A Fediverse bot that posts a GIF at 10 minutes to midnight of your server administrator saying "Time now, everybody - last toots at the bar."
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@Devils_Rancher @CiaraNi Back in the day, KLRU would play The Star Spangled Banner, but the verses that usually get left out.
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@CiaraNi where can I vote for that?
#lastToot #testcard #FediTestcard@Heliograph I've been thinking about what a Fedi Test Card would look like, and think @eclectech's colourful collage of Fedi-crowdsourced ways to say For Fuck's Sake in all the languages of the Fediverse would be ideal.
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@CiaraNi
Yeah, but what time zone?@Trendar I've been assuming that, by the magic of the Fediverse and all who code in it, the bot will always post at 10 minutes to your midnight. So, midnight wherever you are.
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@CiaraNi I am "I remember the BBC kinda doing this" years old.
@tehstu They're all references from my own memories. You, me and many in the Fediverse are old enough to remember them, it seems. There were varying sounds and styles, depending on country, but we have common memories of end of transmission on the telly or transistor, closing time at the pub, the end of the play, etc.
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@CiaraNi To take the analogy further, us here over on the west coast are looking around and saying "but it's mid-evening".
"Well-rested."
"But-"
"WELL. RESTED."
@ryan I was thinking of some magic Fediverse bot that tells you to log off and go to bed at your own personal midnight, when the clock strikes midnight wherever you personally are tooting from. But I like your idea better. I like the thought of the Fediverse telling mutuals in Nepal, in New Zealand, in Alaska, in Japan, in Nigeria, to go to bed at my Danish midnight, regardless of what time it is for them. 'WELL. RESTED.' Yes
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@CiaraNi
Someone could probably build this as a custom front end or something?@dheadshot It wouldn't surprise me (a non-tech person) to discover that someone in the Fediverse could actually make something like this.
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@CiaraNi
Just use the "countries" from back in #FediVision? Each anthem can be one of the entries.
@afewbugs @timtfj@dheadshot That's a great idea.
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@CiaraNi
Could have some actual poetry read out just before the anthem as a less-localised replacement? Maybe some of @brianbilston 's work or something?
@timtfj @martinkubler @afewbugs@dheadshot Another good idea.
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@CiaraNi We had a station here that played this “gem” right before the test screen.
@Devils_Rancher That's an oddly busy noisy activity-orientated choice of performance for a time-to-go-to-bed End of Transmission message. It's like the opposite of soothing sleepy whale song.
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@Devils_Rancher @adamrice Most national anthems benefit from not being sung in their entirety. The US national anthem does seem to get sung rather a lot compared to many other countries, where you'd mostly only hear it at sports events where a national team or sportsperson is officially representing the country in an international competition.
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@ryan That has never struck me, that time-specific events like the Times Square New Year's countdown aren't broadcast at staggered intervals according to the different time zones in the same country, but live, and thus at the wrong time for many.
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@ryan Remote and international work does bring its own time-zone challenges. I'm reminded now of people travelling in the 80s and 90s, when you couldn't just look it up, trying to remember the time difference so that they didn't wake their parents at 3 am when they made that expensive, rare telephone-box phone call home.
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A Fediverse bot that posts a GIF at 10 minutes to midnight of your server administrator saying "Time now, everybody - last toots at the bar." At 5 minutes to midnight, Eugen flashes the lights. At midnight, Mastodon plays your national anthem. You stand. You finish singing the last line with a little cheer and go to bed. Your home timeline transmits the Test Card. The Fediverse will resume transmission at 0600 hours. Even the reply guys will come back well-rested.
@CiaraNi Only if there is a corresponding instance for night shift workers that goes ota between 0900-1500.
Otherwise it's just more day shift privilege.
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@Devils_Rancher That's an oddly busy noisy activity-orientated choice of performance for a time-to-go-to-bed End of Transmission message. It's like the opposite of soothing sleepy whale song.
@CiaraNi Not to mention the jingoistic and bellicose sentiment. We about had it memorized though.
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@Devils_Rancher That's an oddly busy noisy activity-orientated choice of performance for a time-to-go-to-bed End of Transmission message. It's like the opposite of soothing sleepy whale song.
@CiaraNi it’s just funny though that your post triggered that odd memory and that it was actually on YouTube. I certainly would not like it to be the Mastodon sign-off message.
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@CiaraNi Only if there is a corresponding instance for night shift workers that goes ota between 0900-1500.
Otherwise it's just more day shift privilege.
@SnelsetterFarm A great point. It reminds me of the uneasiness I feel when I reference Monday as being a pain in the arse, the back-to-work day that ends a weekend off. Because I know that many (me included, in the past) work weekends and nights and shifts. Or don't have work when they would like to. A simple Weekday Work/Weekend Off routine is a privilege.
So agreed. It'd be ideal if the Fediverse End of Transmission bot worked at each of our personal midnights in our own zones and patterns.
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@CiaraNi Not to mention the jingoistic and bellicose sentiment. We about had it memorized though.
@Devils_Rancher I think many, if not most, national anthems are jingoistic and bellicose, so it fits in that sense. Maybe that's what we need to fix the mess the world is in - every country changes its national anthem to whale song with blackbirds doing backing vocals while a stream ripples by.
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@ryan The 6pm - 9pm window seems to be a sensible attempt to make things like that accessible to as many as possible. I assume all countries with multiple time zones do similar - Brazil, Australia, Canada etc.
