Notices by Tim Ellis 🦝 (the_tim@mastodon.social)

What the tariff madness looks like from the perspective of our little tea & spice shop - 12 emails since December from our Canadian tea supplier as they try to stay on top of the constant, unending changes. #tariffs

Good crowd at the "Hands Off" protest in Everett, WA today. #protests #handsoff

…most likely without any human ever even reading it. Thanks for nothing, #Google.

So I tried guessing the reviewer's email address & sending them a polite email explaining that I think they made a mistake & would they please delete the review.

To my surprise they replied, apologized, & deleted it! [2/2]

Anyway, our shop is also online if anybody wants some tea: https://chaicupboard.com/

Small win: Someone left a 1-star review on the small loose leaf tea shop my wife & I own. Sometimes people are upset for silly reasons, but in this case it was clearly meant for a completely different business. They described an interaction that literally wasn't possible in our shop.

I tried reporting it through Google's business tools as "off topic: review doesn't pertain to an experience at or with this business" but Google rejected my report & my appeal. [1/2]

The US has been taken over by absolute clowns. 🤡

What an embarrassment. #politics

"people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn't be in this country"

No, that's not the latest post from your crazy uncle on Facebook. It's a real, word-for-word comment made by the GOP candidate for Vice President. #politics #jdvance

Vintage 1960s anti-drug propaganda.

@KydiaMusic

Maya.

Maya.

That is not how beds are supposed to work. #dogs #dogsofmastodon #shibainu

Got a very un-fun call last night from the local PD, telling me that someone broke a window at our tea & spice shop. 😨

We have insurance of course, but we're still going to be out the $500 deductible, which really sucks considering I'm still unemployed, unemployment benefits have run out, & the shop isn't profitable. 😩

If you like loose leaf tea & want to help, go place an order at https://chaicupboard.com/

Who could have possibly foreseen it. 😒 #layoffs https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/

@mcc I lost all respect for Oculus the moment they sold to Facebook.

And this isn't the first time they've given the middle finger to users of older hardware, either. They screwed over GearVR owners.

@thomasfuchs Weird and frustrating. I've never had trouble talking to a real person at our post office via the direct local number when I have problems with delivery.

@thomasfuchs Can't you though? My local post office's direct phone number comes up on the USPS site: https://tools.usps.com/find-location.htm?location=1362862

@thomasfuchs

@GossiTheDog Personally, Microsoft hasn't come up with a single compelling reason for me to buy an Xbox since the Xbox 360. Literally any game I'm interested in that's on Xbox is also on PC.

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Personally I'm tired of billionaires.

@Gargron Major galaxy-brain move to aggressively piss off your users when your site's value comes 100% from user-generated content.

@Popehat Did you see the even more unhinged follow-up tweet? What is wrong with this guy.