Notices by 𝙽𝚘𝚊𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍 (monkeyninja@10base2.dev)

I’m starting to mistrust the replacement casters I bought for my chair. This ad came with my order and I think it might be threatening me.

@skinnylatte You can tell this is not for an American audience because my dumb ass focused on the picture first and was trying to figure out why my squeezing myself through the dryer would lead to a dry umbrella.

I wrote a post when I was on mastodon.cloud that I wish I could find again to share as it was really lovely but since I can’t, I wanted to recreate it here.

I had asked folks if they would share what their comfort #food was and if they happened to have one, a link to a #recipe for how to make it.

It was so great, folks from all over the world replied and there were some really fantastic foods that a lot of people had never seen before.

If folks wouldn’t mind boosting this a bit, I bet we can get a great food thread going. I suspect we all could do with a bit of comfort right now.

@HollieK72 Ugh, I hate that assumption. A lot of my friends growing up couldn’t afford air conditioning or lived in houses with such old wiring that even if they could afford a window unit, their electric system wouldn’t handle the current draw. Telling folks to “just go sit in the AC” is just pure ignorance of how much of the rest of the world lives.

When we were looking for an upgrade to our TV, I specifically wanted a “dumb display.” No internet connection, no built in streaming services, just a display that would connect to a computer and show me the stuff my browser was playing from my Jellyfin server. If you want that kind of device, it seems that “Digital Signage” or “Commercial Display” is the category under which you are wanting to look.

They do often have network ports as they’re designed to be centrally managed (think hotel TV) but there’s zero requirement to give it a connection and it works beautifully without one.

Anyway there you go, hope that helps someone.

@mekkaokereke Man it would be a pity if people used services like Cloaked or IronVest for payments as they obfuscate the payer data, use zero logging, and are outside five-eyes territory. Then you could donate to such organizations fairly anonymously. It would just be such a shame if people knew about that.

Do I believe in the existence of faeries? No, I am a being of logic and science.

Will I step into a ring of mushrooms without leaving a gift of song and/or a gift of milk, bread, and honey? Abso-fucking-lutely not! Do you think I have a death wish or something?!

@inthehands I know the focus is on the “vibe coding as an insult” and I am 100% on board with this but I will also drop in that Aquafaba works great as the egg substitute as it emulsifies the fats well and does not affect the flavor the way something like banana does.

@hacks4pancakes How has no one either favorited or boosted this yet? This is amazing. Just picturing him with an acoustic guitar singing "This LAN is Your LAN"

@skinnylatte So envious, I miss Philly Chinatown. If you’re there for a bit, hit up EMei as well. They have an eggplant and century egg dish that is so good. Honestly everything they make is amazing.

The year is 1992.
I’m employed by Waldenbooks in the mall.
I’m stocking the shelves with the copies of “The Pelican Brief” that have recently arrived.
Dave with the beard (not to be confused with Dave without a beard who was also working that evening) yells across the store that my mother is on the phone.
I’m 16 and this is still embarrassing to me.
“Hello?”
“Honey, it’s me.”
“ Hi mom, what’s up?”
“I need you to translate something for me.”
“Right now?”
“It can’t wait! I’ll forget again!”
“Okay sure mom, what is it?”
“There’s a song that keeps coming on the radio and I need to know what they’re saying, here quickly before it finishes!”

The phone is put near the radio

“Could you hear it honey?”
“…Yes?”
“Oh thank God! Are they really singing, ‘God Bless Gravy’ or am I losing it?”
“…I’m sorry, what now?”
“Gravy. God Bless Gravy. Is that what they’re saying?”

I pinch the bridge of my nose as only an exasperated teenager is capable of doing before I answer.

“The song is ‘Constant Craving’ mom…by K.D. Lang…did you really think they were saying ’God Bless Gravy’?”
“Well that’s what I heard! Thanks honey, see you tonight!”

I keep hoping that I will some day meet K.D. Lang so I can convey the story. My mother continues to be a fan and when she still cooked, sang that song any time she was making gravy.

I miss the version of me who could look at actions taken by political figures while in the public eye as anything other than posturing. I used to at least be able to press pause on the cynicism and say “Well hey, at least that one action they just took over there was good.”

It sucks because there likely are people who are in the public eye who are doing some real good in the face of some real evil. But I have a really hard time believing in it. Maybe that’s just the definition of the political machine and I’m just owning up to it fully now. Maybe it’s a uniquely American contrivance.

Either way, I miss the version of me that wasn’t quite this cynical.

@blogdiva I was unfamiliar with Operation Death Eaters and decided to read up on it. Apparently the last update to my phone, it reset my default search engine to use Google and its garbage AI service. Though in this case it revealed a fascinating data point. While the search yields *many* search results, the AI dataset that Google built has been scrubbed of any reference to it. Billionaires protect pedophiles.

“What radicalized you?”
I don’t know man…I don’t think people should be treated like shit and that’s apparently a big deal or something.

It is so fucking cold right now that all of my genderfluid friends are turning gendersolid and adhering to surfaces.

@skinnylatte 100% agree. My godfather and godmother are from Taiwan. I have an enduring memory of being 7, eating oyster omelets in their kitchen. I remember the first time I had them in SF when my wife was still living out there. I was so excited but it was like running into a McDonald’s version of it. It was so disappointing. It scratched an itch but it wasn’t even close to what I expected.

@skinnylatte I use YouMail on my cell. It's a paid service but you get a virtual phone number that you can use that can receive text messages and the like. It's pretty handy and not terribly expensive. The spam blocking feature and customizable voice mail makes it almost worth the cost of entry just on its own.

If you're wondering why it seems like the #military branches have been completely silent in the #news while #trump carries out the summary execution of citizens of #Venezuela, it's because one of the first things that #hegseth did when he started was to fire any JAG officer who wasn't seen as 100% loyal to the #maga agenda. He even publicly stated that the firings were to remove anyone who might put up "roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief."

Like many other posts, JAG positions have historically been apolitical. They fill the role of setting each service's legal priorities and interpreting military law for leaders. They are supposed to oversee everything from criminal cases involving the rank and file to making sure commanders are aware of international law in combat, which is currently being violated by the killings in Venezuela.

The firings of senior JAG officers also cleared the way for the use of troops in #Oregon, #Illinois, and #California without the normal legal oversight required to engage troops in such a way.

So in short, these earlier actions were scaffolding for everything else. No one did anything that suddenly brought the attention of the Eye of Sauron onto them. These violations of due process were intentional and premeditated.

Don't operate under the assumption that you doing something or not doing something is going to magically keep you safe, that's not how #fascism works. Use your rights to stand up and push back, or they won't stay rights for much longer.

On the importance of being froggy:

The play in the #fascism handbook that #trump and his handlers have been itching to play out is a more widespread martial law.

They don’t need an excuse mind you, but oh my does it piss them off that they don’t have one in Portland. The corporate media agencies are built around clickbait and even though they’re a propaganda machine for Trump, folks in frog suits facing off against an armed gestapo is too juicy for them to ignore.

So now you have folks like Miller desperately lying to the media about “war-ravaged #portland” and people laughing at him because there are no riots for them to inflame, just folks laughing at the absurdity of it all.

Keep laughing. Keep mocking. It’s infectious. The more we laugh at them now, the less likely it is that the people we need to march in protest are cowed and kept too scared to do so.

If we’re lucky maybe we can laugh them out of office on a raft of inflatable frogs. I’m not naive, I know that’s unlikely, but for now at least I’m choosing to have some faith in the power of the absurd.

It’s #caturday so I’m going to share my current favorite of my furry family.

#catsofmastodon #cats