Lmst

I find much less engagement both here and on Bluesky and, man, every day I just miss #Cohost more.

Trying to find a post from Cohost with like, avali and rubber tf

Rapidly discovering that the export I've got doesn't include liked posts nor reposts and so I am just... sitting here grumbling, and really not wishing to dip into web archive stuff. Which uh, if using it as just "visit old url" isn't very useful for going through tags. And my own user page doesn't load fully...

guh

#cohost #archival #archiving

Reminder: wafrn allows an admin to import your cohost export file, giving it a new life both in fedi and bluesky!

#Cohost #Wafrn #something-else-on-the-tags-too

Executing @cybird ( @cybird.at.app.wafrn.net ) cohost import.

https://app.wafrn.net/blog/cybird?startScrollDate=1727846558803

Do you have your cohost export? join wafrn, it can have another life

#cohost #and-yes-it-can-be-force-federated-to-bluesky-too

CCC #39c3 Cohost #cohost meetup on Day 2 after CSS Crime talk (21:05 Hall Ground) by @rebane2001 around 21:45 at the food court outside Hall Ground! There will be stickers!

Whoever has the #cohost source. please just release it already

and sure, my iPod interactable from a few days later (https://drac.at/posts/2022-07-02-ipod-interactable/) is more technically impressive, possibly pioneering the responsive SVG technique, but there's something to be said for the work that inspired it

#cohost #interactable

I have corrected a year-long error: the *Problems Clown* interactable from my cohost page is now available on my website https://drac.at/posts/2022-06-30-problems-clown-interactable/

#cohost #interactable

Media Insider: Tova O’Brien to host Breakfast on TVNZ

O’Brien was one of several leading candidates to host Breakfast, as revealed by Media Insider earlier. Mel Chan-Green…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2026 #breakfast #clarkson #cohost #Editor #former #host #insider #jennymay #joining #Media #NewZealand #newshub #NZ #obrien #on #political #replacing #to #tova #tvnz #tvnzs
https://www.newsbeep.com/310371/

ooh, can we have something like that on wafrn? :xenia_plead:

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/113223217966405584
#wafrn #cohost

anyone remember when @spaceg ran the cohost minecraft server? It was a really cool setup.

- no microsoft/mojang auth; it used some sort of third party auth plugin that lets you bypass the official auth server and login with user/pass instead. this means that you can make "dummy accounts" for yourself if you want a bot or a camera, which leads me to

- relaxed rules around scripting. basically "anything goes except griefing." want your bot account to log in at your farm and afk? sure, as long as its not too laggy. you wanna xray for diamonds? go for it, you're cheating nobody but yourself.

- custom server resource pack (bees = eggbugs)

if anyone is running a minecraft world with similar parameters then let me know, I might hop on sometime. Maybe I'll build something this time besides a giant pumpkin.

#minecraft #cohost #TheCohostMinecraftServer

I miss cohost but not in a sad way anymore. Happy that it happened. Eggbug is forever.

Wafrn is scratching that itch for me. Right on the tummy. And brother, I'm kicking my feetsies :waffy:

hop on wafrn today!

#wafrn #cohost #csscrimms #TheCohostGlobalFeed #TheGlobalCohostFeed

Gotosocial is fantastic, it's super lightweight and the pages look amazing. But in terms of user experience, I tried a bunch of things and I think my favorite user experience so far on the Fediverse has been Wafrn.

Having used it on their main instance for a while, it made me realize that this is what I've been looking for for a very long time without really realizing it.

A lot of the Fediverse platforms are taking a more Twitter-like approach to microblogging, whereas this is taking a more Tumblr-like approach. And maybe it's the fact that I missed out on cohost and I'm still not over that, but... I think I vastly prefer that one. That approach.

The sad part for me about this whole thing is that I can't really explain why. Because that's just the way my brain functions, I guess. But I really feel it.

