Notices by Andres Salomon (andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it)

Excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcmo-K5Xsg

@mekkaokereke Here's what I'd like to be true in 2025.

* Mastodon has a real ActivityPub competitor (GoToSocial paired with Phanpy?) that uses fewer resources, is easier to maintain, gets features implemented much faster, promotes safety and usability, and actually adds genuine innovations that we haven't even considered yet.

Phanpy is already there on the client side, but we need the server piece.

One of great things about bikes is how they can adjust to fit so many lifestyles and people. When my wife and I lived in a small apartment, we just had normal road bikes with racks for groceries; that was all we needed. When I injured my knee, we borrowed a tandem and she rode me around. When we had a kid, I started with a child seat over the rack, then when he outgrew that a small box bike (box in the front). 2nd kid, we got a normal-sized box bike. #BikeTooter

The little chaos monster is tuckered out from all that chaos. #CatsOfMastodon

This is surprising! #EricAdams

https://hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-phone-still-locked/

lol!

[photo from the article. Copyright John Taggart / Hell Gate.]

this is my completely unsurprised face https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/113120552878187878

I'm not going to tell the mastodon devs how to do their jobs, but the amount of resources they're putting into developing clients *that aren't very good* is kind of staggering. There are plenty of Free (/open source) third-party clients that they could be recommending, but instead are letting threads and bluesky lap them in features..

Are they really accidents if they can be easily prevented? (THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK!)

https://famichiki.jp/@mainichi/112834043042931542

An abbreviated history:

1992: Clinton/Gore beats Bush/Quayle. No one* calls them Bill/Al or George/Dan
2000: Bush/Cheney (arguably) beats Gore/Lieberman. No one calls them George/Dick or Al/Joe, despite multiple Bush presidents.
2008: Obama/Biden beats McCain/Palin. No one calls them Barack/Joe or John/Sarah
2016: Trump/Pence beats Clinton/Kaine. Everyone calls her "Hillary"
2020: Biden/Harris beats Trump/Pence. Everyone calls her "Kamala"

* in the media, other than in derogatory memes

Now's a great time to change that trend and refer to the current VP & POTUS candidate as Harris. Don't worry, everyone will know who you're talking about.

@codinghorror @jwz @bignose If nobody wanted to pay for anything, then advertisers would already be out of business. People don't mind paying for things they value. Industries continue screwing themselves over by trying to extract more and more money out of consumers while also drastically reducing value. Users are not to blame for that.

Sincerely, Someone who pays $50/mo for Propublica, as well as hard drives for pirating content because I got tired of getting ripped off/attacked by MPA/RIAA.

Do you think he remembers that there was a literal fucking coup while he was attempting to take office?

"Biden issues shocking statement. 'We must unite to fight against violence in politics. In light of that, I am asking everyone to please pray for Trump and also vote for him,' he said in a speech moments ago. Multiple senior Democrats lined up to endorse Trump as well, following the incident."

[Note: this is sarcasm, not something that actually happened. But c'mon, look at those headlines. Do you think the Trump campaign would stop ads if something happened to Biden?]

I think it's safe to stop calling them "heat waves". This is the late Anthropocene, now it's just "Summer".

We should probably consider lowering the age requirement for the presidency. By the 2030s everyone over 35 is going to be completely wrecked from their 15th bout of Covid.

fiction (Idiocracy, eugenics, etc): "the dummies will keep breeding and soon the entire population will be like that!"

reality: "we decided to ignore the rapidly mutating deadly virus that results in cognitive and neurological impairment, and as a result everyone is exhausted and needs to rest after simply watching a tv ad."

https://apnews.com/article/bolivia-military-deployment-arce-coup-fears-028cd88f3be1fb02164c05deb0faa099 #Bolivia

@kingrat It's even worse than that. Look at this, just look (from my old resume).

@kingrat Yeah, I know how to use Tom "bay area anti-housing crank" Lord's Arch. 💪