Notices by Carson Hill 📎 (dicenbuttons@mastodon.social)

@skinnylatte

I could see an argument that the fall of Macy's and Bloomingdale's represents a shrinking upper/middle class, such that there are no longer people with time and money to spend on clothing in their stores. I could see some merit to the idea that this indicates a downward trend of the average person's wealth, and what that says about America/Americans.

I don't really care about that though, when there's also fascism. Maybe after the fascism is gone, I'll care about sad rich folks.

Met another fine snail during my walk yesterday.

Something endearing and relatable about watching their determined little commutes. Keeps one humble.

#snails #nature #awalkaday #smol #invertebrates

@yvonnezlam @skinnylatte

Sounds like a Gaiman/Miyazaki collaboration to me.

@skinnylatte

As a white dude with a man bun, I could say the man bun helps a person cook better.

I would be lying, but I could say it anyway and folks would believe me. Because I'm a white dude with a man bun.

@skinnylatte

Gotcha. So you're thinking more specifically of the "Hey I bet nobody thought of combining Chinese food with Nigerian cuisine" (or whatever, I'm picking that combo at random) sort of thing. Where each dish came from a space like "What if we put X in an egg roll" or "How about tacos, but with Y."

As opposed to more organic "fusion cuisines" that grew as a result of overlapping cultures (tex mex), international trade, military occupation (Hawaiian foods, bahn mi), etc.

@skinnylatte

I feel like "fusion" cuisine already exists between large countries, or on the borders between.

For example "Tex Mex" is American-Mexican fusion food. Hawaiian foods are sort of an American-Asian fusion. Philippino food is sort of a Latino-Asian fusion.

It's not quite the same - those countries/foods have their unique heritage and I don't want to reduce it overmuch, but I also feel like it's kinda silly to build up rules and structure around food.

Good food is for everybody.

This was the most charming tuft of #moss that I met on my walk today.

#mosstodon #nature #awalkaday

No, I'm not just focusing on small things to distract myself from the travesty that is my government. Alright, that's exactly what I'm doing. Fine.

You can't stop me.

@skinnylatte

Can relate - I drink lots of tea and recently added a decaf Earl Grey to my evening rituals. Tis a wonderful thing.

@WarnerCrocker

Turns out the shrimp did, in fact, eventually end.

@courtney

Totally agree. Alternate framings:

1. Team Patriarchy vs Team First Female President.
2. Team Old White Racist Idiot vs Team Jamaican/Indian Intellectual.
3. Team Too-old-to-be-President vs Team Lucid Adult.

The cop thing is still there, but it's easier to swallow (for me anyway) as "extended context" for any/all the above.