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

@aethernaut I barely remember my high school graduation and I didn't attend my college graduations, though. I reckon I'm fucked 😅

@ireneista @jamey I definitely know about that. I started my career being the tech support department for a small company.

@jamey This relates to my pet peeve of, when explaining a problem I have with, say, the company network and how it interferes with my workflow, one of my coworkers will enter the conversation with "Why don't you just <do something I tried and rejected weeks ago>?"

The way that sentence is worded makes the (wrong) solution sound trivial and obvious, so it is actually a little insulting to the intelligence of the person it's said to. A simple "Have you considered <thing>?" works just as well.

@Janeishly I love how the technologies you used as "old" were like 2nd or 3rd generation Internet connectivity to me 💀💀💀

@hex the Stüssy thing is really weird too because virtually everyone thinks they used it at some point. It's likely just people scribbling the rest of the signature next to the cool S though.

@stephanieburgis Very much appreciated. Someone I know shows up in that database.

I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/

Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯

Nobody saw that coming! :blobcat0_0:

:blobcatcoffee:

#Discord #WalledGardens

@stephanieburgis I'd be curious to know how I or another person might know if our work was stolen?

There is no evidence, none, nada, bupkus, zip, zero, zilch, of any kind whatsoever in any country anywhere in the world of a transfemme or transmasc person doing a crime in the bathroom.

Nothing.

Elmo: I’ve never done anything evil

@yukijoou @yassie_j I find it amusing that I could read that.

@tankdigital @tinker I do want to key off this. At one point, before a power play knocked me off the puck, I was developing a nonprofit that would exist to provide the kind of accounting and financial work needed so that every Pagan who dreamed of "starting a church" or similar nonprofit project could just shack up with my org and we'd handle the legal and the bean counting and leave the mutual aid to them.

Nonprofit law can be used to amplify mutual aid. I believe this deeply.

I feel like I'm in a particularly unique place to all of this too.

I use the *GPL, I was a volunteer for GNU, as a filmmaker I wrote and produced a movie about GNU and the FSF with Stephen Fry, I was a consultant and then an employee at the FSF which required me to give up my life in the UK at a moment's notice and live in the US.

So other than the GPL what has he done since 1998 (generous) that wasn't complaining about the name of Linux? The FSF has done quite a lot when he didn't interfere.

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@jalefkowit Fuuuu...I'm gonna have to put the whole record on now. "Lost Horizons" has one of the most devastating lyrics ever... "There was nothing left to say, so she said she loved me, and I stood there grateful for the lie."

@jalefkowit Hard hard same. That warm, jangling sound is, for me, the musical expression of being a disaffected 90s gen x teen.

@Jessica No argument from me. Regardless, I hate wristwatches. My last wristwatch was a Legend of Zelda game watch when I was 10 because it was a Legend of Zelda game in a watch and I was 10.

My electrolysis technician uses an Apple Watch, and I kinda see the point there. She spends almost all of her working day with her hands and face in close proximity and she's wearing gloves. It's a bit easier for her to keep an eye on messages or skip the music track while she works.

@Jessica Right...hence the "felt dumb" part. :P

@Jessica When smart watches started becoming a thing, I thought about getting one, but i really hate wristwatches and always have. In fact, I used to carry a pocket watch when I was a teen. So I thought that I might like a smart watch if it came as a pocket watch. Then I realized I had just described my phone, and felt dumb.

@Steveg58 @quinn Fair point for the franchise overall. I was really only thinking of the first Robocop film, where Murphy is not really *for* anything and is largely a victim of OCP's greed and corruption simply trying to figure out who and what he is.