#been-there-done-that — Public Fediverse posts

Stellt euch vor, euer Autohändler hat Tag der offenen Tür. Da steht ein silbener Kombi in Basisaustattung. Daneben irgendein Gebauchtwagen, den ihr stolz präsentiert weil ihr die Polster gereinigt habt. Ansonsten gähnende Leere. Das lohnt sich doch richtig 🫤
Gutes Projekt beim TdA - 15 Gäste alle 30 Minuten. Langweiliges Projekt - 15 Gäste am ganzen Wochenende. #beentheredonethat

@scheichsbeutel Ich bin Mann und sehe es genauso wie die unten erwähnten.
Mein Ratschlag an dich: Setze dich mal ernsthaft mit deiner eigenen Männlichkeit auseinander, in einem Workshop, nur unter uns Männern. Es wird anstrengend und schmerzhaft für dich, aber danach ist deine Welt reicher.
#BeenThereDoneThat #OwnYourPrivilege @hope_n_beauty @rebootdeluxe @AnyaKarl

@scheichsbeutel Ich bin Mann und sehe es genauso wie die unten erwähnten.
Mein Ratschlag an dich: Setze dich mal ernsthaft mit deiner eigenen Männlichkeit auseinander, in einem Workshop, nur unter uns Männern. Es wird anstrengend und schmerzhaft für dich, aber danach ist deine Welt reicher.
#BeenThereDoneThat #OwnYourPrivilege @hope_n_beauty @rebootdeluxe @AnyaKarl

@ElaWild @ck2 @ulrichkelber @Schimmelreiter
Nee, solche Situationen kommen natürlich nicht ständig vor. Aber:

- so nah sind auch Berliner Grundschulen nicht immer

- berufstätige Mütter fahren direkt weiter zur Arbeit

- Mütter mit vielen Kindern müssen Kinder ggf. auf verschiedene Schulen / Kitas verteilen. Und kinderreiche Morgen führen zu Verzögerungen. #beentheredonethat

Aber das ist natürlich alles kein Grund, verkehrsgefährdend zu parken.

@ElaWild @ck2 @ulrichkelber @Schimmelreiter
Nee, solche Situationen kommen natürlich nicht ständig vor. Aber:

- so nah sind auch Berliner Grundschulen nicht immer

- berufstätige Mütter fahren direkt weiter zur Arbeit

- Mütter mit vielen Kindern müssen Kinder ggf. auf verschiedene Schulen / Kitas verteilen. Und kinderreiche Morgen führen zu Verzögerungen. #beentheredonethat

Aber das ist natürlich alles kein Grund, verkehrsgefährdend zu parken.

@Unixbigot still hurts when someone stabs you with it.

#BeenThereDoneThat

@Unixbigot still hurts when someone stabs you with it.

#BeenThereDoneThat

A ver... Este señor maneja una cuenta (en banco de Qatar) con millones de dólares del petróleo venezolano...

No me extraña que se fije en eso. #BeenThereDoneThat

Marco Rubio se fija en la transición española para el futuro de Venezuela https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2026/01/28/marco-rubio-se-fija-en-la-transicion-espanola-para-el-futuro-de-venezuela-cadena-ser/

A ver... Este señor maneja una cuenta (en banco de Qatar) con millones de dólares del petróleo venezolano...

No me extraña que se fije en eso. #BeenThereDoneThat

Marco Rubio se fija en la transición española para el futuro de Venezuela https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2026/01/28/marco-rubio-se-fija-en-la-transicion-espanola-para-el-futuro-de-venezuela-cadena-ser/

@nathanu You are not expected to say this out loud but continue to drink the IndieWeb Kool-Aid. #BeenThereDoneThat

@nathanu You are not expected to say this out loud but continue to drink the IndieWeb Kool-Aid. #BeenThereDoneThat

@gklka baba a karifa alatt. #beentheredonethat 🤣

@gklka baba a karifa alatt. #beentheredonethat 🤣

@onpaperwings Have you considered adding your own legends? That is another lovely rabbit hole. #beentheredonethat

@onpaperwings Have you considered adding your own legends? That is another lovely rabbit hole. #beentheredonethat

@doener Hautärzte und Kassenpatienten sind inkompatibel. Das funktioniert auch in MUC nicht. #beentheredonethat

@lucp that sounds good.
Do you have one of those temporary showers set up in the garden? #beentheredonethat

@lucp that sounds good.
Do you have one of those temporary showers set up in the garden? #beentheredonethat

