tails: A Place for Mastodon Posts

Never be relatable around your boss.
Secret Panel HERE ☕ https://tapas.io/episode/2640963

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

(title added for lemmy by community mod). Post on Mastodon has 2 images (click the Fedi-Link to see both). Original text:
For a co-worker.

Image description: A photo of a medication box for Spice melange 60 straws. The box has a blue sky and sand dune image, with warnings. CAUTION MAY CAUSE PERMANENT IRIS AND SCLERA DISCOLOURATION and PRESCIENCE ENHANCER RESULTS WILL VARY.

(Originally published on bitbang.social: 2024-03-11) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

(title added for lemmy by community mod)

Image description: Chris Rock, holding up a fist: CHRIS ROCK
Chris Rock holding out his hand: CHRIS PAPER
Chris Rock holding fingers in V shape: CHRIS SCISSORS

(Originally published on aus.social: 2024-03-11) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

Image description: 4 panel comic by War and Peas: 1. Panel: A little girl summoned a demon. The demon goes, "Feed me fresh souls!" 2. Panel: The girl answers "I only have tea." 3. Panel: "It's ginger lemon." 4. Panel: The demon goes, "Tea is fine, too!"

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-03-10) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

orig txt:
PHP is still better than any JS 👇😂 credit https://turnoff.us/ #php #programming #development

Image description: This comic hilariously compares PHP and bananas:

1. Can you eat it? Yes to the banana, no to PHP (unless you're really determined).
2. Can it prevent cramps? Banana wins again! Not sure about PHP...
3. Is it a great programming language? Well, that depends on who you ask...

TL;DR: Banana Triumphs!

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀
Secret Panel HERE 😂 https://tapas.io/episode/2619139

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

Image description: Six eggs mourning the death of another one by having been fried.

(Originally published earlier today on swiss.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

(title added for lemmy)

Image description: just a cat posing with tiny little plastic hands where her paws go

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-03-07) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

Image description: Uniquely Canadian words that confuse the word:
soaker, toonie, deke, kerfuffle, two-four, double-double, keener, pop, klicks, all-dressed, chinook

(Originally published earlier today on ohai.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

(title added for lemmy).
Today, March 7, in 1992, Dr. Dana Scully and FBI agent Fox Mulder work on their first case together, traveling to northwest Oregon to investigate potential alien abductions (The X-Files, s01e01 “Pilot”, 1993)
#TV #Television #XFiles #TheXFiles

Image description: A man and woman drive in a car. The man speaks to the woman, who looks skeptical

(Originally published earlier today on xoxo.zone) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

Shout out to all my bot followers. You guys like my posts no matter what.
Secret Panel HERE 👍 https://tapas.io/episode/3117097

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

Image description: 4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel: A girl walks towards a tree 2. Panel: The girl hugs the tree. 3. The tree looks down at the girl and thinks "This isn't helping anything." 4. The tree closes its eyes and thinks "But it feels good."

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

Image description: 1 Waiter: Any room for dessert Mr. Banner?
2 Bruce Banner: I really wanted some but I'm way too full. This makes me so mad.
3 Bruce turns into the hulk
4 Hulk: I'll have the tiramisu.

(Originally published on mstdn.social: 2024-03-06) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

I don't know how to leisure correctly.
Secret Panel HERE 🤔 https://tapas.io/episode/2600775

(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

(title added by lemmy community mod). Original text:
Some of the biggest names in #opensource, #Linux, and #Unix world: Sebastian Hetze, Linus Torvalds, and Dennis Ritchie in conversation at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in January 1997

Image description: Some of the biggest names in #opensource, #Linux, and #Unix world: Sebastian Hetze, Linus Torvalds, and Dennis Ritchie in conversation at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in January 1997

(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-03-05) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

(Originally published on ioc.exchange: 2024-03-05) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.

This community is experimental. Essentially, it boosts posts from Mastodon users into lemmy, allowing their content to appear here, still attributed to them. This is better than me reposting stuff from there I think, but please be aware of how Lemmy and Mastodon do and don't co-operate:

• Originally, I wanted the posts to be mainly text-based, simply because, in terms of efficiency, accessibility and credit, the original text is better than the screenshot of text you might see at the MicroblogMemes or BestOfMastodon communities. It turned out though, that screenshots do actually provide advantages that are difficult to replicate in the UI, and this community has ended up being mostly image-based.

• If you reply to a post, your instance will send one copy to me (to federate to other lemmy instances), and one copy to Mastodon, meaning that the original author will see your reply, and you'll be able to view your reply there if you click the multi-coloured Fediverse symbol next to the post. If you reply to a reply, that typically isn't sent to Mastodon. If you delete your comment, then my software will take care of deleting it on other Lemmy instances, but your instance doesn't send a 'Delete' to Mastodon, so it'll still be visible there. If you've ever had an inbox notification for a reply that it turns out has been deleted, you will have seen this behaviour for yourself. There's not much I can do about it, but if it concerns you, I've seen edits go through, so overwriting your content with [deleted] or something is maybe an idea.

• Whilst your reply will be sent to the originating Mastodon instances, it isn't sent to the author's followers on other Mastodon instances (lemmy currently doesn't expect users to have followers)

• If your reply includes an inline image, then that isn't rendered on Mastodon (which expects images to be attachments, and doesn't convert them as Lemmy does when they come in the other direction)

• I tend to boost things as I see them on Mastodon. Sometimes I bring some of the existing comments there through as well, but not always, and wouldn't typically go back for more after the post has been made. However, the software does follow some people on Mastodon, so replies made on Mastodon after the post has appeared here will also come through. They'll be stripped of the annoying @ links, but not of hashtags (just because a reply could be "that's a great #dadJoke" or something)

• A major limitation is that some Mastodon instances have Authorized Fetch turned on - updates from those users can't be posted on Lemmy because it doesn't sign the GET request to fetch the user's details. Examples of instances with AF on: infosec.exchange; tech.lgbt; universeodon.com

Other notes:

• It's called 'tails' for 2 reasons. One is that 'tailing' someone is a synonym for following them. The other is that this community flips the idea of a User following a Group, and has a Group follow a User in a head/tails kind-of way. (Well, okay, 3 reasons - the last being that naming stuff is hard, okay?). It's unrelated to the Operating System

• Replying to this post is the best way to get in touch with me if you want. I'm 'freamon' at endlesstalk.org and lemmy.world, but a reply here will send a notification to my phone.