Notices by Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone), page 10

“Hey—you don’t know me but here’s a quick trauma dump you didn’t ask for to help start your morning” — unsolicited Democratic Party donation texts

If Emily Blunt was my therapist and gave me some really harsh feedback I’d be like damn I guess that’s why they don’t call you Emily Sugarcoats Everything, huh?

I’m at a bar and they’re playing a horror movie *

* yes, marvel films aren’t horror but the bar TV had MOTION SMOOTHING turned on

https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

A financial planner I haven’t talked to in 20 years emailed to thank me for something I’d written on my blog which was super nice but they opened their email with “I just read your substack and it was wonderful” and now I’m a little mad to hear the nazi-loving email service is a generic phrase synonymous with “personal essays” in business people’s minds already.

Oh hey I just landed in San Diego with a bit of time to kill, I’ll watch the end of the dodgers game…

Huh, I’m in SoCal which means I can’t watch anything even though I don’t live here?!

Oh, I have tailscale! Lemme turn on the exit node to get my Oregon home IP…

Ah, there’s my baseball video feed

Tailscale is the goddamned greatest. I also had to use it recently on plane WiFi when downloading updates from the App Store was completely blocked by the airline.

it’s so weird how some kids peacefully sitting with signs suddenly turned into a warzone after we called in overly funded militarized cops, gosh it’s so mysterious how that always happens

Enshittification comes for us all, even Descript which I already pay $20/mo for because it's the best podcast editing platform on earth. Last year they added a Robot AI feature that could take your voice and create new audio from your own scripts to let you insert missing words. I went to test it out again today but got this message on a single sentence.

Moab Day 2: eye of the whale arch, tower arch, shafer road, deadhorse point

also here's 8 seconds of silent drone footage of a canyon

I remember back in 2018 when Michael Cohen was guilty of falsifying election records he said federal charges would come down to trump too, who urged him to fake the payments on checks trump personally signed. I remember writing a “they finally got him!” tweet in 2018 and actually believing it.

Six long years later, trump will play dumb, I can’t remember and I never told anyone anything and will get off. And he will use the case to push more disinformation about his past crimes.

You might say I sound dejected and cynical, but trump plays the media like a fiddle, and news orgs are more than happy to entertain a clown that brings clicks and eyeballs. Violating FEC laws is very serious business with stiff consequences, but nothing substantive will come from this NYC case.

This is how you properly honor history’s greatest monsters: not at all.

You don’t put up statues of them in center of your town. You don’t name universities or military bases after them. You don’t fly their flag hundreds of years later. You don’t argue “but they are part of my southern heritage!”

Because of Arizona’s horrendous abortion ruling today, every event planner I know is going to cross another state off their list of “places we can hold conferences and offsites that support emergency healthcare procedures if they arise with any of our employees while they are there”.

Imagine you're Salesforce with 75,000 employees and you do a winter offsite and an employee is suddenly having complications from an ectopic pregnancy while there. They can't be helped in any local hospital so do they fly home immediately while hoping they survive the flight? Does the family get to sue the company for taking the employee to a place that ultimately caused their death?

These are real situations we have to explore when you reinstitute a 160 year old law banning procedures.

Happy victory over treason day! Also enjoy the only confederate flag we should recognize and celebrate.

it’s like twitter 2007 up in here!

Despair feels obvious but it’s giving in to the worst forces working against us.

This is a lot to ponder over corn flakes, no idea why it hit me like a bolt of lightning this morning.

Slowly realizing our current existence on planet earth is actually more dystopian than almost any fictional story told but when faced with a plague of inhumanity my strongest protest is giving out as much love, compassion, and kindness as possible.