Notices by Mason Loring Bliss (mason@partychickens.net)

@dalias I've been engaged in that campaign for a while for the reasons stated. Abrasives are not the only source of microplastics and similar. Look at, for example, car tires as they wear away. Even silicone breaks down and emits harmful particles.

If you want to overthrow fascism, convenience (Amazon, McDonald's, 3D printers) isn't the answer. Decide if you're going to pick up a gun or, instead, push for a representative democracy with things like ranked choice voting. Nothing else is going to save us.

For my part, I completely oppose guns, so pushing for citizen initiatives to enact ranked choice voting and calling my representatives to try to influence their voting is what I've got - that and trying to live the changes we're going to need to not snuff ourselves as a species.

@dalias @greenpeace Heating notwithstanding, drinking from plastic doses you with microplastics. Exciting the molecules seems to intensify this - that's not something Greenpeace has fabricated. It wasn't hard finding studies, even when limiting the search to the pre-slop era as is necessary nowadays.

My objection to the Greenpeace post is the absolutely sub-par alt text. They shouldn't have used that image if they weren't willing to make it accessible.

@dalias I agree with Greenpeace on this. Like the other person who responded, I used to work for Greenpeace. Plastic is a horror.

I can't remember any campaigns they've done that were wrong-headed. I still let what I learned canvassing for their dioxin campaign guide my family.

I think we need purists. I try to be a purist myself, under the belief that if I'm not part of the solution, I'm part of the problem. Nothing that involves victims is acceptable, and we all live in a real life version of the Twilight Zone episode "Button, Button" nowadays.

I'd love to have a 3D printer, but I won't get one because it's all plastic. So instead we collect woodworking tools. The kids use clay for things. Are there things for which a 3D printer would be wildly convenient? Absolutely. But it would be convenient in the way Amazon is convenient or gig economy companies are convenient. In this case, looking for the victims would be particularly easy - my kids would be among them given microplastics pollution.

The only crap like that we're allowing inside our bodies is mRNA vaccine carrier, and even there people are moving beyond polymers.

I'm going to hash-tag this as I want to boost it. I really care about this and want to offer more people the perspective that guides us.

#plastic #microplastocs #maskup

Public service announcement: Amazon hurts people. If you use Amazon, you're okay hurting people.

Here are some references. There are many, many more.

2024: Why Amazon Is Bad for Society: Examining the Hidden Costs of Convenience
https://www.historytools.org/consumer/why-is-amazon-bad-for-society

2023: Exclusive: ‘I Feel Like I’m Drowning.’ Survey Reveals the Toll of Working For Amazon
https://time.com/6248340/amazon-injuries-survey-labor-osha/

2023: 41 Percent of Amazon Workers Have Been Injured On the Job, New Report Finds
https://cued.uic.edu/pain-points/

2024: Amazon’s Biggest Delivery: Millions of Pounds of Plastic Pollution
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2024/07/03/amazon-plastic-pollution/

2019: 10 Ways Amazon Violates Human Rights
https://greenamerica.org/blog/10-ways-amazon-violates-human-rights

2025: Why So Many People Are Boycotting Amazon: 11 Major Complaints Explained
https://www.marketingscoop.com/consumer/why-do-people-hate-amazon/

2023: The Local Harms of Amazon and What State Lawmakers Can Do About Them
https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/the-local-harms-of-amazon/#

2025: Amazon's Environmental Impact: Unpacking The Harmful Effects On Our Planet
https://shunwaste.com/article/why-is-amazon-bad-for-the-environment

2024: Amazon workers struggle with injuries and low pay despite company’s profits
https://prismreports.org/2024/06/05/amazon-workers-struggle-injuries-low-pay/

#amazon #boycott

This is both crazy and unsurprising.

'President Donald Trump has warned Netflix to remove former US ambassador and national security advisor Susan Rice from its board "or pay the consequences."'

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-susan-rice-netflix-full-comments-2026-2

@Infoseepage Have you read this?

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/

@Infoseepage This is still available: https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform

@Infoseepage https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

@Infoseepage Not as good for embeds but it'll keep the embeds from working, such is a win. uBlock helps too.

Someday I'd like to write something that builds off of itself progressively, each piece utterly misunderstanding the previous piece - sort of a terza rima of madness. Each successive misunderstanding must be entirely plausible and reasonable, but utterly incorrect.

This is my favourite form of humour.

I release the idea to the world in case anyone else wants it.

@futurebird I'm going to go with the prescriptivist "it has no meaning and can be safely ignored," which serves me well with so much new usage.

Yes, I read the other replies and I'll concede that some people say it and others hear it and interpret it in the intended way, but I feel safe rejecting and/or ignoring it, as appropriate, and I invite you to join me. If we ignore it long enough, it might go away.

Now, this is cool! Goblins actors and ActivityPub. Found this via Planet Scheme.

https://spritely.institute/news/mandy-activitypub-on-goblins.html

https://planet.scheme.org/

#scheme #lisp #activitypub

@lxo Warm rain is always invigorating to me. I am not surprised you came out of that with more energy.

What kind of fruit was falling?

@Mastodon More properly the Fediverse, no? Mastodon is just one off many Fediverse servers.

https://fedidb.com/servers

@steter Don't all radio-based wristwatches sync to that station?

I assume NIST will come back online, but I can also imagine it being sidelined until after the next presidential election.

Are all the radio watches in North America a little screwed now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

#time #nist #radio #watches

Tried again, and this time there was a lot of red in the sky. Neat!

#aurora

"Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/amazon-datacentres-water-use-disclosure

#amazon #llm #climate #polycrisis

@richardfontana @bkuhn I always thought Ty Cobb was a cute pun. What were the arguments against it? The new play on words is more of a stretch, but maintains the same general shape.

@richardfontana @bkuhn That was my phone substituting Cobb. Knowing Richard, it's incredibly unlikely he intended any sort of racist connotation. It's disappointing to treat things as racist when they're not.

When my wife was a public school teacher, evidently the kids had some terrifically confused definition of "trifling".

Ah, well. In today's climate, arguably overreaction is more useful than than inaction, and worlds better than outright racism.