Notices by Chip Unicorn (chip_unicorn@im-in.space)

Does anyone know if there is a group independent of the US government that's keeping track of the cost of food in the US?

In other words, something that is keeping track of individual grocery stores, accepting the grocery store's price for food staples, and publishing it -- to keep track of inflation?

@darnell
According to https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/11/05/virginia-election-results-live-updates/ , most of the uncounted ballots are in the major cities.

There are two groups that the Fediverse are very successful in keeping off: conservatives and Blacks. They are kept off in the same way, but most people on the Fediverse only see how one of them happens.

It's impossible to keep a dedicated person away from the Fediverse. If they are kicked off of one server, they go to the next. If they are kicked off of all servers, they start their own. If that server is defederated, they create another.

So what works to keep a group off of the Fediverse? Defederation doesn't work -- it only slightly affects which servers they communicate with.

Attacks keep people off of the Fediverse.

A message positive for Donald Trump will act like a foreign body in a well-functioning immune system. Dozens will race to fight the intruder's ideas.

A racist message won't get the same immune response. Why not? Because most people in the Fediverse won't ever see it.

Defederation is a double-edged sword. It gives a place for the worst people to hide.

@backupbear

@Jjquigley

1. Change your gender to one not among the last 8 genders you had.

@JessTheUnstill

@inthehands

Or commercial real estate collapse?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/low-demand-for-commercial-office-space-fuels-economic-fears

According to https://alabamareflector.com/2024/07/02/autauga-prattville-library-board-approves-book-removal-policy-as-controversy-continues/ , books for minors in libraries cannot have "...graphic descriptions, illustrations or other representations of sexual conduct...sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual abuse or transgender identity. The book or material also cannot promote or glorify illicit drug or tobacco use, have racial or ethnic themes, sexual harassment or discrimination, homosexual themes, xenophobia or transphobia.

It also cannot have content that relates to gender identity, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, physical or sexual abuse, pedophilia, polygamy, or any other form of criminal behavior."

So, which books that you loved growing up with would be removed from Alabama's libraries?

I'll go first:

"Free to Be You and Me" -- gender identity
"The Hobbit" -- tobacco use
Just about everything by Judy Blume. (SO MUCH gender identity in every book. An awful lot of sexuality there, too.)
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Racial themes)
"Ozma of Oz" (transgender identity.)

Any others?

@jennzycos

@RickiTarr

Rocky Horror Picture Show is owned by 20th Century Fox, which is owned by Disney.

Frank N. Furter is definitely a queen, so Rocky Horror is a Disney princess.

@thomasfuchs Daffy Duck was a Looney Tunes character.

"Disney is so woke now, cartoons shouldn't be political."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn20oXFrxxg

@roberttsai
Source: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-team-argues-assassination-of-rivals-is-covered-by-presidential-immunity/

@ryanhoulihan
"Brian's Balls are Leaving" by Arrogant Worms.

https://youtu.be/6CXkpbeLNVU?si=NLd-PaKgLJXMv7cc

@inthehands I remember one of the songs that the pirates sang... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM

@clayrivers

@BigAngBlack @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social

William Spivey did the right thing.

Life is too short to spend time around racists.

Oh, crap.

I just got a phone call from an agency.

Someone has scraped my resume -- but replaced my email address with theirs.

Luckily, they didn't change the phone number.

I have confirmed that the email address is live. But it's a @gmail.com address.

Do you have any suggestions on what to do?

#FediHire #Fedihelp

@heidilifeldman
Sadly, this terrible situation was a fact of life for many Americans for many years.

African Americans were not able to move safely until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Here is a series of websites about their problems: https://negromotoristgreenbook.si.edu/

In the 1950s, women could be forcibly checked for possible STDs on the say of a policeman: https://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-kahn-act-std-venereal-disease-imprisonment-women

Attacks against Jewish people have been frequent, and continue to today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antisemitic_incidents_in_the_United_States

All of these are wrong and terrible... but they have happened for centuries in the United States.

@thomasfuchs
Grieving for the Israeli civilians who died today is not support for Netanyahu.

Grieving for the Palestinians who have died in this brutal war is not support for Hamas.

@deepbluemetal
Don't you hate when the Moon almost crashes into Venus?

@feld Are you sure that it was timber and not sugar cane?

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/nr/rdonlyres/c3f0ae0a-fc91-48ea-bc50-53b3cd22214b/3294/pub2820sugarburn2.pdf