Notices by Max Leibman (maxleibman@beige.party)

Last month, I had a 401k. Now I have a 201k.

People need to stop saying Elon Musk is worth $340 billion. He HAS $340 billion. Maybe. He isn’t WORTH $340 billion. If we lost him, we wouldn’t pay $340 billion to get another one.

SCENE: Nicole on a blind date with a Nigerian prince.

Hi, I'm Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Chick :D

I'm a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o)

I'm currently taking the pre-health sciences program at George Brown College hoping to get into the medical field someday!

Also, in like two hours, I’m going to bomb Yemen.

฿Ʉ₮ ⱧɆⱤ Ɇ₥₳łⱠ₴…

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

I’m not afraid of offending anyone who was sincerely raising their good-faith concerns about Clinton’s email server in 2016, because I don’t generally worry about the feelings of imaginary people.

@BeAware You said it yourself: *less* nasty.

Not clean. Not safe. Not pleasant to be around. Not cool looking. Just less of each of those than smoking.

A smoker who switches to vaping is, on balance, a good thing. I wouldn’t celebrate anybody settling on it permanently, though, any more than I would celebrate them switching to a “lighter” tobacco product. And a non-smoker picking up vaping isn’t something to be celebrated at all.

And you do look fucking ridiculous when you do it.

It depends on policymakers’ goals. If they want their citizens to look cool, then this is not only justified but necessary.

Imagine the coolest-looking person you know, vaping. You are now no longer imagining a cool-looking person.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his keys?

Wait. Let me start over.



#WaitLetMeStartOver

Nutz? In deez economy?!

The beige.party coat of arms, with a hot dog rampant, and our motto, “Non est secta” (roughly translated from the Latin, “It’s not a cult”).

Microsoft Windows: I see you've idly tapped a modifier key five times while thinking about your next move, or rested your finger on it for a second too long, so without warning I've activated an accessibility feature that makes your computer unusable. Good luck navigating to settings to turn it off!

Three-year-old asked the nine-year-old what solitude is.

Nine said, “It’s like loneliness, except you like it.”

@inthehands I almost didn’t post it, but it’s been 0️⃣ days since I saw a “Genocide Joe” post here and I got freshly pissed off about it all over.

Your instance admins are volunteering to spend their own time and often their own money to operate the server, perform maintenance, and do moderation, often on top of a job and all of their other obligations. They may not always be as responsive as a big social media company, but be patient—they're only human.

Aren't they? 🌩️

Welcome... to Fedi Vale.

The Tesla brand needs to be reduced to toxic waste—too dangerous for anyone to handle, no matter when they got in or for what reason.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/used-tesla-prices-tumble-as-embarrassed-owners-look-to-sell/

People were disappearing.

He would see a woman make a joke, and “riff” on it by telling it back to her. And then never see her or her posts again.

He would offer a helpful correction to a stranger. Then the stranger vanished.

It seemed everyone this guy replied to was just suddenly gone. Like they had been . . . blocked.

He was so close to figuring it out.

Welcome… to Fedi Vale.

In my entire career, spanning a dozen companies and thousands of colleagues, I’ve never met a single person in IT who was qualified to decide what icons belonged on my desktop or in my Start Menu. I’ve worked for and with multiple companies that locked this down, though.

I’m not squandering my potential. I’m strategically reducing my potential over time so that it will take less effort to fully live up to it when I finally do.