Notices by Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)

@ZekuZelalem

@Meron looks awesome but the account hasn't posted anything since 2023...

@ditol @ZekuZelalem @Meron
Thank you. I keep forgetting to do that.

@jonah
Also, I'm now glad I chose Fastmail. I'm sure their executives are just as awful but their work force is in a #union.

@inthehands @mattmcirvin @futurebird @graymiller
Fricking Nostradumus going on right here...
As soon as I read it, it's obvious that's what's going to happen.

@EricFielding
Awesome! Well, if Kyle Macdonald still works there, tell him an anonymous hydrologic modeling grad student from 20 years ago said hi.
I thought back then about changing my whole life just so I could work there.
I'm glad JPL made it through the fire.

@EricFielding
Do you work there?

@EricFielding
I ask because I briefly worked with somebody there 20 years ago.

@ErickaSimone
I've been trying to tell if the fire got to JPL. I see it's in the evacuation zone but it looked like the fire was pretty far west and was moving south not west.

I didn't know about Octavia Butler's house. I live in the #seattle area so I mainly know about her life up here.

@ZekuZelalem
You've bowled me over a few times posting threads here. I feel like I'm a informed about the Horn as I've ever been.
And, all that aside it's been a thrill watching you yourself get recognition.
Happy New Year!

@ZekuZelalem
This shows some impressive and creative use of publicly available sources of reconnaissance.
The conversion of a football stadium this way is awful.

@futurebird
I think crows might have cats beat, as measured in units of diva-emotion/kg but mainly because they weigh less than one kg.

@mekkaokereke
Congratulations!
And now the most important questions: What color is it? And what is its name?
(Deep dark indigo blue. "Lady Miss Marlene Mixalot")

@dangillmor
I'm not sure what to say.
I tried Tidal for awhile. It was more to pay and had only a little less wrong with it.
I might tolerate commercials but not YouTube commercials and I'm trying to disentangle myself from Google.
I'm not going to join Apple's walled garden.
So I'm still on Spotify.
I tried focusing on the "lo fi hip hop" label I like that has actual artists, (Inner Ocean). Guess what? That sent me back to Spotify.

@AccordionBruce
I know the answer there because Belly explained it. The agreements that bands sign with the major labels often say they can't put their music up anywhere except via that label.

And yes to Bandcamp! It's where I do most of my listening any given day.
But, as you already alluded to, it's for listening to artists that haven't signed to a major and they don't have an equivalent to Spotify letting me listen to all of the Inner Ocean artists in a genre on shuffle.

@ZekuZelalem
Just like you said it.
I hope this is as positive as it sounds.

The Strand Bookstore's workers are on strike.
Please honor their requested picket lines.
"The union is asking customers to not cross the picket line by attending any in-store events, selling their used books, or making any purchases—either in store or online. Even with the store’s busiest season underway, the company has failed to meet worker demands for a living wage."
#unions #strike #NewYork
https://region9a.uaw.org/news/strandonstrike24

@emmettoconnell
Is there anything in this article where a real person will say they were wrong in how they voted?
I have a guess.
I'm believing @mekkaokereke more and more about what is actually going on with who votes for whom.

@ZekuZelalem

Congratulations to the Random Black Dude in a Suit!
You do excellent work!

@GossiTheDog
It's a joke, right?

@mekkaokereke
Yeah. I'm a cis het middle age white man. I see this cultural difference many working days

You're right. Black men I see are generally much better at this.

I'm trying, friends. That's what I can say.