Notices by Legit_Spaghetti (legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al)

@Alice Sorry lady, I'M TAKEN!

My wife works in an industry where a lot of small businesses were wiped out by supply chain collapse following the COVID pandemic, so I've seen what large-scale dieoffs look like.

These tariffs will be worse than that.

I repeat: These tariffs will do greater economic damage and subsequent suffering than a global pandemic that has killed and maimed millions.

FUCK everyone who could have stopped this but didn't.

https://stonemaiergames.com/the-darkest-timeline/

#Boardgames

"If you don't vote against this guy he'll wreck literally everything."

"HOW DARE YOU CONDESCEND TO ME!"

"No, seriously, pick anything you care about. This guy is guaranteed to fuck it up beyond repair."

"DO NOT DISMISS MY VERY VALID CONCERNS ABOUT [ISSUE]!!!"

"He'll make [ISSUE] way, waaay worse."

"YOU'RE CLEARLY OUT OF TOUCH!"

"Alright, fine, but don't pretend like we didn't warn you."

later...

"OH NO, EVERYTHING I CARE ABOUT IS FUCKED! WHO COULD HAVE POSSIBLY FORESEEN THIS!"

I GIVE YOU: THE WORLD'S MOST NEEDLESSLY COMPLICATED COASTER!

(best with sound on)

#3dPrinting #ButWhyThough

Jesus Herbert Walker Christ, @ZachWeinersmith

(via https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lessons)

#Comics

Recording artist Azealia Banks, who has close ties to the Tesla billionaire's former partner Grimes, confirms that he had a botched penis implant surgery that left him impotent.

The world makes sense again.

@munin My hope is that whatever LLM these clowns are gonna sic on this data is gonna do the usual A.I. thing and produce output that is wildly incorrect, full of made up shit, and practically useless.

Accidental counterespionage by virtue of incompetence, if you will.

At least that's my hope.

@mekkaokereke Yeah. I find all the handwringing about how nobody wanted this or how people only voted for trump/stayed home (same difference) did so because they were misinformed, all that is deeply unhelpful.

We did this. Us. Americans.

People chose to be misinformed. People chose the rapist criminal over the hyper-qualified black woman. This IS what America wants.

We can get better. But not unless we first acknowledge the truth about who America is, as a people.

Generations are astrology for sociologists.

Of course I'd think that, seeing as I'm GenX, and a Gemini.

@sundogplanets Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler.

The Oankali are a fascinating alien species, and I don't think I've ever read one like it before or since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith%27s_Brood

"Daddy, I'm 5 and a half years old!"

"Yes you are! How old do you think daddy is?"

"Uhm... four."

"Four years old?"

"Yesh!"

"So I'm younger than you?!"

"No, daddy, you're four ADULT years old."

"Ah yes, silly me."

Honestly, she's got a point. Adult years hit different from kid years.

#Parenting

@mastodonmigration What's even better, YOU DON'T NEED TO CREATE A PIXELFED ACCOUNT TO INTERACT WITH PIXELFED!

You can follow anyone on Pixelfed right here from Mastodon; for example, there's nothing stopping you from following e.g. @dansup right from however you access Mastodon.

That's the beauty of a shared protocol.

@skinnylatte As someone who's got a pretty wide first-hand cultural perspective, why do you think typical American food is so... [gestures broadly at the endless parade of monstrosities to be found on dinner tables across the nation] relative to other regional cuisines?

@skinnylatte I came to the US on an H1-B. I never felt like an "indentured servant," and quite frankly that kind of language is framing the debate in a peculiarly sinister way.

@hrefna I'm not plugged into Bluesky, but I'm curious what you're seeing though.

"See, he calls himself a free speech absolutist but then he censors his critics on his platform, and this proves that he's not for free speech at all!"

OF COURSE HE'S NOT! HE NEVER WAS! YOU ABSOLUTE NUMPTY!

I continue to be frustrated by people taking conservatives at their word. How naïve are those folks. Conservatives lie. Like, exitus acta probat is their whole fucking ideology. It's NEVER about what they say it is, and there's always a simpler motive based on greed and bigotry.

@skinnylatte I wonder if that's part of why you're such a great photographer. You understand how fleeting moments are, better than those of us who can recall different senses.

@kaia I like the concept, but I'd probably texture the point where you pour in the wax with ridges so that the seal kind of "grips" the shell and doesn't just slide off when you pull the two halves apart. Also needs to be placed in such a way that the wax doesn't seep through the crack between the halves and ruins the USB plug.

This is a fun design challenge!

@GottaLaff Anytime I hear something like "company reverses course after outcry," I always wonder which outcry specifically managed to make these Grinches hearts grow three times, allegedly. Was it the media coverage? Was it the grousing on social media? The letters from the subject matter expert organizations?

Because whatever works, we should do more of.

@skinnylatte Oh heck yeah, Flammekuche! Had that a lot when I was a kid. Especially loved the kind that had caramelized onions on it, Zwiebelwaie.