Notices by erl (erl@chaosfem.tw)

hey californians, SB 868 passed the legislature (but is waiting on Gavin’s signature). If signed, on Jan 1 2027 it will be fully legal to add plug-in solar to your apartment without a bunch of additional paperwork.

Plug in solar systems are small (<1.5 kW) portable systems similar to those you might have for camping. When these systems are plugged into your wall outlet, they **reduce** the net load on you home’s circuit, reducing the amount of money you have to give to a corporation which has been found guilty of 84 counts of manslaughter.

For the most part, these systems don’t 100% eliminate your electrical bill and they cannot power your home during a blackout, but they help reduce costs a good deal.

There’s a nonprofit here in the east bay, Bright Saver, which builds and sells small plug-in systems at-cost. Their 360W systems are about $400, which is is a good deal lower than the normal $3/watt from installed solar

Though ofc given that Gavin has a long history of vetoing popular nearly-unanimously-passed bills which would improve the lives of Californians, I'm fully prepared for him to do the wrong thing

hey are there any folks fluent in Mandarin who can help me with a very simple translation thing? Just 5 short sentences

Got a "thank you young lady" when getting ID'ed so don't mind me while I go dissolve into a cloud of dust and whispers

“compact”

The grinch wasn’t planning to be seen so like dressing up as a santa was strictly for the whimsy right?

Wild that the betting markets (predictit) is putting us at 35% chance of the govt shutdown lasting for at least 3 more weeks.

i know that the betting markets are often a bad predictor of anything, but they are a neat barometer of public opinion and it’s baffling that we’ve all just kind of accepted that the federal goverment won’t be back before halloween

181111181 is prime and idk that might be my new favorite number. Symmetric left-right and up-down and made of just 8 and 1 (and 8+1= 9 digits long!)

Tipsie selfie!

Does end to end encryption mean god can’t see it? Asking for a fiend

is it still doomscrolling when there’s real doom out there or is it just regular scrolling

i don’t have the energy to put it together, but just imagine that screenshot of the dude from Airplane saying “guess I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue” but like with the ‘stop sniffing glue’ replaced with ‘stop doomscrolling’

It’s called the last SUPPER not the last DINNER which is undeniable proof that Jesus was a midwesterner

Genuine shame that it’s 2024 and we still haven’t yet had an openly Juggalo president

I have my suspicions about Harding though tbh

Therapist: monospaced comic sans isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
Monospaced comic sans:

@powersoffour wait how should I interpret that?

my most gen X trait is that I love the aesthetic of the default IDL plotting routines

Virtually all haunted-house horror movies are just pro-gentrification allegories where a thriving community of ghosts, spectres, and demons are removed from their home by folks seeking cheap housing and their removal is almost always supported by institutional powers like the church and police. In this essay I will

Kinda weird how normalized skeleton nudity is these days