Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 5

If anyone in TV had guts, they would do a Hogan's Heroes remake, but set in Guantanamo, and with a Cowboy-hat wearing American colonel as the antagonist.

They could call it Hussein's Heroes.

@botvolution The monkey in me hates the ol' bait-and-switch. It hoots and screams and hops up and down while throwing feces

@botvolution As an anadromous species, they are born inland and make their way down creeks and rivers to the sea as they grow to adulthood

I just saw cancer described as multicellular cells reverting to unicellular cells, and it's kind of a compelling way to put it.

A friend is texting me to complain that he has to buy a new car and that new cars are big and expensive.

Buy something used and smaller, I suggested.

No, we don't want something used, and the older cars are too small, he replied.

Yesterday I posted something about not understand some people's relationship with spending, and I'm about to do so again right now.

I just read an article by someone who says they applied a Japanese philosophy (waste not, want not, basically) to their grocery shopping and saved $127 in a week.

That's for a single person, not a family. I don't think I even spend $127 on groceries for myself in total for a week, and this person cut out $127 in spending by being more mindful of her purchases.

Among her "innovations" was eating leftovers or using leftovers to prepare new dishes.

How does someone spend and waste so profligately??

There's a possum living in a plastic bag in my garage

Time for more experiments with raku pottery in the barbecue

Like it wasn't already hot enough this afternoon

Here's that really horrid smoke again. It's so acrid that even a tiny whiff really burns the nose

I caused a little bit of a sawdust explosion getting the red hot pottery and the sawdust and leaves into the can, so my arm hairs are funkily singed now

thermal view just for fun

First one is out and it looks fantastic

@botvolution I don't know what this is about, but it's funny anyway

The consensus seems to be that I should use Tusky instead of the official Mastodon app

Why does mastodon in a browser let you select a length of time you want to mute someone for, but in the app, you only have the option to permanently mute them?

Someone left a half stripped bike frame at the bus stop. It's now further stripped because I took the rear disc brake off of it

Hey, I found your street

@botvolution I suppose it's your duty then to farm insects and release them into the surrounding neighborhoods

My mom has informed me that the daughter of a childhood friend of mine dropped out of college at a Big University because students in her classes were dressing like cats and meowing and that her professors either wouldn't or couldn't stop them.

My mom heard this from the girl's grandmother, and to her credit, thought this sounded insane. But she was concerned that my friend's daughter was going insane. She didn't know that this is the exact same Facebook boomer urban legend that was going around a couple years ago, except set on a college campus instead of an elementary school.

I am going to have to call my friend up and find out what the real story is.