Notices by Jules (afewbugs@social.coop)

Started the day getting stabbed in each arm to get my flu and covid jabs. I'm extremely proud of my brave wife @SaintlySin for doing the same in spite of being needle phobic, and continue to be cross at the government for restricting access to free jabs so we had to pay over £100 each to protect ourselves and those more vulnerable than us.

Vaccines save lives folks, get as many of them as you can.

Proof of stabbing

I do have to say the restrictions on access to free vaccines in the UK to only those over the age of 75 are a mistake on every level, a misunderstanding of how public health works and likely to be a complete failure by the government's own cost saving metrics which seems like all they value. The people who can afford to spend a spare £100 (and Lord knows we barely can) are probably not the ones who are most likely to be exposed to

Extremely annoyed at #StormAmy for preventing me from wearing my gayest shoes (made by the amazing @rosalindmosis ) to #ExeterTransPride today. So I'm sharing them here instead.

@aral so the guy who's always posting about how evil Meta is while *checks notes* actively working for and helping Meta is having a go at the guy trying to help people survive genocide

@habub hello, please contact @aral or @joynewacc about getting your account verified through https://gaza-verified.org/. Once you have done this I would be happy to boost your fundraiser

Happy #Bleptember everyone

@skinnylatte between the ages of about 11-14 I had a boyfriend. We'd hang out together at lunchbreaks and in the park at weekends and read science fiction books to each other. Then he moved away and we lost touch, other boys tried to date me and I was very much "wtf, why do they want to do all this kissing stuff, when do we get to the good bit where we just read books together?" Anyway as adults we found each other on Facebook. Turns out we're both gay now

Time to tap the lossy jpg of a vintage Tumblr post again.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

If people have just come here from Bluesky. Or finally got around to closing their Airbnb account. Or leaving Meta or whatever. Don't immediately jump on them to tell them they should have done it sooner, say well done for doing it now. Or, y'know, saying nothing at all is also an option that exists.

I think what a lot of people who go "Mastodon is just a lefty echo chamber for people who can't handle debate!" don't understand is that not everyone uses social media the same way and most of us don't see Oxbridge debating society type arguments as a leisure activity. Normal people are just here to laugh at some memes, maybe see some cat pictures, discover a new band or learn some facts about sea creatures. Not everything has to be about challenging the foundations of your ideology.

Truly, we are living in the bizarrest timeline.

Luigi Mangione's likeness used to model shirt on #Shein
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g5vr4vzpzo

@thisismyglasgow "Life of a meme" by Alex Krokus

I keep trying and failing to get a photo of the sunflowers growing on an abandoned train track as my train passes in the morning. I'm guessing these grew from seed sprinkled by birds visiting one of the many feeders in the garden next to the track.

This garden fascinates me because in many ways its owner and I have a lot in common - they clearly love birds and wildlife and the garden is lush and abundant full of lovingly tended plants. But from the flags and political signs they put up, some of which are straight up hate symbols, at the very least we wouldn't get on and frankly I'd fear for my safety if we ever met given what they clearly think of people like me.

And I do find it fascinating how there are a few things that seem to transcend the political spectrum, loving gardening, wildlife or pets say. And to me it all seems connected, a love of the natural world goes hand in hand with a desire to protect it and a desire for everyone to have decent lives and share it, but presumably it all makes as much internal sense to them too and they're trying to protect their little patch of paradise from immigrants and gays or something?

That garden always confuses me a bit anyway, and makes me wonder how people can be both so loving and so hateful. But I do enjoy the rebel sunflowers.

@skinnylatte @RolloTreadway yes unfortunately a lot of "traditional skills" type stuff you find online now seems to be algorithmically tied to alt right bullshit. If it's something traditionally gendered male in Western culture, like growing produce or woodwork or bushcraft, it gets linked to prepper stuff, if it's traditionally female like baking or preserving it's straight down the tradwife pipeline.

Mastodon'll know this - who said the famous quote "If the person who makes your coffee can't afford to live in your 15 minute neighbourhood, it's not a 15 minute neighbourhood it's a theme park"?

#AskFedi

Last night I got age checked buying a vegan tiramisu, which got me wondering how much tiramisu you'd have to eat as an underage drinker to get even remotely inebriated. So I'm putting it out there because that's the sort of extreme nerdery Mastodon is good at calculating.

@gruff we now need to establish how many servings of tiramisu can be consumed in one sitting before the test subject starts feeling sick. For science