Notices by The Turtle (the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

@botvolution Weather Channel Lies A Lot™.

@ryanc ...and brominated vegetable oils...

@botvolution eventually they'll figure out that even if they force people to allow ads, those people will ignore them, so the next step would be requiring you to buy something from one of their "partners" before you're allowed to read their shitty content. Like having to buy a donut so you can use the bathroom at 7-Eleven or something.

@botvolution is his mouth moving? They should be throwing cowshit in it.

A 1908 Waltham 610 -- actually running -- arrived today! It immediately went into that case that arrived a few weeks ago, the one whose chrome back looked rather orange-peely. It fit very nicely. It does need a minute hand, but it so happens I have a set of pre-WWI Waltham hands around here. At least it's not the second hand.

And it runs!

#pocketwatches

@botvolution their Nikon D5s had it easy. Everything is just "focus to infinity."

@botvolution and then there's "check your inbox for a confirmation email" and then WELCOME TO SHITBLOG! email and FUCK OFF I DON'T NEED TO READ THIS ARTICLE THAT DAMN BAD.

If they shut up with just an unverified email address, I usually use dlcourtorders@dps.texas.gov just to piss off the Ken Paxton assholes at that address, or maybe else I use fukyu@eatshit.com.

Sorry to whoever actually has that email.

@botvolution you just nailed 80% of the posts on Hacker News.

@botvolution that looks dangerous.

@botvolution you could put pieces of dry spaghetti in all the holes.

@botvolution last year I got a pocket watch from Ukraine a lot faster than I expected.

@botvolution i don't wanna know what anybody who follows me likes.

@botvolution "boolean nights! Boolean nights! Dance to the boolean, get down,
Cause boolean nights are
Always the binariest in town!"

@botvolution blah!

@botvolution you as a seller can block buyers, but I as a buyer can't block sellers, except with great difficulty. So this one guy who lists wrongly-described item after wrongly-described item shows up in all my searches, shitting up the results, and I can't avoid them. Or that asshole where everything is ANTIQUE VINTAGE RARE WOW!!! where everything is noted as "new in box" and "from China" just sits there stinking up an entire category.

@botvolution yellowcats are yellowcats.

@botvolution yellowcats are yellowcats.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social first off, no one should ever have sex with any of these shitheads. No one.

@botvolution i justhad the opposite happen: a CD coming from the UK was more or less a gray cloud until it got to New Jersey, and suddenly it was trackable almost to the mile and showed up yesterday as expected, but all the seller could really say was "it's in the Royal Mail, wait till USPS can track it."

@botvolution i am starting to look, as well. If I find one, I will make recommendations. The recent unexplained downtime and weird foibles and the non-implementation of features i might like are doing it.

I could self-host, but then you'd be at the mercy of our cats and our clueless housekeeper.

Yes, she did once unplug an entire rack of server so she could vacuum instead of using the fucking empty plug four actual feet away, and never bothered plugging it back in.