Notices by Hollie (hollie@social.coop)

<crawls out from under rock>
What is this White Lotus thing everyone keeps talking about? Do I want to be involved?

@aehdeschaine I dunno, I read the synopsis and I might go back under my rock 😂

I think I've lost interest in stories about rich people - whether they're happy or suffering, it always feels like letting their world entertain me is basically supporting its existence (that's just a feeling I've had lately, it isn't a big moral soap box or anything - I'm sure I have an exception, I just can't think of one right now).

@JoBlakely @aehdeschaine It's so interesting to compare notes with others about this! I used to love dystopias but now I avoid them unless I'm there for something really specific (a particular issue or performance pertinent to my interests).

I've never enjoyed cop/detective shows unless they're British (what's that about?), but I have often loved military stuff! I think because I like military history, love boats and planes, and LOVE espionage. So I've always loved spycraft and that.... -->

@JoBlakely @aehdeschaine --> gets folded into a lot of military stories. I will always watch a spy story. I didn't know that the CIA cooperated with Hollywood that much? Interesting!

I also loved Game of Thrones, but I can't watch it again, it had way too much SA. I love horror but only if it's supernatural, I can't handle the serial killer kind of stuff, or SAW (good lord no).

All the modern royalty stuff repels me, too. Have never seen The Crown, I've no sympathy for the monarchy.

It's O'Brian! In the sewers! With the Geiger counter!

I solved it!

#Monsterdon
#CHUD

@SRLevine Oh awesome, are we going to get gore tonight? 😂

Warning
Warning

You now have 20 minutes to reach minimum safe distance

#Monsterdon

I don't usually feel very strongly about fashion but I want his giant striped tie to die in a fire

#Monsterdon
#CHUD

Three years after this movie is when Beauty and the Beast came out (that 1987 show with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman), anyone remember that? A much, MUCH more romanticized version of life in the NYC underground.

I watched it religiously, my parents used to torture me about it by stage whispering "Viiiincent" at me.

#Monsterdon
#CHUD

Also no one is allowed to share that I watched that show religiously as a teenager

WHAT HAPPENS AT #MONSTERDON STAYS AT MONSTERDON

You young people don't remember it but back in the 80's NYC was a very dangerous place because of all the cannibals. They really exploited rent control. It was a whole thing. Getting "mugged" was just cultural code for "getting pulled off the sidewalk into subterranean depths by cannibals".

#Monsterdon
#CHUD

The news is exhausting and enraging on an hourly basis.

My fellow chronic illness folks, who are barely holding it together (or maybe not holding it together at all), who are feeling the desperate contrast between what they can do now and what they could do in the past, grieving that discrepancy, trying to hold yourself up while also staying connected to loved ones who need holding up, I see you.

I'm with you.

Okay I don't know about anyone else, but I loved that one. Great real estate, more buttons, a twirly mustache, powerful and dangerous women, confused and easily offended guys, statues, boobs, dirty palettes, I mean it's a CLASSIC

#Monsterdon

Every time they're in this room I'm annoyed that the oil panting palette is hanging on the wall, UNCLEAN, like ffs people, that's just going to dry and ruin the palette, clean the paint off already, DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING

#Monsterdon

"Oh Paul, I will tell you nothing useful, but if you love me you will figure it out," is the gist of romantic communication in most movies until 2011 or so.

#Monsterdon

This site that will tell you which percentage of corporate donations from a retail brand went to Democrat or Republican political contributions.

https://www.goodsuniteus.com/

Big names, like Amazon and Target, are in there (surprisingly, the latter is redder than the former), and smaller but ubiquitous brands, like Tyson Foods or Olay or Bath and Body Works.

Costco: 98% Dems

Also...

Doordash: about half and half
Grubhub: 100% Dems

#resist

I've been loving @404mediaco lately, but this was such a good read that I just paid for a yearly subscription.

“For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire,” said Cross. “But we didn’t evolve to be able to absorb this much info. It makes you devalue the work you can do in your community.”

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/

Hey everyone who has a collection of browser windows open with bad news in each one:

It's okay to close them.
It's okay to not have it all staring at you in the morning.

<3

Felt the pull of the river today, went out for a chilly and lovely short ride. Met some birb friends.

Usually the river is full of ducks, but today it was all geese, all the time! They were taking turns falling into the current, getting swept quickly downriver, then paddling back to their buddies.

Standing on a grassy bank looking out into a river, sun going down in the distance, a couple dozen geese floating on the water.

Tree friends, too.

Tonight was the third and final class to learn French stitch bookbinding, that I took with my friend Jaime at the University of Oregon. Our teacher, Bogi, has been wonderful.... https://eilloh.net/posts/final-night-of-bookmaking-class

#bookbinding #bookMaking