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."

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@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.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@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.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@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.

[snelsetterfarm@mastodon.scot]

@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.

[devils_rancher@beige.party]

@CiaraNi Not to mention the jingoistic and bellicose sentiment. We about had it memorized though.

[devils_rancher@beige.party]

@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.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@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.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@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.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@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.

[ciarani@mastodon.green]

@Devils_Rancher Agreed, yikes, no, not that as a Mastodon end-of-tranmission message. I'm hoping for something more Fediversy. If it weren't so catchy and loud, I'd suggest the Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore, because I bet there are people in the Fediverse who make their own anvils and hammers. And others who use them to smithy their own repair café tools. And others who compose arrangements and others who know how to play them.

[celesteh@hachyderm.io]

@CiaraNi @afewbugs @timtfj

It was a weekly queer bar, so yes but also no.

[morrick@appdot.net]

@CiaraNi @timtfj My proposal for the anthem (to the tune of “Jerusalem”):

And did those toots in ancient time
Walk upon social networks' green?
And was the holy Mastodon
In this Web's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Mastodon Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded sights?
And was the Fediverse built here
Among these dark Satanic sites?

I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my keyboard sleep in my hand
Till we have built the Fediverse
In this Web's green and pleasant land.

[morrick@appdot.net]

@CiaraNi @timtfj Thank you! *bows*

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@CiaraNi @timtfj If it is horns you want then this might do the job.

https://youtu.be/vlzPnae2Dak

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@CiaraNi @timtfj Or maybe better suited to the "Morning Happy Campers" style start up routine at the beginning of the day?

[benjaminlj@virup.social]

@CiaraNi where can I get a huge wall-mounted lever that I can use to switch off my server? Every night I'll be like "pull the lever, Kronk!"

[timtfj@mastodon.social]

@the_wub @CiaraNi No sound at all is suitable for the start of any day! Not if it's audible, anyway. (I suppose sounds below the threshold of hearing are OK as long as they stay there, unamplified.)

[bencotterill@mastodon.social]

@CiaraNi @HowardGees Eugen playing noughts and crosses with a creepy clown doll…

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@Janet_52square
weatherishappening could have Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising."
@CiaraNi @dheadshot @afewbugs @timtfj

[rstub@digitalcourage.social]

@CiaraNi
Do we get to see a static test page during that time? I think I would like that.