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Testing ActivityPub & WordPress

Update: It worked! But I messed up a setting because it was supposed to show the post Title, Excerpt, Tags (as hashtags), and then the permalink. The setting I messed up is Activity-Object-Type. I had set it to Article because that made sense but my adhd brain skipped the description: The presentation of the “Article” might change on different platforms. Mastodon for example shows the “Article” type as a simple link. πŸ€¦πŸ½β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦πŸ½β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦πŸ½β€β™‚οΈ I changed that setting to Note (default) and things should be fine moving forward. This post is a test to see if the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress works … Continue reading

fan club update

A major, major update!

If you’re an old reader, you may have noticed a change in the site design last weekend (you may also have been notified by email). Not only have their been cosmetic changes but there have been big changes under the hood too. Following is a rundown of what changed – and why – but some major personal news first. Guess who has ADHD? THIS GUY (just imagine me gesticulating with my thumbs). I realized in November that I’ve had (been?) ADHD my whole life (details will be forthcoming in the form of journal comics). This has been clinically confirmed and … Continue reading

So I started teaching improv comedy to kids…

My foray into improv comedy at the Tampa Bay Comic Con has been quite the unexpected detour. I enjoyed it so much that I joined a couple of meetups to scratch the itch. And it was so much fun that I knew kids would love it – so I started teaching at our homeschool co-op. Years back I used to watch Whole Line Is it Anyway and not once did it cross my mind that I could do that too. It’s bizarre looking back at the passive mindset I had. At some point, I lost curiosity. It returned after I … Continue reading