Notices by Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)

@amszmidt Well, destroying Elon Musk's testicles _specifically_ with a spinning kick is what's described in the literature, but I'm sure that destroying Mark Zuckerberg's testicles with a spinning kick could also provide a lot of pleasure and satisfaction, along with the other health benefits.

Destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick is a healthy and wholesome traditional activity in many parts of the world. You should try it!

https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/113834216471922068

#twitter

@SnoopJ @socketwench Oh, Death Bed: The Bed that Eats is... it's... it's an... experience. We'll call it that.

@ascentale A9: BlueSky is absolutely the current hotness, and I don't think we can or should fight that. BUT!

What we _can_ do and I think _should_ do is establish links across BlueSky and the Federation, so people know they _can_ come here and _not_ lose contact with their friends.

To that end, I wrote up a big post telling people in simple, basic steps how they can follow each other across the services via BridgyFed. It's here:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2025/01/09/lets-all-go-to-the-exit/

This has been well received in migration circles so far, and I've been picking up new followers both on BlueSky and Mastodon.

It also gets BlueSky people reminders that the Federation is here, which will be _very helpful to us_ if and when BlueSky goes to shit.

#BikeNite

holy shit team bike look at this:

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip/d/seattle-folding-workbench-with-bike/7817506356.html

it's a fold-up workbench with a bike rack made by some DIYer in the 1980s out of plywood, it's still working, and it's being given away on Craigslist

if nothing else there are some design ideas here if you wanted to build something yourself

#diy #maker #BikeTooter #workbench #homemade #seattle

_PixelFed_ is now on the _Google App Store_. Neat!

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113807469743191501

#PixelFed #mastodon #federation #fediverse

@django @cwebber yeah sorry, I replied too quickly, I found it

@cwebber …what’d I miss? What speech?

can we talk about all the lab failures here?

i mean

1. cigarette in use 2. put directly onto the lab bench 3. where he was working on a new chemical 4. which he had clearly spilt all over the place followed by 5. picking the cigarette back up and putting it into his mouth

experiment contamination issues aside there are so many ways you can die from this in a chem lab holy fuck

@nil holy shit

now _that_ is a warning message!

does it use the time despite not believing it? as in, does it behave correctly?

@rand @ascentale _Something else is wrong_.

I’ve never had to do this ever. I lose some PSI over time but nothing like that. Not even close. And I run at the top of the pressure range for my tubes, which aren’t anything special as far as I know. Something else is going on.

(I refill when I clean my chain which is about every three weeks in summer, more like 40 days in winter; it’s distance-travelled-based.)

The headline understates it; the state of Florida is _forcibly detransitioning people_:

[Trans] inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria were rounded up and informed that... policy had been changed, “up to and including hormone therapy.” They would no longer have... clothing and grooming standards that accord with their gender identity... [trans women] who did not cut their hair in compliance with male grooming standards would be forcibly shorn... those who did not turn in their [female clothing] would be disciplined. [Trans] women were forced to have their breasts examined to determine if their breasts were large enough, in the eyes of the department, to require a bra.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/florida-judge-allows-state-prison-officials-to-withhold-medical-care-for-transgender-incarcerated-people

#florida #aclu #fascism #uspol #uspolitics

People in my neighbourhood have already hosted internal refugees from Florida arriving after DeSantis, so if anyone thinks this isn't real, please stop thinking that.

https://mastodon.gruezi.net/@kuow_bot/113743608257703791

#news #uspol #wapol #uspolitics #politics

@baconandcoconut @attoparsec I genuinely don't think I've ever had Tang

but I know it's kind of orangey? so "hot tang" sounds terrible

@xgranade I love them so much <3

They're so cheap at garage sales, you can get them for like $2-$3 if you're lucky. A couple of them I've repainted and/or otherwise restored, and I can make parts sometimes with the 3D printer xD

workspace revised

okay this one's good

@ArchaeoIain @Thumper1964 @benroyce @drahardja @rodhilton Here, I wrote up how this works a couple of weeks ago, people seemed to get it:

https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/11/11/tariffs-mass-deportation-the-pieces-fit-together/

I'm definitely seeing new followers. Hi! Thanks for coming here. I know it's fiddly but I think it's worth it.

Here's the most important tip I can give you:

\🥳/ HASHTAGS \🥳/

Like old Twitter, this place lives on hashtags. Here's how to use them:

1) Put tags on EVERYTHING you don't want hidden.

1A) Seriously. Everything. Keep them appropriate! But.

2) FOLLOW hashtags. That's a thing you can do here. You can follow a hashtag like you can follow a person. Type in the search box, select it, then click follow.

4) Whenever you see someone interesting on that hashtag? Follow them. Follow people WITH ABANDON. Unfollow if it doesn't work out, that's okay here!

That's it. Welcome!

#twitter #x #BlueSky #TwitterMigration

So here's the breakdown: white woman moved to Harris, but not quite a majority. Latino men moved heavily to Trump, and it was not just a majority, but a 33 point swing from 2020.

Not a thing I saw coming. I mean... how do you vote for the guy calling you and yours what he calls you? How do you vote for the one _campaigning_ on an _ethnic purge against you_?

That's not all of it, but it's a lot of it.

This isn't over but this is some very, very bad case scenario here.

ETA: Poll source is NBC News, and it's across the "battleground" states plus Florida. Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin. Here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism