Notices by margot (emaytch@mastodon.social)

@ducksauz yeah, i actually asked a friend with more car knowledge than me whether there was some sort of design need that made them so blocky-- its such a consistent trend and i don't like it. oh well, not like im buying a car anytime soon anyway, lol

@feld needs a few tweaks to make it cuter, but yeah basically!

a friend and i were just talking about how much we want an electric car company to just start using toriyama vehicle designs as design docs https://mastodon.art/@andres_sanchis/114461924017043615

the context was how ugly i find most electric truck designs (rivian is... not my fave) and how much i want one of these

@feld we need some lateral progress anyway-- reducing e-waste and figuring out how to do more with less are just as valuable forms of progress and far more important right now than just straight tech specs upgrades

i hope if tariffs start fucking up electronics it sharply reduces graphics inflation. i mean i doubt it will but it sucks feeling like you have to replace shit every five years unless you want to feel the gap grow wider between u and everyone else

it's sad, as i watch the infrastructure of the internet crumble, become enclosed, or actively destroyed by capital, to think of what we've lost.

but i also feel lucky to have been able to live during the brief window of history where it was all possible, where i could watch ppl from all over the world communicate and work together and connect to each other, at least

a friend asked why i don't prompt ppl for money when i offer them a community resource i've spent lots of time and money developing and maintaining, and told her i was doing it bc im working towards creating the world i wanted to live in

so is the featured tab just bc ppl got irritated that some users have like 15 pinned posts lol

if i had a server rack i would rack EVERYTHING

i'm normal

its always weird for me to remember that website owners don't get a notification when someone new subscribes to their RSS feed

United States right now:

one of the weird aspects, as a leftist, of entering a subculture that primarily has catered to the right wing (prepping, firearms), is how much you have to critically examine basically every statement that you are being taught, bc even among other leftists conveying this information, there will be unexamined assumptions baked in

i think too often we cede things to the right wing as though the very proximity taints them, when we SHOULD be contesting as much ground as possible

honestly seeing prepping start out as almost entirely the domain of right wing fanatics, to slowly drifting towards contested ground and even towards a more community-minded, leftist normal, has been really heartening to me that it IS still worth engaging with these things and trying to sift through for the good bits

“Should a drone vaporize some nameless soul on the other side of the planet, who among us wants to make a fuss? What if it turns out they were a terrorist? What if the default accusation proves true, and we by implication are labeled terrorist sympathizers, ostracized, yelled at?” (cont’d)

“No prisoners, who require a prison sentence, only detainees, who can be held forever without charge. And when those detainees, after years of confinement to cells not much bigger than broom closets, went on hunger strikes, they were engaged in ‘asymmetric warfare’ against their captors.”

“The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer.”

"it's no use, in the end, to scream again and again at the cold, cocooned center of power: I need you, just this once, to be the thing you pretend to be."