Notices by Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to), page 8

@noondlyt
Fave fun fact: Barry Manilow wrote that jingle and he still plays it in concert

The holidays can be a really tough time. The advice I often heard was, "Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Help others. Get out of your head." It's perfectly fine advice, but unhelpful if the mere thought of interacting with people is overwhelming. Anyway, here's a thing I did one year that did help:

I bought a Cookie Monster costume, went to the airport, and waited at arrivals with a sign that said "COOKIE"

Didn't have to talk to anyone and boy did I get to watch people's faces light up.

@sergio_101 @clacke
I did not
I was offered a few though

@kjhealy
He's come a long way since his days as a financial analyst explaining the stock market crash of '87

Solid wide shot of Kermit’s commencement speech at UMD.

@cryptadamist
Wow, this is pretty cool

Going to test it out before recommending it but it looks very promising

I pay for news both across mainstream media and on sites like ghost. I subscribe to two dozen magazines and nearly twice as many newsletters. With few exceptions (<cough> WaPo) I am happy to pay for content

That said, @GiftArticles is one of my favorite Mastodon accounts, and I'm surprised by how few followers it has

I follow it not for the free content, but rather because it serves as a curated newsfeed for what other people find worth sharing

Maybe you'd like it, too

@anildash
I very much look forward to reading them

Not only is this absurd on its face, but if by some stretch of the imagination maintaining the migrants in DHS custody in South Sudan were so harmful, Murphy's orders themselves gave the Trump regime the option of returning the men to the U.S. and conducting proper credible fear hearings here. 5/

@KathyReid
I'm sorry Kathy. That really sucks.

@clive
I was just thinking the same thing

Mastodon really showed up for this one

@jilleduffy
Geez, you don't have to call me out like that

"Hi, my name is Kim, and I abuse em-dashes. Forgive me, but I was terribly mistreated by my parentheses as a child"

[I also have an ellipsis problem which I refuse to apologize for...]

@Dianora
Wow, that's insane... who woulda thought?

"The Spanish roads are currently patrolled by eight Pegasus helicopters. As part of the tests, Spain is already using light aircraft to control the busiest sections and is also planning to use drones for this purpose in the future.

Since March 2014, they have caught over 28 thousand drivers this way [...]"

https://trans.info/en/spain-manages-traffic-inspection-air-result-28-thousand-fines-75294

@musiciankate
I think it was taken on a bicycle path, so I'm voting bicycle

@homohortus
That's a pretty good explanation, considering it was sent to me by a friend who's currently biking in Spain

So you're saying there are speed limits for bikers, and they use drones and helicopters to issue tickets to violators, or to warn them to slow down?

That sounds really crazy when I type it

I want to do a:

What does this sign mean, wrong answers only

thread, but I have no idea what the sign actually does mean. I'd welcome both humorous answers and the correct one

Per Axios:

"Around 44% of U.S. unicorn companies... are founded or cofounded by immigrants

This includes 146 U.S. unicorns ... at least 23 of them founded ... by int'l students [including] payments giant Stripe, cybersecurity firm CloudFlare, crypto brokerage FalconX, and generative AI startup Writer."

So you're saying if we ban foreign students, we'll have fewer crypto and AI companies and broligarchs?

Tell me again which side I'm supposed to be rooting for

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata-9a152c80-8829-4d81-8de6-77ec8ff662b2.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosprorata&stream=top

@mcc
I lived in NYC for decades and regularly rode the subway. I think the single best quality of life measure added in my lifetime is when the screen appeared in the station listing the times of the next trains' arrivals

If you gave me the option of a train that ran every 6 minutes with no signage, or a train that ran every 10 minutes **but there was a sign clearly indicating when the next train would be** I choose the latter every time

Loose polling suggests I'm not alone

@pluralistic
What Cory neglects to point out in his alt text is that the title of the book is wonderfully hyphenated (presumably so as not to have to reduce the type size)

It reads:
Enshit-
tification

Whoa The New Republic!

Can't recall the last time a subscription service notified me before auto-charging my credit card for a renewal

The mail includes a contact phone #, and I just logged in to see if I can cancel the subscription with one click and... yes, I can!

It's fucked that I feel so much good will toward them for basic humanity, and I recognize it's the enshittification everywhere else that makes this a uniquely pleasant experience

But still, serious props! Happy to give them my $$