Music-maker and generally-interested third party. #Songwriting, #synthesizers and #guitars are my primary means of expression. I sometimes post/boost #uspol, although I try not to do it incessantly and I always use the tag. Pronouns: she/they Location: New England, US #neurodivergent #aphantasic
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Last Notes npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I've been subscribed to @nprofile…qf47 bot for a few months, so I was really prepared for this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnH4khKrXVU npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder And if you try to tell me that side parts are cool again, god damn it, I will block you. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I'm going back to a side part because I'm old and god damn it, I like it. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…clw4 back when I used to have a music tech startup that had me talking to people at streaming services, they would pretty much just laugh when we would ask about how they handled classical music. 😭 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…clw4 yeah, classical music was what finally drove me to try it, actually. I was trying to find a decent performance of Metamorphosis by Phillip Glass, which should be a pretty easy task, but YouTube music gave me such garbage it was unbelievable. Iirc at some point there was a classical specialty streaming service, but I haven't looked for that in a while. Anyway, Qobuz was significantly better on that search than YouTube Music, so I decided to give it a try. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…z5pg that's a great question and I don't know the answer. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Okay, so even though I mostly listen to my personal music library, I like to have a streaming service around to explore music I don't know. I've been using YouTube Music for awhile bc I have a subscription, but for Reasons (below) I might not have YT Premium for long, so I'm trying Qobuz for the first time. And people, it is good! Amazing quality (very nice for studio listening), and you can instantly buy no-DRM files of music you like for a reasonable price. (I'm seeing around $10/album.) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…s50v nice spot!! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder New item on the to do list: Kill weeds with fire No matter how much education I have I'll always be a hick. https://cdn.masto.host/iowaxandleathercom/media_attachments/files/117/100/292/778/744/157/original/b528b788a9ea61ef.jpg npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Awwwww...I just had such a lovely experience listening to this old album of mine. So many firsts in it: my first production effort, my first full-length release of my own songs, my first analog synth. Just such a formative moment in my life, and I'm so happy that I still love it. I was such a weird girl. (Still am.) The apotheosis lyrics, IMO: When you walk around a figure eight, you'll wish you had four legs cause quadrupeds can bend. Now back to my regularly scheduled programming! <3 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Aw, I forgot about this line that I love so much: I've got no suggestions how patterns are broken. Maybe they're perfect, and maybe they shouldn't be. 😭 for young me, feeling weird shit like this so hard npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I found a thing I'm better at than anyone else in the world! It's singing along to this album! I dare you to try to be better than I am at it. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder haha, just listening to the first track for the first time in so long. I don't think I've sung those high notes since the day I recorded those vocals. Although I just tried it, and I can still do it. I wouldn't, but I can. 💪 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I used to have this trio called Voodoo Economics in Philly in the naughties. We were constantly told we were unclassifiable, but you might hear some or all of: Dance, electro, funk, prog, jazz fusion, post-punk , ambient, circus music https://alisonwilder.com/music/voodoo-economics/ #ThrowbackThursday #00s #IndieMusic npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…y7vj @nprofile…cwxr I lugged a Rhodes around for two or three shows a week for a few years. Totally not worth it even at half the weight. Honestly though, I would build a house around a CS80. And if I could spend 400k on one, I could probably afford to. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…y7vj I mean granted, at least in this case you end up with a CS80, which is obviously cool. Better than a lock of hair or a finger bone or whatever. @nprofile…cwxr npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…y7vj 🤣 it reminds me of all the people who claimed to have a piece of Beethoven's or Darwin's body that they would sell you for the low low price of "some insane price". Grifters gotta grift. @nprofile…cwxr npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I just want everyone to know how insane sounding our main weather guy is here in New Hampshire. I'm serious, you won't believe it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7YXDwj_9JQ npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder In case someone wants to pursue this further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc-yboCzUfE npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder This is not fun. Jon Fetterman is just plain incapable of having this conversation and it's slightly sad and also infuriating. He just called Abdul el Sayed a communist and then said he didn't. He's a confused man. Fuck it dude, let's go bowling. (No, literally I'm going bowling with my friends now. Bye Jons.) