Notices by snow, sweaters, and hot chocolate (noelle@elekk.xyz)

:D :D :D #sttng

via @Crash, via dm_cross on :birdsite:

Just... think about this.

There is a human being alive today who was born before the very first powered flight by a human.

Every airplane in the world - even in museums - postdates her.

Every helicopter was invented after she was born.

She was already middle-aged when ENIAC was completed.

She was in her 70s when the personal computer made its debut.

She was 93 when the first commercial DVD was sold.

She's still alive.

Happy birthday to the kids who were being born as the towers fell and are now old enough to join the still-ongoing wars Bush started using 9/11 as an excuse.

#MastoAdmin: If you're running the Glitch fork at 2.9.2 or later, there's an issue with DNS that prevents instances running older versions of Mastodon from communicating with your instance!

This has been successfully resolved on at least one server by flushing the DNS cache. If you run a Glitch server at version >= 2.9.2, please do that now. (The method will vary based on what server OS you're running.)

#MastoAdmin heads up: fedichive.tk (current IP address 71.234.189.151) is scraping the fediverse, *potentially including followers-only posts and DMs*, to make a corpus that can be full-text searched.

For the safety of your users, please block them.

If your instance is on this list, definitely block them; they're using you as a relay to get to the rest of the fediverse: https://files.smooch.computer/x/2019-08-16_17-55-55.txt

(h/t @zoe )

ahahaha

Cloudflare's CEO has reversed course and says 8chan will no longer have DDOS protection as of midnight tonight Pacific time.

Nuke 'em into glass, botnets.

"I've decided to get really gritty with my writing recently."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, lots of orange fur and huge eyes."

when the herald angels sing, the sound waves are a sine from god

I want to give a shout out to the transphobic, homophobic, misogynist guy on Facebook who used this as his illustrative image when he was trying to convince someone to "redpill" themselves. (1/2)

I see the racist, misogynist "we just want to point out how easy it is to spam on Mastodon" concern trolls are back in action. (If they link to a site called "women are stupid", that's them.)

Remember: don't engage them. Report them, pass the report through to the remote instance if need be, block them, and move on.

For your enjoyment: the galactic brain trust over at 4chan have decided to start a rumor that the octothorpe (#) is being used by the Nazis as a symbol, because if you split it in half horizontally you get two Hs, and so now by extension hashtags are Nazi symbolism.

So if you see anyone passing that along in earnest, please feel free to tell them to head back to their little hive of scum and villainy.

pro tip: refer to any clock you own as "my time machine"

It is genuinely something else to realize anew that

we are not even the largest animal
on what is not even the largest planet
around what is not even the largest star
in what is not even the largest galaxy
in what is not even the largest galactic cluster
in what may be one of many universes.

The ancient Greek word for "bear" was άρκτος.

The Arctic is named after the animal; it's the place where bears are.

Naturally, when you find a place at the opposite side of the globe from the Arctic and where there are no bears, it's the anti-Arctic - in other words, Antarctica.

So the Arctic is Bears Place, and Antarctica is Not Bears Place.

Welp. I have been hit with one too many unexpected expenses and I'm officially Broke for the rest of the month. If you've got a couple bucks you can toss toward groceries, I'd really appreciate it.

https://paypal.me/joyeusenoelle
https://liberapay.com/joyeusenoelle
https://Venmo.com/Noelle-Anthony-2

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as 2019 is, in fact, GNU/Year.

I still need to come up with about $700 to pay my bills next month. If you can help, I'd really appreciate it.

https://paypal.me/joyeusenoelle
https://liberapay.com/joyeusenoelle
https://venmo.com/Noelle-Anthony-2

Please boost, and thank you for all of your help. ❤️

The installer for DOOM (1993), when compressed, is 2.39MB.

Loading Mastodon in your web browser requires ~2.75MB of file transfers.

Some trans people are men. Some are women. Some are neither.

Some trans people have known since they were kids. Some figured it out in their 80s.

Some trans people have been on hormone replacement therapy for years. Some can't get on HRT. Some don't want to be on HRT.

Some trans people try to "pass". Some don't.

Some trans people have had surgery. Some don't want surgery. Some can't get surgery.

All trans people are valid, regardless of any of the above. :trans_heart:

Never forget: most of us have been poisoned by a toxic educational system that teaches us systematically that failing at a task or not knowing a correct answer is shameful.

There is no inherent shame in failure, in not knowing, or in being wrong, and we shouldn't actively shame others for it.

Get back up, learn something new, and try again.