Notices by John McChesney-Young (jmccyoung@mstdn.social)

@Infoseepage @georgetakei I was imagining Hulk Hogan or Marjorie Taylor Greene as the top choices for this administration.

@dhamlinmusic @Fragglemuppet I wondered that too, but what came to my mind was Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde series, the third of which came out recently: https://heatherfawcett.com/books/adult/. It's sometimes intense but it's quite charming.

@koen_hufkens @ai6yr @pluralistic Cf. Torment Nexus.

@CStamp And even if they don't have any pain but are on blood thinners, they should get checked immediately, too. (Source: Very close second-hand experience which fortunately turned out okay )

@seanbala Are aspirated vs. unaspirated consonants as hard for an English speaker to distinguish as they feel like they would be?

I just finished reading _Lord of the Rings_ aloud to my wife (with our daughter listening in a bit at times), all 1069 pages of it. This is, I think, my third reading of it to her, but it's been probably 20 years since the one before. I started in October, after rereading _The Hobbit_ to her - that was much less of an achievement - and my being on break allowed me to get through about half of _The Return of the King_ in the last three days.

@seanbala @badbede @frameworkcomputer When I was in the market I looked at the documentation for the Framework diy version and it looked really good! Although then I ended up getting a refurb ThinkPad T480 through eBay and putting Linux on it for a slower but much cheaper solution.

@kwramm @afrozenpeach "For the next round you'll be meeting with our staff phrenologist."

Mask Bans Insult Disabled People, Endanger Our Health, and Threaten Our Ability to Protest | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest via @broadwaybabyto

"But it gets even more bizarre. According to the 2022 Cooperative Election Study, 14 percent of Muslims (and 12 percent of Hindus and 5 percent of Jews) described themselves as “born-again” or evangelical Christians. This is not a joke." 2/2

https://wapo.st/4c2GhIU

Trump has changed what it means to be evangelical
https://wapo.st/4c2GhIU (gift link)
"The idea of evangelicals who don’t go to church was once unusual. Now, it is surprisingly common. In 2008, only 16 percent of evangelicals said they never or seldom attended church. By 2020, 27 percent did.
Evangelicalism, in short, has become about shared political convictions. In one survey of Christian attitudes ... 43 percent of evangelicals said they did not believe in the divinity of Christ." 1/2

At this #Oakland basement bookstore, customers browse with cocktails in hand
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/11/clios-bookstore-bar-oakland
"Bibliophiles will likely notice the shelves of books at Clio’s are not organized alphabetically or by the Dewey decimal system. As helpful chalk markings above the shelves indicate, the books at Clio’s are arranged by decade. This makes for some odd bedfellows: you can find Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde sharing space with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the 1880s section..." #sfba

@ScottSoCal @ElleGray And Google's AI is still recommending it: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176490/mm-delicious-glue

Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/caribbean-nation-of-aruba-backs-itself-up-to-internet-archive/
"The Internet Archive is now home to the Aruba Collection, which hosts digitized versions of Aruba’s National Library, National Archives, and other institutions including an archaeology museum and the University of Aruba. The collection comprises 101,376 items so far—roughly one for each person who lives on the Island—including 40,000 documents, 60,000 images, and seven 3D objects."

@pausingplace I'm here, but I think a good number of people I followed on the bird site went to Bluesky (I'm not there myself). Unrelated, I wonder whether I'm the only person who unthinkingly reads it as BLOO-ski, rhyming with brewski?