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Omg Jon Fetterman is on Jon Stewart's podcast this week. That should be...interesting. Currently still in the small talk phase. Getting popcorn and hoping for a bit of a show. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…7hs0 yeah, there's a super clear musical connection between Scottish music and Appalachian music. But bagpipes and flutes aren't really part of the connection. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…7ahv For me, roadtrips are a great time for any dedicated listening, although I don't usually like listening to classical music in the car bc it's too noisy. I don't do too many these days though...I've been sticking close to home. :) Peanut & Pepper are excellent help, 10 of 10, couldn't do it without them. They keep me from zonking out for 8 hours of straight mixing, which is honestly weirdly easy to do and (for me at least) sooo counterproductive. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…7ahv oh yeah, it's so hard to get the bass right. It almost always takes me 2 or 3 tries, and I have to listen on several familiar systems to know for sure. Next up: my car! :) But yeah, there was no doubt about it this time. I was walking down the street w/ Peanut & Pepper by the time some bass entered, and I laughed hard enough they looked at me funny. :ablobcool: npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I haven't mixed anything in my studio in quite awhile. I made a mix today. Sounded pretty cool. Took it to my earbuds and learned something: My sub volume is waaay too low. I actually laughed when the first bass frequencies entered. They were legit comically too loud. And this is why we test our mixes. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…jcfg you could consider shouting, "you're only running from yourself!" as they go by npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…y74v sometimes I come across 128k mp3s of Busdriver I got at that time and I think, "jfc it was so shitty but I'd take it back" npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…gv55 probably. But are they tri-blend? npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I hate AI slop, but I also hate the word "slop." I am doomed. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…g28y west coast? I've definitely heard "bra" but somehow "brother" reads really differently to me. (Why yes, I am overthinking this.) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder ELI5 - why does everyone in every comment section/Reddit/etc say "brother" or "bro" all the time? Is this a young person thing? Is it gender-specific? It tends to give me a bad feeling, but maybe I'm missing the vibe. (I'm an elder millennial.) https://cdn.masto.host/iowaxandleathercom/media_attachments/files/117/004/965/333/247/387/original/6393f3f0b9d1fb41.png npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…8ama my neighbor has a dog that I thought was called "Millie" for literally years. The only time I heard its name was when he was yelling at it from the porch, and I didn't even consider it could be another word until I heard his 6 year old call it "Bailey." I asked her what the dog's name was, and she repeated, "Bailey." I said, "Not Millie?" and the 6 year old child looked at me like I was an idiot. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…l9m2 haha, nope, me neither. We've really gotten ourselves in a pickle. : / npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…l9m2 I agree with you in principle. That said, I wonder if it's not kind of required right now if you want to get anyone elected so they can fix the conditions that lead to the bubble requirement. Of course, that's what the right thought they were doing when they elected Trump, that he would just tear down the whole system and put whatever they want in place. And they weren't exactly wrong, but I don't think they really knew what they were buying there. In conclusion, it sucks. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…fws5 omg that is so midwestern. "I need to go to the store and get melk, a new pellow, ecks cetera" npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ny9l it's definitely true that I could deal with it, but I'm sensitive to the fact that some people feel weird asking a human being to unsubscribe them from their personal email list. I'm sensitive to it because it makes me feel weird. 🤣 @nprofile…xm08 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I know how insignificant this sounds, but in my world it's a Big Deal. It means I can use the Hapax with my Super Gemini like I do the rest of my synthesizers, instead of relying on sampling it. That means flexibility and the possibility of changing things later in the process, but still being able to save my work as I go! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Just got a personal email from Squarp with the new beta Hapax firmware attached because it features... Drumroll... Poly aftertouch support!!! I am so geeked about it. I love that sequencer and it is a perpetual bummer that my Super Gemini recordings are lacking poly at. It sounds like it's not out for the public yet, but if you happen to want to try it (niche, i know), let me know and I'll send it to you. #synth @nprofile…qvfs npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ymad thank you so much! Much appreciated. ❤️ @nprofile…xm08 @nprofile…cc5z npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…a0t7 no, you do not dare 🤣 @nprofile…xm08 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…85jn spot on! The plan is to spend a few days in the city then drive to Mazunte for a few days of chill time. Looks like a cool town! Thanks for the advice!! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…85jn woohoo that all sounds great! I'm getting excited. 