Notices by tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)

Scissor Dance: Rock Paper Scissors, 2005

*A #scissordance is a #collage cut and pasted the old fashioned way, with scissors, glue, and a stack of old magazines

@resl Collages!

@sirjofri @electropict @benroyce @Nigel_Lake @paninid

I did not know about fishnet; had to look it up. I did list listservs in the late 90s via a dial up modem. Damn, that was slow. A lot of the listserv emails I sent I backed up on floppy disks, I think I still have the disks somewhere, but nothing to plug in and read them.

@lowqualityfacts For some it ends at the sphincter.

@benroyce @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake @paninid Only too true.

@sirjofri @benroyce @Nigel_Lake @paninid To mix my metaphors (anybody got a little paper umbrella and a slice of pineapple?) The monopolist corporate media is the water the user-fish swim in. The thought of giving up Google, Meta, Tik-whichever-Tok makes them start flopping around like, well, fish out of water. There are alternatives to these toxic seas, fresh rivers and lakes, some better than others, but when I try persuade people, they can't even hear me. It is hard for them.

@sirjofri @benroyce @Nigel_Lake @paninid People seem to want to be the delicious tuna salad snuggled between two slices of whole wheat corporation dressed with crisp green VC dollars.

@sirjofri @benroyce @Nigel_Lake @paninid Nothing to choose from is solution and problem at the same time. Signing up to Bluesky, you don't have to think about it much, but then you're susceptible to being locked in for future enshittification for the profit of owners and investors. That's the part not thought about. Nor do people want that explained.

@benroyce @Nigel_Lake @paninid @sirjofri In the early eighties, I worked as projectionist (35m film on reels, carbon arc projector, obsolete profession) at an old movie theater built in 1930, and I helped downstairs in the lobby and auditorium. So, yes, I know trash in seats. Some customers I include in that category.

@benroyce @paninid @sirjofri Seems to me most people wherever they are want a clone of old Twitter, not just the pre-Musk Twitter, but pre-enshittified hell-site Twitter, which is why they go to Bluesky. Somehow the taint of Silicon Valley investment capital comforts them, like a security blanket. Mastodon is too quirky and "hard" (it takes a minute to figure it out), too scratchy and furry. I'm on both, enjoy both, but Mastodon is my social media home. Been here more than two years.

My university, York U, is suspending admissions to a bunch of programs, mainly in the humanities. This includes Indigenous Studies.

There's news coverage in @torontostar. But it doesn't really address the cause.

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#academicchatter #indigenousStudies #YorkU

@VulcanTourist @hannu_ikonen @Kierkegaanks Rather than existential, it's more sunk cost fallacy in attachment to a dream that's already over. Whatever careers and futures these people thought they had, that's GONE. Your career now is halting the nazification of our shared planet. If you succeed in that, you *might* someday have something similar to what you (already) lost.

@Baa Sounds like a movie plot itself.

@GossiTheDog Prolly coulda sold more if they made it like Star Trek insignia.

@riesl Thanks! It went well.

Almost time for surgery (hernia repair). Wish me luck.

Next: knees. Trying to get it all done while healthcare is still accessible in the United States.

@josh Oh, the humanity!

@Susan_calvin @cafechatnoir Indeed.

@streetartutopia Like it. But it is kinda an insult to slugs.