Notices by Jessica :propride: 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 ✡️ (jewishreader@sfba.social)

A Leechblock time limit just saved me from getting into it with someone I otherwise respect who was saying what I regard as truly silly political stuff. I cannot recommend Leechblock enough.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/

Edited because I originally detailed what that stuff was, which to my mind belongs behind a CW.

@skinnylatte I think Urban Alchemy is really problematic, but this is also from a journal published by the Manhattan Institute so should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

My dear techie friends: I have been trying unsuccessfully to find my #Kindle files on my #Mac running Sequoia so I can de-DRM them, and..I cannot. I know the library is hidden. Believe me I have tried every file path the internet has given me. Help? Thank you! #books #ebooks

CW: USPol.

Relevant to my post about how to help, here is an article about the various ways Chicago is attempting to beat back the fascists who are on the way. If you do not read/subscribe to Bolts, I cannot recommend it more highly.

https://boltsmag.org/chicago-immigrant-rights-groups-prepare-sanctuary-policies/

@Bronwyn Oh man! That sounds so difficult!

@kingrat Yes.

@skinnylatte @secretasianman I was unaware of this and it makes me never want to shop there again, which is unfortunate because they're the only place that carries certain stuff.

HOW did I not have the term 'neoliberal' filtered what is wrong with me.

Evergreen:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2015.1013356

[An abstract from a paper about the complete incoherence of the word's usage, with the sentence "In addition, the paper also explores the one-sided, morally laden usage of the term by non-economists to describe economic phenomena"]

Today I have:

*Forgotten to take an important medication
*Spilled yogurt on myself
*Placed a carton of open chai concentrate in a cabinet instead of in the fridge

Worse than any of this, I just confused Sisko with Janeway when commenting on a post about DS9.

What this demonstrates, yet again, is that capitalism does not function in the absence of regulation.

@kingrat Right?!!! Or tons of the Mission, actually.

For non-San Franciscians, West Portal is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the city that feels a little like a small-town mainstreet in New Jersey in the '50s. It is almost always quite busy.

Journalists stop calling West Portal "sleepy" challenge.
#sfba

@kingrat He's judging you.

Anyone else doing Postcards For Swing States think the first two provided messages are kind of...weird? I've been using the 3rd exclusively, which I still don't think is great but at least doesn't come across as creepy.

@kingrat Yes I don't think he's hurting the industry. I just saw the precis for his next novel and was like 'no other human being would have been allowed to publish this because it's nonsense.'

I like [Extremely Well-Known And Rich Sci-Fi Author] but perhaps they need to stop throwing money at him to publish every thought that comes into his head. #bookstodon