🤠 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I was just at this museum and it is glorious. I would love to work there. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Say it in RFK Jr's voice npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…cwxr thank you, that's so cool to hear ❤️ npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…lutl awesome, thank you! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…g3qw it's a synth (but played by an electronic wind instrument). Can you believe it?! And thanks 🙂 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…7yqn never thought I would travel with a mole bag but it just might happen 🤤 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I'm planning a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico with my mom for our 75th/45th birthdays. (We were supposed to do 70/40 but traveling 5 years ago was a hard no.) Anybody have any "don't miss this" suggestions for Oaxaca (city + coastal), or "skip it, it ain't great" thoughts? We're both mobile and fairly active. My mom can't really do boats anymore. We both love normal stuff: art/culture, mole (omg yum) and other Mexican cuisine, beautiful natural stuff, etc. #AskFedi #recommendations #travel #mexico npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…j2nr haha it just cracked me up again to imagine someone coming up with this and thinking it was sooo hilarious and clever npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Someone was suuuuper high when they came up with this one npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…l7vu @nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…prft maybe it's worth noting that we don't know how many times people have managed to turn the ship BEFORE it hits the iceberg. Those stories are not nearly as dramatic and therefore are not told as often. But I'd sure AF prefer to ride in one of those ships than in the Titanic. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…zn4a I just talked to a customer service lady who does billing for my hospital. We agreed that computers were overall a mistake. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…mp76 @nprofile…vp90 it is a joke about those exact people. My brother is turned into one and I recently spent a couple of days with him. It was crazy town bc he is intellectually very competent. It's the emotional intelligence bit that makes him susceptible. I decided not to push him hard on anything because I didn't want a fight, but I heard a lot of absolutely insane bullshit anyway. Also, he can no longer complete a sentence without using the word "Claude." (At least it's not Grok?) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…afuk fuck yeah! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…zhf5 it's so hard to TELL with these large wooden horses! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…fws5 :laughing: npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Can someone tell me once and for all whether The Odyssey is too woke or not woke enough??? npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder No prob Bob npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…cwxr it really does. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…qvl2 melancholy is my specialty 😉 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…kk2w thanks. I think of it as my Bizarro Henry Mancini song :) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…cwxr haha NO IT IS NOT but it should be npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I wrote and recorded a pretty little song called "Telling the Bees" today. I thought about extending this to be a more typical song length/form, but this is what it wanted to be. At least for now. Somehow this feels like #SilentSunday to me. https://cdn.masto.host/iowaxandleathercom/media_attachments/files/116/987/750/373/877/134/original/70e67a54807923bb.mp3 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder "These people want money and they want power and they want revenge, and no amount of evidence or reasoned argument is going to slow them down. Save your breath. Instead, it’s time for politics." npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…kk2w oh damn, this is sounding excellent! The opening few minutes is the psychedelic version of lying in a summer meadow full of insects buzzing around. (Ok I've never done that but still.) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…p6fr omg ozzy npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…gddp I'm pretty surprised at how awesome it is. I kind of thought it would be janky, lol. But it's not at all! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ml9f I don't wish I had it, I've tried it in a variety of ways and it's not for me, but I can totally see why it works for some people! I think it's great when people are able to totally change their day to day life so that they are [happier, more fulfilled, healthier, etc]. But yeah, the idea of living on the move is sooo romantic. The day to day, though? Not my cup of tea! I thrive in my own space/routine. Plus I have a big music studio that contributes greatly to my happiness. :) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…zauu yep, I don't think there's a custom sorting order. It just orders everything by release date. