Morning.

[eclectech@things.uk]

@jbenjamint Do it!
Oh, that is a good description of a spruce plantation. We're lucky that the woods near us are quite varied, but we have some hillsides with the regimented rows in the vicinity too.

[eclectech@things.uk]

@GinevraCat @purplepadma Hah! Yes. Trump definitely means fart. Depressing that someone can behave so abhorrently that such an entertaining fact fades into the background. For years his name would just lead to a giggle.

[eclectech@things.uk]

@SnowyCA Aye. I tend to just collapse them (otherwise I stress that I'm missing something important), but I have learnt the art of not opening them unless I'm in the right frame of mind for it.

[forestfjord@wandering.shop]

@eclectech

Done, my day is already better

[slowtiger@berlin.social]

@eclectech
Strong https://www.benditomachine.com vibes!

[eclectech@things.uk]

@slowtiger Oooh, they look interesting
*bookmarks*

[slowtiger@berlin.social]

@eclectech
It's a classic!

In my brain this is in the department "Silhouette animation", together with Phill Mulloy, Lotte Reiniger, and Eric van Schaaick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHMYoBG8nHQ

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@eclectech It took me a while to learn to do the same, but it's helpful, I feel better doing so.
I really can't handle *repeatedly* reading the exact same news article *and* the accompanying outraged comments --one read of the news per day is more than enough.

[eclectech@things.uk]

@SnowyCA Yep, definitely. And pretty much everyone I follow that is posting them is someone I want to carry on following, because the people getting angry and concerned about what's going on are very much "my people", but the cumulative effect is overwhelming.

Have just gone through and switched a couple of my occasional filters back on and there is an immediate improvement!

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@eclectech Exactly the same for me.

[morph@morphnet.de]

@eclectech My client app has slowed down meanwhile due to the mass of filters.

[eclectech@things.uk]

@morph Hah, have switched all mine back on now, will have to keep an eye out for lag!

[sunnjax@tech.lgbt]

@eclectech I really like these illustrations. This one has an ancient, southwest-desert feel to it.

[eclectech@things.uk]

@SunnJax Thank you 😊

I am trying to get over my background fear of the blank page. Have discovered that making a big splatty colourful mess in the first instance is both Quite Satisfying and stops it being a blank page 😁

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@SnowyCA @eclectech temporary mute is useful for someone experiencing a fit of outrage, that you want to keep following.
Hey, it happens.

[sunnjax@tech.lgbt]

@eclectech The sun isn’t up here yet, so this looks really cool on my tablet screen in the predawn darkness. It’s very soothing. 😊

[thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales]

@eclectech My filter list is about a mile long.

[albinanigans@blackqueer.life]

@eclectech Tooting a trees!

[eclectech@things.uk]

@thebaywindowgirl I did chuckle slightly when I went back to my politics filter and saw how many words I had added last time it was on 😁

[venite@mastodon.nl]

@eclectech @thebaywindowgirl I do miss all the posts about trump-ets that my filters recklessly throw out but it’s worth it