Notices by Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)

@fesshole This can only be made cute if she starts calling you werewolf.

I'm going to Paris to see the ratacombs.

The what?

The ratacombs, you know the tunnels under the city with the skulls and everything?

You mean the catacombs.

No, that can't be right.

Listen, I've been there and I've toured the Paris catacombs so I know.

You've been there?

Yes.

And how many cats did you see down there?

@jalefkowit The chair of Fidelity National Financial's board is William P. Foley II, a major donor to Ron DeSantis and various state Republican parties, and also principal owner of the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights and several overseas soccer teams, in case you're looking to update your #boycott lists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Foley_(businessman)
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=william+p+foley+ii

Well done, #Canada, well done.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-federal-election-2025-carleton-pierre-poilievre-results-1.7515695

#CAPol #CanadaVotes #PolivereIsOver

@D_J_Nathanson I've seen some bad advice in cop shows, then, where answering one question during an interrogation triggered the end of a Fifth Amendment assertion.

@selzero WhyTF would anyone use AI to pretty print JSON when jq can do it in seconds on the desktop?

With help from https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer I've unfollowed everyone I used to on the birdsite and deleted over 53,000 tweets. I left one behind.

Peace out, but without peace, y'know? #Xitter

@Nickiquote Do not go gentle into that black site.

@sennoma @Nickiquote Proud to have been a muse, since I am both amused and impressed!

@sennoma @Nickiquote Had a graphic designer friend whip up a double sided sign for the #Philly #HandsOff rally.

Followup: I'm not a good estimator of crowd sizes, but I'd guess 20-25,000 people were there on Independence Mall. Anecdotally, I talked to someone who tried to get on the Chestnut Hill West train at its fourth station and it was already too full to take on more passengers.

WHYY doesn't have an exact figure. https://whyy.org/articles/hands-off-thousands-rally-in-philadelphia-against-trump-musk-and-federal-cuts/

#Philadelphia #50501

@skinnylatte A roommate of a friend, both of whom were in the anime club at Drexel Univeristy in the 80s and 90s, used to get plain white rice from the Chinese restaurant across from his apartment and eat it with salt. Not soy sauce, just salt. He spent a semester teaching English in Japan and lived on KFC and Wendy's.

I mean, I'm fucking Irish-American and couldn't fathom that.

@bruces I, for one, look forward to seeing our northern neighbors vacationing again in Wildwood, Southern Maritimes (nee New Jersey).

@kbeninato Amber Ruffin is a national treasure, and the WHCA jumping after Trump is a national disgrace.

Tonight's "Have I got News for You" was probably taped before the firing but I'm going to wonder as I'm watching. Maybe on Monday Seth Meyers will feature "Jokes Amber Can't Tell."

@inthehands This is `find`.

@inthehands @IveyJanette Not that we don't already. Any power struggle is going to be between Musk and Putin as Musk tries to assert some independence. Trump is just a tweety bird they're going to pass back and forth.

There won't be a third term. Musk is just going to depose him in Coup II: Electric Truck Boogaloo.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/elon-musk-private-security-deputized-marshals-service/index.html

#USPol #WorstFuckingTimeline

@godpod As an American who has been to Canada twice, once for a conference and once to get married, I disagree.

With one exception, i was treated wonderfully. The only poor experience I have had in Canada was in a Pizza Pizza, and the Canadian customers got food just as meh as I did.

@futurebird Trump's already threatening to take away my student loan cancellation in addition to my civil rights. I'm not afraid of a mere employer.

(I've also been successful in the past here about refusing things that felt sketchy from an infosec, moral, or "that's where my grandfather died" perspective.)

@GottaLaff The Washington Post drops "Democracy Dies in Darkness" from its banner, while CNN picks up "Democracy Only Exists in Darkness."

@tiffanycli I think you misread The New Gilead Age