@cmajuscula I've tried trackballs before. They're great for precision work. (Except for the tiny little ones they tried putting on laptops in the 90s.)

@NoahPaulLeGies @rpardee It appears that mine does that too. That's a relief because...guess who forgot to turn off his mouse when leaving for the day...!

@Oma_Trisha It'd be nice if this did that too, but I'm afraid because it has a hard switch it won't.

I'll see if that's a feature I can unlock somehow...

I ordered a wired mouse and received a wireless one by accident. I knew I was going to appreciate this enough to never go back.

Sigh.

Now I'm yet another person who has to remember to turn off their mouse at the end of the day (and will definitely forget).

#FirstWorldProblems

@Bix This is the key strategy in play. According to some political pundits, Trump's strategy is not even to win votes any more, but to mount another coup attempt sparked by an even Bigger Lie (that the election was stolen).

It seems that general support for him is waning (finally), but he still has a lot of fanatical followers who are willing to engage in whatever desperate measures he encourages to claim power.

#politics

@TheresaVermont Yes, good point. I treat this with a different sensitivity based on gender -- this isn't a face-value kind of question.

In related news, I've encountered enough masculine overconfidence to last me a lifetime. :-/

@TheresaVermont The question is more about the way a person answers than any subjective definition of "good."

I am in several creative fields, where I need some quick ways to evaluate what level of contribution I can expect from people, or conversely what I can offer them.

I've realised this question helps provide some insight.

When people tell me that they're creative in some way, I'm going to follow the path of my mentors and start asking "Are you good?"

It's a quick way for me to evaluate whether or not people are self-aware and taking what they're doing seriously.

@nonayadambidnes I find I always get lost in Getty, but that is a great gallery!

Thanks for the suggestion. That gives me lots of photographers to follow. 😃

Does anyone know of a Olympics photo gallery?

I see all these cameras at the games, but all I've seen is the TV coverage.

I want to see galleries of those pros who are where the action is.

Any leads?

@gshevlin They were so sure, though!

It was all a foregone conclusion.

Doesn't total confidence count for *anything* these days?

[sighs melodramatically]

@Beanc Yeah, I really should have added quotes: "pundits."

Also, I don't remember anything else about the podcast, like its name or the people involved, and I never listened to another episode. So that's a win.

I often find myself thinking about the very long, very enthusiastic podcast I listened to when Musk first made the offer to buy Twitter.

The tech pundits were positively giddy about all the ways that he was going to immediately improve Twitter, getting rid of all the bots and the misinformation. He was set to take it from a $5B company to, well, there's no limit to where it would go with him in charge!

I wonder if those tech insiders think about how wrong they were as much as I do.

Bands at a bunch of levels have riders -- specific things in a contact that need to be fulfilled.

After photographing some festivals and events this year, if I'm ever contracted for music, the single non-negotiable in my rider will be:

"Never put us in green light."

Any other colour I can live with.

Green is awful.

It honestly feels like the spell TFG cast on the US has finally been well and truly broken.

It was broken by calling its name:

"Weird."

#politics

@Fellixe @Museek Counterpoint: He's never been a media strategist. He is an incoherent spewer of dots. The media connected those dots in his favour when it served their interests, when he was a popular novelty, and when they (esp Fox) could glean benefit from him.

He no longer serves their interests, so now his dots are left alone to be the blithering idocy they were all along.

It's been a shell game the whole time -- media corporations are driven more by profits than principles.

@MichaelTalon Wouldn't it be a total shame if all the P25 funding amounted to nothing?

If the conservative industrial complex behind this saw no return on all their investment, that would be oh-so-sad.

Just imagine if that led to its abandonment and eventual bankruptcy -- I'm sure its permeating mixture of bewildered arrogance, desperate scapegoating and woeful failure would be such a sorrowful let down to all of us.

@corlin Just building up the suspense, I see!

@Flyingdutchman696 This is clickbait all the way around.

I've been around conservative Christians my whole life, and none would accept Rob Schneider as their spokesperson.

I'm not denying that there are throngs of Christians getting a buzz from being pointlessly offended right now, because they assume their religion is the centre of everyone else's worldview, too.

I'm saying these examples were chosen because they're low-hanging fruit.

@Kaysymmetry I agree that decisions like this need to be evidence-led.

However, a decision which cites a lack of evidence is the opposite of that.