Notices by baconandcoconut (baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone), page 4

@errant @flowerpot @nullagent Sadly, we've been making that mistake in the US since Reagan.

@cwebber Oof, I'm sorry that's happening.

@JessTheUnstill And it is often very off-putting for other participants to give time and space to someone who just "has an opinion" right next to someone who is talking about their actual lived experience or the subject of their PHD/life's work, etc.

@fatsam I would happily take a bath with a donut on this future Thousand Unwise Billionaires (TUB) holiday

@troglodyt @BernardSheppard @fnordius @mike @NanoRaptor I'm referring to another person's thoughts on the topic in a science fiction story. Perhaps that word should've been in quotes to make that extra clear.

@BernardSheppard @fnordius @mike @NanoRaptor Stand on Zanzibar is a real trip into what at least one writer thought the future would look like, especially the worries about overpopulation and corporate power.

@sethmlarson Plus y'all are still basically newly weds!

@sethmlarson It seems a little extra weird in this era of social media when you can just look? Or text and ask? (This is not an elderly and/or techphobic family member.)

It is a little unseemly to complain about receiving a holiday card from someone and yet, I really wish this one family member would "remember" that I did not change my last name when I got married (over a decade ago. ) There is no person living here with my first name and my partner's last name. The only other entities that send mail to this imaginary person are spam.

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@2something I think e bs ds would sound kind of like pss pss which people use to get cats to come to them.

@2something When you say the last one out loud, I hope you get a CAT.

@UncleDuke1969 I'm assuming my Great Danish would be welcome.

@Moss Oh! There's another entity with this name. I definitely just mean a bunch of non-secret folks snapping tongs together and maybe pondering what it would be like to be a crab.

Would an all tongs band be great or super annoying? Probably only one way to find out.

(This thought is brought to you by coffee and toast tongs)

@sgranigan @karmaburrito @pluralistic Shopify has never been our friend.

@freequaybuoy @GeofCox @LazaroDTormes @austinkocher I'm not sure how we got around to "funner vibes" being a more legitimate reason to emigrate than "we might starve or be killed if we don't move" but I hate it.

@mrchrisadams @karen I mean folks who work at the Software Freedom Conservancy. I haven't been back to FOSDEM since the pandemic so I don't have any first hand knowledge of what was done in 2024.

@mrchrisadams I think you might want to start with the Legal & Policy room since many of the organizers of that Devroom are Conservancy staff and they did some monitoring at their own event, called FOSSY. CC @karen

@MiriShuli @RationalizedInsanity If you are wanting something to do to help AND you have a little cash to spare, check the #mutualaid posts here. Lots of folks use that tag to post for help with food, rent, medication or relocation from somewhere hostile/dangerous.