Notices by mycorrhiza (mycorrhiza@post.lurk.org)

Tragedy! My favorite neighborhood coffee spot has started pre-sweetening their matcha. This leaves nothing of interest on the menu for my spouse, who dislikes coffee and sweet drinks.

We’ve been going once or twice, most weekends, since we moved here. It’s Our Spot! But now I suspect I’ll only come through every few weeks — the end of an era.

@roadriverrail I am in total agreement. “Replace all plastic bottles with glass ones” is really no different than “replace all our fossil-burning cars with electric ones”.

Before I moved to the SoCal suburbs I lived in a twee neighborhood on the East Coast that provided multiple opportunities to refill your own dang container with whatever goo or sludge you needed to purchase, all within walking distance (this was also the case in my Midwestern college town).

But here, everyone gets all their stuff (so much stuff!) from Walmart, Amazon, Costco, or Target. It is such a baldly unsustainable lifestyle.

So I’m fully on board for a plastic ban. Seriously, no plastic containers whatsoever except for a few carefully prescribed industrial uses — in standardized sizes and designed to be reused as many times as feasible.

However...

I just dropped a tiny glass bottle of maple syrup from the kitchen countertop and it’s one of the worst messes I’ve ever had to clean up (and I’ve dealt with more than my share of literal shit). There are tiny glass slivers literally everywhere in this room. I have had to remove EVERYTHING, from my KITCHEN, to find all the glass. This is a catastrophe.

Ok friends. Protonmail are bootlickers and Fastmail are union busters.

Where do I host my mail next?

Happy Men’s Day to all my bros doing the difficult work of figuring out how to do “masculine” in a society that does not offer a positive template for doing so.

Happy Men’s Day, also, to my guys who decided to ditch masculinity altogether but feel that “man” is the best label for their gender. You can be a man any way you want to my dude.

A piece of software that fills the hyper-specific niche, “nncp but easy for anyone to setup and use”, could do a whole lot of good in the near future.

I installed it but have yet to configure or try it myself. It hasn’t seemed worth the (non-trivial) effort when I only know maybe half a dozen people who would be both capable of and interested in using it to share stuff with me. And I’m an anarchist with a goddamn Mastodon account!

http://www.nncpgo.org/

@scribe @orbific I’m embarrassed that I only figured out how cheap ideas were halfway through grad school. But it’s liberating when you finally accept that — I’ll only have the time and energy to work on a few of mine and Thats Fine.

I really like that, @hypostase. My first thought, which I guess is bog-standard anarchism: “scaling this means telling people we’ve never met how to live their lives, and that’s what got us into this mess.”
@adamgreenfield

@evdas @cyronimose
This! If you can unscrew the pedals they can more easily use it as a “coaster bike” and learn how to balance and steer. I have taught adults and teens using this exact method.

Now I’m wondering how many proto-anarchists (and proto-communists) were murdered by the medieval Church for supposed “heresies”.

@playinprogress I hadn’t heard of this, but I seem to be having trouble finding it (ugh, remember when search was good?). Do you happen to have a link?

If you have an old plastic device with a coating that once made it feel slightly rubberized, but has since become uncomfortably sticky, I’m finding that isopropyl and a bit of elbow grease takes that coating off, leaving the smooth hard plastic beneath.

Does anyone know if there’s a better way to do this? I just reclaimed an old gaming mouse, and I’d like to attack an even older Alienware laptop next. Laptops should not be sticky.

I feel vulnerable sharing this with the Fediverse, but... I think I might want to try out a fountain pen.

@woodbark ahh thank you, it’s good to kill your darlings.

What’s Emma Goldman’s worst take? I don’t think I’ve read anything from that lady yet with which I did not agree.

@scribe one of my best and most liberal friends, who is very dear to me in spite of their stunning lack of political imagination, was incapable of differentiating the concept of “self actualization” from “having a job you really like”. That’s the pinnacle of human emotional development to some people and it’s heartbreaking.