Notices by M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)

I'd estimate as many as 1,500 people turned out in the mostly-conservative Portland suburb of Tigard, and hundreds or even thousands of cars honked or gave a thumbs-up compared to only half a dozen birds or thumbs-down that I saw.

In Tigard. That's a BFD. At least half the Teslas that drove by gave us honks and waves (including the one driven by two women in hijab). #HandsOff

1/2 Today's inspiration: Louis Gossett Jr. and Isaac Hayes walk into a Nazi bar... #TheRockfordFiles

Wow. The “Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act":
https://sfist.com/2025/03/28/latest-proposed-california-ballot-measure-named-after-luigi-mangione/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

"Major League Baseball ha[s] altered what was once its 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' webpage, removing that title, and scrubbing the word "diversity" from it... [and] has almost completely eliminated the webpage for its Diversity Pipeline Program. And it's not even clear if the program itself exists any longer."

This wouldn't be a bad time for all offended ballplayers to strike. Let's see how well the owners do without minority and minority-ally players.

^@anirvan

So hey, if anyone hasn't blocked and reported enough people today and feels like flushing an assferret, may I suggest you do so to
@ chanon @noauthority.social ?

Dear #Canada:
I'm so fucking sorry. Really.
Your friend,
Scott
P.S.: Please boycott us massively, and also get your defenses buffed. We need you to win this thing no matter how much it hurts us along the way.

The weather forecast for Western Oregon calls for extremely unusual and heavy thunderstorms, with heavy intermittent downpours.

Also, the hose bib in our front yard has been broken for a year so I haven't washed our cars in forever.

So I just ran out and soaped them up, trusting the rain will rinse them off for me shortly. Fingers crossed!

(And when I say I haven't washed the cars in a long time, I mean I haven't washed the cars in GEOLOGIC time.)

Also, ping @skinnylatte .

Dammit, Audubon, STOP COMPLYING IN ADVANCE!

@Remittancegirl @CartyBoston Okay, but putting ketchup on eggs remains a dealbreaker no matter how allied we are on policy.

@Remittancegirl @CartyBoston No tomato in sambal, therefore okay.

@steter She switches servers, too.

Also, even if you were vaccinated as a child, you nevertheless might not be immune to measles if you were born between 1957 (when a vaccine came out that didn't always work) and 1968 (when a better vaccine was released). I just got a "childhood" Measles Mumps Rubella ("MMR") vaccine at age 63 because measles is continuing to spread and I'm in that unsweet spot.

@aaron.rupar Trump saying that Canada is "nasty" because he wants it and it won't give itself to him...

... makes me believe E. Jean Carroll even more.

You: "Eh, it's just measles. No big deal."
Science: "Essentially, when you're infected with measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent. Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia

@FantasticalEconomics @academicchatter I'm fine with Harvard doing this, but not Yale Law, because it might help more Appalachians attend and then write books that get turned into movies that let them get hired as Thiel acolytes and then become evil vice presidents.

I'm a 63-year-old straight cis married suburban white man who used to be a prosecutor, and these days I would rather hang out with unemployed young autistic queer furries than with at least half of people like myself.

Why? Because my (old-school Republican) parents raised me to be an American, not an asshole.

@steter @TheJen I just don't want to lose the Windows 10 that's currently on it before Microsoft forces me to.

@steter @TheJen Thanks! Can I do a dual boot so Windows is still there in case I need to revert?