@gme @jeffowski I had to take my dog to an emergency vet at 11 pm last night. I thought - and still think - she had a bladder stone. Cost me $560 for a urinalysis, pain killers and antibiotics (because it's possibly a bad UTI). Male cats have a longer urethra than females and are more prone to such things, which is why I will not have a male cat. #BeenThereDoneThat

@gme @jeffowski I had to take my dog to an emergency vet at 11 pm last night. I thought - and still think - she had a bladder stone. Cost me $560 for a urinalysis, pain killers and antibiotics (because it's possibly a bad UTI). Male cats have a longer urethra than females and are more prone to such things, which is why I will not have a male cat. #BeenThereDoneThat

Saw a collection of trailers from #comiccon which will obvs skew toward genre pieces.

We have:

- IT Origin Story
- Predator Origin Story / Possible Romance
- Aliens on Earth
- Super Hero Sequel
- Video Game Sequel
- War of the Worlds Remake
- Star Trek Muppet Babies
- Percy Jackson Sequel
- Vietnam War Movie meets Land of the Lost (Not really, but yeah, kind of) but not Jurassic Park

So, there are officially no new ideas being green lit.

#movies #film #beentheredonethat

Saw a collection of trailers from #comiccon which will obvs skew toward genre pieces.

We have:

- IT Origin Story
- Predator Origin Story / Possible Romance
- Aliens on Earth
- Super Hero Sequel
- Video Game Sequel
- War of the Worlds Remake
- Star Trek Muppet Babies
- Percy Jackson Sequel
- Vietnam War Movie meets Land of the Lost (Not really, but yeah, kind of) but not Jurassic Park

So, there are officially no new ideas being green lit.

#movies #film #beentheredonethat

Apple in 2025: "Introducing Liquid Glass UI!" ✨
Microsoft in 2005: "Hold my beer... we had Aero Glass." 🍻

#izoatetech #tech #InnovationCycles #BeenThereDoneThat #TechTrends

@s1m0n4 welcome to the demanding world of barefoot running :)

Take it easy, transitioning takes time.

i've found out that careful easy calves stretchning after running helps recovery.

#BeenThereDoneThat

Warning From ‘The People of Germany’ About Donald Trump Goes Viral
Subtle satire goes viral with #BeenThereDoneThat
https://www.thewrap.com/people-of-germany-warning-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-san-diego-man-been-there-done-that/

@xilebo
#beenThereDoneThat 😅
Edit: Definitiv flüssiger. Wie Pfannkuchenteig.

@clairemathieu Les arguments théoriques avancés dans les autres réponses sont certes corrects. Mais dans la pratique (test sur la cuisson d'un gâteau où j'avais doublé le volume de pâte pour remplir un grand moule), je conseille plutôt d'augmenter progressivement en partant de temps de base +50%. Doubler direct le temps de cuisson c'est un coup à se retrouver avec un truc trop sec/cramé. #BeenThereDoneThat

@clairemathieu Les arguments théoriques avancés dans les autres réponses sont certes corrects. Mais dans la pratique (test sur la cuisson d'un gâteau où j'avais doublé le volume de pâte pour remplir un grand moule), je conseille plutôt d'augmenter progressivement en partant de temps de base +50%. Doubler direct le temps de cuisson c'est un coup à se retrouver avec un truc trop sec/cramé. #BeenThereDoneThat

@uichelorraine Je valide, par contre il faut une chambre sèche. Parce que le combo froid+problèmes d'humidité (qui impactent donc les draps et la couette) ça c'est vraiment l'horreur #BeenThereDoneThat

@Beedazzled Sympathies!
#BeenThereDoneThat

@Beedazzled Sympathies!
#BeenThereDoneThat

@EileenOttawa Well, send a note to the reporter who wrote to the story. Be polite. The odds are that this reporter is not a full-time politics reporter but had to write up that story as one of three or four she was assigned that day. #BeenThereDoneThat

@KayJanes Cat was just storing it for later snacking once the house quieted down & gave them plenty of room for a good game of fetch - what's a few items knocked off tables & counters in the middle of a quiet nite 😜 #beentheredonethat

@jadeye ez jogos. A ceges appoknal eleve jott ilyen felszolito email. #beentheredonethat

@Lana you can reduce your amount of cups when you brew a can of coffee for 12 cups, but place your cup instead of the can underneath the filter.

#lifehacking tested for you. #BeenThereDoneThat

@ariadne
Yet at some future date you'll need RDIMMs for another system, and will only be able to find UDIMMs.
#BeenThereDoneThat

@GottaLaff Ah, the bars of Milwaukee
#BeenThereDoneThat

Hey remember that time when…

Do you remember how you felt, and what you said, when you were trying to put forward the best version of yourself to win someone’s amorous attention? Really think about that for a minute.

Now, presuming you are lucky enough to be in a relationship at the moment—perform the following exercise:

Sit down with that person and start bragging about all of your shared stories as if they were things you did before you met them…

“One time, I went to the Grand Canyon in the winter and saw the most awesome snow squall blow up the valley!”

…then they counter with, “Neat! I once was strolling up a side street in Paris and I stumbled over a famous bakery that I’d read a book about—the Madelienes were to die for!”

“Wow! I once saw the sunset from the top of the Tokyo tower and then ate the best sushi…”

“I was in Trafalgar Square for Guy Fawkes night and then I went and listened to a Vespers concert in a church…”

“omg that reminds me I saw the Salisbury Cathedral and had this conversation with a random person who was crazy-passionate about how they built the cathedral…”

“…huh, I once hiked miles into the forest, to the top of a mountain in Kamakura Japan—oh, the mist and the wind and the trees where amazing.”

“wow! I spent a week in the French Alps with a couple of the people who created Parkour—except that’s not what they call it…”

“Really? I once rented a car and drove all over the Cottswalds in England…”

“Neat! I took a road trip to Boston and walked the entire Freedom Trail and had a picnic lunch at Bunker Hill in the shade.”

…and so on and so on.

Let me know how it works out.

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St Martin 2001

A few photos from a sailing vacation in 2001 to St. Martin.

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Flatiron #1

900 feet. 6.5 hours of climbing.

It is 6am and I’ve been napping in the front seat of Mike’s van since 3am. I’m pecking this out, stream of consciousness, on my phone, racing the dying charge, with a sore right pointer finger. Other than some apples and oranges, I’ve not eaten a ‘real’ meal in about 20 hours. What we managed to do last evening is the most amazing, most challenging, most focused thing I have ever accomplished. Nothing else I have ever done is even worth *mentioning*.

We started on a whim at about 6pm: spreading gear out of Mike’s van into the parking lot as the the regular mortals stared. “Look! Real climbers!” From the lot we power-hiked up what, I’m guessing, was at least 500 vertical feet of increasingly gnarly wooded trail.

To the base. Of the biggest inclined slab of rock imaginable. We spent a lot of time going over gear, call-n-response stuff, etc.

And on my first day on real rocks, Mike started up the first pitch, dragging the “sharp” end of the rope, and setting hardware for fall protection.

“CLIMBING!” Then I followed.

We did seven pitches, meaning Mike climbed away out of sight, and set up. a belay position as high as our 200ft rope allowed. Then I climbed, picking up gear as I passed it.

Seven pitches. Three before it got dark. Four in the dark. (We’d brought head lamps. ) Oddly, the dark was WAY easier: All I saw was this rock, my hands, my feet, and the infinite piece of rope I was following.

Up, down, around, over. Literally one. Inch. At a time. I covered something approaching 1400 feet along the rope, 3, 4, 5? false summits. Where you scale a thrust of rock – rock sticking up literally into the Milky Way hanging from the sky – an inconceivable puzzle of body and mind, to the top. Only to find a little down climb, over, and up yet again.

Six and one half hours of, “I’ll move my left foot up two inches to that nice looking spot. Now, I wonder what’s up to the right for my hand…”

We reached the summit at 12:30am.

Then rappelled literally down into the inky black off the back. From there we walked down an endless foot trail and back to the van.

At nearly 2am. Where I lay in middle of the parking lot, flat on my back, enjoying the sheer comfort and staring at the exact same stars.

It was transcendental. It was Herculean (for me anyway. )

Now, at 6:30, my legs are a bit tired, my finger tips are sore. I’ve not one bruise. The sun has just popped up on the other side of the world. Climbing is not “my thing.” I’m never going to want to sleep in a park, or live in a van, as Mike does now without a second thought.

But.

My god! It’s full of stars.

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KU waterfall traverse

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Flip iPhone is so 2011

Today’s XKCD with the “flip iPhone” reminds me of something from 2011.

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Hoist that mainsail!

Two salty dudes hoisting a mainsail during a sailing trip in 2001 to St. Martin. That would be my great friend Mike on the winch and yours-truly coaxing the luff rope into the mast track.

Also, but not shown, you can buy Cuban cigars in St. Martin. Just sayin’.

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