Notices by Zalasur 🇺🇦 (zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net)

@cwebber it was the blurst of times

@lunareclipse @cwebber I just wanted to chime in to say that at the very least it was an informative answer. 👍

@ChrisWere @The_Icarian Lots of drafted servicemen died in that war. They didn't have Trump's privilege of claiming a made-up medical condition to get out of the draft.

Trying to claim that you were simply criticizing the Vietnam War is disingenuous at best and displays profound ignorance of the sacrifices many of an entire generation of American men and women had to make. You can claim that the War was unjust (it was), but praising Trump in the same breath is beyond tone-deaf.

@ChrisWere @The_Icarian No. It was not.

Him dodging the draft meant that someone else, almost definitely lower income, had to go in his place.

I don't know if a recent update broke things on #PeerTube but it looks like my markdown for my support pop-up window isn't working.for any of my channels. I narrowed it down to the image not loading but it's only emerged as a problem in the past few weeks since I did check it a couple of months ago. Did PeerTube decide to no longer render image links in markdown anymore?

Stole this from X (ugh) from a post by the Stephen Colbert Tonight Show account there.

Looking for ways to support the people of Ukraine? Here's how:

World Central Kitchen
http://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

Razom for Ukraine
http://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response

Nova Ukraine
http://novaukraine.org

United Help Ukraine
http://unitedhelpukraine.org/about-us

Global Giving
http://globalgiving.org/projects/ukraine-crisis-relief-fund

For the past month and a half I've had to wear my "backup" sunglasses when driving. I was over at my in-laws' house and I figured I left the my good ones there. The backups aren't bad, but they aren't polarized lenses so they weren't quite as good for cutting glare.

We got over to the in-laws again today and asked if they'd seen my sunglasses and they were like, nope! I was confused until I reached into a forgotten pocket in my travel bag and... Yup I had them the entire time 😅

#Whoops

I'd like to make the following observation. Yesterday's Oval Office press briefing with Elon Musk was not a projection of strength. They are getting defensive. They know a lot of people are pissed at them and the walls are closing in.

I'm saying this because right now I'm seeing a lot of doomerism permeate the online discourse. This is not all inevitable. Keep fighting because whatever we doing, is getting to them. And it shows.

#USPolitics

I'm working on setting up a #mastodon instance and the most difficult part of it may be setting up a mail server. My last attempt ended in failure so this is basically my kryptonite. My question for #MastodonAdmins is: is it necessary to do that for a single-user instance or can I skate by without one, at least for the short term until I gather up the courage to try a second go at this?

@GottaLaff It's interesting that the front page placeholder says that President Trump will take care of everything (paraphrased).

But here is the thing. What if he doesn't? What if he *can't*?

Are the people mad at Biden for signing the law going to be mad at Trump next? Expectations are riding high.

@georgetakei It would appear that he's fine, but yeah that was a close call for him.

When the new #Mastodon update came out, I did not like the UI change to the Content Warning container.

Now that I've had a chance to get used to it, I've decided I *really* don't like the changes.

@georgetakei No, the worst part is when you parallel park and you get it perfectly, but no one sees it.

@mattwilcox American here. 👋

I could not agree with this statement more.

@mweston @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews It's a private Zoom call being broadcast on YouTube

I'm going to suggest this account for fediblock. The US election is bringing out the "fake" accounts and this one is no exception. It looks like a satire account but the vibe I'm getting from the server in general is that it's not "friendly". It definitely looks like an attempt at impersonation.

at kamala at fuckgov.org

So I'm erring on the side of caution and recommending a #fediblock. I'll probably just block the entire instance.

#uspol #uspolitics

Just an FYI, there's an AI SPAM bot on dot social. Replying to posts on Mastodon claiming to rate your beauty. All you have to do is upload a picture of your face. I've reported it to the mods there but I'm posting it to the fediblock in case anyone else runs across this.

I'm guessing this won't be the last time we see this type of account.

@beautyfaceai@mastodon.social

#FediBlock

One thing I wish #PeerTube did was post a federated announcement whenever I went live. Right now I have to post things manually just like I did on Twitch which sort of defeats the purpose.

"But you can just create a new live video every time you go live and it will federate that" Do you know what a pain in the ass that is?

Ok fine, let's do this.

#StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek

@RenewedRebecca @baldur Oh I know. I was there for that too. I was just trying to make an attempt at some light-hearted gallows humor 😉