Post by @xgranade@wandering.shop

2026-09-28 17:44 UTC

I have approximately one spoon today. Do I spend it taking photos and/or writing fiction? Do I spend it writing a gemlog post trying to beg people to stop doing this shit? Do I rewrite the work I did last week to develop a metadata cache for Calibre-style libraries, work that's now unusable because SQLAlchemy went slop? Do I move my photography business off Pixelfed? Notice how many of those possibilities are tasks that only need done because someone else was an asshole.

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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-09-28 17:48

It would be nice to have multiple spoons, but I am in a single-spoon regime because no one with the capacity to make the world better fucking took COVID seriously. There was, in the US at least, a bipartisan effort to ignore COVID and let it continue running rampant rather than spending a relatively tiny amount of money on sending people masks and funding HVAC upgrades. Again, an asshole or bunch of assholes made life more difficult for everyone.

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@kgf@hachyderm.io 2026-09-28 17:48

@xgranade@wandering.shop That last sentence crystallizes something that's been bugging me for a while. I've infinitely put off work on personal projects lately because a lot of them depend on an OSS meta-framework /static site generator that has now been slop for a while, and I would rather migrate off of it to continue, but that adds a whole lot of extra work that I never signed up for and, if people had morals and brains, I wouldn't have been put in this situation. No wonder I'm tired.

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@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev 2026-09-28 17:54

@xgranade@wandering.shop Mood. Gods what a mood.

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@Overgoddess@bardicperspiration.club 2026-09-28 18:57

@xgranade@wandering.shop we can't really speak to the frustration u feel, though we feel overwhelmed sometimes too. But one of our followers suggested that GoToSocial might be a good option? We have not tried, but maybe that will make things a tiny bit less.. Ugh.

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