Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 6

@botvolution ferocious little beast! It needs aphids to eat!

Two artifacts of another time

If you buy something on ebay, and it doesn't work when you receive it, but the seller refunds you your money, when ebay asks you to provide feedback for your item, does it get bad feedback for being broken, or good feedback for being refunded?

Blergh

Raku pottery experiment in the barbecue

The little pot is out of the fire, glowing red hot, and I smothered it in sawdust and wood chips and then covered the whole thing with an aluminum pie pan.

We'll see what happens now

I briefly lifted the kid to see what's up and it burst into flames. Not cooled enough yet.

I hear a soft popping sound, which could be it cracking

@botvolution @Random_Seed The impressionist painters poisoned themselves for their art and somehow we think we are better now for being more cowardly

I picked up a bunch of discontinued vintage ceramics glazes from a guy today. He got them while working at the factory (which closed in 1992) and now he has to clean out his garage and throw away anything people don't take

@Random_Seed not asbestos. lead

@botvolution in australia, they call mice boolagoos

The quest to create artificial general intelligence never truly succeeds, but they do manage to make AI rats and mice that escape into the internet and spend their time quietly scurrying through data centers, chewing on little niblets of data

@botvolution tik-him

On his tiki

@botvolution That's San Diego. I'm in LA. LA is overdue for destruction

Big fire in my area. It's a factory of some kind.

https://cameras.alertcalifornia.org/?pos=34.0403_-118.0111_13&id=Axis-College1

Estate-sale leftovers being given away for free locally this morning. It looks like some potentially neat little treasures. If I didn't have work meetings, i would go look

@rose_alibi that radio and those giant analog meters are all so good

Many people never learned to qualify their theories about things with "I think" or "maybe" and just state their speculations and hypotheses about things as though they are proven facts