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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Thought about a couple cases of his favorite beer. Still might do that. Any other ideas?

    Consumables that the person already likes make great gifts, since they will get used up and not sit around.

    I usually avoid abusable substances, just in case the person has a carefully balanced relationship with that substance.

    But you know your friend.

    Sometimes I just ask first. No real reason this needs to be a surprise.

    “I know you said you won’t take cash, but I’m going to grab you two cases of X as a thank you, on my way back.”

    Then they get a chance to call me off, or redirect me if it would be a problem.

    And I’ll always let them call it off with even a mild “no thanks”, since they might not want to say to me “I have a real problem with X and I can’t safely have thay much on hand.”.
















  • I can’t see Insta or TikTok without a login, anymore, I think?

    Mastodon is nice, and still allows posting publicly.

    Plus no algorithm bullshit to fuck with creators.

    Also, it’s where the folks with options (money) went when Twitter became a Nazi bar, and there’s far fewer bot accounts. All in all, it seems like conversion rates are much higher given any amount of reach.

    (Also, almost any post on any Mastodon server is reachable from all of the other servers and from all of Bluesky, thanks to federation. So one post gets access to the whole ecosystem.)

    I think you can already get follows from Mastodon accounts through Lemmy, but most of us don’t do that, yet. (The apps are improving daily, I guess it may get easier.) I discover things, here on Lemmy; but I subscribe to things over on Mastodon.