Notices by ·J Mopp (jmopp@masto.ai)

@troublewithwords *taps the sign*

@mkoek @benroyce @jonesmurphy As an immigrant living in the Netherlands I can say that Geert Wilders' death would be for Dutch immigrants like that of Thatcher's for Northern English miners.

That man has single-handedly poisoned immigration discourse in this country for a quarter century. In a normal society proposing to ban an entire religion should get you laughed out of public life.

I admire the fact that you're sticking to your principles. I don't think I'd be able to though

@skinnylatte @Daojoan What Americans call a "chicken sandwich" is not a chicken sandwich. A chicken sandwich is made from two slices of white bread containing shredded chicken and mayonnaise

I love Wiki's because anybody can edit them

The past was wild. Remember in like 2011 when we *wanted* infinite scroll? Someone wrote a browser extention that gave infinite scroll on reddit and we were like "This is awesome!" Now we weep silently as we scroll because we're unable to stop.

@calmeilles "Over the long term [...] certain NATO members will become majority non-European"
That's straight-up Great Replacement nonsense in the National Security Strategy

What does a classicist who specialises in Punic history name their dog?
Hannibal Barker

@elilla @slothrop I don't think enough people appreciate that the Eucharist being the literal body and blood of Christ is so fundamental to Catholicism that wars have been fought over it.

Everybody's like vibe-coding this and AI-agents that — meanwhile I had to write a custom algorithm to scale a very non-convex polygon

@skinnylatte Belgium, the country where they still have statues of King Leopold II

@NaClKnight @GrahamDowns A truck would be what Americans might call a semi-truck, along with a slightly smaller u-haul style truck

If you think about it, Johannesburg's geography is pretty weird. It's this huge city in the middle of nowhere, not close to any ports or trade routes. It was a boom town — it grew rapidly due to the discovery of gold in the late 19th century. But unlike other boom towns, the gold didn't run out. It was mined for so long that an entire diversified economy could grow around it: indeed the heart of the country's economy.