Notices by Ho Ho Ho Like The Slur (coolandnormal@aus.social)

"A billionaire carries, on average, an investment portfolio in companies that will produce 1.9m tonnes of CO2 a year – roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of 400,000 petrol cars."

Extremely normal planet.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/world-richest-used-fair-share-emissions-2026-oxfam

@vmbrasseur @hannah Caresse Crosby, publisher, ghost writer of erotica, first patent holder for a modern bra. Photographed in 1914 with her whippet, Clytoris.

Be my plumber
Take out the bung to drain the tank, put it in your pocket for safe keeping
Set up the entire roof plumbing system directed into the tank
Go home

@ai6yr "do not call 911 to report drilling noise"

... What?? Ya'll call a man with a gun to tell them there's a noise in a public place??

Amazing what you find wandering around rural cemeteries. Grandson of General Shrapnel, inventor of the weapon.

#graves

And they were roommates (in a weirdly hetro way)

Other interesting finds: a Black Friday* victim

*not that one

CEO: I have SMS notifications turned off for everyone but my kids so I can concentrate on the essential nature of my work, it increases my productivity and focus.
Workers: great insight boss, give me two minutes to change email notification settings for the whole company
CEOs: wait

Mind the... australia

The air pressure change overnight has been impressive

@Iwillyeah @RamenCatholic @misty @tef you can just go for the vibes, but you can also be a Quaker who doesn't believe in god but believes in being a Quaker. It's a whole thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers

CEOs: I want the highest productivity
Productivity experts: you should hire fat disabled trans people who work from home
CEOs: what I meant is I want the highest productivity I can get from twinks at a hotdesk

Today I experienced my favourite AI fail so far.

Inaturalist keeps insisting mosses and lichens are skinks, based on "visually similar, found nearby". Then it shows pictures of skinks taken nearby on the exact same type of rock that the moss is on.

The pictures ARE visually similar. Because they're both Grampians sandstone.

I have potentially just discovered the Most Rural Thing.

Friend mentioned buying a second hand window. I asked where. She said a name. I didn't know they had a shop or a junkyard...?

She explained that he owns one of the old train station sheds, it's full of reclaimed building materials. There are no opening hours or appointments. It's always unlocked. You can go in, look around, give them a call if you want anything. But be careful, both the roof and floor are falling away.

#JustRuralThings

I have accidently coined the term "tourist-care system". It's hotels, restaurants, safely maintained tourist spaces, groomed trails, park rangers, etc.

Essentially a childcare system but for white office workers going to places where they would die almost immediately if left to their own devices.

My crisis management class is exploring the scenario "what if a team of white collar workers from your org was overseas in a small poor town and a tsunami hit?"

We're exploring it through the lenses of social, tech, economic, environmental, etc, etc...

Turns out by far the biggest problem I keep encountering is the "white collar" part.

Biggest issue...
Social: no one will know how to look after themselves without access to supermarkets, restaurants, hotels.
Tech: no one will know where they are or how to access their documents without their phone.
Economic: everyone is likely dependent on constant tech access for local currency
Environmental: these people probably don't know how to survive a stroll in the bush outside Melbourne, let alone whatever environment this happens in
Political: did I mention these useless fuckers are australian?

It's often noted that toddlers say 'no' a lot because that's what's constantly said to them. Toddlers are just mirroring what they're receiving. Then adults flip out, because they can't cope with being treated the way they treat toddlers.

Far less acknowledged is the way youth are constantly told 'you should'. They come to believe that's the normal way middle aged and elderly people interact, because that's the only way older people interact with them: projecting judgement and instruction. Then adults flip out because they can't stand being spoken to the way they speak to teens.

@alice I have no idea why, but this is the biggest thing on Printables.

Hot tip: if you see a woman doing something, don't walk up and order her to do it for you.

This used to happen constantly when a woman staff member was doing the ironing at the clothing stores where I used to work. A random man would stride up and say "you can do my shirts next, thanks!", this would happen at least once per hour. I had forgotten about this until I got out my crochet while sitting alone* in public.

*alone is key. I sit doing crochet with other people all the time and strange men never approach to make orders for socks. But as soon as I sat alone today: men. Old white men. Everywhere.

After ordering socks he immediately started on how he was raised in a better time before washing machines and dishwashers and hot running water and it was a much better way to live and the women were better then.

I think I need to get more visibly queer so old white people stop dumping this particular trauma on me.

He kept saying "it's a better way to live!". I didn't inform him that he's allowed to not own a dishwasher. I've never been able to afford one, there's no law that you have to have them.