Murray GM - Paperposts

The bear he was a hungry, wanderin around town one day
He saw a supermarket, down there a little ways
He smelled that fish and sushi, and it really smelled so fine
He wondered as he wandered in, if that fish it could be mine
There was a man in the way, but a growl and he ran away
Ran closer to […]

@ai6yr that ‘al teach ‘em to cut in line at the deli counter

a screen clip from Netflix. it shoes a promo for a show called 72 dangerous animals asia, with a picture of a red panda looking cute

ok so I know it’s a panda, but really netflix.
i’m guessing if i could be bothered to watch it there will be some factoid about red pandas being the 5th most prolific, human mauling, animal in asia or some such crazy

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

"We believe that these kinds of user-generated, curated collections could help people to find their tribe more quickly when they join the Fediverse.

At the same time, envisioning a similar feature that prioritises user consent, and works across a constellation of independent servers, is no […]

Spent so long in my life trying to get people more informed, now the news is like:

"Dogs made illegal. President gives speech to pile of McDonald's Fries (7 dead). Black coffee blamed for autism by legally brain dead civil war survivor/senator."

You got me, universe. Maybe learning about other […]

A full moon rising in purple evening sky. Trees on the ridge of a hill are silhouetted in the foreground.

it's been quite the day for celestial bodies.
Here's the harvest #moon over Marin
#sfbayarea

A top-down photograph of a pile of quinces. The fruits are a mix of yellow and greenish-yellow hues. Many of them have a slightly mottled or dusty appearance, with patches of brown or purplish-brown on the skin, giving them a rustic, unpolished look. The fruits are generally round or lumpy and irregular in shape.

Quinces

#Nature #Photography

The silhouette of mt diablo against a glowing orange sky

The sun rising above mt diablo, the sky is yellow and orange. The inner bay and richmond bridge are visible in the the hazy morning shadows

The #sunrise over mt Diablo was pretty intense this morning. pics are 5 mins apart
#sfbayarea

the dorsal fin of a harbor porpoise

@andybrwn wow, saw one for the first time a month or so back, off Rodeo beach

@ai6yr @Paperposts You can make very small Pirate Radio “throwies” that you can, well, throw. Or stick somewhere. Cost $5 each for the board, a few $ more for bits of this and that if you don’t have the parts laying around. I will try it and report back […]

@sennoma now that’s what i call a genre

sun kissed Ollie
#dogsofmastodon

@ai6yr oh that is the worst - apple is particularly bad for that 😡

ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER by Jerrold H Zar Eye halve a spelling check her, It came with my pea sea. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye kin knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew. A check her is a bless sing; It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime. Each frays come posed up on my screen, Eye trussed too bee a joule; The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule. Bee fore wee rote with checkers Hour spelling was inn deck line, Butt now when wee dew have a laps, Wee are knot maid too wine. Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, There are know faults with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear. Now spelling does knot phase me, It does knot bring a tier; My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped words fare as hear. To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be proud; And we mussed dew the best wee can Sew flaws are knot aloud. That's why eye brake in two averse Cuz eye dew want too please. Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye This soft wear four pea seas.

just heard about this gem of a #poem about the spell checker. from 1994. I can’t believe i hadn’t seen this before

ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER
by Jerrold H Zar

https://arnold.hosted.uark.edu/Other/ZarOde.pdf

@conejoclint @ai6yr yeah i was thinking about that too, all the great punk stuff and the DIY culture movement from the early 90s - all very “seize the means of production”, which the early web took over from, until the current mega platform horrors

A book cover titled "Make a Zine: Updated and Expanded" by Joe Biel, featuring colorful illustrations of people engaging in creative activities, such as writing and drawing. The background is bright pink with playful graphics and text emphasizing underground publishing.

@ai6yr The punk scene and other underground movements have been doing similar for years. I just pulled this off my shelf.

Samizdat - Wikipedia

After careful examination of all the various encryption algorithms, apps, alternative radio communications, mesh, and more... I have decided this is the best technical workaround for Fascist clampdown on free speech. #samizdat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

Radiotext(e) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 350 p. : 23 cm

@ai6yr of course they are, free airways are the nazi’s nemesis - found the ref https://archive.org/details/radiotexte0000unse/page/90/mode/1up?q=japan

@ai6yr that reminded me of the low power micro radio movement in Japan - where 100s of people were setting up pirate stations that only were powerful to broadcast for a block or 2. i’ll see if i can find the ref, i read about them in Radiotext(e) back in the 90s

@ai6yr yeah, Fashion Nugget is a good album, Pentagram always makes me laugh

grabbed some antifa cheese on the way home from the beach

@ai6yr do the nazicars still have the ‘bullet proof’ windows that muskrat did the hilarious demo of?

White logo mug with text "Labour: Tough on grannies | Easy on genocide

@ai6yr entering a stage where if it’s not information in a physical book, from a known publisher and writer, ideally pre internet (that you can accurately date and prove not a facsimile/fake) - it must be treated with suspicion. which means all contemporary knowledge is lost to the shit soup of […]

I did.

a russian coin with a beard illustration

oh wow had no idea that angry, slimey, incompetent nazi prick: hegseth, was going after beards - proper Russian Tsar level nonsense.

"the beard is a superfluous burden"

#beardTax

Whee!

NBC News: Minnesota measles cases nearly double as U.S. outbreaks continue
The country is four months away from possibly losing its measles elimination status

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-minnesota-double-us-outbreaks-vaccine-continue-rcna235144

#measles #health […]

Wired - Out-of-office messages of US Department of Education employees, after the government shutdown began, were altered to contain partisan language without their consent […]

@superball that's wonderful, grey foxes are so gorgeous. Charmed life