Notices by Molly B (mjibrower@mastodon.social)

RE: https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/113431524019062637

My kid and I were texting during the debate & I just thought about how weird it would have been, 40 years ago, for me (or most of my friends) to even be watching a debate, let alone chatting about it with a parent on a long-distance phone call (the 1984 version of texting).

@reclaimhosting It’s true. Your support is the best. Actual humans who read the ticket and do old-fashioned troubleshooting--completely awesome.

I went out of my way today to stay out of the heat and sun, and somehow ended up first standing outside waiting for a Lyft back to campus after being more or less abandoned by my ride, and then having a stupid fire drill. 🥵

@inthehands It was terrifying. We were in a closet under the stairs and it was like nothing I’ve ever heard. I’ve heard the “freight train” sound they talk about, but this was a whole other level.

@inthehands We have several different ones on Oklahoma: flood, tornado, high winds, and I think wildfire. You can’t distinguish among them when the wind is howling--last year when we had 80-100mph winds we couldn’t even hear the siren, which is less than a block away.

@inthehands @kataclyst That’s what I feared too--some hand-picked “moderate” young business dude. I have honestly never been happier to be wrong.

@inthehands That's a thing I've never understood. Every time I hear his voice I want to throw things. He's always whiny, affronted, defensive... he has the voice of the worst employee you've ever had, the one who sneaks off to take naps on work time and then complains to all the guys he's somehow conned into thinking he's a big shot that it's your fault he has to stealth-nap, because you don't give him enough nap breaks. I quit listening to NPR from 2017-2020 so I wouldn't have to hear him.

I didn't think Biden should have been pushed into dropping out *after the primaries*. That said, I would be very happy to have Kamala Harris as the nominee. She was my first choice in 2020 (she dropped out pretty early, iirc). I would love for the new face of the Democratic party and the United States to be a young (relatively; she's older than me by a couple of years) Black woman. And... that's all I have to say about it. 👋

This is a really neat way to think about alt text. https://ericwbailey.website/published/dungeons-and-dragons-taught-me-how-to-write-alt-text/

EDIT: h/t to @kevinpowell, who dropped this in his newsletter today :-)

@br00t4c If it was truly anti-woke, wouldn’t it just be unfiltered creek water contaminated with E. coli, algae, and heavy metals? They could call it “raw water.”

(IME, books become “classic” if they pass the 20-year mark without becoming cringey. This one... didn’t)

Re-reading a favorite non-classic novel that I haven’t read in 30 years, with predictable results

@inthehands I'm on good terms with the head of IT; I'll send it on to him. I would think that at AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION a teaching blog would be safe, but apparently NO. :-) We have a large dual/concurrent enrollment program (and we're in Oklahoma), so our filters are stricter than I would like.

@inthehands The plot thickens:

@inthehands My institution has your site blocked. The reason it gives is “Proxy Avoidance.” 🤷♀️

@inthehands I used to volunteer at a nature center where we were taught those things. The worst that ever happened to me was someone responding in that insincere mocking tone that 8th-grade boys use (although this guy was in his 20s). (Paging @oldguy52 for affirmation)