Notices by Clifton Royston (cliftonr@wandering.shop), page 2

Hey everybody, remember when Kristi Noem put into her memoir and then very vocally told the world that she'd wantonly and pointlessly shot a puppy to death, and "everybody" was horrified?

Everybody except for a few people who pointed out that she was advertising her qualifications for a major role in a fascist government, by clearly demonstrating her willingness to do anything regardless how morally and viscerally repellent?

Proposed Head of the DHS, how about that, huh?

@graydon

Your second paragraph is an interesting perspective I haven't heard before.

I'm not sure I agree with you on that - I think a lot of other factors went into it - but it's definitely something to think about.

Oh shit, another Tetris block just snapped into place for me.

If you have kids, get them vaccinated for everything you can ASAP, before the end of the year. If they're in the middle of a series, ask your doctor if it's safe to get the next shot in the series ahead of schedule. If you're an adult, get any vaccines you can or are behind on.

If Trump follows through on his claimed plan to put RFK in charge of Health & Human Services, vaccines could be banned in 6 months.

@cks @ireneista

As usual I have fixated on a small tangential point mentioned in this history:

So there was a SIGLOST signal at one time, to signal that a resource (or lock) was lost, but then it got lost?!?

That seems entirely too fitting, like something out of HHG2G.

@cstross @Menhit

When we return from a trip - usually with a cat-sitting friend watching our cats at our house - one of them acts delighted to see us and follows us around asking for attention, the other will wait for us at the door, then ostentatiously turn his back, walk away, and disappear for several hours to show his extreme disapproval.

@aeva @ireneista @erincandescent

It's honestly a relief to hear that from someone else.

I have the same problem, and it's become a major stressor for me. It makes me feel bad that I'm not on top of it, but it just keeps on and keeps on pouring in.

If I get any actual wanted personal email from someone, I'm very likely to miss it because it's a drop in an ocean.

@blogdiva

Oh you too?

It's the bane of my existence. I have had so many utterly humiliating experiences because of my prosopagnosia.

@irina

That is a pretty unbelievable level of arrogance, indeed. It's the equivalent of saying,
"You don't know what you know - *I* know what you know."

I can easily see why you were left shaking with nerves and anger. My sympathies.

I'll tell you one of my own which was so over the top it became funny, and perhaps might amuse you a little.

@irina

Last year when filling out a form for a medical cannabis shop here (still very strict about access) I filled it out and handed it over with my special ID card from the state.

The guy at the desk looked at them and told me "Hey that's funny - you misspelled your last name twice on the form."

I took them back to see, and of course they had issued the ID with a typo in my name.

I still can't fathom how anyone could conclude that the ID card is right, but I can't spell my own name!

@mcc

Which I guess was a long-winded way of saying you're absolutely right about this.

@mcc

My thinking is that it underlines how much transphobia is actually an attack on women, as a whole.

The moment a woman steps outside the list of activities that these groups deem acceptable for women, or looks different than their standards of beauty for women, she is attacked as "not really a woman."

It's fundamentally the same as the attacks "if you were a real woman you'd stay home with your kids, not take a man's job" from *those* bigots. (Same group, mostly.)

@blogdiva

The Bill Gates fans used to like to sell that story too:

Harvard drop-out nobody starts company, sells software to IBM, becomes mega-billionaire.

Over time it became better known that his grandfather was a bank president, his father was a rich lawyer, his mother was a banker and sat on several boards of directors, and that he got the initial contact at IBM because his mother sat on the United Way board of directors with IBM's CEO John Opel and bugged him about it.

@revndm @selzero @essjayjay

I can't help thinking Britain made a huge mistake ever letting him down from there.

@whitequark @ariadne

RAND, for those not in the know, usually means more or less “We won’t charge your tiny open source project *more* for the patent license fees than we charge a multi-billion international conglomerate.”