Notices by Queer Like The Slur (coolandnormal@aus.social), page 2

Me: this is how bikes get repaired and recycled in this one small town.
- The junkyard guy leaves nice ones out by his gate for a day or two before dismantling them for scrap.
- there are several people in the town who know they can come past regularly and take anything by the gate
- there's a guy who takes any bikes he thinks we can salvage, they are almost always kids' bikes, there are just more of those
- a rotating group of friends and people who want to learn about bikes work on them
- when they're finished we distribute them by word of mouth: is there anyone around 6-8yo who wants a purple bike?
- the bikes seem to come with lifetime servicing. No one mentions this until the bike needs servicing, then they just say 'we better get onto servicing your bike, hey?' and it happens
- you can do a trade-in/upgrade. Kids swap their bikes for bigger bikes, people service the little bike and give it to another kid
-there is no name, no official location, no contact details for this, it's an ephemeral property that emerges from the community every day that the community has capacity to do it. It is fascinating and I am glad to have witnessed it.

Sustainability tutor: so first off this could never happen without NGO administration, start there

More importantly, that's just not how real fluid moves

@Oakenstone TinEye reckons it's tumblr art

It's getting jarring how often I see a new thing aimed squarely and only at boomers, then see boomers react with "oh well, guess I'd better finally adopt this ridiculous young people thing".

Babe you are the only generation looking at caravan mounted satellite dishes, no young person is forcing you, just buy it and be happy with it.

Hey weird question: how does your organisation dispose of old microscopes? Do they go on an auction site like old military vehicles?

I want one like I used to use at work in labs, just your basic solid workhorse microscope. Some fairly standard lenses included would be a bonus.

Thank fuck for 3d printing is all I can say

For me one of the most confusing parts of arriving on the fedi was when it's appropriate to apply a content warning.

I have since learned that applying an unnecessary content warning is almost always funny.

Hi #TiktokBan folks, welcome to the corner of the internet where you can publish your butthole on main as long as you describe it in reasonable detail.

Any other time since the invention of cars:
- a car blew up in front of a prominent building
- wow, a car bomb!

2024:
- a cybertruck blew up in front of a trump building
- yeah, they do that

@alcinnz @steven same, but I was *wildly* privileged, I had an outdoor space, a dog and I could get some remote work. Good times.

@jwi @inthehands I reckon the usa would be more useful if those people were eligible to vote.

@evacide "my job is to teach people about consent. You see the difference between opt-in and opt-out consent is..." (no one ever listens this far)

Yesterday I heard the best, most concise round up of the climate situation:

"The weather will become more extreme until human greenhouse emissions drop to zero."

Straight facts.

The pot will continue to heat until there are no living frogs in the pot to continue stoking the fire.

Then, frog-genic forcings finally at zero, the pot will begin to cool, eventually reaching pre-frog levels and possibly even recovering to something comparable to a pre-frog ecosystem one day.

Extremely well addressed: conservatives are uncomfortable with gender transition because they're uncomfortable with gender.

Extremely under addressed: conservatives are uncomfortable with gender transition because they're uncomfortable with transition.

Question re #LibreOffice impress. This project is the first time I've used libreoffice, so potentially explain like I'm 5.

I'm trying to get it to reveal each element on a slide in series. The program seems to have capability to do this in the animation tab.
I set up an entrance on click or on delay for each element, then no matter how I configure it, the first element appears on its own, then all others appear at once together.

I cannot figure out a way to make the elements each appear on their own separate click.

Help please

Libreoffice graphics library 'people' includes 22 different pictures of office workers and 0 pictures of a person who could plausibly be standing in a field.

The closest person image to a farmer (the only one who looks like they could possibly be outdoors) is labelled 'tourist' and appears to be a white person on an international holiday.

Pretty sure I've said this before, but alt text is brilliant for crossing cultural divides and telling me WTF is going on in pictures from contexts I have never seen before.

I don't expect anyone to recognise what a forestry skidder is for, no one expects me to know what a Wendy's is for. I don't expect anyone else to recognise an autoclave, no one excepts me to recognise a doorbell cam.

Ideal. No notes.

One of my main uses for alt text is working out what the author thought was notable in a picture where everything is the same level of wild to me.

Eg. *pic of a chaotic city street scene, many people are doing many different things on the street*
caption: wow, this is so wild! I have never seen this before!
(alt text: scene of taxi rank in [place]. one of the taxi cabs is blue instead of yellow!)

Unless you happen to live in a Richard Hotspot*, you're vastly more likely to meet an intersex person than a person named Richard.

*kindest regards to the model aeroplane building community

My town is extremely small, it has:
- Zero traffic lights
- Zero restaurants
- No doctor, dentist, or vet
- Nowhere to buy prepared food, no food after 6pm
- No public transport
- Assuming normal population distribution, 20-30 intersex people

Because, you see, intersex people are rare. Only 1.7% of the population.

So if a group of people is very small, like my town, your family, your workplace, etc, it might only contain 10-50 intersex people.

You may only meet them a few times a day.