Five Great Things Found Round Here

[jesse_the_k]

mdbear led me to Switching.Software, a site that offers free, open-source alternatives to the services run by billionaires who are making bad policy decisions. (Whistles loudly to blot out discussions of the choices they’re making)

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solarbird explains how Mastodon and Bluesky users can follow each other through a "bridge"
https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2021328.html

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The annual snowflake_challenge is underway. Following the tag from DW’s "latest things" is a good way to meet new people and reconnect with old pals. petra answered the best canon prompt by linking to Slings & Arrows, season 1, episode 3. The version they linked to is ODavies’s passion project of upscaling older shows and movies in glorious 4K. They look good, and at least Slings & Arrows’s captions survived the transfer (although many ks display as js)

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Although I’ve been deploying pacing strategies to manage my chronic illness (CFS/ME) for 30 years, thanks to sonia for sharing this NHS video, which claims that true resting to recharge the parasympathetic nervous system requires no reading. This is a shocker for me, since I routinely listen to (admittedly low effort) audiobooks and podfics when resting.

How to rest properly to help recovery: watch on YouTube w A+ captions

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Finally, this boomer realizes she’s living in the future: I’ve got a new mutual subscriber barbaratp. She writes in Brazilian Portuguese; I have no language even close. Yet we can mutually understand each other thanks to machine translation. (Of course there are glitches, and thankfully we’re humans and can double check that messages received is the message sent.)

Better than flying cars, really.

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Any lovely things you've found here and wish to share?

ETA: 24 May 2025 correct pronouns

Comments

[sheafrotherdon]

The resting thing was such a shocker to me, too! But it perhaps explains why sometimes, when I am wiped out, lying down in bed for half an hour works even if I don't actually fall asleep. I shall do it more, now that I know the mechanism.

Good things - today I put my (usually for the) summer duvet cover on my duvet, just because it felt so cheerful. I am looking forward to burrowing beneath it tonight.

Resting is great, and for me

[jesse_the_k]

Actually napping is risky. Seems like the amount of time I can sleep a day has a hard limit: If I nap during the day, I sleep less and less well overnight.

Is your summer duvet cover a cheerful flowery pattern? Are you still British enough to forego a top sheet? (How many duvet covers does a typical British household have?)

Re: Resting is great, and for me

[sheafrotherdon]

My summer duvet IS a cheery flowered pattern. It's cream with sprays of tiny yellow roses on it. And no, I am 100% team top sheet now. It feels cozier.

We usually had one duvet cover, but now I have three that I rotate so that if i don't feel like doing the laundry, I still have clean sheets and a cover in store to change the bedding.