Notices by pootriarch (pootriarch@eldritch.cafe)

to know me is to know genre-busting brain pain

#ThursdayFiveList #CaliforniaDreaming

randy newman • i love l.a.
https://song.link/us/i/300207270

n.w.a • fuck tha police
https://song.link/us/i/1440816037

miley cyrus • party in the u.s.a.
https://song.link/us/i/1445007713

lissie • ojai
https://song.link/us/i/1059590454

katy perry ft snoop dogg • california gurls
https://song.link/us/i/716084621

the paradox of democracy is that the people can democratically decide that they're ok with another system, like dictatorship or anarchy.

@Fragglemuppet it was a visual gag from @cR0w — there is an old flag with a mean, coiled snake hissing 'don't tread on me'. he had a patch made for a bag that uses a cartoony snake saying 'no step on snek'. i don't know why this is so funny to me but it still is

@Fragglemuppet it's a video game. i'm not an avid gamer but i'm told it's a bit like animal crossing, but with disney princesses— i mean, characters, as your neighbors, and more scripted. (there aren't old-school disney princesses but we've got ariel, belle, rapunzel, tiana, and the cast of frozen… there's also another expansion pack that i haven't gotten yet)

@Fragglemuppet there's not a strong rpg element to it — you choose a gender and there are a lot of branches in how you respond to characters, but there's no character classes or ability points or anything. there are levels and it's harder to level up the higher you go, as with rpgs, and you have to interact with the other characters to level *them* up too. i'm basically nice to everyone except gaston, to whom i always choose the bitchiest option. and as my character is maxed out at level 40, i describe myself as a level-40 disney princess

@Fragglemuppet just this week, in my disney dreamlight valley game, rapunzel had characters over for a painting class and eve the robot simply blasted a hole into the middle of the canvas

@eniatitova @kingrat so, doge came for usgs then

@Fragglemuppet fedi needs more fraggles

@tubemapper hello from the states, luke the tube jumper wearer, may i introduce you to california's adrianna the bart sweater wearer, @skinnylatte
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113635411526603482

cats for hurricanes

@catsalad unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder

@eniatitova @kingrat storygraph, is it a thing you pay for, or does it have a usable free tier? can you import? i'm not sure i want to know how it classifies my reading habits, but intrigued

@ryanhoulihan wait, what does uk have to do with sabrina? (and did you see the snl clips?)

there was a prompt sometime back (remember when prompts were for people?) about authors from whom you've read five or more books. i thought about it, stared at my shelves, looked in my online piles… and i didn't think i had a single one. still don't actually

i evacuated my old instances last year and settled here, after the prior instances issued bezos-like statements of 'we'll wait and see, there's no reason to assume meta will approach fedi in bad faith'. i didn't feel like waiting so i picked through #FediPact, https://fedipact.online/ - which i mention now as it's great bedtime reading for the amazing cacophony of server names. i won't even name my favourites as you'll have your own

@vitaminsludge 'poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine' — or some variation thereof — is generally attributed to bob carter, an australian geologist and paid climate denier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Carter