Mastodon posts

1. “Persons will HOB NAILS BOOT! ARE FORBIDDEN IN THIS OFFICE [By Order of Postmaster].”

   delightful effort made here at professional hand lettered sign making, jaunty !, etc, then ruined (or improved further) with an answer to the presumed "says who?” that looks like it was added when the sign was already on the wall by someone with a felt-tipped marker

   https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/113356285657110012

   Dorothea Lange (@DorotheaLange@mastodon.ozioso.online)Attached: 1 image Untitled photo, possibly related to: FSA (Farm Security Administration) county office. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. See general caption 51 #BonnersFerry #Idaho #FORBIDDEN #America https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017774122/Ozioso Mastodon

   that the added text is in parenthesis is specifically great

2. looking at linkedin from time to time is like wandering into the wrong church where I don’t know any of the rituals (which for me would be any church, but I do know one set of rituals I don’t practice, at least) and seeing random people I know there, doing some of the moves

   damn you’re here? where is here? oh, they left. huh.

   hey, want to come to dinner? no? this is so weird

3. the only robot i want in my life but can’t have is a chrome plated smokers robot

   https://octodon.social/@Taweret/113354194527885031

4. 25: “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin ( https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/starting-to-worry-about-9781250285959/)

   

   a few of my favorite very-online writers—but I’m think of Pargin and Jeb Lund (who for all I know don’t know each other at all) specifically here and not like, uh, Lockwood—are pretty good about using their veterans-of-forum-wars (or at least that era of online) past to be pretty strong voices for not being assholes on the internet.

   this is a lot of that

   cw: mens rights nonsense

   my point: so if you feel like you don’t need some old guy rubbing your nose in a “deuteragonist" (I had to look up the word for that) “hey look at this kid who is a twitch streamer who is kinda black pilled, don’t be lame like this”, because you yourself are also over that, maybe skip this one

   Ultimately it’s a fun read and a break from the John and Zoe books and pretty mad at the same stuff a lot of people are on mastodon are mad about re: the other social networks, so, I’m glad I read it.

5. an elaborate rude metaphor in which every landmark the dashed line loops around on weathered parchment before it eventually reaches the X-marks-the-spot is a pivot in virtualization stacks by the freenas people trying and failing to lose both the the annoying virtualization (jails, docker, kubernetes, etc) janitors inhabiting each landmark and the actual pirates who use their projects to power their NASs 🏴‍☠️

   I was gonna have a visual aid of a real pirate treasure map for this but it seems like real pirates merely wanted real maps, which were hard to come by back then

   makes a lotta sense I guess!