Notices by Alice McFlurry :bc: (alice@beige.party), page 12

I wonder if the the members of Hoobastank unanimously agreed on that name.

Reason #685 why I love @KevBot:

This is how he lays out his "outfit" for the day.

Julius Caesar would be proud to know that his legacy lives on in a salad.

Alice McBratty is at it again.

My coworker named their baby Vanity and I’m too embarrassed to ask if they were named after the deadly sin or a piece of bathroom furniture.

Hashtag games should require a CW.

I walk pretty much everywhere in Oakland and I started noticing a weird trend where there were a LOT of free chairs on the sidewalks, so I started taking photos and compiling them into a series called “Chairs of Oakland.”

I have way more than 100 photos, but I tried to compile some of my favorites into a main grid and then made a little honorable mentions grid for the more questionable “chairs” of Oakland.

Special thanks to @blankfrank for reminding me about this little project!

Happy Birthday to the fearless leader of the beige.party, @theropologist!

@LRRRonEarth This reminds me of the time when I was at a basement punk show in Lansing, Michigan and I watched a guy sloppily pee into a half-full 40 of malt liquor and then leave it in the corner.

About an hour later, this other guy came by and was like “is that your 40?” and I said no and he said “then it’s mine now!” and walked away with it.

I still wonder how that worked out for him.

I watched an hour of this movie and kept wondering when Tom Hanks was FINALLY going to head to the airport because I’m an idiot and confused it with The Terminal.

I was seriously like “This movie is SO slow. When is the good stuff going to happen? When is he going to start living in that airport?” and Kev was like “Uh, what? Do you think we’re watching The Terminal?”

Gums don’t kill people! Gingivitis and teeth abscesses that lead to serious brain, lung, and heart infections kill people.

I wonder what it feels like to not have a compulsion to vocalize every single thought that comes to mind.

I think you should be able to say whatever you want as long as your words aren’t harmful to others, especially on Mastodon where you’re not requiring the commitment of conversation. If people don’t like it, they can ignore, mute, or block, but that’s on them.

Invention idea for an anti-paparazzi jacket that is covered in QR codes so that, whenever anybody tries to photograph you, it keeps trying to pull up the Applebee's menu.

#primeribdipper #littlepinkoralottapink #eatingoodintheneighborhood #tmz

[Warning: long story, but there’s a solid ending]

I used to work in a fancy tech office in downtown San Francisco, but my company switched to remote work at the beginning of the pandemic and what was only supposed to be about two weeks turned into two months and then over two years.

A little over two years in, we were told that we needed to go to the office to take home anything we’d left at our desks that we wanted to keep.

I wanted to get it over with so I selected the first time slot on the sign-up sheet and showed up at that time, but the man at the front desk said I wasn’t on the list and I couldn’t go in.

I had made a special trip to the office for the only time that worked and I just wanted to be done with everything and the man was being very rude and unhelpful.

I showed him my ID and badge for both the building and my office, but he said they weren’t proof that I worked there. I then showed him the email from my office manager confirming my time slot AND forwarded the email to him FROM my company email address to show that I still worked there.

Another security guard could see how rude the other man was being and offered to walk me up to my office so I could show him that my desk was mine and grab my stuff, but the man at the desk held firm on his power trip and said there was no way of knowing if I actually worked for the company and cited that he had never seen me or anyone else from my company before (because we’d all been working remote for the past two years).

As a last resort, I asked him to contact our office manager to confirm that I was allowed in the office. Meanwhile, I sat off to the side and broke down crying out of frustration.

After a lot of back-and-forth, it was found that I was on the list and he was probably just misspelling my last name, so I was FINALLY allowed to go up to my office.

Even so, he seemed completely unwilling to acknowledge his mistake and actually treated me as if he was doing me a favor.

When I got to my desk, I grabbed some random desk items and a company award I had won along with my company-branded jacket that was hanging on the back of my chair and I proceeded to leave for the last time.

When I got to the lobby, I turned to the man at the front desk to “thank” him for being so “helpful” and asked if he’d pose in a photo with me to commemorate my “last day at the office” and he agreed.

As a result, I now have a lovely photo of the rude man at the front desk with his mask hanging off his face and me standing in the foreground with my mascara running down my face as a result of crying due to his poor treatment.

I also made it a point to wear my jacket and hold my award, both obnoxiously branded with the name of the company he tried to imply I didn’t actually work for—because I can be a petty little brat when pushed hard enough.

@robertvh @hybridhavoc @mentallyalex

It’s not your fault that I post every terrible thought that enters my head and that the count of those terrible thoughts has exceeded 2,000.

This is a really great tool and I’m grateful to you for creating it!

@hybridhavoc @mentallyalex

Thank you for the tip, @hybridhavoc! This seems to be really close to what Alex is looking for.

Note: I just used it and it doesn’t seem perfect since my dumb American Girl Doll cosplay is definitely my most popular post and it’s not even registering on there, but it’s pretty decent!

I have an idea for a restaurant/bar that has a wall of vintage TVs hooked up to an assortment of VCRs playing super weird VHS tapes and each table has its own little drive-in movie speaker so you can tune into the frequency for your selected TV without having it blasted through the entire establishment.

I have no desire to own a business, so please feel free to take this idea and run with it as long as you open your first location in Oakland, California so I’m able to visit on a regular basis.

@ents analog closed, but yes! I loved that place and they also had an incredible vegan reuben.