#Grateful for partner and her magical ability to get some terrific junky fried #food for #dinner to aid me this nose to grindstone, eyeballs to screen grant writing week.
(Helps to have a freezer and really improved frozen stuff these days at Costco)
I’m still trying to process this… I just won my first ever Grammy 🏆
Winner for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for Super Mario Praise Break, arranged by Bryan Carter, Charlie Rosen, and myself with The 8-Bit Big Band. Deeply grateful to God, my collaborators, and everyone who’s supported this journey.
As I settle down for my cup of tea before bed, my thoughts begin to settle. Its been a day of peace, calm, quiet for me. I've enjoyed good food, lovely drinks, good company. I've enjoyed warmth, comfort, peace. That is privilege. I am very thankful for what I have. I don't have much, my bank account is often low, my heating is rarely on, my health is horrendous and I am seeing signs of my teenage health problems appearing for my son. Despite all of that, I am so very rich. I have a roof over my head, plenty of food, my books and crafts, a son I enjoy spending time with and he enjoys his time with me. I have some wonderful friends on the fediverse who brighten my days and keep me connected to the world. I have everything I need. I'm thinking of those that don't have these things. I have spent many years struggling, and in those times of need, people have helped me, for them, I am always thankful. They helped me keep a roof over my head, to give my son Christmas, to keep me alive when I didn't think I would make it. I'm proud to have been able to pay it forward a little this year.
Time to finish this cup of tea and then head to bed with the hot water bottles, cats and a good book.
Thank you, and good night.
The focus of the photo is a cream coloured mug with Tigger ( a striped cat from Winnie the Pooh) on it. It sits on my mouse mat which features the time zones of the world. My keyboard is lit up behind it. The background is all fuzzy, my water bottle, a candle in a tin, a tiny sculpture, the corner of my computer monitor.
I started a gratitude journal on January 1 2025. I write in it daily. Some days I have tons to write. Others, I am thankful for the ability to write anything down. It has led to more feelings of joy in my life!
A scenic view of a calm Lake Michigan with several sailboats in the distance, and a lighthouse featuring a green band on a breakwater. The sky is clear and blue.
For those experiencing trouble with the current version of Moshidon, I recommend you seeing if the latest version of Mastodon for Android has any common problems with Moshidon, and switching to it (for now) in case it doesn't.
Moshidon currently is based on a really old version of Mastodon for Android, and until the rewrite branch takes over, some weird issues will continue to pop up.
I apologize for all the troubles, and I am working towards rectifying them all.
I’m super thrilled and incredibly honored to share this milestone with you —
3.8 MILLION visitors to my online art gallery!
👉 https://wayne-moran.pixels.com/
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for your continued support, encouragement, and love for the art and beauty that surrounds us. You inspire me to keep creating and exploring.
I’m super thrilled and incredibly honored to share this milestone with you —
3.8 MILLION visitors to my online art gallery!
👉 https://wayne-moran.pixels.com/
From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for your continued support, encouragement, and love for the art and beauty that surrounds us. You inspire me to keep creating and exploring.
Let’s keep making the world more beautiful—one image at a time. 🙌📸✨
#Grateful #Milestone #FineArtPhotography #WayneMoranPhotography #ThankYou
HyperSchool is a HyperCard application for schools to do scheduling, attendance, and grades.
It includes thousands of lines of #HyperTalk code, plus some
C code to interface to a scantron machine and to do simulated annealing
before the user gets old.
This is the first time I have ever had a fellow #AuDHD as a kindred companion & it feels amazing. The mutual understanding & spiritual bond we share has brightened up both of our lives. I have never felt this level of naturally flowing, deeply profound, intimate connection with anyone else before.
I treasure this unexpected, sacred blessing. I am immensely grateful 🙌 💞
I'm incredibly #grateful that honing my patience & being unwilling to date anyone who didn't meet my basic quality companion standards for years, has finally paid off.
