Notices by Challah, Head Cha-La (aratinga@xoxo.zone)

Today is my birthday! A great gift you can give me is an album, book, video game, or movie you think most people skipped but shouldn’t have.

An axe I am always grinding in private is how awful it is we’ve made the word “chemicals” interchangeable with “artificial.”

EVERYTHING PHYSICAL IS CHEMICALS!!!

I am unemployed and broke so who wants to buy me a pizza today?

There's a contingent of people who believe growth is essential to communities; that removing barriers to entry and encouraging communities to be flexible and approachable with onboarding new members are tantamount to other priorities.

This viewpoint is deeply corporate and tends to come with a hint, if not an outright statement, that stagnation of growth spells death for the community.

I don't buy a lick of it. I think it's hooey. I think people, especially queer people, who think communities should be growth-centric represent a quiet threat to the safety of the people they claim to be concerned about.

Communities are more powerful when resources are widely available. Growth in membership without growth in resources usually puts strain on access and causes members to become disengaged from the group because their place within the group has been commoditized.

Communities should start small and strive to remain small. Growth should be something done opportunistically or with immense due diligence and patience. Barriers to entry are not bad. They are safety mechanisms. Telling people they need to turn off their safety mechanisms makes you sound like a fucking cop.

I finally watched John Wick and it owned.

Imagine if you dated me you could be eating homemade jelly donuts.

@clarity @oliphant A bizarrely backwards hipster take like "well I've never heard of em, so they can't possibly be a good band."

@annika i knew you’d understand

I cannot think of a single use for a Flipper Zero so why do I want one?

Hey Mastodon! Posting here, because I always do. It's normal for me to be posting here, because I love being on Mastodon! How's it going? Normal question I like to ask Mastodon, the site I'm all the time posting to. No, of course nothing else is going on that's making me come here. Why would you say something so ridiculous?

Type “The next four years will be” and let autocomplete finish it for you

The next four years will be your last and the only one you will ever finish it for me I am so sorry that you had to do this to you and I am sorry I

Of all the wrong ideas Libs and Cons hold, one of the most frustrating is the idea that an absence of Capitalism is Socialism and the absence of Socialism is Capitalism; the idea these are the only two socioeconomic models and they are diametrically opposed at all times.

Bladderpee evolved into Toiletpee

@annika NO FUCK YOU!

@clarity one time I met this ttrpg designer who hated most ttrpgs and only ever wanted to play Baker games and my g—er I mean, I love you buubie.

The more I talk to musicians, the more I get the sense that lots of them flat out do not listen to other music. What they do listen to is very narrow and limited and old. I cannot understand this behaviour or the mentality behind it. It sounds depraved as all living fuck to me.

If heterodox is the opposite of orthodox, then I think we need to start calling gay people orthosexual.