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

@jeffowski
I get that people love the Harry Potter books. But if someone is looking for series set in a school of magic, there are even better choices. I'll toss out one:

The Scholomance series by Naomi Novak is everything that Harry Potter wanted to be, and more. If you want a hidden globe-wide society that guards magic, a main character with powerful magic, a prophecy of being The One, and conflict -- this series is perfect. And it's darker, funnier, and better constructed than Harry Potter.

@AkaSci
I think a company that owns property in India, Ireland, Oman, the Philippines, Scotland, South Korea, Turkey, Indonesia, and Uruguay counts as globalist.

Source: trump.com

@skinnylatte
I have lived in the Bay Area for two decades and in Los Angeles for two years.

Los Angeles has vastly better restaurants.

There is more variety and more quality in these restaurants than in most of the Bay Area. The only area that competes is Fremont - Union City, because (again) of its immigrant population.

@MLE_online
Crap. Crap. Crap.

Did you get his insurance information?

On Thursday, I mentioned that my stomach ached after an exceptionally wonderful meal. (Seriously, Koreatown in Los Angeles has GREAT food. Do visit!)

Well, I've been nauseous since then. Finally, yesterday, I visited urgent care.

They took some blood. The only significant results: my absolute monocyte count is high (0.82 * 10E3 / ul) and my absolute immature Granulocytes count is relatively high (0.04 * 10E3/uL).

I looked them both up. It means... my body is fighting something.

Yuck. I hope I'm better soon.

I've found my first way to fight the Trump regime in Los Angeles.

Print out some of these, and put a few at every grocery store in the neighborhoods I love.

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas

This evening, I tried to get the form to update my passport.

The passport application service at https://pptform.state.gov/ is down.

λarriott!

@petrillic
You two are adorable!

@Nagaram

@pluralistic

All of us who lived through 2020 lived through an end of the world.

We should have learned: The most important skills for prepping are cooking, cleaning, and keeping ourselves occupied.

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