Notices by eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social), page 3

@jon There is? Google Maps appears unaware of it.

@jon Sorry for being cynical (and sarcastic). It's just that I was recently forced to spend 4+ hours traveling from Ljubljana to Venice, and 4+ hours back... on a bus. Because there doesn't seem to be any train connection from Ljubljana to the nearest big Italian city.

Some people don't believe in the idea that literature partly gets its meaning from the reader reading it, and not just from the intent of the author writing it.

I'd like to submit for evidence in favor of the theory, this fragment from the 14th century Chinese classic, Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

@jon That's a pretty bold claim about the Gorizia-Nova Gorica connection. I mean, sure, they are literally the Italian half and the Slovenian half of the SAME CITY, but knowing the absolutely dismal state of Slovenian railways, I can see some way in which they can still screw it up.

#Art For those who have been following the art-related toots on my profile this past month or so, all art you saw was displayed on (and for sale from) PAN Amsterdam, a yearly Amsterdam art fair. https://www.pan.nl/en

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Roberts' Treefrog (Sarcohyla robertsorum) photographed by Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

#Art #Japanese A Japanese painting depicting two European generals

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Mourning Tree Frog (Sarcohyla pentheter) photographed by Juan Daniel Peña Martínez

@sk76 "Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini."

#frogs #FrogsOfMastodon Tezuitlán Spikethumb Frog (Sarcohyla pachyderma) photographed by the Smithsonian institution

@joby I highly recommend the review of this book on the If Books Could Kill podcast. https://www.ifbookspod.com/

@kevinrothrock shocking indeed, who knew that that old racist still had $14.5 million to his name?

@joby Along with my colleagues, I was given my very own personal copy of WMMC. It's the most insulting and humiliating thing any employer has ever done to me. (Not my current employer, I might add.)

@zenheathen I'm afraid that an actual zen priest using a four-letter word is too much for corporate America to handle.

@evdelen "Oh yeah?! Well, my inner senerity can beat the SHIT out of your inner serenity!!!"

@ArneBab So long as I hit my KPIs and we ship on time, I have their blessing. Or to put it another way, no fucking way.

My employer's email inviting all employees to practice mindfulness and do yoga reminded me of this classic:

By the way, shout out to @v_for_verbosity for having the most appropriate username to favorite this toot.

@srfirehorseart Some "streets" are barely wide enough for one (skinny) person, and the buildings on either end are three stories high --somewhat claustrophobic.

Once in a while, an alleyway will open into a small square with a random church, but there's nothing even remotely like a thoroughfare. Well, apart from the Grand Canal.

I really think this is what Paris was like before they tore it all down to build the big avenues.

The difference between Slovenia and the Netherlands:

In Slovenia, supermarkets sell hard liquor (like vodka and whisky). While you're waiting in line to pay, they have them in the "impulse-buy" section, next to chewing gum and candy bars, as small bottles, like you'd get on an airplane.

In the Netherlands, two grey-haired French ladies were trying to talk to the checkout girl. I acted as interpreter. They wanted cigarettes. Dutch supermarkets are banned from selling cigarettes as from 2024.