Notices by Shannon Prickett (binder@petrous.vislae.town)

TIL that remaining in a Zoom meeting constitutes agreement to give all data & metadata from the meeting to Zoom’s ,,AI Companion,, so it might be useful to know that alt-Q on Windows & option-command-escape on w/e that OS is are pretty quick ways to express disagreement.

Imagining what we could achieve if the people working so hard to make sense out of LLM output applied that generosity to understanding actual people.

Brexit? Do you mean the Great British Break Off?

That the iPhone FaceID unlocked when the kitten sat on it reinforces my belief that I look like an asshole

When I say that we could learn a lot from cats, I specifically mean that humans need to find a benevolent species to attach ourselves to in a parallel symbiotic relationship where I get to sleep all day & someone else frets about my comfort & safety.

It used to be much more important to keep Christ in one’s heart when there wasn’t enough storage space to put their woolens elsewhere & Jesus still had that strong cedar scent. Now you can just rent a personal storage locker.

Hell yea I edit my shitposts for clarity & concision. I’m an artistan.

“What learnings from your performance this year will you use to improve your performance next year?”

It’s better to say nothing & be thought a fool than to speak up & be overruled by a greater fool.

Vikings are not good at emacs.

Buddy, if I wanted to see your x dot com hotseshit, I’d be logging in to x dot com. You got to let that shit go.

My primary care provider is Rug Doctor.

A being who hates spontaneous intercourse is PlanSexual.

“Bicyclist killed in crash” is a funny way to say “motorist fatally assaulted cyclist w/ impunity” but we do love us some passive voice.

Happy #BuyNothingDay to the ad-jamming culture-busters

The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power to fascism, even if Americans don’t want that.

I will never say F when I mean Fuck because I commit to the bit.

The existence of death metal implies, certainly, tax metal.

Weird how The Atlantic thinks people shouldn’t cancel subscriptions just because the owners are pro-fascism. Huh. Wonder why.

Coworker told me they’ve been playing D&D w/ friends on Discord.

I asked which edition, to be polite.

“There’s multiple editions?!”

It’s not that I don’t want to donate to Democratic campaigns, it’s just that w/o a supermajority, I can’t actually do the things which I really want to. It’s so so important to be realistic about this.