Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)

@koko Holy shit everything about this is beautiful and I'm so obsessed. How can I be the little gay idiot fox?

@jezebelkat @nixCraft I do ham radio for a hobby. Once I had a conversation with a guy in Australia from my home in Atlanta. My output power was 100 W. I have lightbulbs that draw that much power. But somehow that's enough to wiggle the EM field and let someone halfway around the globe hear my voice. Absolutely magical.

@epilanthanomai Would you believe that, even a 90s gothling like me who is deeply involved in World of Darkness stuff...has never seen "The Hunger" or "The Lost Boys"?

The Tōka Ebisu faith (十日えびす信仰) spread to Kyōto from Imamiya-jinja (今宮神社) in Ōsaka in the mid-Edo period, but it was Kyōto's merchants that helped to popularize the festival nationwide.

So crowded is the festival that the shrine's bell ropes are often removed🔕

#Kyoto #Ebisujinja #Ebisu #恵比寿

Well, it finally came to it. After nearly 3 years of inactivity, I decided to delete my Facebook account. I guess this stings a little more than deleting my Twitter account because, for a while, Facebook was actually extremely useful for maintaining personal connections, building community, and even finding products I found quite useful.

But it was time. The abuse policy change made me feel I couldn't just leave my account up for the photo album's sake.

@mountdiscovery When we started watching #FormulaE, we needed someone to cheer for. My partner drives a Leaf and so he did the stereotypically redneck thing of cheering for Nissan since they make the car he drives. Obviously, we were pretty happy with the way things turned out.

@ajroach42 yikes!

@Garwboy I got worn out on the mere idea of "masculine/feminine energy" almost 30 years ago when it was a dominant trope in Pagan circles. The concept is so intellectually lazy. Just say the qualities you're after. Stop smothering them in your tired "Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus" horseshit.

@FediThing @jalefkowit Those were more innocent times when we didn't fully understand Google's fascination with destroying everything they make. 😅

@verge related: Lucy says she won't pull the football away this time because she has a signed document.

@Lana I lived in a world filled with this too. My only quibble is that I don't think they see anything as really threatening it. Most of the christofascists I have known (and their sympathizers) see LGBTQ+ people, etc, as either "wrong" people who need to be pushed until they live "correctly" or as mentally ill people who must be "cured" even if it means taking their freedom from them to do it. We do get collectively rhetorically treated as threats when we organize, though.

@Dany most memos contain the same amount of semantic content as a slide deck and there's no need to deal with all that pesky complex grammar. Plus, pictures! And the people who use slide decks that way spend a *lot* of time getting quick at slide decks. You'd be amazed what people will do to avoid writing. Like, people made robots write trash for them so they could avoid writing themselves.

"Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity."

...except you can't do the exact same thing twice because circumstances change every time. The burden is on the user of that cliche to show circumstances are sufficiently constrained, and the behavior sufficiently similar, to make the cliche relevant.

By that point, maybe just explain your expected outcomes and suggest a credible alternative.

@KatS @WideEyedCurious @marlies I think there's a bit of a disconnect here because words like "the same thing" blur over a lot. When I practice, I'm making micro-adjustments on each rep, so it's not the same thing; yet the process of "do the rep, analyze the rep, make micro-adjustments" is the same every time.

@aral Oh for sure, and the control of the freshwater bodies was more about fishing than water. Just having a laugh at the overlap.

@RevXenoFact @xankarn @breadandcircuses Duly noted. As someone who owns like 5 translations of The Art Of War, I take recommendations like that pretty seriously.

@futzle Yeah. Dude's a legend. I've read his books.

@aral Owning and controlling access to rivers and other bodies of fresh water was a pretty common right claimed by Tudor era monasteries. So... everything old is new again?

@RevXenoFact @xankarn @breadandcircuses You'd surely know better than me. It's one of those things where I read it once and have since heard it referred to out of context, often paired with "the five tones deafen the ear", and since I'm most likely to discuss such things in the tearoom, where we're more likely to discuss the perils of categorizing things too much, I've likely just backfilled a meaning not present in context.

@RevXenoFact @xankarn @breadandcircuses I'd thought the point of "The five colors blind the eye." was that, by categorizing what one sees, one fails to see the thing in its wholeness?