Notices by cpm (cpm@spore.social)

another piece of rotting plaster just fell off the ceiling of my mind & crashed tp the floor

70s
buddy & I, in our misspent youth,would load up a floor jack, gas cans, my 2 drawer tool chest,some antifreeze, jumper cables, into his former copcar (bought at auction) and cruise the interstate to assist breakdowns for fun
&
it was

@pluralistic

As an on & off former beltway bandit worker.

I wholly endorse this message.

Too many anecdotes from the near half-century of being/working in & around the region to even hope to encapsulate in a post.

folks can't grasp the scale, because it defies credulity.

@cstross
Oh
man

I'm sorry!

Guess I should go back & re-read everything so far!

Lol!

OK

I accept!

looking forward to it!

great ride
&
thanks very much for your work

@pluralistic @CaffeinatedBookDragon @utopiarte @Oggie @tierranietos

@cstross
That's interesting

was it in one of the New Management novels, that a time-critical dash thru London in a cab, wherein one of our protagonists complained about speed-limiting infrastructure was a bad thing?

or was it in Rule 34?

Honestly, I thought you were in the 'automobiles first! All else be damed' camp

shame on me!

@pluralistic @CaffeinatedBookDragon @utopiarte @Oggie @tierranietos

@skinnylatte
not enough of a drinker to grok this stuff, me.

The IPA thing.

we used to drink beer. alc content was low (rel), came in pitchers, drink enough & you may well regret it.

Have had IPAs I really liked.

Very well recieved brewery opened up nearby (15min by bicycle), folks love it. Nice, bicycle friendly, famlies, dogs, kids, oldtimers, fire pits, etc.

had one of their IPAs that came in a small glass, w/tip, cost $10, & I poured it out.

I can't afford it.

who has all this $$?

@AnarchoNinaWrites
stage was set when reagan's stacked agencies 'de-regulated' media. They buyout/ups began. Was bald-faced obvious. Even NPR got onboard to try to shut out low power radio licenses.

get big or sell-out, only path forward to, , ,monopoly.

8 yrs of clinton
8yrs of obama

they couldn't have cared less.

(still don't)
@Tarnport

@skinnylatte
indeed

food service in all forms, isn't hard,it's very hard, begs to every aspect of a person's skill, talent, & ability.

and work well worth doing.

@Dave_Goldsmith
was a solid & very credible plot device in Charlie @cstross Stross's novel Halting State, penned in '06 I think.

Using autonomous taxi for assasination

&

it was very credible

@tompearce49

@Hedgewizard
rock salt!

holy shit!

yes

hard lesson to learn.
that.

not going there.

but never happened again.

@RickiTarr

Thing is

I get it.

No, really.

I do

yet,

once the tipping point is exceeded and the people start rolling out the guillotines, , ,

it's real hard to get them to put them away again.

when I was a lot younger
I thought everyone knew this

what a fool am I?

pretty big, fwiw

I always say it, and I'll say it again:

I don't always agree with Cory @pluralistic Doctorow (still), but we can dismiss that because he's better informed than I

In his 4 novella anthology Radicalized:
https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/
(2019)

the novella -that lends title to the collection- isn't often discussed the way the other 3 are, but it was(is) the one that triggered me most deeply.

And is the one that speaks to today's headlines.

Def worth a read,if you haven't already done so

@skinnylatte
for many years,when I carried a backpack laptop bag, I kept one of those small plastic jars of huy fong's tuong ot toi in a side pocket

also a small plastic jar of matouk's calypso sauce

but it's awkward and somewhat shameful to bring your own condiments, if not outright wrong.

so i quit doing it

@cstross
wait
didn't you write that?

@ShaulaEvans
I don't know

I need to know!

My day is shot now because I don't know & need to know
&
I just woke up!

@olap

@nancycomics
Beatnik Sluggo is hep

1st catering gig since lockdown.

up at 03:30, anticipating the 04:00 alarm, didn't sleep well.

on the road at 04:15, arrive at cafe at 05:00, she's already there. I txt to be let in.

cutting & dressing bagels for an hour, load out.

Venue Change! supposed to be outside in cold drizzle, am dressed for that, not indoor.

new venue has no loading, stairs, etc
uggh

tl:dr
went off great, solo strike & load out:

"No Way! You are hauling all that by bicycle!"

lol

(250 person cold breakfast)

@AnarchoNinaWrites
hehehe

I've been wondering if the proto-fascists who aren't aware that they are in fact, proto-fascists will ever figure out that bowing to fascist demands will not save them.

The fascists don't care about these issues, cannot be appeased.

Let me be clear:

Forcing a person -under law- or by any means, to bear a child against their will is Rape

By The State

it *is* exactly that

make no mistake

Rape is unambiguous.

It is, and always was a weapon of war, violence, genocide -in fact-.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
this is the single place I'll accept the oft (mis)used term/lable 'Neonazi'

there (mostly) are no neo-nazis
just nazis

with an exception
some folks *may* exist who are not actually, demonstrably racist,
Yet
Hold firm to the idea that some are born to tell everyone else how to live (or just die) and everyone else exists only to accomodate that
This is *also* very much fascism
neo nazis

right down to the shift manager at the grocery store

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

"Fundamentally: Klein is a leftist, Wolf was a liberal. The classic leftist distinction goes: leftists want to abolish a system where 150 white men run the world; liberals want to replace half of those 150 with women, queers and people of color."

Cory @pluralistic Doctorow just nails it again.

(i want to use code refs here about including library of praise'y stuff to say about writers, but fedi does strange stuff with faux code)

plz njoy:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/