Notices by École des Bro-Arts (aphyr@woof.group)

LKML stands for Lesbians Kissing Mailing List

Please. "Toxic masculinity" is only harmful to those who absorb it. You're thinking of *venomous* masculinity, which hurts others.

Thunderstorms developing over the northern shore of Chicago. Our flight path took us right through the gap between two cloud layers. Some of the most incredible views I've ever seen from the air.

The most incredible thrift store find

Free drag name: Queen Amyldala

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess

this is such a petty thing but I almost relish calling companies that pay for linkspam on Mastodon.

"Hi there! So I run a server for queer BDSM enthusiasts, and I wanted to ask about your recent posting on our site..."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"Well, we had this account join, claiming to be into gay BDSM, and it's posting links to your content--oh, of course you wouldn't do that directly, but your SEO subcontractors..."
"Ah, er, yes, we'll get to the bottom of this"

I don't know how to put this but

straight people just have ✨such✨ atrocious vibes

I was very excited for Boiler Room last night and thought "oh sure, I can do a mixed crowd, they're on party drugs, they'll be friendly" but no!

Constantly buffeted by heterosexuals. Everyone with their shirts on. Paying attention to the DJ instead of dancing with each other. Never making eye contact. Perfume instead of sniffing pits. Watched one woman, screaming, get dragged out of the VIP section with her hands behind her back. I have never felt a more threatening bathroom aura in my life.

@yarndragon You too can go to parties occasionally!

I can confirm that "Oh, I'm on Mastodon" is an incredibly effective way to get a boy on the dance floor to stop asking for your socials.

Oh, okay https://archive.is/okSlz

I am so, SO curious about the "Fediverse Chick" spam campaign. We've suspended, like, a dozen of her accounts so far and she just keeps going. I assume the end goal is getting money out of people, but like, why target Fedi and self-hosting OSS nerds? It's like Joanne the Scammer trying to grift her way through the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone 🤣

Reminds me of Darwin's Hawkmoths, growing incredibly specialized proboscises to suck nectar from equally specialized flowers: https://www.calacademy.org/learn-explore/specimens-in-focus/darwin%E2%80%99s-hawkmoth

For anyone else in health insurance hell:

It happened *again*. After two years of polite phone calls every 2-3 months to my doctor and health insurance, the thing that got me unstuck was writing a polite email to the various CEOs documenting the delays, citing the state law requiring insurers to pay within 30 days, and asking for a written explanation as to why, 695 days later, they hadn't paid. Actual emails and phone calls from competent human beings within a week!

https://aphyr.com/posts/368-how-to-replace-your-cpap-in-only-666-days

I switched to @kagihq a couple months ago and haven't once felt the need to use Google Search since. I feel like there's significantly less LLM slop in their results, and it is so refreshing not to fight through AI summaries and ads. Entirely worth the $10/mo.

Because of reasons, my Netflix account is bound to my friend Rhys' house. At my house the account is my friend Clayton's. Clayton's house is using Bob's account. None of us are willing to fix this musical chairs situation because of how frustrating the re-auth/location binding process is.

I wrote to Ofcom last week asking for guidance for Mastodon instances like woof.group, as the #OnlineSafetyAct comes into effect in March. There's a lot of respects in which we're likely to run afoul of the act, but one of the big ones is that Ofcom's response letter repeatedly explained that any service which allows pornography must perform "highly effective age assurance".

I've written back to ask for clarification, but... I don't see how it's possible to comply here.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/consultations/category-1-10-weeks/statement-age-assurance-and-childrens-access/statement-age-assurance-and-childrens-access.pdf?v=388849#page=15?v=388849

If carcinization is transforming into a crab, ostracization should be transforming into an ostrich

just discovered the JS Date constructor uses zero-indexed months but one-indexed days, what on fucking EARTH

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/Date#monthindex

I have this theory that part of why car drivers rant about cyclists and don't seem to realize how often cars break the law is because when you're in a car you don't actually get to *see* that many cars. You spend most of an urban drive waiting behind other cars. On a bike you're constantly passing them and have lots of chances to see car fuckery.