#fedi #fediverse #wafrn #gotosocial #tumblr #cohost #microblog

Jotting this down: Flarians, an alien species I am making up

I have been tasked with making up an alien species for a sf/fantasy campaign. This is what I have so far.
Variously called twelfors, flarians, or often called "reefers" due to the creches their youngest and oldest live in. These are all exonyms; most flarians use their state or nation as a demonym, so when speaking of themselves as a species, when necessary they refer to themselves using an exonym.[1]

Their homeworld orbits a small, k-class red dwarf star catalogued by humans as 124 Zhou, though the majority of flarians live elsewhere, having colonized multiple other worlds some time ago. 124 "Twelve-Four" Zhou is a flare star, prone to solar storms that bathe the planet in what would nominally be very deadly radiation in not-infrequent bursts. Much of the planet's surface lifeforms have adapted with a strategy not unlike banksia, using the energy and chaos of the flares to flourish at the expense of most of them dying off in the flare and leaving seeds. Life underwater, such as in the seas, is more varied in this regard, depending on the depth it's adapted to.
Flarians generally have two arms and four legs; they are primarily bipedal, using the other two legs only as occasional support or for long periods of standing.
People who have never met flarians, but know of them, almost certainly are aware of their life cycle. The terms "infant," "child," "adult," and "senior" don't apply very well to flarians. If an outsider meets a flarian, they're almost certainly meeting a "youth," somewhat equivalent to adulthood. Infant or larval stage flarians live in creches, and are very much an r-strategy matter; like in sea turtles, most die. Infants who grow to the child/teenage stage and grow limbs for walking on land are cared for to a far, far more significant degree. Most disabilities have their origins either in genetics or from the conditions of the creche. There are differing cultural notions of how to approach this, including augmentation toward a mean level of ability, or simply having an unusually wide cultural expectation of what constitutes able. In the latter case, such societies tend to be very accessible, and not only physically. Such societies are also more easily able to incorporate members of other species, as differences of abilities are already normalized and accounted for as best they can.
The most common cause of disability is various forms of water pollution. The politics of such matters should be familiar to the reader. This is part of why many creches are moved out of the ocean and into other, smaller environments. The quality of these artificial waters and their conditions varies somewhat, depending on means, needs, and motives.
The child stage is a time when they learn the basics of their cultures and is generally when schooling takes place. During that time, flarian hind legs grow bigger and stronger, and the hips and back develop to make them nearly obligate bipeds. Once they have reached full physical maturity, growing in size and usually in lower body strength and endurance, they become what could reasonably be called adults, which is the "youth" stage.
Flarians have a final life stage where they go into a chrysalis, and most of their body turns into a creature that resembles a tunicate. They have a whole set of concepts around the "soul," which is the English word that is closest to how they refer to their blood. ("Internal sea" is pretty clunky, and misses some spiritual nuances.) The final stage is mindless; while flarians may talk to them, and there are beliefs about what happens to the mind, the body has changed shape and hollowed out, and its "soul" has joined the wider seasoul, mingling generally with the souls of other sessiles in the creche. (There is no scientific basis for believing the blood of a flarian carries thoughts and minds, and how a given flarian belief system talks about blood varies as well.)
This sessile stage is also sexual maturity; while younger motile "youths" may engage in play with others, especially with other species, and are functionally what one might call adults in another species, there is no sexual maturity without becoming what amounts to a sea sponge, so the equivalent to teenage years, adulthood, physical maturity and senescence of a sort, and decades-long careers all come before the age when mating and having children occurs.
One result is that flarians are also known for frequently having a rather odd bimboification kink. It's far from universal, but becoming a mindless breeding creature with sufficient intelligence and mindfulness to enjoy it is an appealing fantasy for some.
Youths sometimes put off becoming sessile, perhaps because of their career, the caretaking of a child, or sometimes personal preference. Understandably, some youths also have a fear of sessility, which is also the end of mindfulness in flarians. Most do not fear sessility, and the fear can be symptomatic of mental illness. Illness or not, that fear has driven some social movements toward actions and policies intended to eliminate the death of the mind. A sessile body is too simple to support a nervous system, much less a mind. One such social movement, Consciousers, intends to utterly remove the brain from infant-aged flarians and replace it with a growing, adaptive artificial intelligence, which might be joined with the sessile form in the creche. The research is not far along in this regard, and it is not a commonly high priority, and many flarians are horrified by the idea, and the movement is sometimes allied with technocratic conservative movements in other, extraspecies cultures.
