I’m not sure popular is the biggest goal right now. It would definitely be nice for federated platforms to gain a bigger user base, but while the tools are growing, it’s really inspiring just to think that people are willing to invest the (low or no profit) time and energy into making the internet a nicer place.

My grandma (decades ago) always went the other way, she wrote “Mr. Sarah Smith” for my grandpa’s name. Feminist icon.

It depends a lot on the person, but it always does me good to do something tactile after working all day on a computer. Cooking, baking, sketching, woodworking, Legos, hiking, that kind of thing. I’ve noticed it really helps me ground and be mindful.

More than this it’s just a good way to build regular hand washing into a routine. You already use a restroom a few times a day at fairly regular intervals, so you only have a few hours worth of microbes on your hands at a time.

“We make more money from cars. We half assed the walking instructions. Good luck and fuck you.”

I don’t know about usual, but there is a huge wall between private/ personal and public/ professional for me. Nothing personal ends up under my own name if I can help it. Basically, I’m using my name as if it were the name of a business, and I use an alias or nickname otherwise.

Hell, Michigan lol

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. I’m trying to stay close to my mom, and she’s desperately trying to hold the family together, so if I don’t do anything, he would play the victim and use my mom’s hurt feelings against me. So I’m most likely going to just do something very generic, like you said.

It would be beautiful to donate to the local pride center in his name and just watch him seethe. That’s such a perfect idea, since if he actually voices a complaint, he knows it makes him the asshole.

Pure evil.

Hey that would be easy, he hates football!

That’s the goal. There’s some drama right now that makes that really hard, but within a couple years that’s where we’re headed.

Lol I love it

Hm… getting him more work, I love it.

I totally would but he’d throw a whole fit lol. Maybe for his birthday in a few months…

Yeah my wife loved the smell in the aisle, but it got old really fast at home lol

Yeah I’ve thought about just doing a few candy bars or something. I think the sunk cost fallacy has kicked in, so I almost want to go higher effort but bad lol

Hm… I wonder if Walmart still has watermelon scented candles. “But dad, it smells just like summer!”

My wife suggested “number one sad” with a card explaining that he was, in fact, my first dad lol

Ooh I like this. Especially since he hates strong smells.