Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)

@mapachin always

@jk beetroot? https://100r.co/site/uxn.html

I'm dead serious about this one btw, fully incorporated into my everyday speech. Gonna make it happen.

https://xoxo.zone/@clarity/114423706800685770

@catilac particularly if you have a diagnosis, yes!

ENGLISH LANGUAGE UPDATE

"Bugs" is now an adjective for describing things that are fascinating, cool, beautiful. Particularly if in an idiosyncratic way.
- "Oh man this album is bugs, you gotta listen to it"
- "Lately I've been getting into painting a picture of the same tree every day" "That's bugs, good for you"

ENGLISH LANGUAGE UPDATE

Instead of "cargo culting", we now refer to "picket fencing" – irrationally dressing your home up like fun-sized aristocratic estates in hopes that if you fake it long enough maybe you'll get to become part of the leisure class.

@typeswitch been learning lately that a lot of the politeness-and-deference-based speech in english-speaking culture originates as a specifically "middle-class" virtue – bourgeoisie norms propagated by people who view relationships as transactional exchanges.

@impactology imo, instead of thinking "how to make things work across a large homogenous group", the answer is "how to turn a large homogenous group into a fractal of cohesive sub-groups". A big problem is many bureaucratic structures are designed as "services" that individuals directly interface with, which forces us to think of ourselves as individuals! Structures can instead operate on groups, or move through preexisting social graphs.

@matthewbischoff serious answer: really insufferable hipster literature. I don't like it but it's true.

less serious answer: the surprisingly common "lesbian destroys spacetime to save her girlfriend" genre

@choir @detondev happy 2 let someone else take the throne if I can be part of her court of eunuch advisors

Something about reading this has left a pit in my stomach. A mixture of fear and dread and also genuine envy. I need to find a good book club or something. Posting is such a intellectual dead-end.

@annika a server with a single normal user and 100 moderators sounds like a great pitch for a surreal reality tv show

if anyone is starting a secret lefty-intellectual disappearing-message signal groupchat you should invite me btw

also damn this site's web design refreshingly great

well, this explains a lot
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

the gundam is the first instance I've ever seen of a retrofuturist aesthetic where the era being retro'd is the present day, 2025

reminder that "conservative" as a political term doesn't have anything to do with "conserving money". That's a made-up etymology and only applies to a specific school of Reaganomics. Conservatism is, and always has been, an ideology centered around producing, enforcing, and defending a stable caste system.

(Contrast with fascism, for which a caste system is only one possible means to an end, where the end in question is violence-for-violence's-sake.)

need a 9-minute chase sequence choreographed to this song

it is once again time to listen to Mingus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY

@mcc I answered yes but the more appropriate answer would be"it's complicated"