Notices by Coles Street Pothole (colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network)

Bill Nighy the Science Guyhy.™️

@Natasha_Jay @HPassel
The process for this is W I L D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2GYslCAkSo

@SallyStrange I wore white pants on vacation and ate pickled beets—twice!—without consequence!

Please clap!

In the basement of Black Squirrel bookstore. 😎📚 #TheGlebe

Our extended family has been discussing THE ODYSSEY—particularly, which translation to read—when Emily Wilson (whose translation we voted was the one to read) published this review of Nolan's THE ODYSSEY. So, I posted it into the chat.

And someone replied "Spoiler alert!"

🤔 "How can this require a spoiler alert? The poem is thousands of years old?"

"No, I mean it reveals details about the film!"

Yeah, well, it's a review. Don't read it if you don't want to. 🙄

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man

Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and the two waged war for eight years.

Then the U.S. invaded Iraq and was there for over a decade.

Now the U.S. is attacking Iran.

Please, somebody, make it make sense.

RE: https://weatherishappening.network/@ColesStreetPothole/116794729618395409

Nice.

@Nickiquote
. . . . Quatre Chevaux?

Folks, I was *looking at the people in the kitchen* as they said this. They were 12' away, and the door was open. 😐

The wait staff didn't know how to take an order on a paper check and give it to the kitchen. There was no manager on site that could tell them to just run a cash business for the evening. The place ground to a halt without Wifi.

By this point, there were three parties they were turning away. They essentially closed for the night.

We are doomed. 😩

2/2

We eventually returned to office. Staff came and went. My tape stayed. Eventually, most young staff in the office had no idea why the tape was there.

One day last year, a young new hire was in my office and asked how she could get a nameplate like mine. I managed to find the tape and told her to knock herself out. 😂 The knowledge of the existence of the office's Gay Tape™️ somehow had not survived the pandemic! She then asked, "Wait, are you gay?" I was like, "Nope." 🙂

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So in 2019, before the pandemic, one of the office holiday party gifts was a roll of rainbow tape (just tape that was an endless rainbow).
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
It was great. We put it everywhere—on mugs in the kitchen, on staplers, whatever. I also put it on my office nameplate.

The pandemic came, we abandoned the office for TWO WHOLE YEARS. The mugs got washed, the stapler disappeared . . . but my nameplate remained. 🤔
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So she asked me why I put Gay Tape on my nameplate. And I just said "Seemed like a good idea at the time. I'm an old white hetero dude with a senior role in the organization, I figured I wanted folks to know I stood for Pride and wanted people to feel free and safe when they came into my office." (And maybe make any bigots uncomfortable?)

Anyway,, folks, get yourself some tape and knock yourselves out.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈

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Stupidest timeline.

😂 So, we just went into a small restaurant that only has about eight tables. Something seemed a bit off. The host came up to us and said they had a momentary power outage, and even though the power had come back on, the Wifi didn't, which means their ordering/payment system was off line, so they couldn't seat anyone.

I said, "What if I paid in cash?"

"We can't open the cash drawer."

"What if I paid the exact amount?"

"We still can't place orders. We can't communicate with the kitchen."

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@adamhotep @infobeautiful What a coincidence, I literally was just reading this 👇 when I took a break to scroll Mastodon a bit and found what you posted.

https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/rtmi4pbcyz2wav084pphsmvof9085ibp

@Infoseepage 😍

@Fragglemuppet
Yes, Mirror Ayako posted it about five hours ago, here it is:

TOS (8ET): The Changeling
TNG (9ET): The Big Goodbye
DS9 (10 ET): Tribunal
VOY (11 ET): The Fight
ENT (midnight): Demons, Part 1

@sasutina13 @ai6yr @renardboy @elebertus
Cleanse it with fire.

@djsumdog @lisamelton I'm not in a tech field, no coding—we just have researchers writing reports, and some of them were trying to use AI to write . . . and it was soooooo painful. The stuff read like it was written by a forgetful corpse. There was no . . . connection for me. I sniffed it out and asked them to please stop, to write things from scratch on their own.

@lisamelton I'm a pretty firm advocate for no AI use at our office. My simple line? "You are better than the AI." True here, too.