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ml9f fuck it, it's 2026, time for #VanLife npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ml9f gotta have your stories! and music. and backups. and and and. :) hope you're having a great experience out there <3 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…rev3 It would have been a little cheaper to go the IKEA route, and the result probably would have been the same. I decided to go the #FOSS route, assuming it would be a lot less convenient. But I was impressed! It was probably the easiest smart thing setup I've ever done. Either way, monitoring the air in your home is quickly becoming kinda necessary unfortunately. :( @nprofile…k6eu npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ml9f wait I thought you were living in the woods and stuff npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Just loaded up this review, which I had saved to read/listen to. Hit play, listened for 20 seconds. Ctrl+F "Beach Boys". Nothing. Ctrl+F "Brian Wilson". REALLY, no? https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/panda-bear-and-sonic-boom-a-of-when-review/ npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder The @nprofile…k6eu integration was automatic and is one of the best I've seen. You are absolutely not required to send data to your gradient in any way. If you want to keep everything totally local, you can. I've decided to contribute my data to the maps because I respect how they've handled all this so well. I just got this set up today, so no long-term feedback, but so far so good! 2/2 #solarpunk npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder I've been working on ways to improve the air quality in my house, which includes good monitoring. I bought open source indoor and outdoor monitors from AirGradient, a Thai company. Just want to report that I have gotten both monitors set up and I'm super duper impressed with the kits and the process. I've put together quite a few kits and these were among the easiest and best documented. The way they handle privacy is impressive, and the process has been perfect. 1/x #SelfHost #ClimateCrisis npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…mrys yep, a friend sent it to me to show me the shades she's getting and I couldn't even believe how many tracking parameters there were. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Jfc look at this link https://cdn.masto.host/iowaxandleathercom/media_attachments/files/116/978/091/429/880/779/original/3d1e328bfec0064c.png npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…j2nr it's a lovely place! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder https://cdn.masto.host/iowaxandleathercom/media_attachments/files/116/977/196/496/611/154/original/bfae3275aae93ef6.jpg npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder The chairs are a code to crack npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…vp90 I'm in it for the long haul brah /s npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…l07c no doubt! I didn't really use other social media before this either, so it felt super weird to me to just start talking to random people online. But usually fun! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…l07c my two cents on how Mastodon became fun for me... Once I started talking to strangers (i.e. being comfortable jumping into conversations with people I hadn't interacted with before), it started being super fun. People here have generally been super nice and interesting, and for the few who aren't, or who push my buttons one too many times, the controls for what I see are amazing. So I guess what I'm saying is, talk to people, and if they suck, feel free to block a bitch. :) npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…l07c I love that you have a Currently Reading section in your profile! Great idea. :) And welcome back! npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…cc5z oh YUM npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…yx5n wtf npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…8tek :blobaww: .... ...... :partyparrot: npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…mmp3 It's exactly like cleaning out the basement. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…8tek i am here for it npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…mmp3 10 points for Las Vegas npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Just went to a rousing community feedback meeting for a new solar pavilion being built in my town. Nice! #localfirst npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…3pzd huh. And there's yet another reason why corporate America does not want us to have Medicaid for all. npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…ny9l that makes sense. I think the only reason Reddit still exists is because of how huge it got. They turned traffic into their revenue driver, and now that people aren't going to websites or apps except "chat" anymore, they're desperately trying to keep their numbers up. (I have no special knowledge of reddit, just my conjecture.) I think the concept of Reddit is super cool. It just got the incentives wrong. (a familiar story!) @nprofile…j2nr npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…j2nr i've never been a Reddit user. Is lemmy actually fun? Are there any communities that you specifically like? I made an account and posted one time on reddit and people were incredibly rude right away so I deleted my account 🤣 npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…mmp3 they're always looking out for us, aren't they? npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…j2nr that's good to know! I haven't been there in awhile npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder Mmkay bye then https://cdn.masto.host/iowaxandleathercom/media_attachments/files/116/960/696/141/026/558/original/8f275386981f7eb1.png npub13qv0gz6x5m75n3y8k9smhrh8qd39yxv0nzzkfrz9gxg39p46uc3q6cdy40 Alison Wilder @nprofile…upr0 omg Redd Pepper lived the ultimate 90s dream: "In 1996, a television executive was a passenger on a London Underground train being driven by Pepper; upon hearing his voice over the loudspeakers, the man gave Pepper his business card and asked Pepper to call him." (from Wikipedia) @nprofile…pmzd