Notices by tayledras (tayledras@mastodon.social)

I survived the Duke Energy of 2024 and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

#DukeEnergy #BurningCoal #Heatwave #Climate

“You know it’s summer when…” 🥰💕

#Summer #Watermelon #ShetlandSheepdogs #Shelties

@stux

Funny how that same former president referred to other nations as "shithole countries" while he was in office, and yet the United States is becoming just as corrupt as the other nations they mock.

My wife is from the Philippines (PI) and talks about a century of PI corruption.

I told her she doesn't need to look far for political corruption, the US under Trump is no different than the Philippines under Duterte or Marcos.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-referred-haiti-african-countries-shithole-nations-n836946

Tide Pods Teriyaki

...is NOT a real thing no matter how many times Google Gemini tells you so.

#OddCookingTips
#HashtagGames

@br00t4c

I cannot imagine just how many Petabytes of junk mail the USPS must have about me.

From our phone logs to our physical mail logs, they'd need AI and LLMs just to parse the sheer amount of data and trend analysis of what people, demographics, and specific people are doing what based on their behaviors and associations.

Thankfully, we keep handing them all our information and allowing it?

@br00t4c

"Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?"

— Marcus Tullius Cicero,
In Catilinam I - Against Catilina, Speech One (63 B.C)

"When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?"

...

How soon will the US fall as Rome did?

@br00t4c

Sadly, Tony Stark and Marvel has yet to apologize to Cal Ripken, Jr.

No apology is forthcoming.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/05/the-better-iron-man-tony-stark-vs-cal-ripken-jr

@Ahl9

It does happen in reality, and sometimes without medical intervention, but I cannot imagine what having such massive mammaries would do to a person's spine, posture, or the ability of their partner to breathe.

@kaia

Seeing goths in Central and South America will forever haunt my dreams.

Seeing a Japanese-speaking Brazilian woman dressed in all-black and wearing Doc Martens made my decade.

https://luzmedia.co/latina-goth-subculture

Watching the news this morning, NBC4 Washington reported that Kristi Noem was being seriously considered as Donald Trump's running mate.

My wife asked me "Who's Kristi Noem?"

I answered, "She's the insane woman who bragged about killing a puppy because she couldn't train it."

My wife asked me to turn off the TV, and wondered aloud if our next White House incumbents will be utterly insane.

@johncarlosbaez

I would COMPLETELY agree.

I have several friends who work in mass communications and journalism, and ALL of them tell me that social media has become badly balkanized and fractured.

For news investigation and reporting, we no longer have social media aggregation on par with the worldwide use and support that Twitter had in its heyday.

Mastodon / Misskey / Fediverse are still a balkanized, fractured, and uneven mess.

“I feel like I’m always searching for someone, or something.”

― Makoto Shinkai, your name.

#Anime #MakotoShinkai #YourName #cuteposting

@Blyfh

She's Natsumi Suga (須賀 夏美 Suga Natsumi) from Makoto Shinkai's "Weathering with You."

I mistakenly had her picture in the wrong folder.

Correct author, artist, and director as "Your Name", but different movie; "Weathering with You."

#MakotoShinkai #Anime #Natsumi #WeatheringWithYou

“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.”

— Charles M. Schulz

#ShetlandSheepdogs #Shelties #DogsOfMastodon #UtterlyExhausted

"Trans'ing in America"

I feel for you, and totally get it. My parents were the same way. Hypocrisy spans various religions and cultures when it comes to acceptance.

You are welcomed and loved here.

#Trans #Transing #Pride #PrideMonth

@kaia

JOHNNY SILVERHAND : The time has come for a close encounter of the third kind... A small step for V, but a giant leap for humankind.

Who're you bettin' on showin' up? The reptilians or techno-necromancers?

V : The Spanish Inquisition.

JOHNNY SILVERHAND : I admit, I didn't expect that.

@river @tk

I think I need to renew my Midjourney account and prompt for foxgirl hobbits.

@tk

I never thought I might enjoy these new AI-generated images and text for phishing now, but if this is what the future holds, I might actually enjoy getting spam and phishing attempts.

"Lonely American girls want to meet you.". [Generate insane female hobbit image]

Seeing people complain about JK Rowling and Harry Potter always seems odd to me.

I must be the only old person on social media who remembers a decade of people lining up for days to get the next Harry Potter book on the day it's released.

My wife and I have a complete set of First Editions, and we waited in insane lines at Barnes & Noble to get our copies.

I completely understand about the vilification of JK Rowling... but the cancelation of Harry Potter always felt wrong to me.

American society and our economy is "optimized" for a insanely wealthy few and a large mass laboring under the delusion that with enough effort, they may become rich themselves.

Our economy is working the way it was designed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/mark-zuckerberg-on-billionaires-wealth.html

#TheMythOfWealth #AmericanCapitalism #Capitalism