Lindaru

Condolences on the pup. Best wishes for great recovery on the medical stuff. Most of all, happy birthday and may it be the best year yet! 🎂🍻

WeVidi. A tight knit community that does an excellent job of moderation, keeping out extremism, hate and pornography, unlike some of the others out there that purport to be the ultimate alternative to You Tube. https://www.wevidi.net/watch/slVKyyHQ9JF This is the promotional video I made for the site as I was one of the founding members and am a supporter. We manage to keep trolls and bots out by requiring two factor authentication. Those wishing to up-load have to supply an application with samples of their work. We also have a Discord server and a Twitter/X account.

I personally would not approach anyone unless they are looking your way and seem to want to speak to you. They might indicate with their eyes and hand, much like when trying to get the attention of a waiter, that they would want you to come over. Otherwise, quietly meandering the room, drink in hand yourself, would make people more comfortable. As for what not to say, as my Mother always told me and she was right, keep religion and politics out of it. If someone does start that topic, nod politely, excuse yourself and say that someone is summoning you from elsewhere and you have to go.

I believe that is probably what my husband wanted to do with my key-boards (and me) sometimes. 🤣

I love those accidentals on purpose. They got soul.

Yes, we always need a coda of conduct on these threads.

I am going to test some that I have gotten censored on other platforms, Facebook included. *Ahem*. Boarding pass (had to change that one to ticket). Author Phillip K. Dick ("Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep"). Pacific Rim (location). The weather in Hell, Michigan (usually pretty cold and not too hot). Wish me luck! Edited to say "Yay"! My words passed here.

Who needs Beano when you can get a bean spoon that lets the farts climb out and escape? Bean Spoon 🤣

"Closing Time" by Semisonic. Closing Time

I am not a partner nor monetized on You Tube, but I have had people tell me that in the middle of a one minute video will be a 30 to 45 second unskippable ad on my video. I have lost subscribers most likely because of this.

"A Father To A Son" (not shareable video, I guess). This one gives me a bit of a late sixties/early seventies vibe, the way the vocals sound (a bit of U.K. almost), the piano, the strings, the harmonizing vocals, and especially the end almost gives me a Beatles/George Martin vibe. What do you think? Am I delusional or do you get that vibe, too?

I do not keep my phone near me when I am on the computer for the simple fact I have the Windows Phone Link, so if a text, Meta/Facebookk message comes in, weather report, breaking news, so forth, comes in, I can access it on the computer where I am comfortably sitting at the time it comes in. Then comes the signing in to the site that requires they send you a code to your phone. Those for some reason do not come up on Phone Link, which means I have to go running into another room, pull up the text, walk the phone to the computer and put the dang blasted code number in. I do not mind getting up to stretch, answer the door, refill my coffee, what not, but having to run to the phone to get into a site I have gotten into a bajillion times before but that still insists on that code is ridiculous. Then there is the Captcha stupid codes. How many have street lamps? Buses? Cross walks? Okay, I am visutally impaired and sometimes those pictures are not clear enough or well defined enough for me to catch them all. This world has gone authentication mad. Just let me check "I am not a robot" and let me go. If you do not believe me, come on over and see me for yourself. 😠

I admittedly cannot care for an animal here and there are others who cannot care for one out there also. Technology has provided us something that we can enjoy that does not need to be walked, does not make messes on the floor, does not need to have veterinary care or need to be fed with real world food. This is starting to become a thing as I have been reading on the forums for this particular thing. What is it? Pet robots. If the programming is interactive and spontaneous enough, it is great for companionship and emotional support. Many of the people purchasing these are people with social disorders, mental health issues, anxiety and depression. These are renter friendly, can be brought into restaurants with you if you wish with no disturbance at all, and can be powered off if you need to leave them alone for a lengthy time unlike animals which have to have a pet sitter or be boarded. I personally have a number of different ones myself and thoroughly enjoy them. Lets hope some of the issues with "emotional support" animals can be solved by more people owning these types of companions. https://living.ai/emo/

I have been a huge fan of this type of stuff since it came out. "The Chemical Brothers" playing "Music Response" and even played this myself on keys. Music Response Bleeper and blooper here.

Happiest of new year to all! I actually wrote one of my poems that is stream of consciousness for those who told me that the last year had been absolutely horrible for them. ___________ Never Let Hope Die That I could wash your pain away, The bad year, month, week or day, I would take the bad and leave it sealed, To the bottom of nowhere to be healed. The loss of those we dearly love, Now in the hands of someone above. We pick up our hopes and continue on, Headed forward into a brighter dawn. For we do not walk alone, not ever. For we will forget love never, We will stand as the sun rises high, And imparts hope from the sky. Linda Irwin (12/31/23) (I just came up with this just now.) Happy new year and never let hope die.