Notices by eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social), page 10

@markmetz There’s a monkey’s paw quality to this list: reading, but it’s Jordan B Peterson; foreign languages, but it’s Japanese to understand the plot of his favorite hentai; gardening, but it’s growing weed; and so on.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Thorny spikethumb frog (Plectrohyla acanthodes) photographed by Daniel Pineda Vera

@incurablehippie Unfortunately, he’s managed to postpone this with some legal hocus pocus. But he’s just trying to put off the inevitable.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Oaxacan yellow tree frog (Megastomatohyla pellita) photographed by Division of Herpetology, University of Kansas

Cloud forest tree frog (Megastomatohyla nubicola) photographed by Division of Herpetology, University of Kansas

@UkeleleEric I'm trying to get a handle on what each platform's "personality" is, or is perceived to be. So far the answers (keep the frogs, ditch the politics) match my intuitions.

I created this Mastodon account 2 years ago when I quit Twitter. I just recently created a Bluesky account. Which of my toots do you think belong on Bluesky, and which should stay here?

I post:
-a daily frog
-standup bits/cheesy puns
-US politics takes
-recipes

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Variegated tree frog (Megastomatohyla mixomaculata) photographed by Esaú Valdenegro-Brito

If you don't understand what "ghee" is, I can clarify.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Mixe Tree Frog (Megastomatohyla mixe) photographed by Karl Halla Garcia

The news that The Onion has bought Infowars, the company of hatemonger and conspiracy nut Alex Jones, was just the spark of joy I needed today.

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Zetek's tree frog (Isthmohyla zeteka) photographed by iNaturalist user STRI

Matt Gaetz' official portrait looks like a Spitting Image doll of himself

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon South Fork Tree Frog (Isthmohyla xanthosticta) photographed by University of Kansas

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Starrett's treefrog (Isthmohyla tica) photographed by Richard Joyce.

@Twirrim I'm going to store this anecdote away for future reference. Someone once told me that elevator algorithms are surprisingly difficult. It's exactly the kind of problem that looks simple on a surface level, but gets more complex as you dive into the details.

@mistakenotmy "Let them eat three-day-old cross buns"

@eris She may be thinking back to this moment. https://eribosot.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-sausage-is-made.html

Swatra is reading a book about the Habsburg empire, which contains this brilliant oath of loyalty, issued by the city of Aragon in Spain toward King Philip II in the 1580s: "We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as our king and sovereign, provided you observe all our liberties and laws, and if not, not."

@Supertapani Well, not if you're an uneducated peasant, they're not. /s