I'd been devalued, dehumanized & traumatized by NT white guy partners (and their super colonial/bigoted family members) in the past & didn't want to make same personal choice errors for companionship in my present life. Especially after recovering from those past relationship traumas, regaining my self worth & promising to myself that I'd never discount myself for anyone, ever again. I promised myself that I'd wait & be open to a new intimate companionship, only if the person met my basic standards, is an open & honest communicator, isn't an ableist, respects who I am fully & completely & understands/supports my lifelong commitment to being an active humanitarian - with deep needs to contribute to community works.
I feel my patience & personal adherence to my core values, has rewarded me with an amazing connection to a fellow creative & big hearted NT mixed Indigenous man, who always tells me how much he appreciates my presence in his life & how he loves all my quirks/oddities. I feel truly valued, just for who I am, quirks n all 💗
Big thank you to all of you for leaving likes, comments, shares and following! It's been so fun coming up with these little projects to share with you and I really appreciate the feedback! ♥️🫂 #hugs
Today marks the 20th anniversary of me arriving in Germany with my parents. If they hadn't abandoned their jobs, friends and family and taken me out of Russia, I might very well have perished by now.
One more question: Any idea where to look for mastodon #iOS app advanced search operators? Search results have not only not been few but also not relevant.
Especially #grateful to the fellow fediverse folk who #tag posts and #caption images - every small improvement in #accessibility & #usability creates fertile ground for normalizing #searchability !
So, this has been in the works for a while, arguably most of last year. I intend to transfer my personal ownership of the Mastodon trademarks and assets, incl. copyright over my code, to the Mastodon non-profit, and transition to a different role at the organization.
@Gargron I am truly grateful for all the work you've done to increase the usage of the #ActivityPub protocol.
There is no arguing that without your leadership and your dedication, we would not be where we are today. As a society, I believe it is paramount that we take control of the #PublicSquare back to the people in a #Decentralized manner, and #Mastodon has been a MASSIVE push in that direction.
Thank you Eugen, I'm glad you exist and I appreciate your work 😃
for quite some time, the following thoughts were running around in my head.
Finally, I found the words to share them with you.
There are so many things I've learned through you all:
loving #plushies is ok 😅 - I got myself a very cuddly plushie and ever since I allow myself to cuddle it in my sleep, I can sleep... And when I took it with me on a trip, I was even able to sleep peacefully in a strange hotel bed.
#echolalia is a wide range of repeating words, songs, snippets of conversations, of songs (earworms!!) - I love singing songs to myself, I love humming, whistling - and I very easily adopt the lilt of the person I'm speaking with... which resulted in some weird situations in the past...
being tired is ok. You can't jump hurdles carrying a hundredweight day in, day
noise canceling earphones! What a blessing!
hyperfocus and a squirrelly brain aren't mutually exclusive
I sometimes may have the brain of a squirrel, but it's not the onset of dementia 😂🙏🏻
executive function disorder - now I can accept that I'm just no good at doing my tax declaration 😇
there are people all over the world who are a lot or just like me - and I’m welcome with you 💜
I'm allowed to be brilliant and abysmally stupid at the same time - goodbye imposter syndrome
And I really learned to appreciate my good fortune. 🙏🏻
I realize how lucky I am that my system's crash in May only ruined my "battery" but did not affect my "hard disk". On the contrary, due to this now faulty "battery", I no longer have the strength to mask as much as I used to - with some surprisingly beneficial effects in my everyday life. 😃
I feel #blessed in countless ways and I’m #grateful for every single one.
Thank you all for becoming such an important and meaningful part of my life.
💜🙏🏻💜
It is worth zooming in. It is remarkable.
On the wall of a medium sized hospital in Dublin, in Ireland a very small country.
Better than any election manifesto. #IrelandIsOpen#Grateful
A map of the world hangs on the wall, and there are pins to show which countries the staff are from. The legend over the map reads You are being cared for by staff from all over the world.
This was heartbreaking, BUT working with my brother @nthonyholden was an absolute joy! BUDDIES! MAKING THINGS! Our lead was so funny, she just GLOWED, & we were building on the brilliance of the comics into a very special, relatable world. Maybe one day... #Grateful#amwriting