Notices by Gay Gayerson, the Gth (hunkthunderzone@beige.party)

"but if you block people, that's living in a bubble"

No honey, I don't "live" on the fedi. It is a place I visit.

This is not my only source of information. Getting all your info from social media is arguably worse that blocking people.

There's nothing wrong having a bubble of people who don't waste my time. Sometimes we call that "friends" or even "community" IRL.

And in the USA we have "freedom of association" which means each of us gets to decide for ourselves, what humans deserve our time and attention. You don't actually owe anyone your attention. Not even if you've said something they disagree with!

@TheBreadmonkey concerts are one of those things I've barely done because it's hard to justify the expense and all the logistics for 1-2 hours of music.

I'd honestly rather watch a well filmed concert than go to one.

Live music is nice, I've loved sitting in a piano bar or watching a good band in a small venue. But the arenas just don't seem as worth it.

@mcfly

"But we should totally let Meta into the fediverse, and it's super mean if anyone doesn't want to federate with Threads."

Guys, I am in my 40s, and I have never, ever, needed cursive. I'm not surprised they're phasing it out. You don't even need it for your signature (not in USA at least) it's just as legal if you use print.

You know why cursive exists?
Because of the kind of pens everyone used had thin runny ink. It was an adaptation to solve a mechanical issue. We have better pens now!

That's why cursive is so hard to do with a ballpoint pen, the most popular pen, and the same ones school kids use to learn cursive with. The ink in ballpoint pens is thicker, stickier, and drags across the page. It makes cursive harder to do. It's why so many of us tore right through the paper when we were kids (or still do).

In my experience, they stopped requiring cursive by 6th grade That was 1988, I was 11. They wanted your reports and papers typed instead of cursive. Even teachers didn't want to read cursive. Or they realized we were heading into a keyboard age. Typing was a required class at one of the schools I went to.

@georgetakei sometimes places don't carry ranch.

I remember this myself. I remember when the news said COVID was disproportionately hitting minorities worse than everyone else --- all of a sudden people were talking about how it wasn't that deadly. Just a bad cold. Why stay home? Do we even need masks at all?

it was so blatant. I'm still struck that there wasn't more outrage.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/covid-this-month-4-years-ago-trump-73b

@georgetakei

fun fact. Lemons are man-made. They are a hybrid of a Citron and a Bitter Orange.

So, life never gave us lemons, we went and made them ourselves.