Notices by Ellie 🐍☃️ :blobsnowedin:​ (noelle@chat.noelle.codes), page 2

Tired: "You've heard of Elf on the Shelf--"

Wired: Elf on the Shelf was invented less than twenty years ago and was cynically marketed as "a Christmas tradition" from the start in order to manipulate parents and children

@Polychrome @brion I know, right? Intellectually I know how old I am, but my subconscious is still convinced I'm about 20.

@brion Most of 1996 and earlier was closer to the *60s* than to today

Thinking about how the common media idea of 18-year "generations" is pretty flawed; I'm part of a minigeneration, for instance, born roughly 1975-1979, that's too old to have Millennial Experiences but too young to have really participated in a lot of the Gen X cultural touchstones, and which is broadly ignored - even more so than Gen X as a whole - by cultural commentators.

oh no, this family that makes more than ten times the median US income is going to pay 3% more of their income in taxes, clearly this is a problem that you, the working poor, should start a revolution about

Someone pointed out:

Retired couple: $52,000 in investment income

ACS median household income in the US, 2012: $51,731

Remember back in 2012 when the Wall Street Journal wanted us to feel bad for these people because their taxes were going up?

Every so often my mind feeds me, out of nowhere, the fact that "scale", "scale", and "scale" are not only not the same word but are entirely unrelated.

Golly

Good night, fedi. Take care of yourselves and be kind to each other. Remember: we don't have to reiterate the rest of the internet. We can be thoughtful people here.

Remembering the time a professional journalist whined that Mastodon was inaccessible to the average user because my guide was hosted on Github, ***a site for programmers*** 😱

#mastoadmin Call for help! If you've run into this error after updating to Mastodon 4.1.3, how have you solved it?

(PLEASE do not reply with speculation, googled results, etc. I ONLY want to hear from people who have solved THIS SPECIFIC PROBLEM. I have tried many things, and I am looking for a solution, not for suggestions.)

:blobeyes:

the kind of guy who gets pissed at the Switch because "they reversed the Xbox controller's button names!"

Dolphin Barn Inc., an indie game developer, has - and I'm not sure I've ever heard of this happening before - been permanently banned from Steam after having an enormous transphobic meltdown in the developer notes for their game "Domina".