Do you have wood screws mixed in with sheet metal or machine screws? You don't have to sort that out today, but if you do then you'll have the psychic energy of millions of dads cheering you on, just something to think about

I invite you to do Dad Shaped Things today that you can do regardless of what sort of person you are or what sort of family you're part of or not part of

If you have a shed, you can do something in it or to it

Putter or potter about, perform tasks that will go unnoticed until they're not done

If there are any two-stroke engines around you can do things that make you smell like a two-stroke engine

Screws, and their interactions with jam jars, could be investigated today

Clean a filter

If you can't make your own dowels then store-bought is fine

With a hammer and a circle hole in metal you can make your own dowels

I made the dowels joke on other Father's Days and I'll make it again because repeating the groan jokes is Dad Privilege

A Bouquet of Dowels to all the dad and dad-adjacent people out there

Happy Father's Day to all the dads and everyone who has Dad Energy

(you don't need to be a man to have Dad Energy, you don't even need to have a kid to have Dad Energy, all it takes is an outward expression of confidence and a small selection of dowels)

(reminder, Linux users make up 20% of Fedi and 2% of the real world, never forget how poorly we represent humanity in general)

POLL: Fedi people, do you have a website or blog or personal wiki or some other kind of online Thing That You Control Yourself that other people can find you on that isn't paid for / maintained by someone else, meaning YOUR THING is at a web address like you.whatever, not at you.someonelse.whatever or someoneelse.whatever/you, I mean are you paying the tenner a year or however much for a whole-ass domain name all for yourself (or for you and a small group of IRL friends), and if not do you want to be, THE POLL, and here is the guidance and elaboration on options:

1) No and I don't want my own site, Fedi and/or other social media scratches that itch for me just fine and I'm content with this arrangement

2) No, but I have a Vague Yearning or a Curious Itch and I wonder sometimes what it would be like, but so far it's just feelings and not plans, I haven't taken any concrete steps towards making My Own Website a real thing that exists, but I'm comfortable saying that I would probably *like* it to exist some day when I'm ready

3) No, but more of a Not Yet than a no; maybe I've bought a domain name and not put anything on it yet, or I haven't yet bought a domain name but I'm researching my options (whether I do it in a lazy few minutes here and there or in focused making-notes sort of study, both count for the purposes of this question), I've spent some time thinking about this With Intent, and I feel less "*wouldn't* this be nice" and more "*won't* this be nice" about this endeavour

4) Yes I own at least one domain name, come on Dan this is Fedi, and at least one of my domains even have websites or services associated with them

BOOST THIS TOOT to get an INCREDIBLY INACCURATE IMPRESSION of how many people have and/or want websites and a more accurate picture of how many people On Fedi have and/or want websites

Local Goodwill had a pallet of computers for $45

All different eras in a big mixed up chonk, beige Pentium 4's to newer stuff, might've worked out to about $1.50 per computer

That plus a few Ventoy flash drives with Mint on them could set up a nice wee solarpunk raccoon computer shop and I'm honestly half tempted