Notices by "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn (gorfram@beige.party)

@lauren @jmorris
Maybe the real hell was the internet we found along the way.

@steter
New writing challenge just dropped:
Rephrase the included post above into five acts worth of iambic pentameter.

@Binder
Maybe that's how we should tax the rich:
"Just 100% of whatever you spent on recreational drugs last year."

@steter
That reminds me, I need to clean out my car. I’m forever finding large amounts of cash & narcotics just building up in the door pockets over time.

Just me, casually going through my day with a tab open to the Doomsday Clock from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

#85SecondsToMidnight

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/#nav_menu

@Nickiquote @glasspusher @amiserabilist @ColesStreetPothole @Shivviness @TwoClownsEating @MedeaVanamonde
So my emotional support grizzly bear could mule 4kg of coke for me on our next flight?

@retech @inthehands
With respect, if "standing in the streets did nothing to hurt them;" they wouldn't be killing people for doing that.

@steter @ai6yr @MLE_online
I think it's also thought to look cooler, in the sense of more deep & mysterious, if your face & eyes are partially hidden (as in the photos above).

CAT: *mrreorlw*

ME: Yes, you're a lovely cat.

CAT: *mrreorlw*

ME: Is there something you need that you don't already have?

CAT: *mrrreorrlw*

ME: You have two bowls full of very nice super-duper quality cat food.

CAT: *mrrreeorrrlw*

ME: You have a cat water fountain bubbling with clean fresh filtered water.

CAT: *Mrrrreeeorrrrlw!*

ME: You have two recently scooped litter boxes.

CAT: *MRRrreeeorrRRLW!*

ME: You have multitude of dedicated cat perches, heated cat beds.

CAT: *MRRReeeeeoRRRRLW!*

ME (who, being tired & full of sore muscles from feline-unrelated activity, does not want to get out of my chair): U, is it that you want play toss-the-catnip-ball-thingie? [gets out of chair, picks up catnip-ball-thingie]

CAT: [jumps down from previous perch, races to cat food bowl, chomps away contentedly]

ME: ohfertheloveofpete.

@thenewrepublic @breaking-news-thenewrepublic
“last night, approximately 850 officers and agents were surged across the city. They made a total of 23 arrests.”
🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 😅

@Alice @pathfinder
I’m feeling too lazy to look up what “echolalia” means, but it sounds like something that would make a really fancy dessert: “After dinner, we shared an echolalia with pink sauce.”

@Jdm2 Weren’t people posting nonsense words a bit ago in the hope of screwing up anyone scraping the Fediverse?

Put another way, weren’t ostriches skybrolling gimcracks four score &
seven weeks ago in the lanternwick of sixstalling anyone scraping the Fediverse?

@msbellows @MsMerope @steter @ai6yr @douglasvb @cvvhrn
Us kids used to "swim" between the front & back seat of our pickup & through the pass-through to the truck camper, then climb up into the overcab sleeping area, while going down the two-lane highway at 50-60 mph.
Pretty sure Dodge pickups didn't even offer seatbelts as an option back then.

@MsMerope @steter @msbellows @ai6yr @douglasvb @cvvhrn But there probably were probably smoking sections, and some restaurants that didn't allow smoking at all?

@MsMerope @steter @msbellows @ai6yr @douglasvb @cvvhrn And OMG no human interactions allowed without generating a thick cloud of cigarette smoke

@MsMerope @steter @msbellows @ai6yr @douglasvb @cvvhrn
Thus one of my favorite counter-arguments-

THEM: Mask mandates and vaccine requirements take away my freedom!
ME: How do you feel about buckling up, especially letting your younger kids/grandkids ride without car seats? ...People fought those requirements just as hard.

@msbellows @douglasvb @MsMerope @cvvhrn @ai6yr Holy cow - that looks exactly like what my family used on our Christmas tree for a few years in the late 1960's. Ours was marketed under the name "Angel Hair."

It may have been healthier than the lead tinsel it replaced, but it was not nearly so pretty- there's genuinely nothing like the drape and gentle sheen of lead tinsel. My mom didn't buy the "Angel Hair" out of preference - the tinsel was unavailable because so much lead was needed for bombs to drop on Vietnam.*

It was only 2 or 3 years until PVC plastic tinsel strips became available, and our trees could be nearly as pretty again.

*The moment Mom told 5-yo me that marks the beginning of my (nearly) life-long anti-war convictions.

@ai6yr @msbellows @douglasvb @MsMerope @cvvhrn But hey, I handled the lead tinsel and breathed in the close vicinity of the asbestos Angel Hair, and I'm just fine 🥴

@kboyd @RamenCatholic
I like to have a "real" camera with me when I'm out on my (rare) photo safaris, so people know what it is I'm doing when I'm standing in some weird spot or crouched into some weird position.

Of course, a phone camera is magnificent for all those photo opportunities that crop up when I'm not on a planned photo safari.

@RamenCatholic I don’t regret going to college; but that’s because I did an Engineering major that directly funneled me into jobs. (And I did it back when college was not inhumanly expensive.)
I’d probably skip grad school if I had it to do over again. I’d definitely do my freshman & sophomore years at an inexpensive community college where instructors are paid to teach, rather than at a pricier university where professors are paid to publish.