriend was surprised when I asked her to get me some Frosted Mini Wheats for breakfast.

"This tastes like depression era food." she told me.

The thing is, when I was a child, my mother had me on this special diet where I couldn't eat anything with artificial flavors or coloring. The recommendation came from my pediatrician who had diagnosed me with ADHD and recommended the diet based on a book from a leading pediatrician.

Frosted Mini Wheats was an approved morning cereal.

So I grew a taste for it. I would get it nice and soggy in the milk and go to town on it.

I still love it to this day.

My question to you is, what simple food do you still enjoy from your childhood that the people around you would question?

I forgot what I was going to slay.

Stop thinking that the Fediverse needs to compete with corporate owned social media.

It doesn't.

Mastodon isn't in competition with X or Threads. PeerTube isn't in competition with YouTube. PixelFed is not in competition with Instagram. Friendica is not in competition with Facebook.

The Fediverse serves a different function then all of the billionaire funded social medias. The Fedi isn't meant to create a revenue flow for investors. It isn't meant to turn you into a product where your privacy is stripped from you.

The Fediverse is meant to give the USER control. It's meant to protect the disenfranchised. Give power to the people. Be safe from profit exploitation.

The Fediverse and corporate social media couldn't be more different. Trying to put them in competition is like trying to compare a toilet to a flower. Sure you can shit and piss on a flower, but the toilet will always stink and the flower will continue to grow.

Day 2 of being on beige.party...

The natives in their acceptance have adorned me in robes and started dancing around a fire singing "We are not a cult. We are not a cult!" while handing out pamphlets that are titled "How not being a cult can be the cult you've always wanted to join.".

I'll report more as new discoveries arise.

This instance feels like I moved from the big city to some small town an hour a way. The people are fantastic, but the town itself looks like it's a few years behind big city accommodations.

Like, where are the busses dude? Am I expected to WALK the two miles across the instance???

A great mashup. Still slaps.

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

(www.youtube.com)

(Posting this to pin to my new profile)

When challenging someone's perspective stop and ask yourself these questions...

1) What do I understand about the others perspective?
2) What do I understand about my own perspective?
3) Could I be wrong?
4) What do I want the other to understand about my perspective?
5) What do I want the other to understand about their own perspective?

If you find yourself skipping the first three, you're not really trying to have a discussion and may want to check your ego.

Hi! I'm Mr Funk E. Dude and I've moved my account from mastodon.social to this one at beige.party.

If you're already a follower, please check to see if you are now following THIS account. (Just click on my profile and it will tell you.)

I'm a 57yr old dude, in the Lebowski line of dudes, who will post just about any absurd thought that comes into my mind.

Although I promote kindness and mental health care, I will also post my hot takes on anything from tv shows to asking if butts will save our future? (the answer is yes)

I like to think of myself as "Mister Rogers with no filter". I'm just a nice guy who thinks you'd look wonderful in a purple merkin.

Links are in profile. (please BOOST for visability)
#Introduction