Notices by Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social)

You know what they say, one rotten apple means all the other apples in the barrel are sure to be entirely fresh and should each be trusted with positions of unaccountable authority, unrestricted access to special category personal data and a monopoly on violence.

@CrypticMirror I was just thinking of Mostly Harmless, with the Vogons buying the Guide from Megadodo for that purpose, much like Musk bought Twitter.

Adams at his most depressed turns out to be the most prophetic.

@KevinMarks @halfempty Elon’s just this guy, you know?

@halfempty Fundamentally, he does not know where his towel is.

@selzero Sometimes I wonder if Grimes is being performatively ignorant for the attention. He is a pure grifter, after all. But as you say it was deleted so it seems to have been a genuine mistake that even a small child would be embarrassed about.

Four things you must always ask yourself before you say anything:

1. Does this need to be said?
2. Does this need to be said by me?
3. Does this need to be said by me now?
4. Would it be fucking funny if I did, though?

Without adapting a video game, how could screenwriters possibly have come up with the idea of… *checks notes* …a road race?

https://deadline.com/2025/04/sydney-sweeney-michael-bay-outrun-video-game-universal-1236373036/

“I did not go viral on Mastodon” does not mean “Mastodon eschews virality”, sorry.

Maybe you should try posting more about creme eggs up bums and whinging less.

@skinnylatte Where do they do the former? Being Irish, that seems crazy.

Rage, rage against the lying orange shite. #USpol

@sennoma @LinuxAndYarn This is excellent!

There’s a lot of Friday afternoon panic bullshit in the air and I am not here for it.

It is sunny outside. Go out, touch grass, immerse yourself in grass, decompose into grass, become grass.

FFS.

If we’ve learned anything from this mess it’s that NYSE traders are still wearing silly-looking jackets with flags on.

"I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighbouring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he's giving Wall Street the jitters, so I'm not so sure about this guy any more." #USpol

“When life gives you locusts, make locustade”

“Ugh, this locustade is horrible”

“You have to drink it. We have so much”

I don’t know who decided we should play life on hard mode with no save points, but fuck that guy.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Cornish pasties, it’s that they’re all “award-winning”. I don’t know who’s handing out all these awards, but I bet it’s a lucrative business.

You can’t teach an old log new twigs.