Notices by Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok: (aphrodite@chaos.social), page 2

It feels like the universe doesn’t want me to go anywhere, since right when the going gets good, my ankle dislocates.

Last time it did this was at Chaos Camp last year. First in a chain of events that lead to noping out of there on one foot.

I had surgery to stabilize the foot in November. Had to get a donor ligament put in. Foot actually felt solid for once.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but if you can’t take that first step without stumbling, life is damn hard.

And this is why I drive a beater from 20y ago instead of a new car… and why I intend on electrifying an old beater instead of buying a new car.

From: @GottaLaff
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112854597447900406

Found an unopened box of 5.25” floppies during a clean up.

The sticker on the sealed box was unexpected.

#Olympics

It’s fascinating to see this indictment of FPTP. Multiple minor parties are starting to come out publicly against it.

Also predictable that the party winning with less than 40% of the counted ballots is just peachy keen and happy with it.

#GE2024

@ariadne

I can say with confidence he’s persona non grata at a few events.

@FlashMobOfOne

I’m not embarrassed by my messy kitchen. All my friends have messy kitchens.

Plus there’s Trauma® associated with a clean kitchen growing up, how it was all an illusion to make my parents look like they were better than they actually were.

Ok I need to concede that, yes, a clean kitchen is shockingly calming for my mental health.

.. great i’m becoming an Old™

(disclosure: not a lawyer, just a law nerd)

So some good news for my #Canadian friends:

Trump can’t visit Canada without permission anymore.

s. 362, False Pretence or False Statement, appears to be the closest to the offences of which he has been convicted in the city, county, and state of New York. (Just visited that court complex recently for personal business.)

For offences greater than $5k has a max prison term of 10y.

That’s the threshold for permanent criminal inadmissibility.

:)

@FlashMobOfOne

..except that the skill set necessary to become a billionaire would be antithetical to having enough awareness to actually do this sort of thing. v.v

dead honest if i had the resources, i’d be building a few underground libraries around the world to house hard copies of a lot of knowledge.

that so many of us being burned out and rendered disposable is a deliberate act by those who currently are horrified that they might lose power.

fighting back is hard. won’t deny that.

we need to lift each other up more than ever.

@quinn

Sounds like the inverse of projection, introjection. Unconscionably taking on attributes of others as a defence mechanism, usually due to anxiety.

Every day, the urge to pack up, go deep into the back country, build a log cabin, go low tech, and leave the world behind gets stronger.

At the same time, the urge to meet and help more people grows stronger too.

Life is weird like that.

@docpop

It’s enfuriating that we’ve been forced, over the last 40ish years, to accept that narrative that everything is a zero-sum game, everything is transactional, everything is valued in dollars and nonsense.

Money only means what it needs to mean. Too many people have been convinced it must needs mean everything, and we’re all suffering because money is a scoreboard, a tool, a proxy of worth and value, and not just a means to abstracting labour, the true wealth.

Hi!

Are you viewing this account through #Bluesky?

If so, you need to know that this account does NOT consent to being brought inside Jack’s new walled garden.

You know, the one that’s been paid for by some jerk who bought Jack’s old walled garden and turned the dying Spaces into toxic waste?

VC is the engine that #enshittifies the Internet. His BS site will follow that path soon.

Noninteroperabilty is tar that traps users. If BS wants to access #Fedi, it should be on #ActivityPub.

people who get it: “Meta’s trying to extend, embrace, extinguish and exclude #fediverse”

others: “give Threads a chance!”

today: “Meta censors #pixelfed from posts

us: “what did we freaking tell the rest of y’all”

Sign onto @vantablack’s #Fedipact to tell Meta to get Zucked.

Please boost this.

If you lost a small box full of #NintendoSwitch games at 22nd Street Station, please contact me with the titles and a few other details and I’ll get your games back to you.

My DMs are open.

#Burnaby #Surrey #NewWest #Vancouver

@StillIRise1963

To recognize all humans are equally human takes no great leap of logic, no trained observation, no challenge to the mind.

To unlearn that base truth, that we’re all equally human, takes so much effort and energy that that cursed idea sought to become embedded in so many of our societies to justify its existence.

And I ain’t got time for that toxic idea to take up space in my skull.

Still can’t believe it’s been 30 years to the day since #Babylon5 first broadcast.

One of the best sci-fi series ever made.

First show to use CGI this extensively.

First show to have a proper Internet fandom.

First show to have what we’d now call a “show runner.”

If you haven’t watched it yet, give it a go.

Yes season 1 is a bit slow, but once the actions picks up in s2 you’ll be glued since “No one is exactly who they appear.” -G’kar

@MichaelPhillips

Her successes, not only at getting the shiny from Sweden but in literally helping save tens of millions of lives, should damn the publish-or-perish culture that has been allowed to flourish, from universities that put the kibosh on research and tenure to the corrupt pay-to-print Maxwell model for academic journals.

It won’t, but it should.

The best approach to learning is realizing you know nothing.

Even if you think you know about a topic, you don’t know about the topic.

This attitude allows one to approach topics with fresh eyes and with openness to learning how what one may think one knows is actually in conflict with reality.

Besides, most of the time, those who actually do know about the topic really want to share their knowledge.

Knowledge is the only commodity that becomes more valuable when shared.