Notices by Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)

@EricLawton @pluralistic I would be entirely unsurprised if the American education system is the next thing to be gigified given the incoming administration.

Ready for the school principal to be an app with classes being taught by the lowest bidding teacher and surge pricing on tuition for classes in high demand?

@skinnylatte Though it was good I found the food in San Francisco in general to be a let down TBH. I figured it would be world class but, like, Vancouver is better I think (fite me!).

@tek

"Experts find this concerning"

"Experts" should not be surprised in the slightest, and should have already been very concerned for years now!

Pretty much since the Great Recession an increasing number of people, perhaps approaching a majority of people now, hold the belief "eff it, the whole system is broken, burn it all down" as the decomposition of the current capitalist world order accelerates.

Hence the willingness to do things like, y'know, vote for a convicted criminal to be president or view suspected murderers as heroes.

But also Luigi is very err...visually appealing...and it this is far from the first time a handsome criminal has built up a significant fan base.

@tek I think he has looked 60 years old since he was 16 and he will continue to look 60 forever

@cwebber

Fediiiii!!!

You have some 'splainin' to do!

@drewdevault suggesting that the comfort and safety of women must be compromised to accommodate ND people is a pretty messed up take. Calling out inappropriate behaviour of a ND person, when done appropriately and offering help to resolve the situation, *is* being supportive of ND people as well as others.

Unfortunately what happens all too often is that the toxic person in question refuses to acknowledge what they are doing is wrong and is unwilling to improve the situation and uses this "ableism" argument as an excuse to do so. This is BS. If a sociopath kills someone they still go to jail to be separated from society to protect us from harm, and hopefully undergo some degree of rehabilitation. Perhaps it is an extreme comparison but the same logic holds true here.

We cannot provide a safe environment by excusing toxic behaviour from *anyone*. When that behaviour comes from a ND person it means we may have to address things differently but they still have to be addressed.

@drewdevault I think that this argument borders on being offensive to neurodivergent people. It suggests that ND people can't help themselves or strive to improve and correct harmful behaviour. Whether the people making such a statement intend to or not it suggests they view ND people as forever something like a child or pet, but maybe worse because even children and pets can learn from mistakes.

@BeAware autocomplete picked the wrong hashtag but that is the kind of zany thing that happens on mastodon's #Monsterdon every week :blobtonguewink:

Putting children in harms way is a hallmark of this #Monsterdon era. I guess the kid at least has a lifejacket?

Tonight on #Monsterdon it's a classic Kaiju Smackdown and it begins, despite the pyrotechnics, with probably the saddest nuclear explosion ever.

Follow or filter the hashtag as you would!

How did we ever survive our childhoods back then kid gets knocked out cold by a thug and they just shake him awake and are all like "yeah he's OK" *sheesh* #Monsterdon

The sand is coarse and rough like all the children's voices in English dubbed Kaiju films #Monsterdon #MiddleAgedWomenWhoHateChildren #Voice

Nobody has asked why geologists are building an anthropomorphic robot that may be the greatest untold #Monsterdon story tonight

@futurebird when I first started using Mastodon I was reposting my toots on Farcebook and my friends were all like "hey I think you've been hacked I am getting all these posts from you with links to this sketchy Columbian website called coales.co" which made me sad because it was not sketchy at all it was actually my very own little mastodon that literally lived on a smol computer in my garage so I deleted my Facebook account forever and now I am happy again

So there has been a possible assassination attempt on Donald #Trump...

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5

Just...wow...huge feelings here of all kinds.

Please PLEASE if you are discussing this make judicious use of CWs and hashtags for everyone's sake!

@dabertime I had neighbours where the wife loved the sound of wind chimes and the husband couldn't stand it

Which means they had wind chimes in their back yard of course

Anyways one day the husband put elastic bands on them to keep them from tinkling, and after at least a week of silence the wife noticed and removed the elastics

Then the husband used hot glue on them

Eventually there was a truce and the chimes remained, unadulterated, but their conflict amused me greatly

Now Watching #Smolzilla on #Monsterdon :blobaww:

This research station has the most whimsical steel utility sheds in the history of the universe! It's like an industrial park but in Animal Crossing

#Monsterdon

Shooting randomly into the forest at animal noises like Dick Cheney SMDH #Monsterdon

@JenJen I think it is fantastic that you have cancelled Wix and that you did an excellent job on your handcrafted website...I like it much better than the Wix version!

I had very similar feels when I first made a webpage using plain HTML and CSS in Notepad... simultaneously "OMG this is hard and frustrating" and "OMG this is neat I can do ANYTHING I want!" as I saved my files and hit refresh on the browser to see what I had created or inadvertently destroyed. Even though I know how to code making a website this way is somehow a different experience than "normal" programming.

Also I want to say don't apologise for or blame your ADHD and dyscalculia for the struggles you had with the "streamlined" Wix back end. It speaks more to Wix's disregard for accessibility and different use cases than it does anything else. Wix is genuinely frustrating for most everyone.