The research fairy @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

Haha wow look at that!

Why do we even have follower counts anyway?

What do they add?

Hell, even the *Twitter* founders acknowledge that they were a bad idea and Masto is supposed to be the place where we learn from their mistakes

Time to eat

Changed the battery on my puter!

The left is the old battery, which had begun to swell and actually bend the casing and of course, not hold a charge

But lemme tell you, they didn't make it easy to find/order/replace the battery

Dell really wants you to just buy a new one

*Cries, in academic*

Cellular physiolomancy

> Hate crimes reached all-time high in 2017, Statistics Canada says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/statistics-canada-2017-hate-crime-numbers-1.4925399

The best sex scene in DS9

~ How I imagine this went ~

Manager: Make sure that our social media is on the truck

Designer: Okay

Manager: No take out the link text. It's too crowded. Just have the social media icons as hyperlinks.

Designer: This is going to be painted on a truck

Manager: Yes

Designer: And you want me to leave off the URL text?

Manager: Yes

Designer: And only have the icons?

Manager: YES, they can just click them

Designer: You know what, sure. Fine.

Ha ha we have fun here

Now, time to play a computer game

MY TIME HAS COME

CBC headline: American killed by tribe on Indian island knew he was putting himself in danger

> John Allen Chau left behind notes he'd written in the days before his death

> American John Allen Chau, right, was killed last week by tribespeople on the remote Indian island of North Sentinel. Notes Chau kept during his journey that were verified by local police appear to show he knew the risks of approaching the isolated islanders. (John Chau/Instagram)

Them: Hey Research fairy, why do you like ReBoot so much?

Me: Well, there's a lot of reasons ...

Reminder that if someone is boosting stuff without CW's or images without alt text, before unfollowing them, there is a less drastic way to cut down on all that

In Masto, you can hide their boosts by clicking the three-dots menu and choosing "Hide boosts"

$ sudo apt install lcars

[sudo] password for researchfairy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package lcars

Every time I use the phone for any reason

Aquaman! You have to become the king!

But I don't want all that; all I want is to ... sing!

Don't forget that this is an option

Cronch cromch

"ARRDAR STOING" to you, and to all of us

It me