Notices by Dave J (davej@dice.camp)

This does put me in mind of the time that #JuliaChild (she of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” fame) was publicly outed as an agent of #DeltaGreen (qv, https://davescorneroftheuniverse.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/the-french-chef-and-lovecraft-or-how-i-discovered-a-historical-writer-had-used-the-cthulhu-mythos-in-her-book/), or when #MageTheAscension’s Technocracy found its way into #RobertAntonWilson’s encyclopaedia of conspiracies “Everything is Under Control” by way of @anderssandberg’s #TTRPG campaign blog.

Re: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116772815479757537 #CIA

271 Years Before #Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every #Color Imaginable in an 800-Page #Book: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/ #colour

Stolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/116213768062992194

@GustavinoBevilacqua @HG @Binder Yeah, but try finding one with a teller. Usually, I have to use a machine on the street.

Wait—SPERM bank! I get it now! THAT explains the restraining order!

This week’s #ThursdayFiveList, courtesy of @HauntedOwlbear, is #MoonMusic:

1. Phoebe Bridgers, “Moon Song”—https://youtu.be/DXqZ66XK3z8

2. Headless Chickens, “Mr Moon”—https://youtu.be/Z9DnZ8idrHs

3. Concrete Blonde, “Mexican Moon”—https://youtu.be/cLqeAgvz7VA

4. The Lord Weird Slough Feg, “Vargr Moon”—https://youtu.be/od_5JoBjOBk

5. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, “Walking on the Moon”—https://youtu.be/kzdg-gWM7GI

@RickiTarr I can't help but think Mark Twain would spend a LOT of time watching cat videos.

“What follows is a step-by-step account of how #Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes.”

http://archive.today/2025.01.08-221341/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/ #history

Video of the reconstruction is at https://news.sky.com/story/king-richard-iii-given-yorkshire-accent-using-state-of-the-art-technology-13255791. I do wonder, though, that he’s a tad too intelligible to be speaking 15th-century English. #RichardIII #history #science #linguistics https://halo.nu/@theguardian_science/113501027799875690

@RickiTarr We sold our house 7-8 months ago and bought a (secondhand) SUV and caravan. My wife, my cat, and I are travelling Australia—we’re about 6 weeks into a 12-month stint in Tasmania, then we’ll head back to the mainland.

Pros: It really is a beautiful place, if a bit unforgiving. If you get sick of one spot, move onto the next. (Also, you don’t realise how stressful owning/renting a house is till you don’t have one.) (1/4)

@strypey @ixi After COVID lockdowns lifted, my wife and I ventured into Brisbane for a day out on the ferry. Like most Australians at the time we’d spent weeks or months discouraged from handling cash. (I still rarely carry it.)

Shortly after we debarked, a homeless man asked us for change. I watched him beg dozens of people as we waited for a bus, none of whom had anything to give. It was heartbreaking.

He couldn’t choose to exclude himself from the cash economy.