Notices by josh 🛸 (josh@ms.phocks.org)

something very weird about a politician who says they want to provide freedom from government but then works incessantly to insert government into every intimate detail of a person's life

i could probably make it on $999 million

There comes a point in life where you take a good hard look at what humanity does to abuse and exploit our fellow sentient beings and then decide whether you want to support that or not. For me it was a pretty easy choice.

i have just noticed that kde plasma 6 now has the thing where if you wiggle your mouse it grows big like macos and i like it a lot

what the heck is electronic mail?

bought a replacement battery for my thinkpad

@phocks@bne.social @phocks@threads.net yo

good night fedi frans

"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" (UAP) — bureaucracy-speak for UFOs, basically — "may reflect activities of intelligent beings concealed in stealth here on Earth (e.g., underground), and/or its near environs (e.g., the Moon), and/or even 'walking among us' (e.g., passing as humans)."

I want whatever they're smoking at Harvard

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/harvard-scientists-may-unknown-technologically-150917239.html?guccounter=1

the cost of living should be zero dollars

extremely based and esoteric knowledge

economic growth is a hard drug that we will have to collectively ween ourselves off of pretty soon or else we will literally all die

instead of riot police why don't they simply engage them in the battlefield of ideas

power went out overnight and for some reason the server didn't come back up properly again. might be time to consider a tiny little UPS

@brucelawson i do not enjoy them thanks

if the isis terrorists could please target putin and his murderous regime instead of innocent russian civilians that would be just dandy

but, what about your hardware?

an #introduction again now that the dust has settled. i'm josh, husband and father. writes code and stories for australia's #1 news site. plays in a band called velociraptor. now running this new personal single-user mastodon instance on my home linux server, after oracle locked me out of my free-tier account without warning. into software dev, sysadmin, music, movies, climate action, and animal rights activism. trying to find everyone i used to follow again. feel free to follow and boost. ✌️