Notices by GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)

@skinnylatte My gee-daughter (25) has reached out. Apparently, she has reached that point in her growth where she has begun to realize that Virginia and I are getting old. She wants to get together and talk to me about my past.

I, of course, agreed instantly. Tho we love each other, for both of us it has been one of the more difficult gee-kid relationships. We had a couple of good starts, but somehow just couldn't find the connect?

I wish *I'd* spent more time w/my Mom, Dad, and GeeMaw.

Reminder: Humor, any humor, is subversive. Fascists have multiple characteristics, but one of the most pronounced is that they have no sense of humor.

Look. Make jokes about them, sure, that's great -- if risky.

But ya know what? Make jokes about *anything*. Make jokes.

Humorless fascist ass-clowns never laugh unless they're hurting people. Make jokes, make jokes that don't hurt people. Make laughter. There is nothing fascists hate more than laughter.

@Gargron Some time back. I left Twitter earlier. But then I left Facebook and LinkedIn both.

I have one precious contact, my old mentor, who I have lost touch with. Others, friends, companions, associates, I surely miss, but not enough to suffer life in the corporate "commons-for-now" world.

All of these people seeking to "protect" women's sports *hate* women's sports and women. They are using this non-issue as a means to their end of returning women to their role as chattel goods.

They've never been to a women's sporting event in their lives.
They would eliminate Title IX.
They refuse to acknowledge the ERA.
They have reversed Roe v. Wade and spend all their time passing abortion bans.

They fucking *hate* women.

Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.

Fuck these scumbags.

It's exactly the kind of extractive capitalist company where the CEO makes 16 million while the floorwalker can't get $16 an hour.

Really not comfortable lauding CostCo.

@liohong @jonny Okay, but, for the record, it's actually kinda glorious how little we understand.

Like, in my case, the passive "hard-wired" immune system is complicated as hell. But the active "game-time" immune system is just flat fucking insane.

Or, the organic explanation for what I am quite confident was organic "major depressive disorder" that I underwent for 30 years. (Now in remission for almost a decade, and we do not have any idea why.)

On my good days, it's a world of wonder.

@gwynnion My notes from Saturday night, the last ME3 mission.

https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/113689205172141620

@gwynnion I just did a Jane play-through. I was disappointed to learn that my one true love forever, Jack, doesn't go with women. I finally settled in with Liara, but I could tell she knew the real truth.

So I always took all the KP slots that were available, and then filled the rest of my labor commitment with bathroom cleaning.

The other hated job, tho, was KP (kitchen prep).

And I have not the slightest idea why it was a hated job!

Most nights, KP was zero.

Some nights, KP might be peel 50 pounds of potatoes, but, hey, we were a co-op, and co-ops are wealthy, and we had a potato peeling machine. It took less time to peel the potatoes than it did to clean the machine.

One of them was cleaning the bathroom. There were several bathrooms, it was a big building. Nobody wanted to clean the bathrooms.

But, actually, cleaning bathrooms is pretty easy. It might be a little gross sometimes, but it's easy, and it's fast, and you're a hero cuz you cleaned the bathroom.

I bitched yesterday about the weird impact of peeling potatoes on my hands, and got some surprising support for my experience. Today I am still feeling it.

But I'm fine, I'll live.

Tonight I'm thinking about "KP". In my first intentional community, a college co-op at Oberlin, there were two jobs nobody wanted, so when signup time came, they were always available.

People, generally, don't understand how successful co-ops can be, given only motivated people willing to pool their time, energy, and money.

My college co-op housed 40 people and fed 80 people every night, at roughly 40% of the cost of a dorm and a cafeteria.

And so but anyway, way back in 1971, I had a teacher, my sixth-grade teacher, and he was a -- no, check this -- a man.

Mr. Hughley(?) came in every day, and he would just sit on the desk. He would say, "What should we talk about today?"

And he had, as all great teachers do, the ability to turn whatever we said into a lesson.

If what was on our mind could be turned in to math, he would do it. If it could be turned in to civics, he would do it. If it could be turned in to history, he'd do it.

Look, I'm sorry, but there is simply no way to be a decent human being and a billionaire at the same time.

Not even for the billionaires you "like", like Winfrey or Swift or Gates or lovable ol' Buffet.

You think that's okay because you still don't quite grasp how large a number a billion really is.

The 2024 median American household net worth is $192k, almost certainly over-estimated.

A billionaire's net worth is 5200 times that of a median American household.

@jenniferplusplus I foresee even more challenge on the surveillance front. Like many software geeks, I serve as sysadm to a large extended group. They are not at all up to the task of hardening their lives against the surveillance. I'm speaking here not of noobs, many of them are users for multiple decades.

They face not only the sheer inconvenience of various system-switching actions, but what is, in truth an absolutely *daunting* -- even for me -- amount of configuration and re-learning.

@cstross Do you find enough books away from Kindle? I have been thinking of getting off it, too.

@WarnerCrocker I like the Sazerac, and the price point is only a tad higher than the Bulleit.

@WarnerCrocker I went cheaper, with the Bulleit rye, but I'll be there.