Post #1658959

2026-04-25 08:45 UTC

I love nerding out with people SO MUCH. So much! I *want* to hear what others are up to (when phrased as such). Variety is awesome! And I've caught myself jumping in, too. I'm working on that, and when it happens, I apologize. Not the end of the world – IMO, it's a green flag if someone catches themself and apologizes. This is so real, though (I probably will *not* put this one anywhere permanent... it explains why I'm so touchy about it, but hits a bit too close to ranting)

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@alexglow@chaos.social 2026-04-25 08:49

...Anyway. I know those are horribly wonky on the graphical end; maybe someday I'll fix 'em up and put them somewhere more permanent – but honestly, I much prefer doing basically anything else 😸 If somebody wants to mess with it, go right ahead!

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@helpsterTee@social.helpsterte.eu 2026-04-25 08:49

@alexglow@chaos.social As someone that is read male: is unsolicited advice similar to mansplaining, but without the misogyny? I wonder often why I feel „mansplained“ myself, but unsolicited advice may just be the better word (non native speaker).

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@Pineywoozle@masto.ai 2026-04-25 09:00

@alexglow Welcome to being a woman 99% of the time. LoL

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@whophd@ioc.exchange 2026-04-25 12:00

@alexglow Yesterday was a high water mark for healthy nerding out — a local YouTuber (transit / urbanist / etc) hosted a quiz night, and I decided to take a chance and carry some self-designed nerdy merch and a fairly esoteric t-shirt with an economics geek joke on it And so half a dozen times before / during / after the quiz, I kept meeting the loviest people wanting to ask about it. Turns out having 15 different (but evolutionarily linked) transport logos on your drinks mug and tote bag is a popular move in the right crowd. Even the Keynesian reference was spotted by an economics graduate. That phrase “strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet” never felt so true So anyway now two of us are going to design and sell posters of radically modified transmit maps (“diagrams actshually”) online, for whomever wants to see their cities in a very new way

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@RobeeShepherd@mastodon.art 2026-04-25 22:12

@alexglow Resonating more than a car with a huge subwoofer right now

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