Notices by Luke Kanies (lkanies@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte it is super awesome you have gotten to this point. I am very happy for you 🤗

@inthehands @Nonilex 100%

@skinnylatte I’m sorry for all of your suffering in Mexico City. As expected, it is a real struggle for you to find 50 of 100 tacos to suffer though each day 😞

@skinnylatte hopefully my strong “immigration is good, should be way easier, and we should do way more of it” absolves me.

It’s amazing how many clear correlations exist in America’s history that we just refuse to see, not least of which is how beneficial immigration is, especially when it’s a free for all

@skinnylatte @timrichards I used to. But I agree with the article— I often find managing overhead space more stressful than checking now.

Not always. But… often

@skinnylatte that aspect of Thai food is what convinced mei had to learn to eat spicy food (having grown up with zero hot stuff in my life). Spicy tom yum is a godsend. Mild tom yum is just hot water.

@inthehands yeah this was a stunning episode. I regularly think about it

@skinnylatte yeah I traveled to Japan with an aeropress, and once I needed to make four cups for each round (me, cindy, and her parents), its limitations became clear.

@skinnylatte it’s still relatively new, and still varies a lot. When I was running puppet, more people wore blazers than not at any venture event. And I basically had to for a ton of my work.

I never wore shirts with buttons as a kid, much less blazers or suits, so it was a huge shift and I never felt or looked comfortable.

I still think about clothes way more than I’d like as a result.

@inthehands @NNN god I hate to have fresh new green nature inflicted upon me, especially when I am already doing something I love. Too much!

@skinnylatte their durability and function are top notch. But I have never been able to see myself wearing one. I just can’t handle the looks.

Thankfully there are a bunch of other great bag brands these days. I love my 15yo Mission Works bag, for instance. And Peak makes some great bags.

@inthehands (I agree with all this. But the truth has always been that reputation is hugely important in OSS. Anything else has always been more myth than reality, except in extreme or trivial cases.)

@inthehands @wdlindsy right? First Vance kills the pope, now he’s defeated Orban

@skinnylatte I’m basically the same (although I do drink alcohol on planes — I have become surprisingly intolerant of being on planes, after decades of flying for a living)

@skinnylatte one of the very few times I’ve ridden the Acela (from nyc to Boston), there was a tornado in Brooklyn as I left town.

I don’t think it was my fault.

@skinnylatte I bet you’d love Pittsburgh, too.

These cities are somehow below the radar in the US — they’re not NYC, LA, or Chicago — but they very much have their own thing going on.

And, crucially, there are a lot of Black (and lots of other) people there making it happen.

@skinnylatte holy fucking shit you need a content warning on that shit.

I should have set aside a whole day

@skinnylatte it’d be fun to design a tour that provided the widest possible range of cultures through the US, even just focusing on cities.

@skinnylatte I don’t know why, or exactly how, but their food is unlike anyone else’s. And it’s so much better than most food that sounds similar. Probably that it’s more connected to indigenous food culture than most other American food

@skinnylatte definitely. I must admit I conflate that and Oklahoma. But both are large and low population. I assume quite a bit under 2.1m.