zeroth notions

If you grew up without the permission to say no to doing a lot of things things, and you're up against a tremedous challenge, and your motivation is "I'm just doing what I have to", and people can't fathom that?

That's a sign that you've likely taped over a lot of warning lights in your brain and/or are running on War Emergency Power.

Getting some relief and/or mental health intervention should be a high priority.

Dealing with RSS validation errors tonight has been a pain.

Of course, it's one of those irritating "you have the order of the date and the month swapped". Will we tell you this? lol, no, "date is invalid" is all you get, figure it out yourself!

So, the date format I have working right now is

"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"

Mastodon nerds, this is an urgent message: please keep nerding out on things you are passionate about and then taking us along on your deep dives. Share your pics and discoveries. Muse. Show us dust motes and explain how you learned that no two are the same. A passionate engagement with the beauty and weirdness of the world we have is a hope project. It is a meaning-making project. It is a resistance project.