So the few times I've been to the US - once to California (which admittedly is different, on vacation rather than work), once to Corpus Christi, once to Arkansas (near Memphis) - I found myself boggling at how much open asphalt there was between stores.

I wondered if it was just because they had the space to expand, so they just did. It didn't occur to me that there were minimum parking rules. It was always very easy to park. Everywhere looked sort of empty/unpopular.

https://youtu.be/OUNXFHpUhu8

Solitary Defilement boxed set is back available for a limited run!

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#MorkBorg #SolitaryDefilement #MaxMoon #solo

Just moving things from my Pocket queue to my YouTube Watch Later list. It's one of those 'feels productive but actually is not' tasks that I love to fill up my time.

For a user on a different server from yourself, you can see different things by looking at their page on their home server's website, compared to what you can see from your own home site or an app. I frequently forget this.

it's the one that sez BAD MOTHERFUCKER on it
#edwardhopper

the anarchist in my bloodstream wants to find a way to enact the many small overlapping affinity group model where we can disperse and re-engage fluidly as the situation demands and maybe it's just feeling stuck where the structural model is to grow big and homogenous to be stable

instance scale is just about the furthest thing from a "goal" as i can imagine, and I wonder if this is a byproduct of fediverse-flavor federation where identity is bound up with instance, and if we wouldn't be better served with being part of many, smaller, overlapping groups instead. it's related to what i've been saying in the main chat about how the thing that we really seem to be needing is a collective reflection on values and if we come to irreconcilable differences to split up.

I have been hanging out on the other social networks too and one of the presiding modes of thought there is "i just want a place where i can post" and that doesn't match how i feel at all, but it's also been tough contributing time here because I have been trying to get our own sister instance off the ground with lessons learned from here and also I feel like in the last few big discussions we've had the vibes have gotten rotten and we don't have a good way of reeling that in.

I am not trying to re-create analog cooperation in digital space, but i feel like there is shit to be learned yno. when we feel like the vibes need healing in meatspace cooperativism we pause to share and wait and i feel like that part of consensus is missing in digital cooperation

that's not an exclusive list, i can @ like a dozen more people i have met through here i just don't want to be obnoxious. anyway i have been expressing this in the main matrix chat and haven't had the stomach to venture onto the loomio but i think one of the lessons i'm learning now is that digital cooperatives need an "all hands meeting" where it's possible to actually pause for consensus, because otherwise the fragmentation of time and space seems like it becomes too much to feel connected.

i love being on social.coop and i have learned so much from hanging out with all you nerds but the vibe here has been sort of off for a minute and i can't really put my finger on it. I don't have any more specifics for you now but I feel like we are reaching the point every coop reaches where things feel sort of adrift and we need a moment to recollect what the hell we're doing here

Finally got around to starting the next scenario in #ForbiddenPsalm #solo! Only one round so far, and now bedtime. 😄

Best git alias I've written (and actually wrote it myself):

```
git ed

ed = !nvim `git diff --name-only`
```

Opens whatever files I've changed since last commit. 😀

Take a few moments and think about the apps on your phone. Can you delete any of them?