Notices by Oggie (oggie@woof.group)

@alicemcalicepants
I mean, I'm a cis male, but for all I know I have a nonfunctional uterus or something. If so, it's never come up.

We're all just a series of 'good enough' stuff that 'mostly' works, and average stuff is just...what mostly seems to hit most people. IT's all such guesswork.

If you haven't ever seen this, a fantastic story about averages and baselines is absolutely insane-
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages/article_e3231734-e5da-5bf5-9496-a34e52d60bd9.html

Nobody, but nobody, is actually average.

@WenhamToo @inthehands
Okay, but what -new- features? These just seem like rebrands, companies thinking they can implement old stuff and call it new ...

@AnarchoNinaWrites
They....'my own personal jesus'? Really?

That song?

That's some born in the USA shit, I swear ...

Sounds like the ads were pretty deranged this year.

@pluralistic @cstross I fucking hate that I have done this a few times. They ask every time when you say no, but only once if you say yes, and clawing any of it back is at best difficult, arguably impossible.

@AnarchoNinaWrites And I am sure he means it 'ironically' right up until not enough people complain and then he just means it very publicly.

This man can literally buy anything with a price tag, refuses to make people's lives better ( at all), attacks anything that ever makes him uncomfortable for any reason, and wants to have people like him so much it informs everything else.

If it wasn't for the fascism, hatred towards women, transphobia, racism, homophobia, etc, could almost feel sorry.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Out of curiosity, why is your follower count artificial?

I just assumed you had a lot of people who didn't really engage who read stuff, but I hadn't looked till you just mentioned it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I for one am super looking forward to the major cascade effect of people frightened of deportation and h5n1, and dismantling the -reporting- of same, so food prices go crazy and nobody can trust food not to get them sick.

Because large groups of frightened hungry, desperate people have never done anything noteworthy.

(Honestly this is really fucking keeping me up)

@neckspike @mekkaokereke @rmordecai

Actually lemme throw in a suggestion - learn to make crepes.

They are -so- -damn- -easy-.

Once you figure out the basics, you can stuff with literally anything ( sugar? Chocolate? Steak? Orange slices?), you look incredibly fancy, and it's just eggs. Trivial protein, sounds deeply posh, and suddenly you are a 'chef' for basically knowing one dish ( that can be made hundreds of different ways with almost anything in the fridge).

@AnarchoNinaWrites
(it was @hannu_ikonen who shared it, I read it but still feel....very very underinformed, which is not his or anyone else's fault but mine! I just feel like someone's quoting page 100 of Critique of Reason and I'm trying to contextually catch up)

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm kind of wondering about the same. I don't know if it's just narrative shifting (it's not gaza, it's not the guy who killed a board member, it's not the various insane trump picks), or if it is sort of a long structured groundwork play for either supporting or downplaying israel's importance (could go either way on this one), or if it's...something I have simply not considered.

But considering this wasn't even a whisper a week ago and it's wall to wall (tv coverage) now?

@rattlesnakestu @pluralistic
If you make a filter for long thread/ from @pluralistic then filter it off your home feed into a reading list, you get the headline/first post, then all follow-ups filter off. So you just get the base ' here is the topic ' and everything else is magiced away to something you can click on to follow up at your leisure. He is 100% consistent in this format.

That isn't to say rss might not be a better option for you! Just presenting the choice.

@cstross Yup. They very explicitly said they would target Hunter, as well as some others.

I just hope he does some other things as well.

@hannu_ikonen
I genuinely can't get over the insanity of that immigration bill that they kept talkign about Trump torpedoing. It's more strange and intense than would have been passed by Bush when he had the trifecta- right after 9/11. It's difficult to explain just how awful it is/was, to the point where I wa sthinking it was going to be some sort of 'okay now here's the real solution we're going to work towards' followup, but that...never materialized. Then Harris said she would pass it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
How dare you write about something you feel strongly about in your own manner and the way you want? Heh. Honestly it's always nice to see people who present a lot more NT than I have their hyperfocal tangents.

I am not sure why the cure never resonated with me. Someone from college tried a bit to get me into them, but it didn't take. I recognize the talent, but nothing made me just dive in ( most other bands of similar fame I at least have one song that I adore).

@cstross Entirely valid!

I was just curious because that's how I work a lot when programming (NOT, typicaly, when writing) and just go 'okay I know stuff happens here but let's go do somethign else for a while' and let it cook in the backbrain.

But my novel writing experience is...minimal, so I didn't know if it 'doesn't work' or wasn't a preference, or...well, you know.

Thanks!

@cstross Preface: Not offering advice, but I feel like you 'tried this' so I'm curious why it didn't work-

What is the downside of 'writing an opening', then 'oh this cool scene/interaction between these two characters' and temporally hopping around a bit, then stringing it together? Does it come off disjointed? Does it not mesh properly for you?

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Honestly if htey could just spend 1/20th the effort actually attacking the right as they going after -you specifically-.

If they're going to go on the attack, why not attack people who are actually doing harm, instead of someone who they disagree with on specifics but generally agree with on the big ticket items (in theory, in their mind, anyway).

It's not like you're hiring skywriters here. They sought you out in the first place.

@cstross

It's a bit depressing how many people are just very 'well, I carefully curate my feed so I don't see that many Nazis and I know I am giving them more power but I don't want to change my habits'

@celesteh @mekkaokereke @ktp_programming @dan613
This comes up every single year with the 'kink at pride' discourse, too. 'But what if we take our children to this parade! This [historical protest march celebration about sex and identity] needs to [conform to what I think is appropriate as not a member of the community or intended audience].'

This happens -every year-, and it's legal and free speech, but they just don't like LGBTQ+ people existing in any meaningful way.

@cstross
I suspect they're going to instead strengthen the seal of the confessional (for the christian church only) and any discovered items are going to pertain to that so as to relate to the parishoners who came to them with these urges. Which parishoners? Well they can't talk about THAT, you just have to trust they're doing it for the right reasons.

Obviously, they work for a church