Notices by David Stark (zarkonnen@mastodon.social)

Is there a Horrible Goose themed Mastodon instance where the button is labelled "Honk!" and if not why not?

Yes, there is plenty of antisemitism out there, absolutely. I am not denying that. But calling anyone who criticises Israel and its flattening of an entire region an antisemite - that's disingenuous bullshit.

I am fucking sick of otherwise normal people from Germany turning up on my timeline and pushing Israeli propaganda. What's happening in Gaza and elsewhere is a genocide, and no amount of bullshit and ignorance of history can justify that.

Yes, I know you feel very bad for your country having done a genocide, but the trick here is to *not just cheer on the next one in a weird attempt to compensate*.

Go clean up the Nazi problem in your own country.

So Humble is closing their publishing arm to focus on their core business of using up the goodwill they accumulated back when they gave a significant percentage to charity?

Update on the mysterious parcel: (Un)fortunately it never arrived, but a number of other IKEA packages with more plausible densities did. So we don't have any tungsten cubes, IKEA nukes, or mini black holes, but we do have a blåhaj.

Today we're waiting for an IKEA delivery that, according to their email, will be a 10x10x10 cm box weighing 14 kg.

So density-wise that has to contain berkelium, californium, protactinium, tantalum, uranium, gold, tungsten, plutonium, neptunium, rhenium, platinum, iridium, or osmium.

We're of course hoping for platinum, and really not for plutonium, because the critical mass is 11 kg...

This tiny pub generator is cute and alternates between normal and "clearly cultists in the basement" pub names: https://watabou.itch.io/tiny-pubs

I extracted over 400 images of hills, trees, mountains, towns and cities for #ttrpg mapmaking and #gamedev from a 17th century map. I hope this is useful to someone. https://zarkonnen.itch.io/extracted-1688-map-images

@bkhl @drewdevault @Gulfie oh

If you're announcing an online event, please don't use "12 AM" or "12 PM". I have no idea what those times mean in normal language. Which one is noon, which one is midnight? Both are *on* the meridian, FFS.