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Wot the hecc, let's do a #FursuitFriday. I may not have a fluff I like very much any more but I'm allowed, dammit.
(To clarify, I still adore Kelsey and want the best for them, it's just that their only incarnation is very old and threatening to fall apart. They deserve a better physical form but I'm too poor and/or lazy to provide one. I guess I'm just a bad guardian for a cartoon character to be lumbered with.)
@taco, bird/cat :verified420: @Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:
Where did you last see it, dearie?
Before and after.
(Getting the rental house next door ready to be sold, involving a new fence to reestablish boundaries between our garden and its, and removing the apple tree that fell into the rental house's garden a few years ago. After it fell, I cut off all the branches I could get through with a hand-saw, but it clearly still had a well-connected root system and started sprouting new branches and growing apples before we could get anyone in to take the trunk away, so it came to be something of a feature. But sadly it Just Won't Do if the place is to sell with a decent amount of garden, so unfortunately it had to be cut up and fed through the shredder this weekend. 🙁)
I have broken my ATGATT streak. It was only 300 metres, to put the bike away in the garage, but I couldn't be bothered putting the full set of gear on yet again, and the speed and duration, and therefore the risk, were pretty minimal, so I didn't. So I did this instead. I passed a few pedestrians on the way along the road to the garage and I'm sure I must've got a few double-takes. 😝
(It was kinda worrying though, don't think I'll do that again!)
I managed to get hold of a replacement battery for the bike today, phew. Was going to order from MDS (my usual go-to place for UPS batteries) but found the local Halfords had it £5 cheaper and available to walk in and collect rather than waiting a day or two (or paying another £5 for next-day). So that's now sitting on charge. Turns out they no longer sell these batteries un-activated with a bottle of sulphuric acid because the acid's now classified as a poison. So it turns out the label on the box says the battery was activated last month, which could be up to 8 weeks ago, so I'm giving it a good charge first, and installing it tomorrow.
I had the steering head bearings replaced today (which involves taking the whole front of the bike apart apparently so I'm glad I didn't try to do that myself), and while I haven't tried the steering with the front wheel off the ground I did give it a ride around and… I think it's better? I think it's more subconscious, but I think I can detect myself riding a bit more confidently, which would be because the handlebars are no longer trying to pull to the centre when they are *nearly* centred, which is what the problem with the bearings would have been causing.
So, battery swap tomorrow morning, MOT test tomorrow afternoon, trip to Wales soon after that…?
Oh. In the text entry box in Friendica it shows the username I'm replying to, but that disappears when I actually post - I assume it's in metadata so Friendica decides it doesn't need to be in the actual post text. But then I do see plenty of replies posted from Mastodon which also don't start with a username, but *are* threaded properly, so the post it's a reply to must be correctly listed in the metadata there too. When I click through to my reply on your instance it does show it properly threaded, so… I dunno? As you can see in the screenshot below, most of the other replies in this thread don't have a username at the start either, as shown on my Friendica instance. On the other hand, clicking through to the same thread on your Mastodon instance shows usernames at the start of every reply except mine. I don't know. It does seem to thread correctly though.
My biggest niggle is that Friendica shows only @-style usernames inside replies, but only display-names at the top of posts and replies, so matching them up sometimes requires annoying mousing-over to check usernames. 🤷♂️
Sorry, it's annoying, I guess it's just slightly different interpretations of some spec by different software.
Yeah, that does seem to happen occasionally. I assume it's a bug somewhere. It happens rarely enough that I can say "oh, that again" and ignore it though. 🤷♂️
Okay, that was a rather nice time! From the moment I got there I was swamped with people wanting photos. Walked around the showground once or twice, had a lot of nice encounters and a small number where I wasn't sure what was going on but none that were actually bad, which is good. 🙂
No time for pictures while I was there, but I did get a few on the way home.