In terms of general beliefs, the mingling of the internal sea with that of all the other flarians of the creche and of history, or at least with an immediate local sea of an artificial environment, is identified with the dissolution of the mind. Making a mind that has no part in that sea is not an entirely popular idea.
Choosing where to go once sessile is not exactly treated like end of life care; it is an advance directive, but is seldom treated as funerary. Sessile flarians in fact may live thousands and thousands of years. Talking to them may be akin to talking to a house plant, and certain things might be mourned, but by many flarian standards they aren't dead.
Some bodily alterations remain a part of sessile flarians. While augments usually cease to even be attached as the body becomes simple and hollow, tattoos and similar body modifications generally remain discernible, and part of flarian body art is planning for the sessile stage.
Flarian marriages vary in number, but if married flarians become sessile, they usually wish to go to the same local creche or family creche. Marriages into other places, moving to other cities or planets or countries, can complicate these plans. Likewise, the sessility chrysalis can have mishaps or strangeness, including (rarely) bifurcation. In some cases, the actual death of a flarian is handled by simply taking some portion of their blood and releasing it into the creche that seems most appropriate, or even multiple creches. In the dominant culture the main character was born into, intermarriage between states or nations was encouraged; theoretically, it was thought to make it harder to go to war or create conflict. In practice, the main effect of this is that damaging a creche in an act of violence is considered a very heinous war crime. It also helps avoid the equivalents of Hapsburg jaws.
Sessile flarians have numerous sexes, not dissimilar to Earthly mushrooms. What a youth's eventual sex will be is often unknown, as it is not as simple a thing to define as simply a set of chromosomes. (Flarians do have genetic material, but it is not DNA per se, and their genes are not encoded on chromosomes quite like Earth creatures' are. The molecules and structure differ meaningfully. I will not explain further, but those genes are only part of what defines a sessile flarian's sex and sexual characteristics.)
One sessile sex translates to "simply extant," and produces no nutrients for others nor takes part in mating. Some sessile sexes only produce nutrients for infants; some only mate; most strike some balance; and some have morphology that's advantageous in some environmental conditions, such as defensibility.
Some cultures like to keep trinkets made from the bodily fluids of ancestors. Some think that's a terrible idea and complicates the soul's transition and metamorphosis. It is common for those who keep trinkets to speak to them when troubled, and to ask for help with specific known strengths the flarians whose material is encapsulated were good at. Often these ancestors are alive as sessiles somewhere. In some cases, sessiles are kept in large tanks in small numbers, to keep a family close with their sessile members, or to facilitate travel, whether on a planet's surface or in space or to other planets.
On the subject of blood, flarians have two vascular systems, one for carrying oxygen and the other for carrying most nutrients. (Some nutrients are in both systems, and some are in the same system as is used for oxygenation.) They have a single, complex heart. Blood transfusions are a thing, and while there are some subcultures that get a little finicky about the idea, and some social movements which believe the internal sea should remain Pure, mostly blood banks exist, are helpful and necessary, and people in that sense mingle souls without hesitation. Bleeding to death is the soul leaving the body improperly and tragically, with a long journey before it has any chance of joining the greater sea.
Pilgrimages are common, both on a planet and to other planets, and are often not religious at all. They're treated a bit like visiting grandparents, even if the grandparents (that is, the community of sessile elders) is long gone. In spiritual peoples, this often accompanies a belief that the memories and mind of the motile stages lives on in some manner on a non-physical plane.

[1] Usually, if they aren't talking about the immediate culture they're from, and are referring to a mixed group of individuals, they just call them "people," which can be ambiguous when referring to matters such as medical needs; while generally one's home state or nationality is used in place of that term, it can be necessary to be more specific. (This can vary, and is all true only of the dominant languages spoken by most spacefaring flarians; some languages do have species-level endonyms, but as the languages they study to speak with others all do not have native endonyms for flarians as a whole, flarian has become the commonly accepted term.)